LS&A Academic Minors

Students in the College of Engineering have been given the option of electing one or more academic minors offered by departments within the College of Literature, Science and Arts. Minors are intended to recognize the completion of a coherent sequence of courses in a particular academic area and can guide you in a more careful selection of your non-engineering courses. They also serve as recognition, via a transcript notation, of the completion of a more in-depth course sequence.

In practice, a student will meet with the LS&A advisor in the minor discipline and together map out the minor courses. The certification that the appropriate courses have been completed will be communicated from the LS&A department offering the minor to a student's undergraduate program advisor in CoE, as well as the College of Engineering Student Records Office. The student will be responsible for making sure this paperwork arrives at the appropriate offices.

Below is a list of approved minors covering a diverse range of academic interests. This is followed by a statement of policies and procedures that should help a student through the process.

LS&A Minors Approved by the College of Engineering

• Afroamerican and African Studies
• African American Theatre
• Anthropology
• Applied Statistics
• Asian Languages and Cultures
• Asian Studies
• Asian/Pacific American Studies
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Biochemistry
• Biological Anthropology
• Biology
• Biophysics
• Chemistry
• Chemical Measurement Science
• Chemical Physics
• Classical Archaeology
• Classical Civilization
• Computer Science
• Crime and Justice
• Czech Language, Literature, and Culture
• Early Christian Studies
• Earth Sciences - General
• East European Studies
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Economics
• Environment
• Environmental Geology
• Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
• French and Francophone Studies
• Gender and Health
• Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
• Geochemistry
• German Studies
• Global Change
• Global Media Studies
• History
• History of Art
• History of Philosophy
• International Studies
• Italian
• Judaic Studies
• Language, Literature, and Culture of Ancient Greece
• Language, Literature, and Culture of Ancient Rome
• Latina/o Studies
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Queer (LBGTQ) and Sexuality Studies
• Linguistics
• Mathematics
• Medical Anthropology
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Middle Eastern and North African Studies (Modern)
• Mind and Meaning
• Modern Greek Studies
• Modern Middle Eastern and North African Studies
• Modern European Studies
• Moral and Political Philosophy
• Music
• Native American Studies
• Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
• Oceanography
• Paleontology
• Peace and Social Justice
• Philosophy (General)
• Physics
• Plant Biology
• Polish Language, Literature, and Culture
• Political Science
• Polymer Chemistry
• Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
• Russian Studies
• Scandinavian Studies
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture
• Statistics
• Text-to-Performance
• Urban and Community Studies
• West European Studies Modern

LSA minors with their requirements and other pertinent information are listed on the Student Affairs Web site at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/students/resources/academics/conc/.

Policies and Procedures for Declaring and Completing LS&A Academic Minors

As part of the College of Engineering's curriculum reform, Engineering students now have greater flexibility in electing courses from other colleges. In the interest of helping students make informed decisions in selecting these courses, we allow and encourage our students to pursue minors offered in LS&A.

Students in the College of Engineering are given the option of electing one or more academic minors offered by units within the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Electing to earn an academic minor is optional and there is no limit on the number of academic minors a student may elect.

The following is a statement of the policies and procedures to be followed for declaring and completing minors:

1. Each B.S.E. and B.S. student who wishes to complete an approved academic minor must develop a plan for the minor in consultation with the designated LS&A advisor, who must also approve it. The faculty and staff advisors in the LS&A units will advise Engineering students on course selection, and complete the minor declaration form and confirm completion of the minor. There will be no prior approval required from an Engineering advisor.
2. Students may not elect two academic minors offered by the same department or program.
3. The minor declaration form must be received by the College of Engineering Student Records Office. Upon receipt of the declaration form, the staff member will enter the minor in the M-Pathways database. The form will be available through all Engineering academic departments, the Engineering Advising Center and all relevant LS&A departments.
4. Student Transcripts: 
   • The unofficial transcript for an Engineering student who has declared a minor will show the minor in the program action history section. 
   • The Official Transcript issued by the Registrar's Office will show the minor at the beginning of the transcript when the student has completed the degree.
5. Minors cannot be completed and added to the transcript, once a student is graduated.