Minors

Minors at UB are a cohesive set of undergraduate courses designed to provide you with an optional opportunity to cultivate skills and knowledge through concentrated study in an area outside of your major. These 15-21 credits may focus on one discipline or may be interdisciplinary.

Why would you choose to complete a minor?

  • You may choose to complete a minor to leverage your major if the minor complements or supports the areas of study in your major. Choosing to complete a minor could help make you better prepared to enter the work force and could increase your professional competency.
  • You may choose to complete a minor for fun, simply because the areas of study in the minor interest you.
  • You may choose to complete a minor to make use of credits that you may have earned prior to changing your major, if you decided at some point during your studies that you wanted to major in something different.

Requirements include:

  • seeking the approval of your academic adviser in determining if a minor is appropriate for your course of study
  • having completed at least 24 credits with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0
  • earning at least a C (2.0) in each course applied to the minor.

Guidelines to note:

  • You may use a maximum of 6 credits to satisfy both degree and minor requirements.
  • At least half of the required credits for the minor must be upper-division courses (300- or 400-level).
  • You may apply a maximum of 6 credits transferred from another institution

Minors available:

  • Social Entrepreneurship: This interdisciplinary minor allows you to partner with community-serving organizations to explore the dynamics of civic engagement and citizenship. Many classes in the minor will have a service-learning or experiential education component, and you will complete a semester-long field study, or internship, with a community organization in conjunction with a senior project that integrates field study and classroom and research work. You can explore courses from community studies and civic engagement, business, government and public policy, and negotiations and conflict management with particular focus on Central Maryland and its nonprofit organizations. Community studies and civic engagement majors are not eligible for this minor.
  • Stay tuned for more minors to come!

For more information, please contact your academic adviser or the faculty contact for the minor.