minor vs major?

comfortablycurt
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:34:57 +0000

Most community colleges don’t offer minors. I’m actually not aware of any that do.

The required credits for a minor will vary from school to school. It’s generally somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 credits, or roughly 5 classes. Depending on how the minor requirements work at your transfer institution though, you may be unable to complete the credits elsewhere.

Community colleges only offer lower level classes. I’m a physics major at a community college. I want to minor in math, but my transfer institution, UIUC, requires mostly upper level courses to complete the minor. The only course to fulfill my minor that I could even possibly take here would be Calculus III. I am taking it this spring, and it will count toward my minor. I’m taking differential equations, and linear algebra this coming semester. Those are both requirements for the math minor at UIUC, but the differential equations and linear algebra courses offered at my CC are lower level courses. The UIUC minor requires upper level courses in those subjects. So I’ll actually have to retake the courses, albeit with much greater depth.

You need to look into the requirements for the specific minor at the specific transfer institution you’re interested in. Then you can line the courses up and see if there are any that you can take at your CC.