Academic Minors
An academic minor is your declared secondary field of study or specialization during your undergraduate studies. As with an academic major, the college offering the minor specifies the prerequisites, number of required credits, GPA, classes, or types of classes that you must complete to earn the minor. The requirements for an academic minor will vary from college to college or even department to department. Academic minors and majors differ in that the former is subordinate to the latter. Majors are required, minors are optional. The credit hours required for an academic minor are normally "in addition to" those required for the degree in a major. Most often, a given course cannot be counted both as part of the major and as part of the minor.
You may decide to prepare for your intended career with your major while pursuing personal interests with a minor. For example, you might major in Information Technology and minor in art, music, or a foreign language. Or you may pursue a minor to provide specific skills to make yourself more marketable to employers. For example, a civil engineering major might chose to minor in surveying.
Minor in Cyber Security
You may earn a minor in Cyber Security by completing six required courses. For additional details and lists of these courses, consult the College of Engineering Catalog and the CSET/IT Program Director, Professor Scott Brahaney or the ET academic program coordinator, Ms. Myrna Rudder. To be eligible to register for any minor in the Cyber Security course, you must be coded as a Cyber Security minor candidate and maintain a GPA of 2.0 or better in the courses used to satisfy the requirements of the minor.
Minor in Software Engineering
You may earn a minor in Software Engineering by completing five required courses. For additional details and lists of these courses, consult the College of Engineering Catalog and the CSET/IT Program Director,Professor Scott Brahaney or the ET academic program coordinator, Ms. Myrna Rudder. To be eligible for any minor in the Software Engineering course, you must be coded as a Software Engineer minor candidate and maintain a GPA of 2.0 or better in the courses used to satisfy the requirements of the minor.
Minor in Computer Science and Engineering
You may earn a minor in computer science and engineering (CSE) by completing six required courses plus two advanced elective courses. For additional details and lists of these courses, consult the College of Engineering Catalog and an EECS department advisor, Ms. Christie Hennen. To be eligible to register for any EECS courses, you must be coded as a CSE minor candidate and have successfully completed MATH 1850 and MATH 1860. A GPA of 2.0 is required in the EECS courses.
Minor in Surveying
A minor in Surveying at The University of Toledo enables Engineering undergraduate
students to meet the academic requirements for license as a Professional Surveyor
in Ohio in accordance with Ohio Revised Code 4733.11 -Professional Surveyor License
Qualifications. The classes are practical application based hands on training taught
by a dual licensed Professional Engineer and Professional Surveyor. The 18 credit
hour surveying minor consists of six courses offered over a two year cycle, which
can be taken in any order. For additional details consult CIEN Assistant Director
of Student Services Kyle Sawyer.
Minor in Environmental Engineering
A minor in Environmental Engineering enables you to broaden your career and graduate study opportunities related to analyzing and designing systems for protection of our air, water, and land resources. Consulting and industrial companies may hire non-environmental engineers to work on enviromental projects. Completing this minor would give you a competive advantage for these positions and for graduate programs involving environmental engineering or science.
You may earn a minor in Environmental Engineering by completing five required courses. For a list of these courses, consult the College of Engineering Catalog, and for additional details consult CIEN Assistant Director of Student Services, Kyle Sawyer or CIEN Undergraduate Program Director, Alex Spivak. To be eligible to register for the minor, you must be coded as an Environmental Engineering minor candidate and maintain a GPA of 2.0 or better in the courses used to satisfy the requirements of the minor. Civil Engineering students are not eligible for the Environmental Engineering minor.
Minors in Business
IT students are advised on coursework required for academic minors. For example, College of Business and Innovation (COBI) students (which IT students are considered) can minor in every field offered as a major in the College, in addition to several other fields. In the COBI, a minor consists of three courses (9 semester credit hours) at the 3000/4000-level, unless otherwise noted in the University catalog.
Available COBI minors include those listed in the table below.
Minors Available to COBI Students:
- Accounting
- Business Law
- E-Commerce
- Entrepreneurship, Family and Small Business
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Information Systems
- International Business
- Management
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Professional Sales
- Supply Chain Management
Detailed information about the courses required for each of these minors can be found at cobiadvising@utoledo.edu.
Minors in Other Disciplines
Academic minors are also available from other colleges and are described in the University's online catalog.
Interested in Declaring a Minor
If you are interested in declaring a minor, start by speaking with your major advisor or the Assistant Director of Student Services. These individuals will help you determine if an academic minor is in your best interest.
To declare a minor you must consult an advisor in the department offering the minor. Your minor advisor will complete the paperwork necessary to make your declared minor official (i.e., appear on your transcript).