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HGR Directory of Academic Programs on Holocaust and Genocide Issue 6

Are you interested in studying for a degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies?
The number of academic degree and teaching programs offered in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is growing throughout the world. GPN Genocide Prevention Now will regularly present profiles of individual programs so that students interested in pursuing this field will be able to further understand their options for study.

Programs in Holocaust and Genocide Studies range from the only Ph.D. at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, to various MA programs, undergraduate degrees, minors, concentrations within degree programs, graduate certificate programs, and an online program.
In Issue 6, we feature the Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies offered at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.

We also add the Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Interdisciplinary Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies offered at the College of Union, New Jersey, and the Special Program in Holocaust Studies at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania to our directory of programs.

Note also that many universities and colleges have degree programs such as History, Political Science, and International Relations that allow students to choose a specialty in the area of Holocaust or genocide including as the subject of their doctorate, although there are no formal degrees offered in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

We are interested in receiving information about additional university and college level programs in Holocaust and Genocide Studies that do not appear in this Directory. We also invite readers to submit information, descriptions of individual courses and syllabi at universities and colleges in Holocaust and Genocide Studies that do not support full degree programs for GPN to include in the International Repository of Courses in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Our aim is to build a full directory of programs as well as courses in our field to better inform students who choose to study the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

All submissions should be sent to: Marc I. Sherman, Director, Holocaust and Genocide Review, GPN Genocide Prevention Now. E-mail: msherman.gpn@genocidepreventionnow.org

Each month, GPN will highlight a specific program to further enable people to explore opportunities for degrees and courses in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. For issue 6 of GPN, we are happy to profile the Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kean University, Union, New Jersey .

Please click here to see the full academic programs listing.

Featured Program in this Issue of GPN

The Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an interdisciplinary program that
specifically studies the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and also requires an exploration of
other genocides.

The Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program is especially appropriate for
teachers but also offers opportunities for persons involved in diverse fields such as social
work, psychology, criminal justice, law, public administration, and religion among others.

Goals:

To know how a modern nation-state could murder innocent children,women, and men and how the victims could allow these crimes
To fathom how the bystanders and the world community did not speak
out and halt the systematic murder
To use the lenses of the Holocaust to analyze genocide around the
globe
To apply the lenses of the Holocaust to refract individual and civic responsibility
and policies of human values
To support democracy, equity, and an unequivocal commitment to a
public order of human dignity
To inspire in graduates an unequivocal commitment to speak out clearly
and consistently against injustice to individuals regardless of their race,
gender, or creed and for the dignity of all human beings and all human
groupings

Opportunities

For graduates to:

undertake and excel in post-graduate work
serve professions in private enterprise, public service, and teaching
become professionals who are ethically committed in the public as well
as the nonprofit sectors of their communities
facilitate decision-making that fulfills and promotes policies of
human dignity.

Resources:

The Kean University Human Rights Institute

Kean University is the most diverse institution of higher education in the entire region. Along with this unique classification comes a major responsibility. In the world today, it is particularly essential that a strong emphasis is placed on respect, mutual tolerance, and understanding of our ethnic backgrounds, cultural values and customs, religious beliefs and moral obligations. The Human Rights Institute complements the Holocaust Resource Center (HRC) in its mission to help to reduce prejudice, bias and discrimination. Functioning in collaboration with the
HRC, the Institute will support Kean University's academic concentrations and coursework in Jewish, Latin, and Africana Studies. The Institute will be an anchor for the Holocaust and Genocide Studies graduate program and focus on atrocities such as those which occurred in Armenia, Cambodia, Darfur and elsewhere in the world. The Human Rights Institute will sponsor research, curricular studies, visiting professors, outreach efforts, and international service-learning projects.

The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University

The mission of the Holocaust Resource Center is to strengthen the conditions for a just and humane life in our community by collecting and disseminating knowledge of the Holocaust. The mandate of the HRC is to commemorate and strengthen education about the Holocaust. The Center has an annual free lecture series whose speakers have included Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Israel's Chief Rabbi Israel M. Lau, actor Robert Clary, Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Prof. Christopher Browning, Prof. Yaffa Eliach, Prof. Daniel Goldhagen, Prof. Lawrence L. Langer, and Sister Rose Thering. The Center pioneered the tuition-free graduate course for grade school teachers "Teaching the Holocaust" in the Spring Semester 1983 - expanding from the University to various local school districts to be inclusive of teacher participation and adding the follow-up course "Teaching Prejudice Reduction" in the Spring Semester 1989. The Center serves as a resource for the student body of Kean University as well as for members of the community. The Center began its oral history program in 1982 and its testimony of survivors and liberators encompasses 250 oral testimonies. Affiliated with the United State Holocaust memorial Museum in Washington D.C. and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the testimonies are published as Holocaust Testimonies in New Jersey.

Please click here to see the featured program in this issue on the Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kean University, Union, New Jersey.