Minors granted at the doctoral level for work completed at another institution are called "external minors." Typically, in these cases a doctoral student at NC State wishes to have course work from a prior extradisciplinary Master's program at another university approved as the minor for their current doctoral degree. The DGP must recommend a representative at NC State from the discipline of the proposed external minor to both serve on the advisory committee and to review and determine whether the course work is sufficient to constitute the minor at the doctoral level.