
Undergraduate Minors and Certificates
Northwestern offers a variety of minors and certificates to complement the majors offered and the diverse interests of its student body.
Minors
The following is a list of undergraduate minors available at Northwestern.
- African studies
- African American studies
- Anthropology
- Art history
- Arts administration
- Asian American studies
- Asian and Middle East studies
- Biological sciences
- Business institutions
- Central and Southeastern European studies
- Chemistry
- Chinese language and culture
- Classics (Greek and Latin)
- Cognitive science
- Commercial music
- Computing and information systems
- Critical theory
- Economics
- English
- Environmental policy and culture
- Film and media studies
- French
- Gender studies
- Geography
- Geological sciences
- German
- Global health studies
- History
- Humanities
- Italian
- Japanese language and culture
- Jazz studies
- Jewish studies
- Latin American and Caribbean studies
- Legal studies
- Linguistics
- Materials science
- Mathematics
- Music cognition
- Music composition
- Music criticism
- Music technology
- Music theory
- Musicology
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political science
- Psychology
- Religion
- Science in human culture
- Slavic languages and literature
- Sociology
- Sound design
- Spanish
- Statistics
- Transportation and logistics
Certificates
Certificate programs allow students to pursue interests, often of an interdisciplinary nature, and receive a notation on their Northwestern transcript upon graduation.
- Architectural engineering and design (engineering)
- Biotechnology (engineering)
- Business enterprise (engineering)
- Engineering design (engineering)
- Financial economics (consulting/financial services/business)
- Jazz studies (music)
- Managerial analytics (consulting/financial services/business)
- Music cognition (music)
- Music technology (music)
- Music theatre (music/communication)
- Service learning (education/social policy)
- Undergraduate leadership

