Minor Requirements

18 credit hours chosen from across offerings in the Schools of Arts & Letters, Business, and Social Sciences. Minimum grade of C- in each course and overall GPA of 2.0 across all 18 credits required.

1. PHIL-P 150 - Elementary Logic (3 credits)
2. POLS-Y 304 - Constitutional Law (3 credits)
3. SPCH-S 228 - Argument and Debate OR PHIL-P 113 Introduction to Debate, Argument. and Persuasion (3 credits)
4. 9 credits (3 courses) choose one from each of the following distribution areas:

• • Critical Reading, Writing and Problem Solving
  • Public Service, Promotion of Justice and Background Knowledge
  • Organization, Management, Relationship Building and Collaboration 

Note: No more than two courses from any single discipline. Two of the three required courses must be at the 300 level or higher. Some courses have pre- or co-requisites. See Courses section of this Bulletin for details. 

  Distribution Area Options 

  Critical Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving 

• ENG-W 270/420 Argumentative Writing 
• ENG-L 371 Critical Practices 
• HIST-A 302 Revolutionary America 1763-1791
• HIST-A 303 United States 1792-1829
• POLS-T 385 Politics, Psychology, and Power
• POLS-Y 349 Comparative Public Policy 
• POLS-Y 384 Developments in American Political Thought
• POLS-Y 392 Problems of Contemporary Political Philosophy 
• SOC-S 360 Topics in Social Policy 
• SOC-S 403 Industry, Labor, and Community 

  Public Service, Promotion of Justice, and Background Knowledge 

• HIST-A 381 Civil Rights Era in the U.S. 
• HIST-F 341 Latin America:Conquest and Empire 
• HIST-F 342 Latin America: Evolution and Revolution 
• PHIL-P 343 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy 
• PHIL-P 345 Problems in Social and Political Philosophy
• POLS-T 390 Theories of Power
• POLS-Y 103 Introduction to American Politics
• POLS-Y 306 State Politics in the U.S.
• POLS-Y 317 Voting, Elections, Public Opinion
• POLS-Y 337 Latin American Politics 
• SOC-R 463 Inequality and Society

  Organization, Management, Relationship Building, and Collaboration  

• BUS-L 201 Legal Environment of Business 
• POLS-Y 302 Public Bureaucracy in Modern Society 
• POLS-Y 303 Formation of Public Policy in the United States
• PSY-B 378 Introduction to Industrial Psychology 
• SPCH-S 229 Discussion and Group Methods 
• SPCH-S 306 Leadership