Minors

One of the great strengths of a King’s College education is the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum. Students explore a wide range of topics, but, most importantly, they study the relationships among these topics, which in turn spurs interest in more than one discipline. Therefore, The King’s College offers students the opportunity to earn a minor in one of eleven different fields. Each minor is carefully designed to complement the three King’s majors, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Business Management, and Media, Culture, and the Arts. (Rather than earning a minor, students who excel in a particular discipline within their major can earn Departmental Honors. See Exceptions.)The minors allow students to explore fields they may not directly encounter within their major (for example, an MCA major with a Philosophy minor) or to investigate in greater depth areas that their major only introduces (for example, a PPE major with a Literature minor). A student interested in going to law school can earn a Pre-Law minor, while a student who wants to start a political consulting firm might major in PPE and minor in Business Management. And because theology is such an important part of the Common Core at King’s, all TKC students can earn a theology minor by taking two theology electives beyond their regular Core classes. Each minor consists of six three-credit courses within the specific discipline that range from freshman- to senior-level.

The College offers minors in the following areas, with required courses as listed:

• Business Management: Microeconomics, Persuasive Writing and Speaking, Principles of Management and Organization, Financial Accounting, Introduction to Marketing, and one Business Elective.
• Culture and the Arts: Western Civilization I, Western Civilization II, Arts and Ideas I, Arts and Ideas II, and two of the following (Principles of Cultural Interpretation, the Postmodern World, Culture and Aesthetics, Humanities/MCA Elective).
• Economics: Introduction to Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, History of Economic Thought, Intermediate Microeconomics or Econometrics, and one Economics Elective (300/400 level).
• Foundations of Education: American Political Thought and Practice III, History of American Education, History and Philosophy of Education II, Education Policy, and two Education Electives.
• Journalism: Persuasive Writing and Speaking, Enterprise of Mass Communication, Media, Culture, and Society, Introduction to Journalism, Journalism Elective or Internship, and one Journalism Elective.
• Literature: Western Civilization II, Classical Literature, Shakespeare, English and American Poetry, American Literature Elective, and British and European Literature Elective.
• Media Studies: Persuasive Writing, Enterprise of Mass Communication, Media, Culture, and Society, and three Media Electives.
• Philosophy: Logic, Classical and Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Apologetics, and any two of the following (Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Special Topics in Philosophy).
• Politics: Foundations of Politics, American Political Thought and Practice II, Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy, Constitutional Law, Elective in Comparative Politics, and one Elective in International Politics.
• Pre-Law: Logic, Financial Accounting, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, one of the following (Legal Studies in Business or Statesmanship), and one of the following (Elective in American Literature or British and European Literature).
• Theology: Introduction to Old Testament Literature, Introduction to New Testament Literature, Principles of Biblical Interpretation, Foundations of Judeo-Christian Thought, and two Theology Electives.

Exceptions:

• Students majoring in Business Management may not minor in: Business Management.
• Students majoring in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics may not minor in: Economics, Philosophy, or Politics.
• Students majoring in Media, Culture, and the Arts may not minor in: Culture and the Arts, Journalism, or Media Studies.

Students seeking a minor are required to maintain a minimum GPA of 2.0 within the minor. Transfer courses may count towards a minor, but a minimum of nine credits must be earned at The King’s College. Students must declare a major before they may declare a minor.