Summer Fast Pass to Completing Your Minor

Anthropology’s minor requirements allow students to choose from a variety of upper division courses. Luckily, Summer Sessions also offers a wide variety of Anthropology courses, ensuring that at least one topic will catch your interest.

Complete your entire Anthropology upper division minor requirements in just two summers! Or, knock out the required two lower division courses in one summer to start working on your upper division classes in the Fall.

See how Summer can play a role in your academic journey with the Anthropology minor roadmap.

For Summer Sessions 2025, explore the following paired options to make major progress on the Anthropology minor while dedicating just two days per week to class time:

Session A

Lower Division Electives: Anthropology 2 (Archaeology) + Anthropology 3 (Culture and Society)

Session C

Lower Division Electives: Anthropology 1 (Human Evolution) + Anthropology 4 ( Culture and Communication)

Across Sessions

Upper Division Electives: Anthropology M150 (Language in Culture) + Anthropology 126P (Paleopathology)

Biomedical Research is one of the most popular and intensive minors at UCLA. Complete a key pre-requisite (Biomedical Research 5HA)* as well as required course MCD Biology 60 and a required upper division History of Science or Philosophy of Science course in just one summer.

See how Summer can play an important role in your academic journey with the Biomedical Research minor roadmap.

Get ahead for Fall 2025 by exploring the following course options for your Biomedical Research minor:

Session A

Lower/Upper Division Electives: MCD Biology 60 (Biomedical Ethics) + History 179B (History of Medicine: Foundations of Modern Medicine)

Lower/Upper Division Electives: MCD Biology 60 (Biomedical Ethics) + Public Health C150 (Fundamentals of Public Health)

Session C

Lower Division Elective: Biomedical Research 5HA (Biomedical Research: Concepts and Strategies)

Across Sessions

Lower Division Electives: MCD Biology 60 (Biomedical Ethics) + Biomedical Research 5HA (Biomedical Research: Concepts and Strategies)

*Please note that admission to the Biomedical Research minor is by competitive application and admission is not guaranteed 

Plenty of courses are being offered this summer to help satisfy the requirements of the Chicana/o Studies and Central American Studies minors. With many online CCAS course offerings, you can start to make serious progress on your minor from anywhere this summer.

See how Summer can play an important role in earning your minor with the Chicana/o Studies minor roadmap and the Central American Studies minor roadmap.

Session A

Chicana/o Studies minor required lower division courses: CCAS 10A (Introduction to Chicana/o Studies: History and Culture) + CCAS 10B (Introduction to Chicana/o Studies: Social Structure and Contemporary Conditions)

Chicana/o Studies minor upper division electives: CCAS 113 (Day of Dead Ritual) + CCAS M102 (Mexican Americans and Schools)

Central American Studies minor core course and elective: CCAS 20 (Central American Studies: Histories and Cultures) + CCAS C107 (Latina/Latino Families in U.S.)

Session C

Chicana/o Studies minor core course and elective: CCAS 101 (Theoretical Concepts in Chicana/o Studies) + CCAS M122 (Planning Issues in Latina/Latino Communities: Preserving and Strengthening Community Assets in Mexican and Salvadoran Los Angeles)

Environmental Systems and Society is a popular growing minor at UCLA with over 40 electives courses available for completion. This course requirement flexibility makes it even easier to use Summer to complete your two lower division requirements, or cross two upper division requirements off your list in your path to minor completion.

See how Summer can play a key role in your academic journey with the Environmental Systems and Society minor roadmap.

Prepare for your minor progress this summer by viewing these available options:

Session A

Lower Division Electives: Environment 25 (Good Food for Everyone: Health Sustainability, and Culture) + Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences 15 (Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography)

Upper Division Electives: Environment M125 (Environmentalism: Past, Present, and Future) + Environment 163 (Business and Natural Environment)

For the Film, Television, and Digital Media minor, the wide variety of Film and Television courses offered during the summer allows your choice in topic and mode of delivery. Courses offered online, or scheduled for evening hours, allow flexibility for other commitments in your schedule.

See how Summer can play a key role in your academic journey with the Film, Television, and Digital Media minor roadmap.

Details on how Summer Sessions 2025 can work on your Film, Television, and Digital Media minor progress below:

Session A

Lower Division Electives: Film and Television 4 (Introduction to Art and Technique of Filmmaking) + Film and Television 33 (Introductory Screenwriting)

Upper Division Electives: Film and Television M111 (Women and Film) + Film and Television 112 (Film and Social Change)

Upper Division Electives: Film and Television 122D (Film Editing: Overview of History, Technique, and Practice) + Film and Television 122E (Digital Cinematography)

Session C

Upper Division Electives: Film and Television 114 (Film Genres) + Film and Television 122J (Disney Feature: Then and Now)

Did you know that nearly all of the Global Health minor theme areas are represented by Summer Sessions courses? No matter where you are in your progress towards a minor in Global Health, participating in Summer Sessions can get you closer to your degree completion. Check off the required Global Health 100 course along with another upper division elective. Or, get started on the minor with two lower elective courses.

See how Summer can play an important role in your academic journey with the Global Health minor roadmap.

View details on how you can use this summer to start, complete, or make any progress in between on your Global Health minor below:

Session A

Lower Division Electives: Statistics 10 (Introduction to Statistical Reasoning) + Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology 60 (Biomedical Ethics)

Upper Division Requirement and Elective: Global Health 100 (Global Health and Development) + Public Health C150 (Fundamentals of Public Health)

Upper Division Electives: History 179B (History of Medicine: Foundations of Modern Medicine) + Health Policy 100 (Health Care Systems and Health Policy)

Session C

Lower Division Electives: Global Studies 1 (Introduction to Globalization) + International Development Studies 1 (Introduction to International Development)

Upper Division Electives: Sociology 170 (Medical Sociology) + Anthropology 126P (Paleopathology)

Work on completing your History minor from anywhere! Many Online courses that count towards a History minor are being offered during Session A and Session C this summer.  With several asynchronous offerings, you can plan your summer with the ultimate flexibility.

See how Summer can play an important role in your academic journey with the History minor roadmap.

View options for maximizing this summer for your History minor below:

Session A

Lower Division Electives: History 2C (Religion, Occult, and Science) + History 5 (Holocaust: History and Memory)

Upper Division Electives: History 140A (20th Century U.S. History: 1900 to 1928) + History 179B (History of Medicine)

Session C

Lower Division Electives: History 8A (Colonial Latin America) + History 13C (History of the U.S. and Its Colonial Origins: 20th Century)

Upper Division Electives: History 132 (Topics in European History) + History 115 (Topics in Ancient History)

Upper Division Electives: History 103A (History of Ancient Egypt) + History 154 (History of California)

The Music Industry minor’s summer offerings provide ample opportunities to fulfill a required course and multiple elective options. Learn how to use this summer to make significant progress on the minor with the pairings below.

See how Summer can play an important role in your year-round academic journey with the Music Industry summer road map.

Session A

Core + Elective: Music Industry 2 (Music Industry Fundamentals) + Ethnomusicology M25 (Global Pop)

Electives: Music Industry 115A (The Art of Music Production I) + Ethnomusicology M25 (Global Pop)

Session C

Electives: Music Industry 107A (Engineering and Production Fundamentals) + Music Industry M182 (Music Industry)

This summer, start making significant progress on a Spanish minor by completing a lower division requirement (Spanish 42) and the only mandatory upper division course within the minor (Spanish 119). Completing Spanish 119 will open up the eight upper division Spanish courses that count 119 as a requisite, allowing you to continue your momentum in Fall Quarter.

See how Summer can play a key role in your academic journey with the Spanish minor roadmap.

Session A

Spanish 42 (Iberian Cultures) + Spanish 119 (Introduction to Literary Analysis)

Session C

Spanish 150 (Topics in Contemporary Studies) + Spanish 170 (Topics in Interdisciplinary and Transhistorical Studies)

All courses required for the Statistics minor are being offered in Summer! Complete your minor prep or take a chunk out of the upper division requirements. Wherever you are in your journey towards a minor in Statistics, Summer courses can help you make significant progress. With planning, you could complete your entire Statistics minor using only Summer.

See how Summer can play an important role in your academic journey with the Statistics minor roadmap.

Plan your summer in Statistics with the course pairing options below:

Across Sessions

Lower Division Prep Courses:  Math 33A (Linear Algebra and Applications) + Statistics 10 (Introduction to Statistical Reasoning)

Session A

Upper Division Courses: Statistics 100A (Introduction to Probability) + Statistics 101A (Introduction to Data Analysis and Regression)

Session C

Upper Division Courses: Statistics 100B ( Introduction to Mathematical Statistics) + Statistics 101B (Introduction to Design and Analysis of Experiment)