Minors

What is a Minor?

Modern education is primarily centered on training individuals to succeed in focused fields of specialization, but in a world with constantly changing dynamics, it is no longer realistic to confine yourself to an isolated field of specialization. Minors are a way for you to graduate with more than one area of specialization, and due to the interdisciplinary nature of Habib University’s major and minor programs, skills learned in both types of specializations can be used interchangeably.

Minors are an integral part of the Liberal Arts and Sciences educational experience at HU as they allow you to explore your interests, personalize, and diversify your undergraduate programs.

This unique academic experience at the best university in Pakistan will help you develop a critical understanding of the world you live in by giving you the opportunity to engage with, think critically about, and be able to solve the complex problems of today.

The Benefits of Taking a Minor

All HU students, regardless of major, can expand their fields of specialization by taking an optional minor program to supplement their major undergraduate program in Pakistan. Minors help in honing a variety of skills including the capacity to engage in intellectual and scientific inquiry. The advantages vary, as each individual specialty will give you a unique perspective in the way you perceive and exist in the world today.

Graduating with a minor has many advantages, including:

  • A chance to pursue a wide range of post-graduate degree programs, dependent on your major-minor combination
  • The ability to qualify for an expansive range of career options due to a uniquely specialized degree program
  • The development, and utilization, of a variety of interdisciplinary skill-sets that will help students in your future entrepreneurial and academic endeavors

Minors expand students’ future possibilities and allow them to graduate with a honed interdisciplinary focus. An interdisciplinary approach towards society’s complex social, political and scientific problems will allow students to solve modern day problems using innovative.

List of Minors offered at Habib

S. No Minors Offered by Offering School No of Courses Credit Hours+
1 Comparative Literature Comparative Humanities (CH) Program SAHSS 6 18
2 Philosophy 5 15
3 Religious Studies 5 15
4 History 5 15
5 South Asian Music South Asian Music Center & CH Program 5* 15*
6 Communication

(Applicable for Class of 2025 & onwards)

CND Program 5 19
7 Design

(Applicable for Class of 2025 & onwards)

5 18
8 Communication and Design

(Applicable for Class of 2023 & 2024)

5 15
9 Social Development & Policy SDP Program 5 18
10 Physics iSciM Program DSSE 7** 20
11 Mathematics 7 20
12 Bio-Science 5 17
13 Computer Science CS Program 7 21
14 Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE Program 7 18

+ minimum credit hours required.
*South-Asian music minor – an additional 3 semesters of Practicum in the Music room are required.
**Physics minor – in addition to the 7 courses, 2 lab courses are also to be taken to fulfill the foundational requirement.

Minors Offered by the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Minors offered by Dhanani School of Science and Engineering

Note: The above mentioned details regarding the Minors are as per the Consolidated Minor’s document version 6.34 dated 15th February 2024. (click here to download the PDF version).