Undergraduate Minors

Minor in African Studies

The African Studies minor connects the study of all African regions and countries. Students explore their languages, cultures, peoples, and historical and global relationships. It is designed for undergraduates pursuing careers that may involve working with the people, organizations, businesses, and governments of Africa, both abroad and in the U.S.

Minor in Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning minor equips undergraduate students with skills and knowledge to use AI and ML to solve problems in business, engineering, science, humanities and social sciences. The curriculum is also designed to provide students with the insight to describe and discuss current ethics and policy frameworks related to AI and machine learning.

Minor in Black Media Studies

The Black Media Studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary exploration of Black media, culture, and representation. It critically examines the role of Black media in shaping cultural narratives and identities. Students engage with a variety of media forms, including film, television, music, and digital media, to understand the historical and contemporary contributions of Black creators and communities.

Minor in Collaborative Social Innovation

The Collaborative Social Innovation minor provides students with the skills and experiences necessary to improve the human condition through practical, challenge-focused activities. By engaging in cross-disciplinary approaches, students learn to tackle complex societal issues through effective collaboration, social impact analysis, and sustainable design thinking.

Minor in Creative Writing

The Creative Writing minor is designed for students interested in developing intensive writing skills and literary knowledge. The program has an emphasis on poetry but also includes study in fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and screenwriting/drama. This minor can help prepare students who want to write for personal expression, pursue professional writing programs, or prepare for related academic and career paths.

Minor in East Asian Studies

Through the interdisciplinary study of East Asia’s rich history, politics, economics, literature, media, and languages, students in the East Asian Studies minor gain an understanding of the region’s societies and values and their growing importance in an increasingly technological and interconnected world.

Minor in Economics

Georgia Tech's Economics minor provides exposure to the fundamental economic way of thinking and approaching complex problems. Because economics is highly interdisciplinary, the minor is an excellent critical and analytical supplement to a variety of majors.

Minor in Economics and Policy of Environmental Sustainability

The Economics and Policy of Environmental Sustainability minor is designed for students who want to explore the economics and policies that shape our environment, climate, and energy resources. Courses address real-world policy issues and provide students with the analytical tools needed to tackle them.

Minor in Energy Systems

The Energy Systems minor prepares students to work in the lucrative field of energy. Due to the continuous increase in the demand for energy and growing interest in non-conventional energy sources, it is a timely addition to many degree programs.

Minor in European Studies

The European Studies minor connects study of ancient, medieval, and modern Europe, including France, Germany, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, through courses in history, political science, languages, media, and sociology.

Minor Film and Media Studies

The Film and Media Studies minor offers students the opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of film and media through concentrated study in courses offered by the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, the School of History, Science, and Technology, and the School of Modern Languages. It focuses mainly on the rhetoric, history, theory, and cultural context of film and media.

Minor in Global Development

Georgia Tech's Global Development minor combines engineering, technology, and design with the social sciences and humanities to solve practical problems in the developing world. Students learn analytical skills and practical problem-solving techniques, gain technical competence, become conscious of variations in local cultures and social conditions, and master the ability to collaborate across disciplines to solve problems in global development.

Minor in Health Policy and Economics

The Health Policy and Economics minor is designed around policy and economics courses pertaining to healthcare policy, healthcare markets, public health, and individual decision-making. Students learn economic concepts associated with healthcare delivery and current policy issues facing the U.S. healthcare system.

Minor in Health, Medicine, and Society

The Health, Medicine, and Society minor equips students with humanities and social science perspectives on health and medicine. This helps them address important topics, such as the ethics of biomedical research; the nature of medical discovery; the relationships among race, gender, and health; the global impact of public health issues; and the cost of health care delivery.

Minor in History

The History minor provides context for understanding the world and helps students develop analytical abilities, verbal and written communication skills, and the critical thinking that is the foundation of active citizenship. It also provides strong preparation for a broad range of careers, including business, education, government, and law.

Minor in International Affairs

The International Affairs minor offers specialized instruction in the globalization of politics, economics, and the increasing interdependence of states. It is especially useful for students preparing for graduate school or careers in internationally oriented fields.

Minor in International Business, Language, and Culture

The International Business, Language, and Culture minor includes advanced courses in management and a foreign language. It prepares students for global leadership by equipping them with fundamental business knowledge and the ability to communicate across languages and cultures.

Language Minors

Students in any major can enhance their degree with a language minor in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, or Spanish. These programs build intermediate to advanced language proficiency while deepening cultural knowledge.

Minor in Latin American and LatinX Studies

Students in interdisciplinary Latin American and LatinX Studies minor study the regions, peoples, and current and historical relationships in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Latino/LatinX populations in the United States. Through the interdisciplinary study of history, politics, economics, literature, media, and languages, students engage in the comparative study of societies, values, and local/global issues.

Minor in Law, Science, and Technology

Build legal insight into your Georgia Tech degree with the Law, Science, and Technology minor. This program is designed for any student who is preparing for law school, planning a career in tech and innovation, or is simply curious about legal systems.

Minor in Leadership Studies

The Leadership Studies minor provides students with in-depth knowledge of leadership theory, skills, and experience. Students choose from three tracks in business, global engineering, and policy and complete the program with project-based experiential learning course.

Minor in Microeconomics of Strategic Analysis

Students in the Microeconomics of Strategic Analysis minor learn strategic decision-making grounded in microeconomic theory. Course topics include microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, behavioral economics, network economics, and the economics of information — areas that have applications across industries such as manufacturing, marketing, healthcare, computer science, and business.

Minor in Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The Middle Eastern and North African Studies minor explores the regions and countries in the Middle East and/or North Africa including their languages, cultures, peoples, and current and historical relationships.

Minor in Philosophy of Science and Technology

The Philosophy of Science and Technology minor sharpens students’ ability to think critically, communicate clearly, and understand the world from multiple perspectives — from science and society to human experience and ethics. These skills strengthen judgment, creativity, and leadership well beyond graduation.

Minor in Political Science

The Political Science minor is intended to broaden students’ perceptions of political processes and governmental institutions.

Minor in Public Policy

Engineering, the sciences, management, architecture, computing, and the liberal arts are all shaped by — and help shape — government decisions. The Public Policy minor helps Georgia Tech students develop the multidisciplinary thinking skills needed for strategic decision-making in business and technical professions as well as law and public policy.

Minor in Science Communication and Policy

The Science Communication and Policy Minor provides an in-depth look at how science is communicated to the public, how policy shapes research, and how science communication affects society. It is designed for humanities students interested in careers in health and science, media, technical communication, or public relations, as well as STEM majors seeking to develop their human-centered communication skills.

Minor in Science Fiction Studies

The Science Fiction Studies minor is for students who are interested in learning how people communicate the experience of science and technology across centuries, continents, and cultures. It enhances students’ ability to engage with issues of science, technology, and society as they are represented in the premiere story form of an increasingly technological and global world. It also enables them to better develop the analytic skills and creative mindsets that are crucial for graduate school and for advancements in careers ranging from education to engineering.

Minor in Science, Technology, and Society

The Science, Technology, and Society minor provides a context for understanding how science and technology fit within our social world, past and present. Students gain a better understanding of how science and technology develop and change, how they are represented and understood in culture, and how social and historical contexts shape them.

Minor in Social Justice

The Social Justice minor is for undergraduate students who are interested in incorporating an in-depth awareness of social issues into their fields of study and careers. Classes address issues of equity and inclusiveness in relation to historical, cultural, social, economic, political, and/or techno-scientific factors. Students develop the analytic skills, social understanding, and creative mindsets needed to become informed, ethical, and innovative problem solvers and leaders in an increasingly global and technological world.

Minor in Sociology

Students in the Sociology minor develop analytical abilities, verbal and written communication skills, and invaluable critical tools for understanding the contemporary world. Course options include areas such as the sociology of development, technology and society, sociology of work and industry, politics and society, social issues and public policy, gender and society, and the sociology of science, among other topics.

Minor in Sports, Society, and Technology

The Sports, Society, and Technology minor focuses on the critical study of sports in our world. It includes courses on sports law, sports economics, history and sports, gender and sports, and science, technology, and sports, among others.

Minor in Women, Science, and Technology

The Women, Science, and Technology minor links science and technology issues to those more traditionally associated with women’s and gender studies and minor prepares students to live and work in an increasingly diverse world. It helps students develop their understanding of the human side of science and engineering as it pertains to both gender issues and inequalities of race and class.