Women's & Gender Studies has a rich history at Rutgers University. Inaugurated as a department in 2001, Women's & Gender Studies has grown from offering a few courses at the University in 1973 to becoming one of the strongest interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate programs in the United States. In 2009 - 2010 3,297 undergraduate and 203 graduate students enrolled in courses offered by the Department. Currently Women's & Gender Studies enrolls 184 undergraduates in major and minor degree programs, 35 students in the Ph.D. program and 32 students in the M.A. program. Department faculty include 30 core, 117 graduate, and 75 affiliate members whose expertise in women's and gender studies is enriched by specializations in the arts, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, political science, and comparative literatures in English, French, and Spanish.