ACADEMIC MINORS
Accounting
The accounting minor allows students to acquire knowledge in an important professional discipline that can complement their major. In an increasingly competitive job market, accounting expertise can play a consequential role in satisfying the needs of employers.
Actuarial Mathematics
The actuarial mathematics minor enhances education of students who are considering career in insurance and also in quantitative finance or financial engineering.
Anthropology
Students who wish to integrate interests in a wide range of humanist concerns with the cross-cultural perspective and analytic framework provided by anthropology may choose to complete an anthropology minor.
Art and Creative Practice
This minor is designed for students who seek to cultivate their artistic or creative practice. Students preparing for a career or further study in the arts and other fields involving cultural production, and to students seeking to develop the creative skills will find this minor valuable.
Biology
The biology minor provides students with a solid scientific base that is becoming increasingly important with significant advances in nanotechnology, medicine, and bioinformatics. Students in many fields will find that biology is not only rewarding, but also useful in their careers.
Business Management
The business minor allows students to gain real management knowledge making them more attractive to employers. Moreover, students equipped with business management skills are more capable of effective teaming with others and making strategic organizational decisions.
Chemistry
The chemistry minor provides students with fundamental knowledge in organic, inorganic and biochemistry, and complements and enhances marketability in a wide variety of disciplines, such as biology, health science, and engineering.
Communication and Information Design
The communication and information design minor is valuable to students pursuing studies in various disciplines who wish to enhance their communication skills and make themselves more marketable.
Community and Behavioral Health
The community and behavioral health minor is designed for those students who are interested in the biopsychosocial health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities, or anyone interested in working in health care and health-related fields.
Computer Science
A valuable choice for students in all technical disciplines as well as for students in management, social sciences, and mathematics, an understanding of computer science can play a significant role in satisfying conditions for employment.
Creativity and Ethical Venturing
Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the CEV minor integrates humanities, business management, and experiential learning activities to empower students to envision ways to make a positive impact and realize their ideas as not-for-profit organizations and ethical for-profit businesses.
Crime Analytics
The crime analytics minor is designed for students interested in studying the sociological forces that generate crime with a strong analytic focus. The minor is ideal for students who are interested in learning the methods and technologies used to analyze patterns in crime data.
Criminal Justice
This minor is useful for students wishing to add a criminal justice focus to a more traditional discipline within arts and sciences, as well as for students in a professional program who are looking to augment their skills.
Digital Imaging
The digital imaging minor focuses on the construction of still, motion, and animated digital images. Valuable to students in various disciplines, this minor enhances visual communication skills and make graduates more marketable in a world increasingly reliant on digital images.
Engineering Science
The engineering science minor focuses on the basic elements of engineering plus discipline specific courses in Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering. This minor is particularly valuable for students looking to broaden their skill set.
Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurship minor is intended for students who desire to improve their understanding of the business environment and the entrepreneurial issues related to a business or organization and prepares students to play crucial roles in the new venture community.
Ethics
The complexities and challenges of the contemporary world raise numerous ethical issues both for individuals and societies. The Ethics minor is designed to provide students a foundation in ethical theories, moral reasoning, and applied ethics, encouraging students to examine ethical issues stemming from various aspects of the contemporary world.
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
The minor in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences is designed for students interested in the biological bases of human behavior and the application of evolution to human affairs.
Finance
The finance minor integrates business coursework with financial decision-making as a specific function within an organization or to an individual. This minor adds value to a student’s degree by giving him or her a deeper understanding of the financial function within businesses.
Game Design and Development
The game design and development minor focuses on creating and understanding interactive game media and is valuable to students pursuing studies in various disciplines who wish to enhance their marketability in fields that increasingly utilize interactive media.
Health Information Management
The minor in health information management complements a variety of programs. Health information management plays a critical role in maintaining, collecting, and analyzing data that doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers rely on to deliver quality healthcare.
Human Resources Management
The human resources management minor offers students the opportunity to expand his or her skills in human resources management functions, which include a variety of activities that are critical to the success of any organization.
Humanitarian Engineering
The minor in Humanitarian Engineering provides students with the opportunity to include insights from health and social sciences and the humanities into their design processes, with a focus on producing assistive technologies for persons living with disabilities.
Humanitarian Engineering Technology
The minor in Humanitarian Engineering Technology provides students with the opportunity to include insights from health and social sciences and the humanities into their design processes, with a focus on producing assistive technologies for persons living with disabilities.
Humanitarian Studies
The minor in Humanitarian Studies provides students with the opportunity to include insights from health, social sciences, humanities and engineering to work together to design and produce assistive technologies for persons living with disabilities.
Information Systems
For students in all technical disciplines as well as for students in management, social sciences, and mathematics. Knowledge of the computer systems that are essential to the successful operation of all organizations and businesses can be helpful in a competitive job market.
Interactive Digital Arts
This minor highlights courses that are valuable to those seeking to expand their skillset in a number of asset/ production roles in digital media. This program is ideal for students in not in IMGD/CID to be able to incorporate communication courses into their degree program.
Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Problem Solving
The minor in interdisciplinary inquiry and problem solving prepares students to address these types of complex problems by introducing and immersing students in the practices of interdisciplinary inquiry, integrative thinking, and creative problem solving.
Marketing
The marketing minor will prepare students in our current global economy which is invigorated through the use of modern technology demands and an ever-increasing attention to the marketing function as an integral part of the total business environment.
Mathematics
The minor in mathematics is valuable for students who wish to pursue studies in mathematics, computer science, physics or engineering or who wish to be more competitive in the job market.
Medical Sociology
The medical sociology minor integrates biological, sociological, and anthropological coursework in an attempt to provide a stronger foundation in the biological and social sciences for those interested in future careers or graduate work in medicine and/or the social sciences.
Nanotechnology
This minor focuses on nanotechnology’s many applications in health care, computer technology, manufacturing, environment, agriculture and others. The nanotechnology minor is valuable to students looking to enhance their knowledge in a variety of fields.
Network and Computer Security
The growing need for graduates with a cybersecurity background is driven by society’s reliance on information systems of all types. The minor in network and computer security a smart choice for students in diverse majors who seek to apply cybersecurity knowledge to their field.
Physics
The minor in physics is useful for students who wish to pursue studies in physics or engineering or to be more competitive in the job market.
Psychology
An understanding of psychology underlies all human activities and will provide depth to any major. A psychology minor might be especially useful to students planning careers in business, human services, criminology, and health sciences.
Renewable Energy Technologies
The renewable energy technologies minor is designed for students with the desire to contribute to the development and implementation of the renewable energy technologies into the mainstream of energy resources available for the progress of local communities as well as for the progress of human society at the global level.
Sociology
A minor in sociology is of value to students who wish to integrate interests in business, nursing, the technologies and computer science, or other arts and sciences disciplines with the broad conceptual and analytical framework provided by sociology.
Technology and Culture
Technologies are shaping and reshaping the ways we express, interpret, and understand ourselves and our lives. Students explore the connections between technology and culture and examine how these interrelations shape our experience and understanding of contemporary life.
