Interdisciplinary minors are described briefly in the Boston College Undergraduate Catalog. Additional information about a minor can be obtained by contacting its director. For example, students with interests that overlap with psychology, cognition, philosophy, and computer science should consider the Cognitive Science Minor. Students with interests in the psychology of women or feminism may pursue a Women's Studies Minor by taking approved courses in the Psychology, Sociology, and English departments. A joint minor in Psychology and Management involving the Carroll School of Management and the College of Arts and Sciences is in the planning stages.
Many students contemplate completing a second major.
Doing so can be highly valuable educationally, but it is up to you to make sure that it is. For example, there may be some courses required for a second major that are not relevant to your educational goals. You should consider whether you would be better off creating your own unofficial minor by taking only the most significant courses and omitting some of the required courses for the second major. You would not have the second major appear on your transcript, but the individual courses will appear and, what is most important, you will have gotten the educational benefit of taking those courses. You might be better off taking more advanced courses in your primary major or, alternatively, you might gain more by exploring a number of different fields.