Check first
Run a what-if audit against the minor. If it shows three courses left and they're all offered next term with no missing prerequisites, a late add is realistic. If it shows a two-year sequence, it isn't — and pushing graduation a year for a minor is rarely worth it.
If it's close but not quite
Options: take one summer course, overload by a course in your last term (with approval), or accept the courses as electives without the formal minor — the learning counts even if the transcript line doesn't. Talk to the minor's department; they sometimes allow a substitution.
In and around Porter Falls
Curriculum decisions at Porter run through the departments that meet in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building, then to Faculty Senate, then to the Provost in Millwright Hall. The pace is deliberately slow and the review calendar is published.
The practical details
Feasible when: You've already taken several of the minor's courses as electives, and the rest are offered before you graduate. Hard when: The minor has a prerequisite chain you haven't started, or a capstone offered once a year. Deadline: The minor must be complete and declared before your degree posts; you can't add it after graduating. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of the Provost (Millwright Hall, Room 300). Call (715) 555–0130 or email provost@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.