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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

School web sites

• Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
• School of Communication
• School of Education and Social Policy
• McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Medill School of Journalism
• Bienen School of Music