Graduation Requirements: COAS (Minor)

  • Students must complete an approved minor.
    • To ensure that each student who graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences has a broad, liberal education, a concentration of courses in a department outside the major department is required. It is the responsibility of the student to meet the requirements for a minor based on information provided in the General Bulletin. While many minors require only 12 semester hours, others may require as many as 18 semester hours. The minor department does not have to be in the College of Arts and Sciences but should be outside the student’s major department. If you have questions about the availability of specific courses, the preferred sequences of courses, etc., please contact the academic adviser for the minor department.
    • A complete list of minors can be found at academic-guide.fsu.edu.
    • Completion of an approved FSU certificate program will satisfy the college minor requirement.
    • Requirements for each minor can be found in the Undergraduate Bulletin.
    • Although most majors in the College of Arts and Sciences require selection and completion of a specific academic minor, this is not true for the following programs: secondary science/math teaching; humanities; foreign language/business; and certain science majors that have a required collateral minor.
    • In addition, students completing a double major do not have to complete a minor. Students must declare additional majors before accumulating 90 earned hours. 
  • No courses used in satisfying major, foreign language, or General Education requirements may also be counted toward the minor. 
  • Students pursuing two degrees must have a separate minor for each degree that is awarded by this college. If one of the degrees is to be awarded by another college in the university, the dean's office of that college will specify whether minor requirements must be satisfied.
  • While students may choose to pursue additional minors, only one minor per degree will be verified for graduation and can be considered degree applicable for financial aid. 
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