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What sets Douglass students apart?
The Douglass curriculum is designed to ensure that you leave Rutgers with a robust resume full of the academic, professional, and co-curricular experiences that will make you a competitive candidate in the job market, graduate school application process, or any other endeavor you choose to pursue. To complete the curriculum, you will follow a roadmap of programming. At each stop along the way, you will pick an opportunity that fits your aspirations while aiming to satisfy three of four requirement buckets.
Your Path at Douglass
Steps to completing the Douglass curriculum
Known to many students as a "life-changing" experience, this course will set you up for leadership success throughout college!
Douglass is one of the most diverse communities at Rutgers. Social justice education and inclusivity on campus are essential to the College's mission.
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Douglass students benefit from exclusive opportunities for academic and professional advancement. Choose an experience that best fits your goals!
Find Your Path: The Douglass Curriculum
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Calling all future leaders! This required course at Douglass introduces you to foundational concepts in understanding the status of women, literature, and leadership. Participate in critical conversations, chart out an academic plan, and learn to write and present academic research. Discuss systems of power, prepare for the diverse global workforce, and connect to Douglass programs and resources.
Critical conversations and diverse perspectives make Douglass strong! Strengthen your cultural competencies, boost inclusivity on campus, interrogate structures of power, and advance social justice through interdisciplinary programming. Opportunities for academic research, student leadership training, living-learning communities, workshops, and critical conversations compose a well-rounded education that foregrounds equity and inclusivity in the context of gender equity.
Prepare for the job market! Transform your future through highly-regarded programs in leadership development,
mentoring, career advancement, and personal growth. Access resume help, mock interview preparation, professional
development workshops, and law and public policy programming. Build your resume through an immersive job-shadowing experience known as an externship.
Get hands-on experience! Take a direct route to research and hands on learning in a variety of fields through Douglass Discovery. Build your resume and expand your horizons by collaborating directly with faculty, professionals, corporate leaders, artists, and other Douglass Fellows on their work, including laboratory research, arts initiatives,
public health projects, and more!
Check Your Progress
Douglass students can view their curriculum requirements in Rutgers Degree Navigator. Click below to see what you have completed.
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"As a senior, I see how impactful Douglass programs have been on my college education, as they have helped me explore new ways to navigate the spaces I enter." - Rachel Antwi Boasiako
