Undergraduate Minors
Choose a Minor
For all details related to minors, please see the 2025-2026 University Catalog.
Build essential skills in areas such as financial reporting, auditing, and taxation while pursuing your major in another field.
Develop a foundation in biology to build lab skills, as well as research and analyzation skills — all relevant for those considering careers in healthcare, public health, the biotech industry, or environmental science.
While all Biology majors at GMercyU automatically earn a Chemistry minor, students in other health-related majors can build valuable lab and research skills to help you stand out in your future career.
In today’s technology-driven world, a minor in Computer Information Science is invaluable across all fields. Virtually every industry — from healthcare to finance, education to the arts — relies on technology to function, innovate, and grow. Understanding the fundamentals of Computer Information Science provides the tools to engage with and adapt to the digital transformations shaping the modern workplace.
Students in any field of study can benefit from training in interpersonal communication and micro-counseling helping skills (e.g., active listening, effective questioning, and nonverbal communication) which can be applied to interactions with professional peers and other populations.
Take a deep dive into a fascinating and ever-evolving field. This minor offers a solid introduction to the complex issues related to crime, social justice, ethics, and public policy. It can complement nearly any major, from those of the “helping professions” to business, and more.
A minor in data analytics is invaluable because data drives decision-making in every industry. It equips you with skills to interpret data, identify trends, and make informed decisions, whether in healthcare, marketing, finance, or the arts. Understanding analytics helps you uncover insights, optimize strategies, and contribute to innovation, making you an indispensable asset in today’s data-driven world.
Take what you already know to the next level! These engaging, fun courses will help you build hands-on skills in digital media to become a savvy communicator in the corporate world, nonprofit sector, or even the classroom as an educator.
Develop specialized business skills for careers in the Philadelphia area’s booming healthcare industry.
A History minor is not just a fascinating deep dive into the past – it can benefit virtually any career. It’s why students in GMercyU majors from Management to Nursing to Education have minored in History.
Many careers in the STEM fields, health professions, and finance industry value strong math and problem-solving skills.
Develop a specialization in this field of biology for those pursuing careers in medicine, public health, research, the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and more.
For more than those who love music, this enriching minor will sharpen skills like public performance and the ability to work as a team. Music develops life-long skills that are crucial in the 21st century, such as collaboration, creativity, communication, critical thinking and compassion.
Students have described GMercyU’s Philosophy courses as some of the most engaging, thought-provoking ones they've taken. This minor will help you develop many of the “soft” skills that employers value, from how to ask the right questions as you develop an opinion to how to express it through effective written and oral communication.
Gaining a better understanding of human behavior supports nearly any major. This minor includes a class on statistics to support those who are interested in conducting research at the undergraduate or graduate level.
For anyone with an interest in the social determinants of health, this minor will help you explore the intersection of public health with your major’s field. You’ll gain an understanding of the influences on health where people live, learn, work, and play, and the skills to be informed consumers of health information.
Gaining a solid foundation in religion can help you better understand the choices people make and why they make them, making you more culturally competent and empathetic. It can also build solid ethical reasoning skills and offer the opportunity for personal reflection.
Learn to effectively support children with diverse learning styles. Anyone interested in working with children can benefit from developing these skills.
Explore a top-rated field of healthcare! This minor features online, asynchronous courses that run in seven-week sessions. The SLP minor also prepares you to meet the admissions curriculum criteria for GMercyU's Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (MSSLP) program and other MSSLP graduate programs like it.