A College strongly dedicated to the liberal arts and sciences, Elizabethtown offers a variety of interdisciplinary academic programs. These majors, minors and advising programs span the disciplines, allowing students to explore connections between different areas of study.
Our Human Services minor is designed to provide students with an inter-disciplinary overview of social issues in the United States, including human development, multicultural knowledge and the development of U.S. social welfare institutions.
Our Human Services minor provides an inter-disciplinary education that teaches students about social issues that they may encounter in their future careers and how to integrate this knowledge into their own profession to help address them. This minor enables our students to graduate fully prepared for a life of purposeful work.
Our International Studies Minor is designed for students looking to enter international careers in an increasingly globalized world. It is an interdisciplinary minor, composed of a cluster of foreign culture, language and international affairs courses with a largely contemporary focus. In addition to the general liberal arts goal of broadening students’ horizons of awareness of other peoples and places, the minor offers a valuable complementary education for many career-oriented and pre-professional programs of study. Students who complete the program will develop language competencies, acquire an enhanced understanding of global affairs and gain an appreciation for our interconnected world.
[Contact Name: Dr. Oya Ozkanca – International Studies Minor Advisor, dursuno@etown.edu]
The Women and Gender Studies minor is designed for students who want to understand the world about them using concepts such as gender, race/ethnicity, and class. It is also designed for students who are passionate about social change. Passion and practicality work together. This interdisciplinary minor draws on courses from WGS and departments such as Psychology, Social Work, and English. Students can easily find classes that intrigue them and also count toward Core and major/minor requirements. WGS is a flexible minor that complements any major.
Our lives are shaped by “categories of difference”: gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion. Students in WGS use these categories to reflect on their own identities, others’ experiences, and the impact of social forces. They study the struggles of women and other groups to achieve social justice and equality–in the past, in the present, and across the globe. WGS courses inspire students’ scholarship, prepare them for careers in diverse workplaces, and develop their capacity for social action.