Holocaust and Genocide Studies Undergraduate Concentration

The Holocaust and other acts of genocide are studied to enhance our understanding of the society from which we came, the society in which we live, and the society to which we currently are giving shape. By studying the Holocaust and genocide, we learn about collusion and resistance; about the hot violence of mass murder and the cold violence of the modern, bureaucratic machinery of death; and about suffering and adaptation to suffering. We learn how societies disintegrated, step by step, and how ordinary men, women, and children both participated in and were affected by this disintegration. We learn, in short, a tremendous amount about what we need to know now to help us make the world a better place, wherever we might be.

The undergraduate concentration in Holocaust and Genocide Studies provides students with solid grounding in the history of the Holocaust and other genocides. Students also take a series of courses in a variety of disciplines to ensure a critical, analytical and sophisticated understanding of the various facets of these atrocities. The undergraduate program of study encompasses history, sociology, government, geography, and psychology.

Courses
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Title of Course	Course Number
Native Americans, Land and Natural Resources	GEOG197
Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Problems/Lecture, Discussion	GOVT136
The United Nations and International Politics	GOVT146
Genocide in Comparative Perspective	GOVT278
Authority and Democracy: The History of Modern Central Europe/Lecture, Discussion	HGS115
Genocide	HGS130
Suffering and Evil in Jewish Tradition/Lecture, Discussion	HGS131
History of Armenia/Lecture, Discussion	HGS135
Central Europe in the Long 19th century (1756-1914) Lecture/Discussion	HGS142
Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century/Lecture, Discussion	HGS153
The Jewish Experience/Lecture, Discussion	HGS174
Holocaust: Agency and Action Lecture, Discussion	HGS175
Mass Murder and Genocide Under Communism/Lecture, Discussion	HGS214
History of the Armenian Genocide/Seminar	HGS230
Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe (1500-2000)/Seminar	HGS234
Gender, War and Genocide in 20th Century Europe/Seminar	HGS236
Human Rights and International Politics/Lecture, Discussion	HGS240
20th-Century Europe/Lecture, Discussion	HGS253
Modern Germany/Lecture, Discussion	HGS259
Rescue and Resistance During the Holocaust/Seminar	HGS260
Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Europe/Seminar	HGS261
Jews and Christians in the Ancient World	HGS262
Life and Death in the City: Occupied Europe, 1939-1945/Seminar	HGS265
Refugees/Seminar	HGS266
Advanced Topics in International Relations/Seminar	HGS289
Nazi Germany: Rise and Fall/First-Year Seminar	HIST042
Modern Europe, 19th & 20th Centuries: Ethnicity, War, and Genocide/Lecture	HIST106
War and Peace: Central Europe, 1914-2003/Lecture, Discussion	HIST143
The History of the Modern Middle East/Lecture, Discussion	HIST162
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust/Lecture,Discussion	HIST165
The Holocaust Perpetrators/Seminar	HIST237
The Western Powers and the Armenian Genocide	HIST247
Jews in Modern Europe: From Expulsion to Emancipation/Lecture, Discussion	HIST255
Problems of Genocide/Seminar	HIST262
Special Topics: Advanced Topics in the Study of Genocide/Seminar	HIST268
Life Under Occupation/Seminar	HIST273
Collective Memory and Mass Violence/Seminar	HIST276
Modern Jewish History and Thought/Lecture, Discussion	HIST276
Eastern European Jewish Diaspora: Culture and Community in Twentieth Century US, USSR and Israel/Lecture, Discussion	HIST283
Yiddish Literature and the History of Jewish Secular Culture/Lecture	HIST292
The Holocaust Through Letters and Diaries/Seminar	HIST352
Advanced Topics in Cultural Psychology/Capstone Seminar	PSYC276
Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocides/Graduate Seminar	PSYC315