Entering a Program
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Requirements for the Minor
For a minor to be considered a minor, the course load must be at least 18 credits. Your minor cannot be the same subject you are majoring in. For example, if your major is English your minor cannot be English. Courses for a minor can be completed at any Penn State location as long as the dean or chancellor has qualified teachers and the appropriate resources. With that being said, a student cannot change campuses for the sole purpose of completing a minor. If your campus-of-residence does not offer the minor, you will have to choose another one or not pick one up at all. If a minor has many versions, then you must concentrate on only one.
The procedure for declaring a minor is rather simple. You have to be at least in a fifth semester classification standing and you must have been already accepted into your major. Once you are eligible you log on into eLion and declare. Some majors require Faculty Senate approval, like a portfolio, eLion will generate a message saying so. If the minor requires a fee, you have to declare the minor before the end of the regular drop/add period of your final semester. The fee then goes onto the semester bill at the time you declared. Once you have completed your minor, Registrar will prepare a minor certificate that will be given to you along with you diploma at graduation.
Here's the original policy.
The procedure for declaring a minor is rather simple. You have to be at least in a fifth semester classification standing and you must have been already accepted into your major. Once you are eligible you log on into eLion and declare. Some majors require Faculty Senate approval, like a portfolio, eLion will generate a message saying so. If the minor requires a fee, you have to declare the minor before the end of the regular drop/add period of your final semester. The fee then goes onto the semester bill at the time you declared. Once you have completed your minor, Registrar will prepare a minor certificate that will be given to you along with you diploma at graduation.
Here's the original policy.
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Completing More Than One Undergraduate Major Program
(Sequential or Concurrent Majors)
In order to receive approval for a double major, you need to fill out an “Application for Approval of Concurrent Majors” with the help of an advisor from each major. The form can be found here. The deadline for this form is the final day of the late drop period of your final semester. The dean and department head from each major must approve the form before being accepted as a dual major student. Once the approval is complete you will receive one copy of the approval form, the Registrar’s office will receive one, and each college dean of your two majors will receive one.
With a double major you will have one advisor for each major. Approval of a sequential major is granted with the approval for re-enrollment in that major. You also have to meet with an advisor and make a list of courses required for your new major and see how the credits taken from your first major will be used into the second major. To cancel your double major you must notify the dean of the cancelled major in writing and once the dean approves it, he or she will notify the other concurrent colleges and the Registrar’s office.
Here's the original policy.
With a double major you will have one advisor for each major. Approval of a sequential major is granted with the approval for re-enrollment in that major. You also have to meet with an advisor and make a list of courses required for your new major and see how the credits taken from your first major will be used into the second major. To cancel your double major you must notify the dean of the cancelled major in writing and once the dean approves it, he or she will notify the other concurrent colleges and the Registrar’s office.
Here's the original policy.