Minors
I'm confident in my focus, but I'm not afraid to mix it up.
Minors
Minors are optional but perfectly compliment your other course work. And they are designed to easily fit into your schedule.
We're excited to announce new minors for the 26-27 academic year. Explore offerings below.
The minor in Arts Management prepares students to contribute to work in arts administration, business, non-profit management, and creative leadership. The minor’s emphases include data literacy, financial management, funding, marketing, strategic planning, and policy for the arts. It also includes opportunities to understand professional practices and organizational approaches across various art institutions, while supporting students’ development as creative leaders across areas
The Craft + Design Minor allows you to gain hands on making experience across the three disciplines (Ceramics, Glass, and Metals) to complement your major. This minor allows for flexibility in course selection providing a multidisciplinary approach that can both support your major and present opportunities to explore new areas.
Support your visual storytelling with written words while exploring new styles of writing. Screenwriting, Poetry, Interactive Fiction, Graphic Narratives and so much more. You’ll gain confidence in your voice. And the best part? This minor is designed to easily work with your other requirements.
Combining theory and practice, the minor in Media Studies focuses on the production, interpretation, and analysis of media and culture. It includes options in photography, film, video, installation, performance art, and emerging media, along with courses on the history and critical study of media, technology, and communication.
The Photography Minor offers students a comprehensive foundation in the technical, conceptual, and critical aspects of photographic practice. Through a combination of studio courses and visual theory, students learn to create compelling images while exploring photography’s role in contemporary culture and visual communication.
The Printmaking minor offers students a comprehensive foundation to the technical, conceptual and critical aspects of a printmaking practice to complement their major area of study. Through a combination of studio courses students learn to create compelling artworks utilizing historical and contemporary print processes.
Students enhance career prospects in the arts through the cultivation of specialized printmaking knowledge, skills and collaborative experience within a shared shop environment.
The minor in Publishing supports cross-disciplinary practices in editing and publishing. It includes course options with emphases in graphic design, printmaking, copyediting, writing, distribution, promotion, and the history and art of the book. By increasing access to ideas, the minor offers practical skills and critical understandings that are relevant across creative practices and career paths
The minor in Social Issues, Identity and Culture supports students’ development as members of diverse communities and as creative leaders whose work is invested in understanding themselves and others.
Through courses in courses in gender and race, environmental justice, media and culture, and community issues, it focuses on critical and reflective engagement with intercultural knowledge, civic understanding, ethical reasoning, and students’ informed involvement with local and global topics.
Step into the future of art and design with the Virtual + Augmented Reality Minor. In collaboration with the Interactive Media Lab, this program gives you a strong foundation in designing immersive experiences and understanding interactive media. You’ll explore how new technologies shape society while developing the skills to merge disciplines, experiment with emerging tools, and create innovative, engaging work.
Through hands-on projects, you’ll examine how XR, VR and AR enhances our interactions with the physical world—whether in painting, sculpture, illustration, or fields like medicine, engineering, gaming, and media studies. Expand your creative possibilities and push the boundaries of immersive storytelling and design.
If you are an art history or theory buff, this minor is for you. It will help you develop advanced critical skills that will complement your work as an artist and designer. You’ll study art history, theory and criticism, writing and research and more!