School of Graduate and Continuing Studies - Holocaust & Genocide Studies

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Sam and Sara Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center

A Message from the Director:

There was a time when no one thought about Auschwitz, Bosnia, Rwanda, or Darfur. There was a time when degrees and courses about those places and what happened there were not needed, but those days are gone. Now, the twentieth century’s strange roads show that people will not be equipped to live well in the twenty-first century unless teaching and learning pay attention to the dimensions, principles and practice of Holocaust and Genocide education.

That’s what we try to do in our Master of Arts Program in Holocaust & Genocide Studies (MAHG) – pay attention, for genocide is not inevitable. Nor are any of the events related to it. The Holocaust and other genocides emerge from decisions made by human beings who were, and are, responsible for their actions, and who could have, and can in the future, act differently.

As faculty, we try to emphasize excellence in scholarship, teaching, and student learning about and from the Holocaust and other genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries. As teachers in a state college, we accept the responsibility to help form citizens who can think, reflect, and act responsibly in our diverse American society, and globally as well. And as teachers of Holocaust & Genocide Studies, we endorse and seek to pass on to our students, Yehuda Bauer’s challenging admonition, “Never be a victim. Never be a by-stander, And never, never be a perpetrator.”

I speak for all my faculty colleagues when I say that we are very pleased you are interested in our MA Program in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, the first to be established in the United States, and we are ready to help you in any way we can.

I invite you to contact my office (609) 652-4659 for further information.

Sincerely,

Michael Hayse, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Historical Studies
Director, MA Program in Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Michael.Hayse@stockton.edu

The Program

The Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) is a central component of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey’s commitment to study the history of the Holocaust and other forms of genocide, and to teach the lessons which can be derived from such study. Stockton was the first four-year college in the United States to offer a Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. New Jersey teachers, in preparing youth for responsible citizenship, are required in both primary and secondary schools to include Holocaust and genocide studies in their classes. In addition to educators, the program has been accessed by other professionals who may seek individual growth, a first step toward doctoral work, or a means to upgrade their post-graduate qualifications.

The Holocaust, or Shoah, is taught with reference to primary sources available from survivors, perpetrators, liberators and rescuers. The MAHG Program considers the Holocaust a watershed event in the history of Western civilization and studies it in its setting, with reference to the Jewish civilization that was destroyed, not only with regard to its impact on subsequent Jewish life and culture, but also as related to the legal and intellectual dimensions in the history of genocide.

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**MAHG Curriculum- 36 credits**
Core Courses- 6 credits
MAHG 5000 The History of the Holocaust	MAHG 5001 The History of Genocide
Electives- 27 credits: (H= Holocaust Electives; G= Genocide Electives) *A minimum of two Holocaust Electives and two Genocide Electives required
MAHG 5002 Rescuers and Bystanders (H)	MAHG 5018 Non Jewish Victims of the Nazis (H)
MAHG 5003 Holocaust and Genocide Education	MAHG 5019 The Holocaust in Literature & Film (H)
MAHG 5004 Holocaust and the American Experience (H)	MAHG 5020 Literature of the Holocaust (H)
MAHG 5005 Contemporary Genocide (G)	MAHG 5021 Modern German History & the Holocaust (H)
MAHG 5006 Jewish History and Culture Before the Holocaust (H)	MAHG 5026 Holocaust, Terrorism, & Genocide
MAHG 5007 Selected Topics with the Ida E. King Distinguished Scholar	MAHG 5027 Germany & Holocaust After 1945
MAHG 5008 Jewish-Christian Relations in the Shadow of Auschwitz	MAHG 5028 Genocide: Special Topics (G)
MAHG 5009 Antisemitism	MAHG 5029 The UN, Human Rights & Genocide (G)
MAHG 5011 The Psychology of Genocide (G)	MAHG 5030 The Armenian Genocide (G)
MAHG 5012 Resistance During the Holocaust (H)	MAHG /EDUC 5353 Literature & Culture: Special Topics
MAHG 5016 Europe in the Twentieth Century	MAHG 5800 Independent Study
MAHG 5017 Women During the Holocaust (H)
Capstone Experience- minimum 3 credits
MAHG 5850 Independent Study Capstone Project	MAHG 5900 Internships
MAHG 5880 Thesis	MAHG 5022 Study Seminar to the Sites

For course descriptions, please visit The College's Course Catalog.

Apply today. If you have further questions, Request More Information, view Frequently Asked Questions, or please call the Graduate Admissions Office at (609) 626-3640 or E-mail gradschool@stockton.edu.

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