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The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies offers students the opportunity to do an interdisciplinary undergraduate concentration, including a summer internship, and a Ph.D. program.
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Requirements and Information:
Ph.D. Program in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies
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Residency Requirement
Students are required to remain in residency during two years of
coursework and until his/her oral examinations are completed by or before the
end of the third year.
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Course Requirement
Students are required to take two years of coursework (total of twelve
courses)
The aim of course work is to expose students to a variety of historical
fields, to hone their analytical skills both for reading and for research
through intense scrutiny of vast amounts of text, and to provide a foundation
for the students' fields. The aim is not to complete the reading required for
exams. It is expected that students will do a substantial amount of that
reading on their own or in study groups organized among themselves.
Students must take 12 courses at the graduate level to qualify for the
Ph.D. At least nine of these should be in the History Department. At least two
must be from one department outside the History Department At least four of
these should be research seminars or directed research. Each of the four units
must result in its own substantial written work of professional quality.
Holocaust History students are required to take two courses in genocide
studies. Genocide Studies students are required to take two courses in
Holocaust history. Completion of these courses will satisfy the HH/GS track
extraordinary fourth field in Comparative Genocide and Holocaust History,
respectively.
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Language Requirements
Language competency is key to successful independent research in Holocaust
history and genocide studies. HH/GS students are required to demonstrate
competency in two languages (other than English or your native language) that
are relevant to the study of Holocaust history or, alternatively, genocide
studies. This competency is demonstrated in a written translation exam
administered by the Center's manager of educational programs. The exams are
evaluated by a professor of the language on which the student is tested.
Students are expected to demonstrate competency in one language at the end of
their first year of study, or prior to the start of the second year at the
latest. They are expected to demonstrate competency in the second language at
the end of the second year of study, or prior to the start of the third year
at the latest.
All language
requirements must be satisfied before the preliminary oral examination is
scheduled.
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First and Second Year
Reviews
In addition to receiving grades, each student will meet during the exam
period of the spring term with his or her advisor and the HH/GS graduate
studies director (who serves as the advisor to all first-year students) to
review his/her progress. A satisfactory annual review is required for the
student to proceed.
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Teaching Assistant
Experience
Students are required to participate in teaching assistant positions and
professionally appropriate related work during their second and third years in
residence.
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Fields and Field Exams
The field exam aims to ascertain whether students have achieved a grasp of
the field as a whole and have begun to develop their own sense of
interpretation of it—their capacity to integrate material and develop a
coherent sense of the field—as well as understanding the relevant historians'
interpretations. Students should be able to answer exam questions with some
detailed examples of events, patterns, or circumstances to bolster their case
and an explanation of the arguments other historians have brought to bear on
the issue.
The function of fields and field exams is to prepare the student to teach
in those fields, to participate intelligently in the ongoing discussions of
the field, and to give a broad background for research.
Each student is
responsible for preparing for oral examination in three fields. Holocaust
History/Genocide Studies students are required to demonstrate competency in
four fields. Holocaust history track students fulfill the fourth field in
Comparative Genocide by taking two courses in Genocide Studies (and earning a
grade of B+ or higher). Genocide Studies track students fulfill the fourth
field in Holocaust History by taking (and earning a grade of B+ or higher) two
courses in Holocaust History.
Holocaust History Track fields
- Modern European History
- History of the Holocaust
- A field specifically designed around the candidate's research interests
and tailored to his/her dissertation proposal
- Comparative Genocide: This field is fulfilled by taking two courses in
genocide studies
Genocide Studies track fields
- Genocide Studies
- The history of the region relevant to the student's dissertation project
- A field specifically designed around the candidate's research interests
and tailored to his/her dissertation proposal
- Holocaust History: This field is fulfilled by taking two courses in
Holocaust History
All field exams are oral examinations of one hour per field, and students
are examined in the three fields at the same time (one 3-hour block). Students
must sit this examination no later than the last day of classes of their third
year in the program.
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Dissertation Prospectus
Students normally prepare the prospectus in an individual directed
research course with her/his advisor. The expected length of an HH/GS
dissertation prospectus is twelve to fifteen pages, and it should be written
so as to serve as a basis for grant applications. The prospectus should set
out the aim of the dissertation, the questions it raises, how other historians
have treated the subject and what the dissertation will add to that
discussion, preliminary hypotheses, and the method and types of sources to be
used.
After completion of the dissertation prospectus, normally in the second
year or first semester of the third year, each student will have a one-hour
dissertation prospectus defense colloquium to which all faculty and graduate
students are invited.
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Doctoral Research
Students begin their doctoral research in the second semester of Year 3.
It is anticipated that HH/GS candidates will do most of their field work
abroad.
HH/GS students are guaranteed a package of support and research funds for
the whole of the five-year program on condition that they progress
satisfactorily each year. This condition applies during the first three years
while students work toward ABD (all but dissertation) status, and it continues
to apply while students research and write their dissertations.
Students are encouraged to apply as well for extra-university fellowships
whenever possible, particularly for dissertation research.
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Dissertation
- The completed dissertation should be a book-length typescript fitting, in
format, the University guidelines. After the student has submitted the
completed dissertation to his/ her committee and they have evaluated it, the
student will have a meeting of approximately one hour to defend the
dissertation and discuss the committee's comments.
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