Graduate Minors and Interdisciplinary Specializations

Ohio State's graduate minors and interdisciplinary specializations are open to any graduate student interested in developing a secondary expertise for as few as 10 hours of graduate-level course work in at least three courses outside the student's home program. A graduate interdisciplinary specialization involves two or more graduate programs outside the student's home program. A graduate minor requires at least one program be outside a student's home program.

Completion of a graduate minor or graduated interdisciplinary specialization is noted on the student's official Ohio State transcript. Only the minors and interdisciplinary specializations listed below are approved to be posted on a student's university record.

Process for undertaking a graduate minor or graduate interdisciplinary specialization

Graduate Minors

• African American and African Studies
• Anatomy - Contact: Kenneth Jones
• Applied Software Engineering
• Cinema Video Production
• City and Regional Planning
• Comparative Cultural Studies
• Economics
• Educational Technology
• Entomology
• Environment and Natural Resources
• Integrated Determinants of Health
• Neuroscience
• Research Methods in Human Resource Development
• Rural Sociology
• Soil Science
• Speech and Hearing Science
• Statistics and Statistical Data Analysis
• Theatre and Performance
• Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

 Graduate Interdisciplinary Specializations

• Aging
• Analysis of Material Culture
• Applied Software Engineering
• Biomedical, Clinical, and Translational Science
• Chinese Cultural Studies
• College and University Teaching
• Comprehensive Engineering and Science of Biomedical Imaging (Will not be offered after spring 2012)
• Disability Studies
• Early Intervention/Early Childhood
• Film Studies
• Fine Arts
• Folklore
• Geospatial Data and Analysis
• Global Health
• International Studies
• Interprofessional Studies
• Language Sciences
• Latino/a Studies
• Literacy Studies
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
• Quantitative Methods in Consumer Behavior
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
• Second Language Studies
• Sexuality Studies
• Singing Health
• South Asian Studies
• Survey Research
• Translational Plant Science