Apply for Minor
Declaring a Minor
A minor is a curriculum component of an academic program intended to provide a limited depth and/or breadth study in a discipline or a professional field of study. Its main objective is to provide students a fair measure of expertise and knowledge in more than one academic area.
General Requirements for Declaring a Minor
- Minors are open to all QU students provided that:
- They meet the admission requirements for the minor;
- The department offering the minor approves the student enrollment in the minor based on the department capacity.
- Students may not declare a minor before declaring their major.
- Students may declare one or multiple minors.
- Students may not declare a minor in the same field as the declared major.
- At least half of the credit hours required to complete the minor must be taken in residence at QU.
- A student must complete the graduation requirements for a Bachelor degree at Qatar University in order to receive recognition for the completed minor.
- The only recognition delivered by the university for a minor completed by a student consists on the appearance of the minor on the student official transcript at the time of graduation and the student graduation statement.
Application Period for Declaring a Minor
Application for applying for a minor starts on Sunday 12 March 2017 till Thursday 23 March 2017 (Fall 2017).
Steps of Application for Declaring a Minor
To apply for a minor, please login to Banner Self Service at mybanner.qu.edu.qa using your QU username and password. Then follow the steps shown in the following screenshots:
1- Select “Student Registrations and Records” option.
2- Select “Student Records” option.
3- Select “Transfer Application” option.
4- Select “ Apply for Stand-alone Minor” option.
How to cancel Apply for Minor Application
- To cancel any minor application requests during the application period, students should follow the same steps of applying and then select “none” next to the field they would like to cancel and then click submit. Students will receive an email informing them of the cancellation.
- Submitting a new application will automatically update the previous request. This includes selecting either a new option or the option “none”. Students will receive an email informing them of the updated request.
