Genocide and Human Rights Concentration

Undergraduate Concentration

The Holocaust prompted the slogan, “Never again!” Tragically, efforts to make this slogan a reality did not prevent subsequent genocides or other large-scale human rights violations around the world. Concerted efforts by scholars, policymakers, and activists, however, have done much to uncover the processes that contribute to such paroxysms of mass violence, improve understandings of the forms these atrocities take as well as the diverse ways people and societies respond to them, and what actions might prevent their reoccurrence in the future. As a concentrator, you can be part of these efforts! With that goal in mind, the undergraduate concentration in Genocide and Human Rights provides students with the foundational knowledge and skills that inform work in this critically important interdisciplinary field. Relevant courses are offered in a range of departments: history, literature, political science, international development, sociology, and psychology, among others.

For more information, please visit the Genocide and Human Rights Studies Department’s website.

1. Select one of the following two core requirements:

• SOC 130 Genocide  or HIST 130 Introduction to History of Genocide 

2. Choose four of the following electives:

• CMLT 109 - Human Rights and Literature
• HGS 108 - Africa, War and Genocide: From Kingdoms to Now
• HGS 110 - Antisemitism and Racism in the Modern World
• HGS 220 - Genocide and Civil War in the African Great Lakes Region
• HGS 268 - Special Topics in Genocide
• Hist 125 - Genocides, Ethnic Cleansings, and Forced Deportations in the Twentieth Century: The Balkans and the Middle East
• HIST 135 - History of Armenia
• HIST 165 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HIST 175 - Holocaust: Agency and Action
• HIST 230 - The Topics in Genocide in Comparative Perspective
• ID 247 - Human Rights Strategy, Tactics, and Practice
• MUSC 219 - From Wagnerism to Nazism: the grandeur and catastrophe of German music
• PSCI 214 - Mass Murder and Genocide Under Communism
• PSCI 240 - Human Rights and International Politics
• PSYC 171 - Social Psychology of Intergroup Violence, Oppression, and Liberation
• PSYC 225 - Research on Collective Victimization and Oppression
• PSYC 241 - The Psychology of Resistance

3. Choose one of the following capstone seminars:

*Note: If students take more than one capstone, then the additional seminar will count as an elective.

• HGS 220 - Genocide and Civil War in the African Great Lakes Region
• HGS 225 - Genocide Prevention and Conflict Transformation
• HGS 230 - Mass Atrocity Prevention in Theory and Practice
• HGS 250 - Antropology of War and Genocide
• HGS 265 - Special Topics in Holocaust
• HGS 268 - Special Topics in Genocide
• HIST 230 - The Topics in Genocide in Comparative Perspective
• HIST 236 - SEM: Gender, War & Genocide
• HIST 237 - The Holocaust Perpetrators
• HIST 239 - Special Topics Course in Global History
• HIST 261 - Borderlands: Violence and Coexistence
• HIST 262 - Genocide, Denial, Facing History and Reconciliation
• HIST 266 - Refugees
• HIST 276 - Collective Memory and Mass Violence
• HIST 279 - Massacres, Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention: Western Powers in the Balkans and the Middle East
• ID 230 - Theory and Methods in Genocide and Human Rights Studies
• ID 243 - Seeing Like a Humanitarian Agency
• ID 291 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging
• PSCI 287 - Refugees, Migrants, and the Politics of Displacement
• PSYC 264 - Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocides
• PSYC 278 - The Aftermath of Intergroup Violence: Social Psychological Perspectives