Outside Courses & Minors

Graduate students must take courses outside the department (with or without a minor.) Many of our students attend classes in related departments and programs including:

• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• Medieval Studies
• Linguistics
• Curriculum and Instruction
• History
• Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
• African-American and African Studies
• Human Rights Program
• Geography
• Sociology
• Moving Image Studies

Completing a minor is optional. You might choose a minor to complement your major, pursue a second area of interest, or gain skills related to your chosen career. Unless otherwise noted, most CLA majors are also offered as minors. CLA also offers a number of freestanding minors (minors that do not have corresponding majors). Declare a minor by meeting with an advisor in the department offering it.

Past minors in our department include:

• African American & African Studies, Graduate Minor
• Curriculum & Instruction, Graduate Minor
• Early Modern Studies, Graduate Minor
• Feminist and Critical Sexuality Studies, Graduate Minor
• Human Rights, Graduate Minor
• Medieval Studies, Graduate Minor
• Moving Image Studies, Graduate Minor
• Philosophy, Graduate Minor
• Religious Studies, Graduate Minor

View a complete list of Graduate Minors offered on the Twin Cities Campus.

The department also has strong institutional ties with important research communities across campus such as:

• The Institute for Advanced Study
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
• CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)

• Center for Premodern Studies