Academic Minors

Policy: Several areas in the School of Arts and Sciences offer minors. Students may earn a minor by satisfying the following requirements:

• Students must complete a minimum of 15 semester hours of work in the minor field. Some minors may include additional coursework, not to exceed 21 semester hours.
• Students must complete any prerequisites required by the program offering the minor.
• At least 12 semester hours must be upper division courses, although individual minors may require more hours at the upper level.
• At least nine of the 12 upper division hours must be taken with UHV.
• Students must earn a 2.00 minimum cumulative grade point average on courses attempted in the minor. The minor field must be different from the plan.
• No credit hours may be used to satisfy both plan and minor requirements.
• Students must complete all coursework required for a minor in addition to all courses for the degree prior to graduation.

Minors are not available for students in the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree or in any undergraduate program leading to secondary school certification.

Students should inform their academic advisors or the degree plan counselor when they begin their degree plan that they plan to complete a minor so that appropriate coursework can be completed.

Academic Minor Requirements

BIOLOGY – 17 hrs.

• Students must complete a minimum of 17 semester credit hours in biology in addition to biology courses taken to satisfy core curricular requirements.
• At least 14 of these hours must be taken at UHV.
• BIO 4337 Cell & Molecular Biology, or BIO 3320 Human Genetics, or BIO 4313 Genetics is required – 3 hours.
• At least one biology laboratory course is required – 2 hours.

COMMUNICATION – 15 hrs.

• Students must complete a minimum of 15 semester credit hours in communication in addition to any communication courses taken to satisfy plan requirements.
• At least 12 of these hours must be taken at UHV.

COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS – 21 hrs.

• Lower Division: 3 hours of C/C++ and 3 hours selected from Advanced C/C++, Pascal, Ada, Java, or Visual Basic (Advanced C/C++ or Visual Basic highly recommended)–6 hours *
  

  * Beginning in Fall 2003, students who have not yet completed their lower division computer programming courses should take the new courses COSC 1436 and COSC 1437 instead.

• ISC 3317, 3331, 3333, and 3315 are required. Students who test out of ISC 3317 will take an advanced computer information systems course in its place. — 12 hours
• 3 hours in an upper-level ISC course excluding 4305 — 3 hours

COMPUTER SCIENCE – 21 hrs.

• Lower Division: 3 hours of C/C++ and 3 hours selected from Advanced C/C++, Pascal, Ada, Java, or FORTRAN (Advanced C/C++ highly recommended) — 6 hours *
  

  * Beginning in Fall 2003, students who have not yet completed their lower division computer programming courses should take the new courses COSC 1436 and COSC 1437 instead.

• ISC 3317, 3331, 3333, and 3332 are required. Students who test out of ISC 3317 will take an advanced computer science course in its place. — 12 hours
• 3 hours in an upper-level ISC course excluding 3325 and 4305 — 3 hours

CRIMINAL JUSTICE – 15 hrs.

• Students must complete a minimum of 15 semester credit hours in criminal justice in order to receive a minor in criminal justice.
• At least 12 of these hours must be taken at UHV.

ENGLISH – 15 hrs.

• Students must complete a minimum of 15 semester credit hours in English in addition to any English courses taken to satisfy plan requirements.
• At least 12 of these hours must be taken at UHV.

HISTORY – 15 hrs.

• Students must complete a minimum of 15 semester credit hours in history in addition to any history courses taken to satisfy plan requirements.
• At least 12 of these hours must be taken at UHV.

MATHEMATICS – 21 hrs.

• Lower Division: Calculus I, Calculus II are required — 6 hours
• MAS 3391, 3361, 4310, and 4311 are required — 12 hours
• 3 hours of upper-level course work in math are required; no independent study allowed — 3 hours

NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP – 15 hrs.

Students must complete the following 5 courses:

• NPL 4312 Public Policy and Quality of Life
• NPL 4340 Principles of Nonprofit Leadership and Management
• NPL 4360 Finance, Development, and Fund-Raising
• COM 4314 Intercultural Communication
• ISC 3325 Information Systems in Organizations

PSYCHOLOGY – 15 hrs.

• Students must complete a minimum of 15 semester credit hours of psychology in addition to any psychology courses taken to satisfy plan requirements.
• At least 12 of these hours must be taken at UHV.