Complementing any major, the gender and media minor is a cross-unit, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor offered jointly by the School of Communication and Information and the School of Arts and Sciences women's, gender, and sexuality studies program. Students are introduced to the minor through a foundational course that offers a shared vocabulary for analyzing issues of power and representation within the media. Students then have the choice of taking two electives in media production, as well as two electives in critical media/feminist theory. At the end of the program, students apply skills and knowledge of gender and the media in the completion of a project in a capstone course that offers internship, service learning, and multimedia project options.

Program-Level Learning Goals

The gender and media minor provides a course of study designed for students interested in a combination of theory and practice perspectives on the representation and production of gender in the media.

• Students will apply technical skills as media producers with the ability to add their own critical voices and unique perspectives.
• Students will also demonstrate critical thinking skills that enable them to critique and improve current conditions of media production and consumption.
• Students will articulate, create, examine, inform, and improve systemic and individual power dynamics of the contemporary landscape for gender and media.

Requirements

The minor is open to all majors at Rutgers. Students are required to complete six 3-credit courses with a grade of C or better, for a total of 18 credits. Students are strongly encouraged to speak with an adviser to create a plan for completing the program.

Note that courses taken to fulfill requirements in the gender and media minor will count toward the requirements of any other major or minor in the School of Communication and Information and/or for the program in women's, gender, and sexuality studies.

Foundation course (3 credits)

Choose one of:

• 01:988:202  Gender, Culture, and Representation (3)
  or
  
• 04:567:215  Gender, Race, and Class in the Media (3)

Practice/production courses (6 credits)

• 01:988:200  Gender, Digital Media, and Social Curation (3) - required
  

Plus choose one of the following courses for the second course:

• 04:189:251  Strategic Presentation Methods in Digital Media (3)
• 04:567:200  Writing for Media (3)

Conceptual courses (6 credits)

Only one of the conceptual courses (3 of the 6 credits) may be taken at the 200 level; the other must be taken as a 300 level.

Choose one of the following SC&I classes for the first conceptual course:

• 04:567:274  Consumer Media Culture (3)
• 04:567:380  Media and Social Change (3)
• 04:547:340  Gender and Technology (3)
• Some special topics courses from SC&I may be allowed to count towards the minor; approval of the program director is required.
  

Choose one of the following women's, gender, and sexuality studies classes for the second conceptual course:

• 01:988:255  Gender, Art, and Society (3)
• 01:988:257  Gender and the Body: Representations of Pornography (3)
• 01:988:258  Gender, Race, and Contemporary Art (3)
• 01:988:259  Homosexuality and Visual Culture (3)
• 01:988:317  Gender and Consumption (3)
• 01:988:385  Theories of Women and Film (3)
• 01:988:341  Gender and Popular Culture (3)
• Some special topics courses offered by women's, gender, and sexuality studies may be allowed to count towards the minor; approval of the program director is required.
  

Capstone course (3 credits):

Students may enroll in the capstone after completing a minimum of 12 credits in the minor. Choose one of the following courses to fulfill the capstone requirement:

• 01:988:499  Capstone in Gender and Media - offered within the women's, gender, and sexuality studies program
• 04:567:499  Capstone in Gender and Media - offered within the journalism and media studies program