Gender and genocide is an area of study critical to a more nuanced understanding of the different motivations and genocidal tools of perpetrators and the wide ranging experiences of victims. Specifically emphasized is the examination of the roles of women as victims, witnesses, survivors, and...
Read moreThis course seeks to thematically examine genocide in the 20th century. It explores how the perpetration of and the experience of genocide can be better understood when using gender as a tool of analysis. This course touches on the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the genocides that...
Read moreThrough encounters with biography, autobiography, fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as with film, documentary, photography, the visual arts, and music, students become familiar with a broad range of depictions of genocide. Literature and art are not only forms of expression in response to...
Read moreOver the course of the semester we will investigate the genocide of the Nama and Herero, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, as well as the genocides in Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, Guatemala, and Darfur. This history survey course is based on recent scholarship in...
Read moreThe 1948 United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide promised to “liberate mankind from [the] odious scourge” of genocide, but thus far the international community has failed to deliver. Our course will examine the many different aspects involved with...
Read moreStudents will explore and analyze various organizational paradigms and practices as they relate to external government bodies, internal and external stakeholders, governing boards, and presidential leadership. The need for ethical and legal considerations in higher education leadership will be...
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