MICRB Minor

Micrb Minor

The Microbiology minor exists to recognize those students who wish to add a limited but sound understanding of microbiology to their major. The minor requires a minimum of two laboratory courses to provide some expertise in the handling, culturing, and counting of microorganisms. There is sufficient flexibility in the minor to permit a student to emphasize some specialty area of the field like virology, microbial genetics or pathogenic microbiology. Courses required in the minor are:

A grade of C or better is required in all courses specified for the MICRB minor.

Note: BMB/MICRB 442(3), MICRB 400(2), MICRB 408(1-2), MICRB 496(1-18) and MICRB 497(1-9) may not be used to fulfill the requirements for the minor.

Applying

Students wishing to declare a minor must use eLion.

Declaring a minor does not guarantee enrollment in those courses, the future availability of those courses, or completion of the minor. Intent to pursue a minor may be declared after the student has achieved at least fifth semester classification and has been accepted into his/her major, but prior to the end of the late drop period of the student's final semester.

A student may not declare a minor that is the same as his/her major (e.g., a student majoring in Microbiology may not also declare a Microbiology minor).