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Certificate Program in Holocaust Studies

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.

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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 2022 Courses applicable to the Certificate include:

  • EUH 3033/JST 3930 History of the Holocaust (Natalia Aleksiun)
    Class# 27357, 27358, 27359, 27360
  • EUH 3931/JST 3930 Representing the Holocaust (Norman Goda)
    Class# 27361/27335
  • REL 4936/PHI 3930/JST 4936 Ethics after the Holocaust (Yaniv Feller)
    Class #28690, 23787, 28714
  • IDS 2935 (Quest): Representations of War (Kligerman)
    Class #20081, 20082, 20083, 20084, 20085, 20086

Spring 2022 Courses applicable to the Certificate will include

  • The Dreyfus Affair
  • After the Holocaust
  • The Holocaust in the Courtroom
  • Screening the Holocaust