Rutgers is unusual in offering both a graduate certificate in women's and gender studies and Ph.D. concentrations on women and gender in several major disciplines: English, history, sociology, and political science. Students in a graduate program with a women's and gender studies track and those whose programs lack a women's and gender studies area can take a special concentration in women's and gender studies as part of their regular, advanced-degree program. Upon receiving that advanced degree, these students also will get a graduate certificate in women's and gender studies. The special requirements for the certificate, many of which also may be used to satisfy the student's graduate degree requirements, are as follows: one feminist theory course and two 988 (women's and gender studies) courses.
