Brewing Innovation Minor
The Brewing Innovation minor uses brewing as backdrop for experiential learning within the innovation process. The design of the minor complement’s disciplinary majors in the sciences, humanities, communications, design and innovation. Required courses in the minor will help you develop skills and offer an immersive experience to build your innovation skills in a rich, interdisciplinary setting that leverages science and engineering, history, innovation, and storytelling. You will tap the historical context of innovation, learn practical brewing skills needed to prototype ideas, immerse in the innovation process, and gain experience communicating your ideas and innovations to broad audiences. With this foundation, along with the disciplinary expertise you develop in your major field of study, you will immerse in a capstone experience that provides them an immersive innovation experience.
Admission Procedures:
Program Admissions Procedure
Due to limited laboratory capacity, there is an application process to enter the minor. The selection of students into the minor will be based upon multiple factors: a student’s ability to complete the minor requirements before they graduate, their potential for diversifying and contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of the minor's upper-division courses, a student’s transcripts, and a 300-word statement of interest. The program will accept applications for the minor annually (please see the program website for deadlines).
Enrollment management into the BRIN minor introductory course and acceptance into the minor will be supported by the Program Recruiter and Advisor. Students can contact them at BrewingInnovation@uoregon.edu.
Brewing Innovation Minor Requirements
Courses used to fulfill the minor requirements must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C- or better.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| BRIN 221 | Tapping into the World of Beer and Brewing | 4 |
| BRIN 322 | Advanced Brewing Laboratory | 4 |
| BRIN 323 | Brewing Innovation: Past, Present, and Future | 4 |
| BRIN 424 | Capstone: Interdisciplinary Beer Design Lab | 4 |
| Electives 1 | 8 | |
| Psychoactive Substances in Ancient Societies | ||
| Organic Chemistry III | ||
or CH 343 | Majors Track Organic Chemistry III | |
| Biochemistry | ||
| Cell Biology | ||
| Microbiology | ||
| Microbiology Laboratory | ||
| Sensory Physiology | ||
| Food in World History | ||
| Beer in World History | ||
| Creative Strategist | ||
| Writing for Influence | ||
| Launching New Ventures | ||
| Marketing Communications | ||
| Consumer Behavior | ||
| Design for Use | ||
| Design Process | ||
| Total Credits | 24 | |
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Students must take 8 credits of elective courses from this collection.