UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG - Mercy College

76 / Academic Regulations and Procedures
Minor Concentrations
Students may group a set of elective courses as a minor concentration. Minor
concentrations are noted on a student’s transcript as a way of recognizing that he/she
has, over and above the required major program, also concentrated to a lesser degree
in one or more other areas. The rules governing a minor concentration are the same for
all areas except Social Work and are as follows:
A minor concentration is constituted by a group of courses (numbered 120 or above)
amounting to at least 15 credits in one of the following areas:
Accounting
Biology
Business Administration
Chemistry
Communications Disorders
Computer Information Science
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
Economics
English
Finance
History
Humanities
Legal Studies
Management
Marketing
Mathematics
Media Studies
Music Industry + Technology
Psychology
Social Work**
Sociology
Spanish
Speech
* Requires 18 credits
** Requires 15 credits of social work theory with no more than 3 credits in social work practice.
The following conditions should be noted:
(1) At least nine credits to be used toward a minor concentration must have been
taken at Mercy College.
(2) A student must have a 2.0 cumulative scholastic index in an area for it to be
recorded as a minor concentration.
(3) Courses already counted toward a major or the general requirement cannot also
constitute part of the minor concentration.