Minors
Enhance your undergraduate degree at the School of Foreign Service (SFS) by pursuing a minor.
Several SFS programs, college departments and other university units offer minors for you to consider. Whether you study languages or select from diverse subjects, a minor can help you broaden your knowledge and skills.
Subject minors
Our subject minors offer a diverse array of academic pursuits designed to complement and enrich your major. These minors provide an opportunity to explore new disciplines, gain interdisciplinary insights and cultivate critical thinking skills across various subjects. Whether you’re interested in the sciences, humanities or arts, our selection allows you to tailor your education to your interests and career aspirations.
- Anthropology
- Art
- Art history
- Biology
- Black studies
- Business studies
- Catholic studies
- Chemistry
- Classical studies
- Cognitive science
- Computer science
- Creative writing
- Disability studies
- Economics
- Education, inquiry and justice
- English
- Environment and sustainability
- Film and media studies
- Global development studies
- Global health
- Global Medieval studies
- Government
- History
- Jewish civilization
- Journalism
- Justice and peace studies
- Latin American studies
- Linguistics
- Mathematics
- Medical humanities, culture and society
- Music
- Muslim-Christian understanding
- Performing arts
- Philosophy
- Philosophy and bioethics
- Physics
- Psychology
- Public health
- Religion, ethics and world affairs
- Russian literature and culture (in translation)
- Sociology
- Statistics
- Tech, ethics and society
- Theater and performance studies
- Theology and religious studies
- Women’s and gender studies
Language minors
At Georgetown, you can go beyond fulfilling the foreign language proficiency requirement by pursuing a language minor. This will help you dive deeper into the intricacies of a language, its literature and culture. Foreign language learning is a crucial part of the SFS undergraduate degree, pursuing a minor enables you to showcase your advanced studies.
Design your degree
Explore our core curriculum, majors and certificate options and build a degree that aligns with your interests.
Core curriculum
Our multidisciplinary core curriculum spans key fields such as international affairs, government, economics, history, theology, philosophy and geography.
Majors
Explore our eight undergraduate majors that allow you to engage with the substance of international affairs scholarship from different angles.
Certificates
Complement your course of study with an interdisciplinary program where you can focus on a specific thematic or regional area of study.
Joint degree
Together with the McDonough School of Business, we offer an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science in Business and Global Affairs, that prepares you to lead at the intersection of business and policy.
Co-curricular opportunities
Through our extensive study abroad and global internship options, explore the important issues of your SFS major in the regions where they are having the greatest impact.