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Majors and Minors

Majors

CFANS offers the following interdisciplinary majors and pre-professional programs:

• Agricultural Education
• Agricultural and Food Business Management
• Agricultural Industries and Marketing
• Animal Science
• Applied Economics
• Bioproducts Marketing and Management
• Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management
• Fisheries and Wildlife
• Food Science
• Food Systems (new major! available to CFANS students as of fall 2013)
• Forest and Natural Resource Management
• Nutrition
• Plant Science (new major! available to CFANS students as of fall 2013)

NOTICE: The Horticulture; Applied Plant Science; and Recreation Resource Management majors (listed below) are no longer open to incoming freshmen/transfer students.

• Applied Plant Science
• Horticulture
• Recreation Resource Management

Pre-Majors and Pre-Professional Programs

A pre-major is an undergraduate course of study that specifically prepares students to pursue an upper-division degree program in another college. CFANS offers one pre-major program:

• Pre-Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

Pre-professional programs are specifically designed to meet the entrance requirements to professional programs such as veterinary medicine, medicine and dentistry. CFANS offers several pre-professional program options:

• Pre-Health Sciences
• Pre-Veterinary Medicine

Minors

To declare a CFANS minor, please fill out the Minor Declaration Form online.

CFANS offers 25 minors to supplement the course work you do in your major program. All CFANS minors are available to students throughout the University of Minnesota. These minors are an excellent way to study a related area of interest.

• Agronomy
• Animal Science
• Applied Economics
• Bio-Based Products Engineering
• Climatology
• Corporate Environmental Management
• Entomology
• Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management
• Fisheries and Wildlife
• Food Science
• Food Systems and the Environment
• Forest Ecosystem Management and Conservation
• Geographic Information Science
• Horticulture
• Integrated Pest Management in Cropping Systems
• International Agriculture
• Marine Biology (new minor! available to CFANS students as of fall 2013)
• Native American Environmental Knowledge
• Nutrition
• Park and Protected Area Management (This minor was formerly the Recreation Resource Management minor.)
• Soil Science
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Sustainability Studies
• Urban and Community Forestry
• Water Science
   

The Undergraduate Catalog contains a complete list of University of Minnesota majors and minors.