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5. The Secondary Concentration Requirement

In addition to a student’s primary major, most students will be required to fulfill a secondary concentration. This may include:

• Double-Majors

• Minors

• Certificates

The Secondary Concentration Encourages Scaffolding/Depth
The Secondary Concentration promotes MC's core value of advanced studies. Majors and minors move students beyond broad introductory work, engaging them with an additional discipline's way of "knowing," and include assignments that foster essential skill development complementary to those engaged in the primary major.

The Secondary Concentration Supports Improved Integrative Learning
Like those in an academic major, courses that are combined to fulfill a minor or certificate are designed to work together towards a specific educational goal (intellectual skill, knowledge of discipline) and are not designed to be disparate classes that fulfill a breadth of knowledge only (Distribution Categories). As a result, the depth within a second subject area will serve to improve students’ ability to draw connections between courses and disciplines.

The Secondary Concentration Increases Breadth of Knowledge
A required secondary concentration contributes to breadth in that it involves multiple classes outside of the primary discipline. With this goal in mind, the secondary concentration must include a minimum number of credit hours unique from the primary major:

• Minors must include 12 hours that are not included in the major.
• Certificates must include 6 hours that are not included in major.
• In the case of double majors, each major must include 18 hours at the 300-400 level that are not included in the other major.

Please see the Curricular Options and Enhancements section of the catalog for more details on rules applying to each of the secondary concentration options.

Exemption from the Secondary Concentration

Students completing the following interdisciplinary majors/programs have been identified as meeting the “spirit” of the Secondary Concentration (to study an additional discipline in a more integrative manner) and are exempt from fulfilling an additional concentration:

• Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Approved Dual-Degree Programs
• Education
  • Middle Childhood/ Special Education Dual Preparation
  • Music Education
  • Secondary Education (AYA) licensure
  • Special Education/Elementary Education Dual Preparation
  • Wellness Education & Special Education
• Music Therapy
• Theatre (BFA only)

In addition, students who enter Marietta College with an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science are exempt from the Secondary Concentration.