Mount St. Mary's University offers some minors that span different majors, which gives you a chance to expand your focus of study across several academic areas of interest rather than concentrating within a single department. Select one of our popular interdisciplinary minors or work with a faculty advisor to create your own tailored plan of study.
Each of our undergraduate schools and divisions are represented in our interdisciplinary minors.
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See full course listingsAs everyday life becomes more connected with the internet and technology, the opportunities for illegitimate behavior have increased as well. Through the Mount's cyber criminology minor, you’ll think intellectually and morally about how seemingly innocent activities on social media specifically and the internet in general may lead to crimes such as identity theft, stalking, cyberbullying, fraud, academic cheating or human trafficking.
In focusing on the behavioral and technical components of cyberspace, you’ll become well-skilled in the analytical and ethical issues associated with cybercrime, along with understanding the types of offenders, theoretical explanations and the reaction of the criminal justice system to cybercrimes. You’ll work to solve real-world issues and dilemmas that our society faces in an environment they already navigate daily, but perhaps seldom pause to think critically about.
Pair the minor with a major in criminal justice to help keep children safe from online predators, an accounting degree, working to stop financial fraud, or with the pre-law program to focus on policy as it relates to cyberspace.
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See full course listingsThe Mount’s legal studies minor can be a great complement to many majors. Whether you’re considering law school or beginning your career after graduation, a legal studies minor will prepare you for work in government, politics, social policy or private industry.
While in the program, you’ll gain skills in critical reading, writing, analytical problem solving, oral communication and listening, general research, and task organization and management – skills required for law school and the legal profession according to the American Bar Association.
Pair the minor with a criminal justice major and support your community in law enforcement, a political science degree and begin your career as paralegal, or a sociology major, working in case management for a local government agency.
Please note, students also must take four electives, no more than two of which can be in the same department.