Graduate Minors

Graduate minors offer the perfect opportunity to enrich your chosen master's degree with supplemental knowledge and skills. They typically consist of 3-4 courses which may be related to or outside your main program of study, and are chosen with the aid of your academic advisor upon admission. Some minors have additional prerequisites to entry. Learn more.

• Arts and Sciences
• Business
• Clinical Research
• Computing and Informatics
• Education
• Entrepreneurship
• Law
• Media Arts and Design
• Nonprofit Management
• Nursing and Health Professions
• Professional Studies
• Public Health
• Sport

Arts and Sciences

Communication
Provides a foundation in communication theory and an overview of the field of professional communication. Students can focus on any of our concentrations – Public Communication, Technical Communication, or Science and Health Communication – as they develop their professional communication skills with an emphasis on ethics and theory-driven practice.

Business

Business Analytics
Develop your skills in addressing complex business problems, including the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches to characterize analytics problems and identify and implement solutions. You will gain the ability to communicate and lead in ways that promote effective approaches for managing business analytics.

Finance
Provides an in-depth understanding of how businesses raise and invest capital. You'll develop and apply quantitative decision-making skills while studying basic concepts, principles, and analytical techniques in various areas of finance environment.

Project Management
Provides the business, communication, global, and leadership skills essential to meeting the needs of businesses and organizations in today’s project-driven environment.

Clinical Research

Clinical Research Organization and Management
Designed to help you transition into a productive career within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, this graduate minor provides you with an overview of the conduct of clinical investigations, an introduction to relevant business, legal and ethical issues, and exposure to several important elements involved in the development of new therapeutics.

Computing and Informatics

Applied Data Science
Learn to identify and apply appropriate methods that address data-intensive problems and interpret and communicate the output of statistical and algorithmic methods. You will learn how to work and communicate in team settings that cross disciplinary lines.

Computational Data Science
Improve your ability to design, implement, and evaluate a computer-based data analysis system, process, component, or program to meet desired needs. Apply the skills you learn directly to your career, to successfully analyze a problem and identify and define the data analysis, computing and resulting presentation requirements appropriate to its solution.

Computer Science
Provides those from all backgrounds with fundamental computer science knowledge, as well as an introduction to advanced topics in the field. Learn to use, understand, and build software systems within any discipline.

Healthcare Informatics
Provides healthcare informatics principles and practices applicable in a wide variety of health professions. Learn to generate data, information and knowledge, and implement, adapt, and validate healthcare problem solving through informatics.

Education

Creativity & Innovation
Creativity is the ability to generate novel ideas. Innovation is the means to implement them. We believe that everyone is creative. Our online courses in Creativity and Innovation help you become aware of your innate creativity and implement creative thinking in the corporate or educational workplace. You'll learn to address complex situations and foster creative environments in a variety of settings.

Global and International Education
International education is a growing field of study in which global social change and education go hand in hand. Courses in Global and International Education take an in-depth look at education’s role in economic, political, and socio-cultural development; international educational exchange; and the internationalization of education. The program builds knowledge about education’s role in societies around the world and an appreciation for how education professionals can be integral to fulfilling that role.

Higher Education Leadership
The field of higher education offers many opportunities for professionals with exceptional leadership skills and expertise. You'll gain practical skills, knowledge, and experience to become professionals and leaders in higher education institutions, national and international associations and organizations, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and corporations.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Provides the initiative, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills needed to launch a new venture or enhance innovation within your current company.

Law

Law
Teaches the basics of how the U.S. legal system works while taking a deep dive into the legal regulation of health care, pharmaceutical and medical device development, the practice of medicine, and other legal areas of interest. Currently available for semester program students only.

Media Arts and Design

Retail and Merchandising
Provides industry knowledge and hones your ability to think critically about the challenges facing the global marketplace today. Learn the skills needed to succeed in positions such as retail corporate management, retail sales management, retail operations corporate buying and merchandising, as well as postsecondary retail/merchandising education for community colleges.

Nonprofit Management

Nonprofit Management: Public, Professional, & Social Sectors
Develops fundamental skills in strategic planning, communication, fund development, stewardship, donor cultivation, and campaign management, preparing you to effectively carry out and lead a nonprofit’s mission.

Nursing and Health Professions

Complementary and Integrative Therapies
Provides practicing healthcare professionals with an "evidence-based program" in complementary and integrative therapies. You'll be taught to assess, guide, and evaluate patient use and to integrate CIT into your professional practice.

Health Administration
Designed to help you transition into management in the healthcare industry, including health policy, healthcare advocacy, non-profit organizations, or other leadership roles in healthcare services or human services.

Nursing Education
Focusing on the knowledge and skills required for healthcare provider education roles, the Nursing Education curriculum is designed for nurses who want to acquire an understanding of the foundational principles necessary for teaching in various settings: classroom, clinical and college laboratories, hospitals, and health care agencies.

Nursing Leadership in Health Systems Management
Designed to help you understand and prepare for changes in the healthcare system by teaching leadership skills with a sense of stewardship. You’ll examine the role of organizational leaders in building and leading high performance teams for maximum effectiveness.

Quality, Safety, & Risk Management in Healthcare
Developed to provide healthcare professionals with the skills to contribute to organizational efforts that evaluate and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and manage risks in a dynamic health care environment.

Professional Studies

Professional Studies
Learn the highly valued interpersonal skills needed to collaborate, negotiate, and lead effectively in today’s workplace through a blend of quantitative and qualitative courses. This graduate minor will equip you with demonstrable skills such as communication, leadership, critical inquiry, and ethics.

Public Health

Global Health
Provides insights into ethical and human rights concerns in global health, the global burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, the impact of diseases related to international travel and migration, the causes and control of global epidemics, and the social and environmental determinants of health in developing countries. Examination of health determinants will include consideration of social, political, economic, environmental, and gender-related factors. You'll explore tools to assess health in global settings; health improvement strategies that are cost-effective, efficient, and sustainable; and approaches to working with colleagues from different ethnic, religious, and social backgrounds. You'll also gain an appreciation of the complexity of global health governance, including the roles of international organizations, the commercial/corporate sector, and civil society.

Infectious Disease and Population Health
Provides a comprehensive overview of the bacterial pathogens that cause disease in humans. You'll learn important concepts in infection prevention and control in healthcare and public health settings. The curriculum emphasizes case studies and applied learning, and the program prepares you to work in a growing field of prevention and control of infectious diseases.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Health
Examines methodologic and ethical considerations in studying the health of LGBT populations, with a focus on the intersection of social identity and inequality in shaping health disparities based on ethnicity, sexual orientation, and sex/gender. You'll learn to investigate LGBT health using multiple disciplinary perspectives, conceptual frameworks and methods. You'll also gain understanding of how sexual and gender minority populations are socially constructed and the complex relationship between these constructs and health, including how sexual and gender minority identities fit within a larger framework of social identities. You'll learn the importance of involving community members in the development of health policy and research. The LGBT Health minor provides basic knowledge about LGBT health as well as the necessary skills and experience to apply this knowledge in practice.

Maternal and Child Health
Examines maternal and child health issues such as global health, maternal and pediatric care, adolescent health, and health disparities. You’ll learn to analyze maternal and child health policy issues with attention to community-centered programs and advocacy. You'll become part of the nationally funded Maternal and Child Health Program at the Dornsife School of Public Health, which offers mentorship, networking, and training opportunities.

Urban Health
Introduces the fundamentals, concepts, and practice techniques of urban health. You'll gain an understanding of the real-world challenges of health in cities and explore programs, policies, and strategies that affect population health outcomes. You’ll learn strategies for successful collaboration with an interdisciplinary team. The urban health minor is offered by the Dornsife School of Public Health, whose commitment to urban health research is central to its mission.

If you're interested in enrolling in any of the public health minors please contact dsphadvising@drexel.edu.

Sport

Athletic Administration
Designed to meet the demands for strong and informed leadership in athletic departments at the K-12 and college and university levels, this minor focuses on the growing depth and breadth of the industry including legal and ethical considerations, the need for external funding sources, and the major issues that confront sport domestically and globally.

Sport Management
Demonstrates core sport business concepts within the industry–sport law, sport economics, sport marketing, and sport media. Courses complement graduate studies in business administration, business analytics, communications, and media studies, so professionals may administer skills to solve practical problems in sport industry, through a business-focused lens. Graduates develop the ability to plan, design, implement, evaluate and recommend solutions in a sport management setting.

Graduate Minors - FAQ

What is a graduate minor?

• A graduate minor is a set of interrelated graduate courses outside of your major graduate program that provides additional professional expertise.
• Graduate minors align with Drexel's collaborative and interdisciplinary spirit. This distinctive initiative offers the perfect opportunity to enrich your chosen field of study with supplemental knowledge and skills.

Can I take any graduate minor? Even if not directly related to my program?

• The disciplinary area of the minor may be fully outside the major program or may be related to, but not completely overlapping, the major program.
• Entry into a minor is generally limited to those who have demonstrated the required prerequisite knowledge for the coursework.

How many credit hours are needed to earn a minor?

• A graduate minor shall comprise at least four quarter term (or three semester term) courses and at least twelve quarter (or nine semester) credit hours of coursework.
• No more than two required quarter term courses (or one semester term course) from your major graduate program may be used to fulfill the requirements for the minor.
• The remaining credits to fulfill the minor requirements may be taken as electives within the major program or in addition to courses required for the major program.

Can I have more than one minor?

• You are limited to enrollment in one minor.

Will the minor appear on my transcript?

• The completion of a minor is represented on the transcript along with a major program as a demonstration of additional professional expertise acquired.

How do I enroll in a minor?

• You do not need to apply to a minor during the application process to Drexel University.
• When seeking a masters or doctoral degree, you may enroll in a minor with the approval your major program academic advisor and the approval of the respective minor program academic advisor.
• It is highly recommended that enrollment occur early in your tenure in the major program so that your program of study can be optimally planned.