Program Paths
Ph.D.
Doctorate (Ph.D.) (48 credits)
- Required Core (9 credits)
- Electives (27 credits)
- Required Summer Residencies at Summer Institute (6 credits)
- Proposal and Dissertation (6 credits)
- Foreign Language as related to area of research
All courses are three credits, unless otherwise noted.
Note: Transfer courses are usually not accepted at the Doctoral level, but may be approved by the Program Director on a case by case basis.
- Required Core (9 credits)
- Electives
- Required Summer Residencies
- Proposal + Dissertation
- Foreign Language
Required Core (9 credits)
Electives
Choose 9 courses from Holocaust and Genocide Studies; you also have the option of taking approved courses in Human Rights and Interfaith Leadership as Electives in the PhD program:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies Courses
Approved Human Rights and Interfaith Leadership Electives:
- JST 515 The Problem of Evil: The Jewish Response (cross-listed)
- JST 615 Judaism and Christianity (cross-listed with Jewish Studies)
- HRI 521 African Americans and Jews
- HRI 530 Patriarchy and Women’s Rights
- HRI 520 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- HRI 532/732 Ethical Perspectives on Human Rights
- IFL 620 Interfaith Dialogue
- IFL 621 Interfaith Lifecycle
- IFL 622 Interfaith Social Justice
- IFL 623 Interfaith Liturgy
- IFL ___ Interfaith Theology
- IFL ___ Interfaith Sacred Scriptures: Torah, Gospels, Quran
- IFL ___ Comparative Liturgy of Judaism and Christianity
- IFL ___ Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Bible
- IFL ___ Comparative Theology of Judaism and Christianity
- IFL ___ Jewish and Christian Saints
Required Summer Residencies
- First year: Summer Institute 1 - HGS 705: Orientation, Doctoral Writing & Research Seminar
- This course should be taken during the first summer of the program as soon as possible after students enroll
- This course should be taken during the first summer of the program as soon as possible after students enroll
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Second or Third year: Summer Institute 2
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Any Holocaust and Genocide Studies doctoral elective, or an approved course in Human Rights or Interfaith Leadership
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Non-credit HGS 702 Dissertation Proposal Workshop
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Proposal + Dissertation
Foreign Language
M.A to Ph.D.
M.A. to Ph.D. (75 credits)
Students have the option of applying to both the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the same time.
The M.A. to Ph.D. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies is a total of 75 credits, 27 M.A. credits and 48 Ph.D. credits. M.A. students who are approved to continue into the Ph.D. program do NOT have to complete a master’s thesis or final project.
After 18 M.A. credits, students will be reviewed by the program director to determine if they are qualified to continue on to the doctorate. If approved by the program director, M.A. students will need to meet minimal standards of GPA (3.5) while completing their M.A., in order to continue on into the Ph.D. program.
M.A. students who are approved to continue into the Ph.D. program pay the M.A. tuition rate for the first 27 credits and then pay the Ph.D. rate after that. After completing 27 M.A. credits, M.A. students approved by the program director may begin to take Ph.D. courses.
Students who elect not to continue on to the doctorate, or who are not accepted to continue by the program director, will complete the 36-credit M.A. requirements with a thesis or final project and required electives as designated in the original MAHGS.
If a student has already completed the first 9 credits of the doctoral program and then decides to opt out of the Ph.D., those 9 credits (3 courses) will be applied back to the M.A. requirements, and the student may graduate with a terminal master’s degree with no thesis or final project.
Students who have completed the Gratz College MAHGS who wish to apply to the M.A.-Ph.D. combined program must do so within two years of receiving the Gratz MAHGS. Gratz M.A. graduates may be awarded 9 credits towards the Gratz College Ph.D. at the discretion of the program director.
Students may still apply separately for the distinct MAHGS (36 credits including final project/thesis) and Ph.D. (48 credits including proposal and dissertation) program options.
Students enrolling in the Gratz Ph.D. with a completed master’s degree from outside of Gratz College will not receive any transfer credits toward the Gratz Ph.D.
Master of Arts
Master of Arts (36 credits)
- Required Core (6 credits)
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Electives (24-27 credits)
The number of required courses is dependent on whether a student chooses to complete a Final Project or Thesis. -
Final Project (3 credits) or Thesis (6 credits)
All courses are three credits, unless otherwise noted.
Required Core (6 Credits)
Electives (24-27 credits)
Choose 8 or 9 of the following courses:
- HGS 503: Women and the Holocaust
- HGS 507: Their Brother’s Keepers: Rescuers and Righteous Gentiles
- HGS 511: History of Antisemitism
- HGS 512: Teaching the Holocaust
- HGS 517: Resistance in the Holocaust
- HGS 522: Children of the Nazi Era
- HGS 523: The Holocaust and Genocide in Film
- HGS 524: Transcending Trauma: The Psychosocial Impact of the Holocaust on Survivor Families
- HGS 525: Post-Holocaust Theology
- HGS 526: Nazi Germany and Corporate Collaboration
- HGS 527: Native American Genocides
- HGS 533: Before Hitler: East European Jewish Civilization
- HGS 535: Literature of the Holocaust
- HGS 537: Holocaust Historiography
- HGS 541: From Armenia to Auschwitz: An Examination of the First Modern Genocides
- HGS 554: The Warsaw Ghetto
- HGS 555: The Holocaust and Memory
- HGS 556: Genocide Prevention
- HGS 558: Gender and Genocide in the 20th Century
- HGS 560: America’s Response to the Holocaust
- HGS 562: The Church and the Holocaust
- HGS 596: Independent Study –Travel*
- HGS 610: The Cambodian Genocide
- HGS 632: Jews and Germany: Rise, Fall and Rebirth
- HGS 633: Loss and Renewal: The Aftermath of the Holocaust
- HGS 634: Hitler’s Other Victims
- JST 515: The Problem of Evil: The Jewish Response (cross-listed)
- JST 615: Judaism and Christianity (cross-listed)
*The Holocaust and Genocide Studies Independent Study-Travel course, HGS 596, is a 3 credit graduate course. Tuition is paid like any other course. Students need to submit a request to the Registrar to register for HGS 596 as they cannot register themselves. Students may request registration once they have been accepted to an approved travel-study program and have received permission from the program director/advisor. Students must provide proof of participation in the trip, such as a letter from the program organizers, as well as a detailed itinerary. The trip should be Holocaust/Genocide related and be a destination outside of the United States. Common destinations are Eastern Europe and Yad Vashem seminars in Israel. To earn graduate credit, students must keep a daily log of sites visited, learning experiences, impressions and reflections to be turned in to an appointed professor. The log should be approximately one typed page per day. At the master's level, students must also write a 20-page research paper on a topic relevant to the trip, which must be approved by the appointed professor. The paper and log are due no later than the end of the summer session B. (Most approved programs are run in the summer.) Students may take only one international trip to be used toward credit in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program.
Final Project or Thesis (3-6 Credits)
Graduate Certificate
Graduate Certificate (12 credits)
4 Electives of student's choice from Holocaust and Genocide Studies Master's level course selection (course numbers 5XX and 6XX)
All courses are three credits, unless otherwise noted.
Courses taken for a graduate certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies may be applied towards the M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies degree requirements, should the student wish to continue studying.
Electives (12 credits)
Choose 4 of the following courses:
- HGS 503: Women and the Holocaust
- HGS 507: Their Brother’s Keepers: Rescuers and Righteous Gentiles
- HGS 511: History of Antisemitism
- HGS 512: Teaching the Holocaust
- HGS 517: Resistance in the Holocaust
- HGS 522: Children of the Nazi Era
- HGS 523: The Holocaust and Genocide in Film
- HGS 524: Transcending Trauma: The Psychosocial Impact of the Holocaust on Survivor Families
- HGS 525: Post-Holocaust Theology
- HGS 526: Nazi Germany and Corporate Collaboration
- HGS 527: Native American Genocides
- HGS 533: Before Hitler: East European Jewish Civilization
- HGS 535: Literature of the Holocaust
- HGS 537: Holocaust Historiography
- HGS 541: From Armenia to Auschwitz: An Examination of the First Modern Genocides
- HGS 554: The Warsaw Ghetto
- HGS 555: The Holocaust and Memory
- HGS 556: Genocide Prevention
- HGS 558: Gender and Genocide in the 20th Century
- HGS 560: America’s Response to the Holocaust
- HGS 562: The Church and the Holocaust
- HGS 596: Independent Study –Travel*
- HGS 610: The Cambodian Genocide
- HGS 632: Jews and Germany: Rise, Fall and Rebirth
- HGS 633: Loss and Renewal: The Aftermath of the Holocaust
- HGS 634: Hitler’s Other Victims
- JST 515: The Problem of Evil: The Jewish Response (cross-listed)
- JST 615: Judaism and Christianity (cross-listed)