A minor in disability studies will significantly support your academic and career aspirations. We are the first program of its kind at Rutgers University and one of only a few in the nation. Disability Studies is a field for and by people with disabilities. Students in the minor understand disability and impairment as an essential component of the human experience, troubling outcome of power, an important feature of coalition, building a position shaped by ongoing intersections with age, race, gender, ethnicity, language, immigration, nationality, class, and social power. Disability is an important lens for understanding and a means to create spaces and communities that serve all people equitably, not just the disabled, deaf, neurodivergent, impaired or chronically ill. Many of our courses count toward the required
General Education Curriculum. You can explore the course and career options below or contact disabilitystudies.minor@newark.rutgers.edu.
Minor Requirements (18 credits)
Required Courses (6 credits)
There are two required courses for the minor:
- Disability Studies (3 credits, 21:300:306/21:988:306)*
- Inclusive and Social Justice Pedagogies (3 credits, 21:300:230)* or Educational Planning for Dually Exceptional Students (3 credits, 21:300:298)*
Elective Courses (12 credits)
The remaining credits for the minor can be completed by selecting any of the following courses for your program of study. Students must complete 18 total credits to graduate with the
minor, in consultation with the minor advisor.
History
- History of Newark (3 credits, 21:512:203)
Sociology
- Urban Sociology (3 credits, 21:920:321)
- Inequality (3 credits, 21:920:324)
Social Work
- Human Diversity (3 credits, 21:910:345)*
Urban Education
- History of African American Education (3 credits, 21:300:180/21:014:180)*
- Radical Teaching: Voices of Youth Truth (3 credits, 21:300:190)
- Social Foundations in Urban Education (3 credits, 21:300:292)
- Educational Planning for Dually Exceptional Students (3 credits, 21:300:298)*
- Health Disparities: Impact on Urban Communities (3 credits, 21:300:301)
- Decarcerating Disability and Education (3 credits, 21:300:305)
- Education and Social Change Among the Black Diaspora (3 credits, 21:300:358/21:014:364)*
- Bilingual/Bicultural Education (3 credits, 21:300:490)
- Language and Culture (3 credits, 21:300:491)
*Course satisfies a general education requirement
School of Arts and Sciences-Newark 
