The Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies offers an interdisciplinary certificate program in Holocaust Studies. This program is open to all degree-seeking undergraduates. It provides background for a variety of career choices ranging from the study of law, to human rights work, to employment with NGOs, to K-12 education, to international business, to museum or library employment. The certificate program can supplement any major program of study.
Students completing the certificate program learn about the Holocaust itself as well as how major authors, government leaders, legal scholars, filmmakers, artists, museum curators, and others have reacted to and understood the Holocaust. Students will emerge with a sense of how global discourse has understood, failed to understand, and even manipulated the notion of the unspeakable. Finally, students will themselves be able to think and argue broadly as to the nature of humanity and mass crime.
The certificate requires five courses or 15 credit hours, distributed as follows.
Surveys (1):
All Certificate Students must take:
- EUH 3033 History of the Holocaust
All Certificate Students must take:
- 2 History/Social Science Courses
- 2 Literature/Film Courses
- Honors projects of 3 hours can be used to substitute with the approval of the undergraduate coordinator.
Fall 2024 Courses applicable to the Certificate include:
- JST 3930/EUS 3930/FRT 3004 Holocaust Memory in France (Gayle Zachmann)
Class# 29547/29485/20286 - JST 3930/LIT 4930 Jewish-American Cinema (Dragan Kujundzic)
Class# 28657/26151 - JST 3930/FRW 4281/FRW 6288 Aftermaths: The Post-Holocaust Novel in France (Gayle Zachmann)
Class #29549/28958/28959 - JST 3930/ITT 3700: Holocaust in Italy (Deborah Amberson)
Class #29545/28930
Spring 2024 Courses applicable to the Certificate will include
- Holocaust: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Film, Literature and Theater
- The Poetics of Justice: Law, Literature and Film
- Children of the Revolution: Citizenship, Social Engagement, and the French Avant-Gardes
- Screening the Holocaust
- History of the Holocaust