Undergraduate Programs
Declaration of Majors and Minors
Defined Majors
Students are encouraged to declare a major by the start of their second year. They are expected to do so by the beginning of the junior year. The Major/Minor Declaration form, obtainable from the Office of the University Registrar, is used for this purpose. Appropriate faculty signatures are required to encourage students to learn all they can about their prospective majors before declaring. A minor may be declared only after the student has declared a major. The Major/Minor Declaration form is used for this purpose and filed in the Office of the University Registrar.
Defined majors are listed at the end of this Academic Policies section. They have required courses of study, found in this catalog in the Undergraduate Course Descriptions section. Defined majors must consist of at least 33 semester hours.
Independent Majors
Please see the Academic Policies for Student-Designed Coursework.
Double Majors
Students declaring a double major must fulfill all the requirements of each major separately, including separate senior requirements (unless otherwise noted). Double majors may be any combination of defined and independent majors. A student may have no more than two majors.
Minors
Each minor must require at least 18 semester hours. No more than six semester hours may be applied to both a major and a minor (extended to eight semester hours if there are only two courses) or to two or more minors. To earn a minor, the student must have a cumulative unrounded GPA of 2.0 in the minor course of study. At least nine hours applicable to the minor must be earned in work completed at MBU. A student may have no more than two minors.
Changing Majors and Minors
Changing a major or and/or a minor may be done by completing the appropriate section of the Major/Minor Declaration Form and filing it in the Office of the University Registrar.