With so many opportunities inside and outside the classroom, it’s common for Princeton students to wish they could do more with their time here. Minors and certificate programs enable students to supplement their work in their departmental concentrations with focused study in another, often interdisciplinary, field.
How Do Minors Fit Into the Curriculum?
Most minors and certificate programs include required courses and a senior thesis or another substantial piece of independent work. Because of the rigorous requirements, students should identify their interest in a minor early in their academic careers.
For some students, minors provide an opportunity to pursue a special area of interest that closely complements their departmental concentration. For example, a student concentrating in history pursues a minor in African American studies or a student concentrating in psychology pursues a minor in neuroscience. For other students, minor programs provide an opportunity to pursue intellectual passions unrelated to the departmental concentration. For example, a student concentrating in physics pursues a minor in Russian language and culture or a student concentrating in electrical and computer engineering pursues a minor in musical performance.
What Programs Are Offered?
- African American Studies
- African Studies
- American Studies
- Applications of Computing
- Applied and Computational Mathematics
- Archaeology
- Architecture and Engineering
- Asian American Studies
- Biophysics
- Cognitive Science
- Contemporary European Politics and Society
- Creative Writing
- Dance
- East Asian Studies
- Engineering Biology
- Engineering Physics
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Studies
- European Cultural Studies
- Finance
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Geological Engineering
- Global Health and Health Policy
- Hellenic Studies
- History and the Practice of Diplomacy
- Humanistic Studies
- Jazz Studies
- Journalism
- Judaic Studies
- Language and Culture
- Latin American Studies
- Latino Studies
- Linguistics
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Medieval Studies
- Music Performance
- Music Theater
- Near Eastern Studies
- Neuroscience
- Optimization and Quantitative Decision Science
- Planets and Life
- Quantitative and Computational Biology
- Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
- South Asian Studies
- Statistics and Machine Learning
- Sustainable Energy
- Teacher Preparation
- Technology and Society
- Theater
- Translation and Intercultural Communication
- Urban Studies
- Values and Public Life
- Visual Arts