Calling the proposed minors areas of concentration is completely accurate. The key word in the description of the areas of concentration, as found in the Academic Bulletin, is interdisciplinary. Looking at the faculty's minor proposals, you see again the word multi-disciplinary in both cases. Moving beyond ideology, it is a simple fact that Multicultural American and Gender studies are, as defined, not minors. They fit into the category of areas of concentration.
Minors involve one department, one area of study.
These proposed minors do not. One might minor in psychology, or history, or literature, but Gender and Multicultural studies combine all three, and more. Classifying these as areas of concentration is okay, but it should be a stepping stone towards making the two subjects into a minor. The logistical, pragmatic, and theoretical debate of whether or not the topics should be minors begins and ends with whether or not multicultural and gender studies are an area of legitimate interest for members of the College to pursue. I think they are.