CLA Minors
The College of Liberal Arts offers 29 Minors. They are listed below by department followed by the name of the minor advisor(s).
Art & Design Department
- Art History Minor - Advisors Elizabeth Adan , Giancarlo Fiorenza , Jean Wetzel
- Photography Minor - Advisor Sky Bergman
- Studio Art Minor - Various Advisors, please contact the department (805) 756-1148
Communication Studies Department
- Communication Studies Minor - Advisor Michael Fahs
English Department
- English Minor - Advisor Larry Inchausti
- Linguistics Minor - Advisor Johanna Rubba
Ethnic Studies Department
- Ethnic Studies Minor - Various Advisors, please contact the department (805) 756-1707
Graphic Communication Department
- Graphic Communication Minor - Advisor Xiaoying Rong
History Department
- History Minor - Advisor Paul Hiltpold
Humanities Program
- Values, Technology, and Society Minor - Advisor Debra Valencia-Laver
Modern Languages & Literatures Department
- French Minor - Advisor John Thompson
- German Minor - Advisor Corinna Kahnke
- Spanish Minor - Advisors Kevin Fagan, Karen Munoz-Christian, Gloria Velasquez
Music Department
- Music Minor - Advisor Terry Spiller
Philosophy Department
- Philosophy Minor - Advisor Charles Hagan
- Religious Studies Minor - Advisor Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett
Political Science Department
- International Relations Minor - Advisor Anika Leithner
- Law & Society Minor - Advisor Ron Den Otter
Psychology & Child Development
- Child Development Minor - Various Advisors, please contact the department (805) 756-2033
- Gerontology Minor - Advisor Debra Valencia-Laver
- Psychology Minor - Various Advisors, please contact the department (805) 756-2033
Social Sciences Department
- Anthropology/Geography Minor - Advisors William Preston, Jim Keese
- Latin American Stdies Minor - Advisor Jim Keese
- Sociology Minor - Advisor Jim Coleman
Theatre & Dance Department
- Theatre Minor - Advisor Josh Machamer
- Dance Minor - Advisor Diana Stanton
Women's & Gender Studies Department
- Women's & Gender Studies Minor - Advisor Tom Trice
Interdisciplinary Studies
- Agricultural Communication Minor - Please contact the Brock Center for Agricultural Communication (805) 756-6138
- Western Intellectual Tradition Minor - Advisor John Hampsey
For more information the various minors offered in the CLA, please refer to the Cal Poly catalog.

