Department & Cross Disciplinary Minors

Department-Based Minors

Many students want to take a concentration of courses within a specific discipline without the intention of majoring in the subject. Minors at St. Mary's require students to take 18-24 semester-hours in prescribed course work.

Cross Disciplinary Minors

Expand your ideas and see beyond the ordinary.

This is the experience you will have when you decide to make cross-disciplinary studies or a notable academic program part of your St. Mary's academic experience. An honors college education is much more than choosing a major - it is designing your own path that can include cross-disciplinary study, study abroad, an internship, original research, or creative expression. Find out what we have to offer.

Cross-disciplinary studies can increase intellectual community across disciplines, encourage cohesion in the choice of electives, and promote combinations of methods and materials that challenge the boundaries of knowledge.

Cross-disciplinary study involves at least two academic disciplines and requires 16 to 24 semester-hours, at least eight (8) of which must be at the upper-division level.

• African and African Diaspora Studies
• Asian Studies
• Democracy Studies
• Environmental Studies
• Museum Studies
• Neurosciences
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies