Undergraduate Study
Majors and minors
Disciplinary majors and minors
Students major in a SHASS subject for professional training or to explore interests that support, balance, and expand studies in a STEM field.
Minors at MIT are a great way to discover something fascinating, supplement your major, and develop creative talents. If you are able to add a few subjects to your concentration, you can build a 6-subject minor.
What I’ve most enjoyed about studying Spanish is how it teaches precision not only in grammar, but in empathy, how to listen for nuance, how to hold multiple meanings at once, and how language reflects ways of thinking. ”
Interdisciplinary majors and minors
Want to study a field through the lens of multiple disciplines? Earn an interdisciplinary major by special arrangement. By pursuing one of the fields below, you’ll receive an S.B. in Humanities, Course 21.
Earn an interdisciplinary minor by building a 6-subject course of study. This will let you explore a field in greater depth and earn a Minor in Humanities, Course 21.
My MIT education has shown me that in a world so filled with technology we have to make sure that we make room for humanity. From science to humanities, technology to business, and invention to exposure, every human action has a human effect. Technology — at its greatest — begins and ends at our common humanity.”
