All Graduate School students must utilize the Graduate Student Portal in MyUW to add, change, or discontinue any doctoral minor. To apply to this minor, log in to MyUW, click on Graduate Student Portal, and then click on Add/Change Programs. Select the information for the doctoral minor for which you are applying.
Candidates for the Ph.D. in other programs may obtain a doctoral minor in African American Studies by completing a minimum of 12 graduate credits in the subject, of which only 3 may be directed-study credits. Three of the 12 credits must be a seminar course. Advance approval by the candidate's major advisor is required for the doctoral minor.