Electing to take a minor allows students a unique opportunity to complement in-depth knowledge and skills in their major fields. Minors enable students to differentiate their education, deepen their knowledge base, and broaden professional marketability. At GSPIA, students have a wide array of choices available, as any major can be a minor.
Available minors include:
- Public and Nonprofit Management - fosters an understanding of the unique issues facing nonprofit organizations and builds advanced skills for governing and efficiently managing public and nonprofit organizations
- Urban and Regional Affairs - prepares students to improve metropolitan and urban environments and the lives of those living in them
- Policy Research and Analysis - builds quantitative, economic, political, and organizational skills and integrates knowledge from multiple scholarly disciplines and professional fields
- Security and Intelligence Studies - examines new and recurring threats to national, international, and human security
- Human Security - prepares students to study threats to individuals from nongovernmental, nonmilitary sources and stresses peace-keeping and peace-building skills
- Global Political Economy - studies the interaction between economic and political processes in an era of globalization
- Development Planning and Environmental Sustainability - builds competencies in economics and an understanding of national development planning and project planning
- Nongovernmental Organizations and Civil Society - addresses the conceptual issues in civil society and development as well as how social and political factors affect development
- Civil Security and Disaster Management - *see below
Each minor consists of a 9-credit course sequence, consisting of courses within the chosen subject area. Minors are taken in addition to the School-wide core courses and the courses required for a specific major. Students may consult with their faculty advisor to determine which courses are necessary for the successful completion of their chosen minor.
Students interested in taking a minor must obtain a form from the Office of Student Services.
*Civil Security and Disaster Management is not a major, but rather has been designed exclusively as a minor field of study. Launched in 2006, the program is new and innovative, and represents a growing need for skilled professionals in the field. With the occupational outlook for experts
in civil security and disaster management expected
to grow, the minor in Civil Security and Disaster Management will prepare students with
a core set of concepts and skills for working in security-related
organizations. More...
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