Expression Minors to Fulfill the E Requirement for the REAL Curriculum

  • REAL General Studies E Minor - 15 credit hours: This is the REAL Studies Minor in Humanistic and Artistic Expression.  Students take 15 credit hours of "E" designated courses.  A minimum of 3 credit hours must be take at the 300/400 level and students must take classes in two different prefixes.  Listing of E designated courses with no (or limited) prerequisites.
  • Creative Arts and Design Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: Creative Arts and Design is an all-encompassing arts minor offered by the College of Visual and Performing Arts is designed to give a broad perspective and understanding of the cultural and expressive nature of the creative arts disciplines.
  • Creative Writing Minor (E) - 15 credit hours): Shape stories, creative essays, poems, and plays; study craft; workshop your pieces; give and take feedback; and explore avenues for publication.
  • Culture Studies Minor (E, A) - 18 credit hours: This minor serves to introduce students to the study of the variation in cultural expression seen in different groups around the world. Students will be introduced to a broad overview of human cultural diversity and then choose from elective classes to explore different culture groups and the ways we explore cultural expression.
  • Dance Minor (E, L) - 18 credit hours: No audition is required for the minor program in dance.
  • Design Studies in Applied Design and Expression Minor (E, L) - 18 credit hours: Design Studies in Applied Design and Expression Minor provides a basis of design terminology, design processes, design business, and design computer applications. Students will learn how to critically analyze and evaluate design(s) and develop their own aesthetic. Students apply design principles to design solutions using industry specific software (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc). Students complete a summer internship for this minor and they critically reflect on their internship learning experience as it relates to professional contexts of their chosen major and intended career/business field through a written reflection paper after completing the required minimum internship.
  • Design Studies in Design Expression and Culture Minor (E, A) - 18 credit hours: Design Studies in Design Expression and Culture Minor provides a basis of design terminology, design processes, design history and design product information. Students will learn how the environment (interior and exterior) affect people at work, home and play. Students apply design thinking principles to a social problem outside their discipline. Students critically evaluate forms of human expression and design processes through written critiques, case studies, and teamwork projects.
  • Design Studies in Expression Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: Minors in Design Studies in Expression will have product knowledge in textiles and fibers that coupled with their major could provide a greater understanding of the Textile, Fibers and Carpet industries. 
  • Ethics Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: The Ethics minor offers a fixed curriculum that introduces students to ethics in PHIL 112 - Introduction: Ethics and Society and then continues by exploring ethics in healthcare, environment, and ethical theory.
  • GIS, Remote Sensing and Visualization Minor (E) - 17 credit hours: The GIS, Remote Sensing and Data Analytics and GIS, Remote Sensing and Visualization minors address the growing need to analyze and visualize spatial and non-spatial data. Students will learn how to analyze various types of spatial and non-spatial data, and will explore and develop various visualizations and artistic expressions of that data, which includes maps and other cartographic products, graphs, infographics, interactive dashboards, 3D visualizations and virtual reality environments.
  • Health Humanities Minor for Non-Nursing Majors (E) - 18-19 credit hours: The Health Humanities minor enables all students, regardless of major or career goal, to study the lived experience of illness. Students benefit by developing useful skills and habits of mind, such as perspective taking, self-awareness, cultural fluency, and social advocacy.
  • History Minor (E, A) - 18 credit hours: The History Minor prepares students to think critically about change and continuity in a variety of societies and cultures that helps them to understand our increasingly global, cosmopolitan, and diverse world. This minor introduces students to the methods and the use of basic tools of the historical discipline. It offers courses organized along thematic, geographical, or temporal lines that provides students with historical perspectives and insights into the world and the forces and events that shaped it. 
  • Honors Minor in Humanistic or Artistic Expression (E) - 15 credit hours: Building on the Honors College core value of authenticity, the Honors Minor in Humanistic or Artistic Expression incorporates a central theme wilderness. On one hand, the wilderness can represent unpredictable environments that test the limitations of human frailty, adaptation, and resilience. Alternatively, the wilderness metaphor can represent the space beyond the frontier of social constraint, where the “true” forces of the natural world – and the self – find expression. Students completing this minor will be prepared to reflect on the tension surrounding authentic expression through such lenses as history, communication, literature, poetry, philosophy, and theatre.
  • International Studies Minor (E, A) - 18 credit hours: The International Studies Minor provides a broad appreciation of contemporary global issues such as war and terrorism, human rights, refugees and migration, international trade, and climate change.
  • Leadership Minor (E, L) - 18 credit hours: The Minor in Leadership is an interdisciplinary course of study meant to complement any major on campus by introducing perspectives and competencies to empower students to exercise leadership in their roles as professionals and active citizens. The framework of learning experiences in the Leadership Minor is designed to empower students with the knowledge, skills, and values to lead effectively and ethically in different contexts. Students will be exposed to the theories and tools of leadership and the use of authority as well as the practical strategies for undertaking what leaders do – communicate and negotiate, build and inspire teams, manage organizations and enterprises, solve problems and produce results.
  • Legal Studies Minor (E) - 18 credit hours: The Legal Studies minor provides students with the opportunity to bridge their academic interests with the skills necessary to be successful in the law school or other law-related careers. The minor emphasizes logical reasoning, writing, and research as its foundation. Students can explore specific areas of law and law-related topics in their areas of choice for their elective credits.
  • Literature and Expression Minor (E) - 18 credit hours: Become better, more responsive and insightful readers as well as richer, more precise writers. Learn about contexts and themes informing literature, write for different audiences and purposes, and demonstrate an engagement with texts as art forms with relevance to specific historical contexts, to society, and to your own life.
  • Music Industry Minor (E, L) - 18 credit hours: The Music Industry Minor provides for those students wishing to open their own studio, manage an arts organization, or maintain their own performance career with a solid foundational knowledge of the music industry. This minor provides useful exposure to the core topics, principles, and issues related to the music industry.
  • Music Performance Minor (E, L) - 18 credit hours: Many students find a Music Minor to be an enriching supplement to their primary studies. Whether it is to better prepare you for your chosen career or you just enjoy doing and learning about music, completing a minor is a great way to be involved and deepen your understanding of music. Minors in the Department of Music receive the same quality instruction and attention as do our majors.
  • Music Production Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: The purpose of the Music Production Minor is to provide those students wishing to write and produce commercial music, work in a recording studio, open their own studio, or further their own performance career with a solid foundation in commercial music creation with essential skills. This minor provides useful exposure and hands-on experience in writing, recording, and producing commercially viable music through an entrepreneurial approach.
  • Philosophy Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: The Philosophy Minor offers students a flexible introduction to philosophy by offering courses across three menus: Foundational Literacy: History of Philosophy; Foundational Literacy: Areas; and Electives.
  • Professional Writing Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: Write clearly and well for various audiences, design content for publication, edit for style and consistency, and help local non-profits or businesses through internship or real-world application of your skills. Learn to create various types of non-academic documents for both print and digital environments, such as proposals, grants, reports, brochures, instructions, website content, and blogs, to name a few.
  • Religious-Cultural Literacy for Healthcare Professions Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: The Religious-Cultural Literacy for Healthcare Professions Minor offers a fixed curriculum that aims to provide a historical and contemporary overview of the relationship between healthcare and religion. In this minor, students explore how various religious traditions have explained health and healing.
  • Religious Studies Minor (E) - 15 credit hours: The Religious Studies Minor offers students a flexible introduction to religion by offering courses across three menus: Foundational Literacies, Topics and Issues, and Electives.
  • Social Justice Minor (E, A) - 18 credit hours: The Social Justice Minor provides interdisciplinary exploration into understanding and working towards social justice. The minor explores social justice from a variety of disciplines, voices, and perspectives. Students have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills to reduce oppression and inequity, and utilize critical thinking to challenge bias. A social justice minor compliments a variety of disciplines, offering the graduate practical skills and knowledge applicable for everyday life.
  • Spanish Minor (E, L) - 18 credit hours: This program provides students with a foundation in Spanish language skills, as well as an overview of economic, political, artistic, and cultural contexts for several Spanish-speaking populations. The Spanish minor prepares students to use Spanish in a range of personal and professional contexts.
  • Theater Performance Minor (E) - 20 credit hours: Students who have a specific interest in performance (acting and directing) but who cannot commit to a second major may pursue a minor in Theatre Performance. This minor satisfies the E component of the REAL program and allows students to take a variety of theatre courses focused on acting and directing after satisfying the basic requirements of the minor.
  • Wicked Problems Minor (E, L) - 18 credit hours: The Wicked Problems Minor is an interdisciplinary collaboration by Political Science and Philosophy and Religious Studies to engage students in problem-based learning with a focus on problems which are persistent and complex, or “wicked,” and of a public nature, problems such as climate change, inequality, poverty, and world hunger. The minor puts students in the position of authority as growing experts on social and political problems, particularly through the co-curricular campus-based Wicked Festival. Finally, it tasks students with finding solutions to the problems they identify.