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Nov 23, 2024
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University General Course Catalog 2024-2025
Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies, Minor
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Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies is an 18-unit interdisciplinary minor housed within the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI). Focusing on social, historical, philosophical, political, cultural, and ethical issues in a wide variety of disciplines, courses in the HGPS minor examine origins and manifestations of prejudice, hatred, and dehumanization policies; causes and impacts of oppression, structural violence, social and political conflicts, colonization, war, mass violence, and genocide; intersectional methods for fostering justice, sustainable peace, equitable social and political relationships, and ethical decision-making; legal, ethical, and humanistic frameworks for recognizing and resisting authoritarianism and dehumanization policies; recovery, remembrance, and post-genocide reconstruction; and the origins and applications of international human rights instruments in the pursuit of peace. The Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies minor provides an expressly interdisciplinary environment for learning, drawing widely on academic traditions in the social sciences and the humanities. Students gain tools to critically analyze and engage our world and to enact change in their communities and professions in local and global contexts.
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I. Program Requirements (18 units)
Students must complete 18 units in courses relating to Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies emphasizing historical, contemporary, and intersectional implications and causes of systemic dehumanization, structural and overt violence, oppression, war, colonization, and genocide, with a focus on reconstruction, recovery, resistance, social justice movements, and fostering sustainable peace.
- Minor GPA | 2.0
- Minor Upper-Division Units | 9
- Minor Residency Requirement | 6 Upper-Division Units in the minor at UNR
- Unit Overlap Limits: Per College of Liberal Arts policy, no more than 9 units counted toward any major may be reused to meet the requirements of this minor.
- Courses taken through USAC and other approved study abroad programs may be used to complete the minor (with advisor approval).
Core Courses I (3 units)
Minors must earn a “B-” or better in the following course:
Core Courses II (6 units)
Complete any two of the following courses:
Electives (9 units)
- Among the 9 units of electives, 6-9 units must be from Group 1, and 0-3 units from Group 2.
- Where courses are crosslisted with GRI, HGPS, or WMST, students are encouraged to enroll in the GRI, HGPS, or WMST side of the course.
- Students are encouraged to speak to the HGPS advisor if they encounter a special topics class that is relevant to the minor.
Group 1 Electives: HGPS Focused Courses (6-9 units)
These courses place a central focus on critical issues in Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies, and include interdisciplinary, local, and global analyses of the origins of violence, systemic dehumanization policies, war, genocide, slavery, colonization, oppression, racism, international human rights frameworks, and fostering justice and peace, and/or center the perspectives of individuals and groups most directly impacted by genocide, war, colonization, slavery, and structural violence. Students are encouraged to focus on HGPS topics in their research or other final projects for these courses.
- ANTH 418 - Global/Local Inequalities (3 units) CO11, CO14 OR
- GRI 418 - Global/Local Inequalities (3 units) CO11, CO14
- ANTH 477 - War, Occupation & Memory in the Basque Country (3 units) CO13 OR
- BASQ 477 - War, Occupation & Memory in the Basque Country (3 units) CO13
- ART 476 - Propagandistic Art: 1925-1945 (3 units)
- ETS 307 - Topics in Race and Racism (3 units) CO10
- GRI 257 - Social Movements of Gender, Race, and Identity (3 units) CO10, CO12
- GRI 379 - Ethnic and Race Relations (3 units) CO10, CO13 OR
- SOC 379 - Ethnic and Race Relations (3 units) CO10, CO13
- GRI 415 - Jewish Thought and Philosophy (3 units) CO10, CO12
- HGPS 410 - Literature of the Holocaust (3 units) CO13
- HGPS 415 - Vietnam: Conflict and Consequences (3 units) CO13
- HGPS 421 - Concepts in Peace Studies and Nonviolence (3 units) CO13
- HGPS 490 - Independent Study (1 to 3 units)
- HGPS 493 - Special Topics (3 units)
- HIST 367 - The Holocaust in its European Setting (3 units) CO10, CO11, CO12
- HIST 396 - 20th Century Russia and the Soviet Union (3 units)
- HIST 408 - World War II From a Global Perspective (3 units)
- HIST 418 - History of the U.S.-American Indian Relations (3 units)
- HIST 433A - The African American Freedom Struggle After 1865 (3 units) CO10, CO13
- HIST 433B - African-American History to 1877 (3 units) CO10, CO11
- HIST 464 - Europe: 1914-Present (3 units) CO11
- HIST 467 - Modern Jewish History (3 units)
- HIST 478D - War and Peace in Israel and Palestine (3 units) CO11
- PSC 405G - International Conflict (3 units)
- PSC 405H - International Human Rights (3 units) CO12
- PSC 405I - Holocaust and Genocide (3 units)
- PSC 407Q - Political Violence (3 units)
- PSC 407T - Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa (3 units)
- SOC 409 - Gendered Violence (3 units) CO10, CO13 OR
- WMST 409 - Gendered Violence (3 units) CO10, CO13
- HGPS 436B Legacies of the Holocaust OR
- HIST 436B Legacies of the Holocaust
Group 2 Electives: Contextual Courses (0-3 units)
These courses consider issues relevant to Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies in broader contexts. Students are encouraged to focus on HGPS topics in their research or other final projects for these courses.
- ANTH 470 - Gender and Migration: Women, Men, and Global Movement (3 units) CO10, CO11 OR
- WMST 470 - Gender and Migration: Women, Men, and Global Movement (3 units) CO10, CO11
- BASQ 220 - Introduction to Basque Cultural Studies in a Global Frame (3 units) CO10
- BASQ 378 - Basque Transnationalism in the United States (3 units) CO10
- BASQ 448 - Basque Art, Politics, and Identity in a Global Context (3 units) CO13
- COM 275 - Racism, Colonialism, and Communication (3 units) CO10
- CRJ 427 - Struggle for Justice (3 units) CO10, CO13
- ENG 486A - Studies in Postcolonial Literature and Theory (3 units) CO10, CO11
- ETS 251 - Theories of Race and Ethnicity (3 units) CO6, CO10
- ETS 280 - Native American Identities and Culture (3 units) CO10
- GRI 103 - Power, Identity, and Social Justice (3 units) CO6, CO10
- GRI 344 - Social Movements and Collective Behavior (3 units) CO10, CO11 OR
- SOC 345 - Social Movements and Collective Behavior (3 units) CO10, CO11
- GRI 360 - LGBTQ Community Histories (3 units) CO10 OR
- HIST 360 - LGBTQ Community Histories (3 units) CO10
- GRI 428 - Indigenous Feminisms (3 units) CO10
- GRI 460 - Intersectionality and Social Justice (3 units) CO10, CO14
- GRI 493 - Queer History and Theory (3 units) CO10, CO13 OR
- HIST 493 - Queer History and Theory (3 units) CO10, CO13
- GRI 498 - Internship in Gender, Race, and Identity (3 to 6 units) CO14
- HIST 404C - Social Movements in the United States (3 units) CO12, CO13
- HIST 439B - Inquisition in Europe and Latin America (3 units)
- HIST 439C - Slavery and Race in Latin America (3 units)
- HIST 444A - U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (3 units) CO10, CO13
- HIST 465C - Modern Ireland and National Identity (3 units) CO11, CO13
- HIST 479 - Race and Ethnicity in American History (3 units) CO10, CO13
- PSC 407K - Comparative Religion and Politics (3 units) CO10
- RST 407K - Comparative Religion and Politics (3 units) CO10
- SOC 342 - Social Stratification (3 units) CO10
- SOC 435 - Sociology of (Im)migration (3 units) CO10, CO13
- SW 310 - Structural Oppression (3 units)
- WMST 419 - Men and Masculinities (3 units) CO10, CO13
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