Rutgers has a number of short-term, non-degree programs—these can be exclusively for international students or they can be programs for both international and domestic students.
At Rutgers, academics are about personal achievement, discovery, and community involvement. We’re a big university with countless opportunities to explore and pursue your interests.
Rutgers offers more than 5,000 continuing education programs each year. Enhance your career, complete your degree, or simply indulge a personal passion. You’re welcome at Rutgers anytime you are ready to learn. An open door to Rutgers for all who seek to learn and grow.
Summer sessions and hybrid programs offer a wide variety of options and a great way to be introduced to Rutgers. Rutgers departments offer non-credit or non-degree certificate programs, and programs can be tailored for incoming groups depending on students’ needs, ability level, and interest.
Short-Term Non-Degree Students. Rutgers has a number of short-term, non-degree programs—these can be exclusively for international students or they can be programs for both international and domestic students. These do not award a degree to the participant and are often focused on a specific skill or outcome that leads to the "attainment ...
Short-Term Non-Degree Students. Rutgers has a number of short-term, non-degree programs—these can be exclusively for international students or they can be programs for both international and domestic students.
Rutgers departments offer non-credit or non-degree certificate programs, and programs can be tailored for incoming groups depending on students’ needs, ability level, and interest. SEE OPPORTUNITIES.
Take a class to meet requirements, earn credits, improve your GPA, or simply learn about a subject you love. Rutgers’ intensive summer and winter terms are open to Rutgers students, students home from other universities, high school students and others. Take a class to meet requirements, earn credits, improve your GPA , ...
Rutgers offers more than 5,000 continuing education programs each year. Enhance your career, complete your degree, or simply indulge a personal passion. You’re welcome at Rutgers anytime you are ready to learn.
An open door to Rutgers for all who seek to learn and grow.
Nationally ranked as a top school for veterans, Rutgers offers over 100 approved programs for active duty military, veterans, reservists, and eligible military dependents. Explore continuing education options for active duty military and vets.
Rutgers’ intensive summer and winter sessions are open to Rutgers students, students home from other universities, high school students, and others. Take a class to meet requirements, earn credits, improve your GPA, or simply learn about a subject you love.
This course examines revolutions that have greatly affected societal change. It studies the causes and consequences of these revolutions. It takes into consideration the transformation they cause of economic, social, and political systems.
This course explores the creation and revision of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will read poems, personal essays, and short stories to help develop their own creative processes while generating new work across each genre. Using writing prompts and exercises, students will produce both short and long-form original work and respond to one another’s writing in a workshop format.
The course will investigate terrorism from institutional and historical perspectives, focusing on the level of threat to the United States from domestic terrorists and Al Queda, as well as tactics, weapons, aims, and the rationality of terror. Other topics include state-sponsored terrorism, and the consequences and tactics of counter-terrorism.
This course is intended as an introduction to the academic study of world politics. The course is both theoretical and historical. Students will be expected to attain a firm grasp of major theories, concepts, and controversies in the field of international relations, as well as the significance of important historical events to shaping contemporary world politics. The central theme of the course is the relation between theory and practice: how do our interpretations of the history of world politics shape our theories and concepts of how world politics actually works?
At Rutgers, academics are about personal achievement, discovery, and community involvement. We’re a big university with countless opportunities to explore and pursue your interests. Across the university’s three locations—and online—undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike encounter a diverse array of educational and research opportunities, delivered by world-class faculty.
Why do they come? For many reasons: We’re a top public research university in the middle of one of the world’s greatest economic, political, and cultural regions. Our diverse population is energetic, driven, and exciting—the most diverse in the Big Ten. New, bold ideas find a home here. Our faculty have records of the highest scholarly achievement, and their everyday dedication prepares students for success and improves the quality of life for people around the world.
The Rutgers University Libraries provide the resources and services necessary to support the mission of the university in instruction, research, and public service through 26 libraries, centers, and reading rooms located in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden.
Students choose Rutgers for their education because of its long history as a top research university, the breadth of academic and cultural opportunities, its diverse and welcoming student body, the proximity to the New York City and Philadelphia metro areas, and so much more. More about undergraduate academics.
With more than five million volumes and thousands of digital resources, the Rutgers University Libraries rank among the nation’s top research libraries. Our libraries hold unique print and archival collections and are media-rich environments that provide dynamic electronic scholarly resources and services that are accessible 24 hours a day.
Rutgers’ intensive summer and winter sessions are open to Rutgers students, students home from other universities, high school students, and others. Take a class to meet requirements, earn credits, improve your GPA, or simply learn about a subject you love.
Rutgers offers a range of online degree, noncredit, and enrichment courses.
The course code comprises the sixth, seventh, and eighth digits in all course numbers. Course codes from 100 to 299 indicate introductory and intermediate undergraduate courses. Codes from 300 to 499 indicate advanced undergraduate courses. Courses coded from 500 to 799 are graduate courses and are described in the graduate catalogs of the university.
A subject code comprises the third through fifth digits in all course numbers and indicates the subject matter of the course. Courses with the following subject codes are listed in this section of the catalog. (This list does not constitute a list of majors. See pages v-vi for a list of majors. This list also does not constitute a list of all subjects offered at the university. See the individual professional-school sections of this catalog for further subject and course listings.)
The first two digits are the administrative code (standing for a faculty or a school), the next thee digits are the subject code, and the final three digits are the course code. Administrative Codes. The following administrative codes are used in this catalog and are positioned as the first two digits in all course numbers.
The notation BA indicates that the number of credits is determined by arrangement with the department offering the course.
Two courses codes separated by a comma indicate that each term course may be taken independently of the other (example: 01:350:219,220). Two course codes separated by a hyphen indicate that satisfactory completion of the first term course is a prerequisite to the second term (example: 01:160:315-316); the first term may be taken for credit without taking the second, except if a statement is added to indicate that both term courses must be completed in order to receive credit.