Minors
The C-SC Humanities and Social Sciences Division encourages students to combine their major with a minor in another discipline. The division offers 12 minors for students to enhance their knowledge. Each minor requires 18 hours of coursework. They include:
- Communications - Media communications – Coursework includes public speaking, interpersonal communications, mass media and society, media writing, and six hours of communications electives.
- Communications - Speech communications – Coursework includes public speaking, interpersonal communications, mass media and society, gender and intercultural communications, plus five hours of communications electives.
- Criminal Justice – Coursework includes introduction to criminal justice, criminology, judicial process, corrections, introduction to social research and three hours of criminal justice electives, exclusive of any internship credit hours.
- English – Coursework includes British or American literature, history of the English language, and grammar plus nine hours of English electives.
- English - Creative Writing – Coursework includes an introduction of creative writing, fiction and poetry workshops, playwriting, history of the English language or grammar, and a literary magazine practicum.
- History – Coursework includes the historian's craft, U.S. history, modern world history and nine hours of history electives.
- International Studies – This minor is an interdisciplinary approach to issues being confronted by the global community. Coursework includes comparative politics and international relations, and six hours of any single foreign language plus nine hours of electives selected from global business, international corporate finance, world roots of British literature, human geography, minority people and race relations, and a variety of history, political science and religion courses.
- Legal Studies Minor – This minor functions as a group of interdisciplinary courses that teach students the role of law and legal institutions in our society. Some students who are continuing on to law school may combine a traditional academic major with a minor in Legal Studies.
- Political Science – Coursework includes either American government and politics or comparative politics and international relations plus three hours of any political science elective. The remaining 12 hours is comprised of electives from history, business, economics and sociology.
- Psychology – Coursework includes introductory psychology and 15 hours of psychology electives.
- Religion and Philosophy – Coursework includes 12 hours of religion courses and six hours of philosophy courses, with no more than 3 hours in internships.
- Sociology – Coursework includes introductory sociology, social problems, criminology, juvenile delinquency, social psychology, and three hours of sociology electives.
For a complete listing of the course offerings and requirements for any of the minors offered by the C-SC Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, please see the current academic catalog.
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