Minor and Certificate Programs

Minor

The transcript-recognized undergraduate academic minor must be completed in conjunction with an undergraduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin; students pursuing an integrated undergraduate/graduate program must complete the requirements for the minor within one year after completing the undergraduate requirements of their program.

Minors in all areas except foreign languages. Transcript-recognized undergraduate minors require a minimum of 15 hours of coursework in the minor area, but may not require more than 18 hours. None of the specified coursework from the minor can include unnumbered topics courses. Minors must include a minimum of six hours of upper division coursework. 

Minors in foreign languages. Transcript-recognized undergraduate minors in foreign languages require a minimum of 15 hours of coursework in the minor area, but may not require more than 21 hours. None of the specified coursework from the minor can include unnumbered topics courses. Minors must include a minimum of nine hours beyond first year competence in the language, including at least three hours of upper division coursework. 

At least half of the required course work in the minor must be completed in residence at The University of Texas at Austin.

A student may not earn a minor in the same field of study as his or her major, and at least nine of the hours required for the minor must include coursework not used to satisfy the requirements of the student’s major. However, courses in the minor may fulfill other degree requirements such as general education requirements or required elective hours.

Transcript recognition is awarded at the time of undergraduate degree completion.

Each of the following transcript-recognized minor programs is described in the catalog section for the college that sponsors it. 

School of Architecture 

• Architectural History Minor 
• Architectural Studies Minor
• Interior Design Minor
• Landscape Studies Minor

McCombs School of Business

• Accounting Minor
• Accounting Minor for Business Economics Option Program
• Business Analytics Minor
• Business and Public Policy Minor
• Business Minor
• Energy Management Minor
• Entrepreneurship Minor
• Finance Minor
• Finance Minor for Business Economics Option Program
• Global Management Minor
• Healthcare Industry Reform and Innovation Minor
• International Business Minor
• Management Minor
• Management Information Systems Minor
• Marketing Minor
• Professional Sales and Business Development Minor
• Real Estate Minor
• Risk Management Minor
• Supply Chain Management Minor
• Wealth Management Minor

Moody College of Communication

• Communicating for Development and Philanthropy Minor
• Communication and Social Change Minor
• Communication Studies Minor
• Global Communication Minor
• Health Communication Minor
• Journalism and Media Minor
• Latino Media Arts and Studies Minor
• Media and Entertainment Industries Minor
• Media Studies Minor
• Professional Sales and Business Development Minor
• Science Communication Minor
• Sports Media Minor

College of Education

• Educational Psychology Minor
• Kinesiology and Health Education Minor
• Urban Teachers Minor

Cockrell School of Engineering

• Materials Science and Engineering Minor

College of Fine Arts 

• Art History Minor
• Arts Management and Administration Minor
• Minor in Studio Art

Jackson School of Geosciences

• Computational Geosciences Minor
• Geosciences Minor
• Hydrology Minor
• Sedimentology and Earth Surface Processes Minor

School of Information

• Informatics Minor

College of Liberal Arts

• African and African Diaspora Studies Minor
• American Sign Language Studies Minor
• American Studies Minor
• Anthropology Minor
• Arabic Minor 
• Archaeology Minor
• Asian American Studies Minor 
• Asian Religions Minor
• Chinese Minor 
• Classical Studies Minor
• Comparative Literature Minor
• Core Texts and Ideas Minor 
• Cultural Anthropology Minor
• Cultural Expression, Human Experience, and Thought Minor
• Economics Minor 
• English Minor 
• European Studies Minor
• Evolutionary and Functional Anatomy Minor
• French Studies Minor 
• Geography Minor
• German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies Minor
• Global Interreligious Dynamics Minor
• Government Minor 
• Greek Minor 
• Hebrew Minor 
• History Minor 
• Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor
• Italian Studies Minor 
• Jewish Studies Minor
• Korean Minor
• Language, Culture, and Communication Minor
• Latin Minor
• Law, Justice, and Society Minor
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Sexualities Studies Minor 
• Medieval Studies Minor
• Mexican American and Latina/o Studies Minor
• Middle Eastern Studies Minor
• Military Leadership Minor
• Persian Minor
• Philosophy Minor
• Philosophy of Law Minor
• Philosophy of the Mind and Language Minor
• Portuguese Minor
• Primatology Minor
• Religious Studies Minor
• Rhetoric and Writing Minor
• Russian Minor
• Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Minor
• Slavic and Eurasian Languages Minor
• Social and Behavioral Sciences Minor
• Sociology Minor
• Spanish Minor
• Turkish Minor
• UTeach-Liberal Arts Minor
• Women's and Gender Studies Minor 

School of Social Work

• Disability Studies Minor
• Social Work Minor 

Transcript-Recognized Certificate Programs