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| Welcome to HGR HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE INFORMATION RESOURCES
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| HGR Directory of Academic Programs & Courses on Holocaust & Genocide Issue 7
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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 is proud to present a DIRECTORY OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE that we hope will enable students to select programs for studies around the world - and will also serve to inspire new programs and courses in colleges, universities and institutes around the world.
GPN Genocide Prevention Now also presents periodically profiles of some individual programs so that students interested in pursuing this field will be able to understand further their options for study.
Programs in Holocaust and Genocide Studies range from the only Ph.D. program 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 7, we have included in our Directory URL links to all individual programs. We have also added to our Directory the Minor in Holocaust Studies offered at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey; the Interdisciplinary Minor in Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Global, International, & Area Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; and the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Concentration, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
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 directly in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. We also welcome the availability of individual professors who are interested in supervising doctoral dissertations on Holocaust and genocide.
We are interested in receiving information about additional university and college level programs in Holocaust and Genocide Studies that do not appear in the Directory at this time. 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 far-ranging 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. Students who complete a Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in particular may find opportunities for doctoral study at their university. As an example, see information about the Masters Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsalla University in Sweden below.
All submissions should be sent to: Marc I. Sherman, Director, Holocaust and Genocide Review, GPN Genocide Prevention Now. E-mail: msherman.gpn@genocidepreventionnow.org
Editor's Note: In issue 7 of GPN, we are happy to profile the Masters Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies offered at Uppsala University in Sweden, and the syllabus of a course "Politics of Genocide and Violence," at St. John's University in New York.
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL DIRECTORY OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND COURSES ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE
FEATURED PROGRAM
Master's Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Uppsala University
The Hugo Valentin Centre
Thunbergsvagen 3 D
Box 521, 751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
www.valentin.uu.se
Director of Studies
Madeleine Sultan Sjoqvist
+46 (0)18-471 23 67
madeleine.sjoqvist@valentin.uu.se
Senior Lecturer
Ivana Macek
+46 (0)18-471 57 75
This degree also qualifies you to apply for doctoral studies. The Master programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies is for those who have already obtained a bachelor in the humanities or social sciences.
The instruction offered in this MA will provide you with knowledge and theories present within the most up-to-date research and educational trends in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This will benefit you whether you wish to pursue a PhD or a career outside academia.
If you chose to pursue a PhD, this master programme will qualify you to apply. The master thesis in particular will facilitate a successful application for doctoral studies.
Please click here to see a more complete description of the featured program in this issue on the Master Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies offered at Uppsala University.
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Editor's Note: GPN periodically profiles specific courses in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In this issue, we present a course, The Politics of Genocide and Mass Violence, taught by Dr. Fred P, Cocozzelli in the Department of Government and Politics at St. John's University in Queens, New York. Included in this profile is a background summary on how the course began, the types of students who enroll in the course, and finally the course syllabus. We would like to thank Dr. Cocozzelli for contributing his syllabus as well as an intriguing and thoughtful summary essay on the background of the course.
FEATURED COURSE SYLLABUS
St. John's University
Queens, New York
Department of Government and Politics
GOV 3851: The Politics of Genocide and Mass Violence
Instructor: Fred P. Cocozzelli, PhD.
Email: CocozzeF@stjohns.edu
Background Summary on the Course and Some Thoughts about Teaching about Genocide
This course came about directly because of student interest in the subject matter. In the fall 2008 semester, some students at St. John's who were active in an organization called STAND: Students Against Genocide approached me to speak on a panel discussion that they were organizing. Their primary focus was on the violence in Darfur, but they knew that I had done research on communal violence in the Balkans, and were interested in bringing in a different perspective to the discussion. I agreed to join the panel, and found it to be an excellent experience. The students involved were motivated, committed, passionate and critical. Before long we were having running discussions in my office on issues related political violence in general. During the course of our conversations, they asked if I could teach a course on genocide and collective violence. I spent some time working out the syllabus and presented it first to my department, Government and Politics, and upon approval, to the larger Liberal Arts Faculty Council Curriculum Committee. In both case, the course proposal was very well received. The university could clearly see the value of the course, not just for political science majors, also as part of an overall liberal arts education, and it was quickly approved. The first semester I offered the course, fall 2009, it filled up rapidly. The students were among the best that I had taught at St. John's. The students who took the course were, in general, serious, focused and deeply engaged in the subject matter. Student participation levels for the class were exceptionally high. I have kept in touch with some of the students who have since graduated, and they have said that it was one of the best courses that they took, in large part because so many of their fellow students were so engaged. I taught the course again in fall 2010, and found that it continued to attract a very high level of students.
The students that take the course tend to be very diverse. Many are student activists who are very sensitive to issues of multi-culturalism and tolerance. They impressed me as more well-informed about contemporary international politics than many of my other students. Students in both sessions of the course were aware of international events, especially such issues as violence in Darfur, the Congo and South Asia. Often they were international students, or first generation children of immigrants who had some personal relation to regions that had suffered collective violence. The expected the course to be challenging, and analytical. Their goal was to understand as much as possible about the phenomenon of genocide, not to be simply inundated by the sense of tragedy. I did find on occasion though that students could find the material overwhelming. I came away from teaching the course feeling that it was important to be sensitive to the students' reactions. Managing their emotional response to the material could be as important as managing their intellectual response.
Purpose of the Course:
The purpose of the course is to introduce advanced undergraduate students to the political dynamics of genocide and collective violence such as ethnic or religious pogroms and massacres. This course seeks to help students both understand these types of events, and be better prepared as citizens to struggle against their repetition in the twenty-first century. Sadly, understanding the politics of genocide and collective violence has become a vital part of understanding contemporary politics in much of the world. Genocide and collective violence directed toward religious, ethnic and social groups marked the twentieth century as one of the most violent in human history. The beginnings of the past century were marked by the Armenian massacres which brought the concept of mass ethnic violence into the modern age. The paradox of the rise of modernism and the descent of human barbarism was perhaps most clearly captured in the history of Nazism in Germany as one of the most technologically, culturally and politically sophisticated states in Europe applied its resources to the mass murder of its Jewish citizens as well as others that were considered to be less than the Aryan ideal, such as Roma, the disabled and homosexuals. Despite resolute pronouncements of "Never again", since the Holocaust the world has seen repeated cases of genocide and collective violence including in Cambodia in the late 1970s, and in the Balkans and the Great Lakes region of Africa in the 1990s. As we enter the twenty-first century, the situation in Darfur, among other places, suggests that such violence will continue. For students, like all of us, this level of violence can be a challenge to understand. This course will seek to help students to think critically and analytically about the political dimensions of these events.
Please click here for a fuller description of the featured syllabus of St. John's University's Politics of Genocide and Mass Violence
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Executive Director: Prof. Israel W. Charny, Ph.D.
Director of Holocaust and Genocide Review: Marc I Sherman, M.L.S.
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This project was made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The contents of this website are the responsibility of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem.
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