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Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Course Convenor: Associate Professor Mark Baker

This interdisciplinary Program is led by the ACJC and incorporates four Monash partners:

Graduate School of Jewish Studies Holocaust-Genocide Brochure [pdf 1.49MB]

The Master of Holocaust and Genocide Studies provides advanced knowledge about the Holocaust, and many other cases of genocide across the world. It explores the Holocaust as a turning point in human history, the causes and effects of modern genocides, and what is now being done to prevent genocide.

Leading international scholars contribute each year to the Master of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The teaching and research program enables students to consider the complex issues of genocidal violence, ideology, displaced persons and refugees, human rights, international law, ethics, cultural memory, and community regeneration.

Overseas internships offer professional development – students may work in NGOs, museums, courts, and memorial centres.

The program highlights the importance of oral history and eyewitness accounts of genocide. A key component of the program is the Shoah Visual History Archive held by Monash University, a prime resource for student engagement and scholarly research. Students will also be involved in the development of a new Monash archival project called Survivors of Genocide in Australia.

The program also offers two winter intensive units during July: In 2009 students will be given the opportunity to explore the theme of reconciliation in South Africa and Rwanda (After Atrocity) and in 2010 students will follow the Final Journey of European Jews through Berlin, Prague and Krakow.

Prospective career pathways for our students are in humanitarian organisations, education, law and justice, museums and memorials, government, the media, and further research into the causes and effects of genocide.

Courses Offered

3947 Graduate Diploma in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
3946 Master of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Electives
HSY4290/HYM4/5290 - Holocaust Memories
HSY3/4165/HYM4165 - Final Journey: Life and Death of European Jews, 1900-1945
HSY4440/HYM4/5440 - Genocidal Thought
HSY4470/HYM4/5470 - Genocide and Colonialism
HSY4490/HYM4/5490 - Fascism and Nazism, and Racial and Social utopias
INT4010/ITM4/5010 - Global Justice: Civil and Human Rights After 1945
JWC4260 - Jewish Literature of Destruction
LAW7026 Overview of International Human Rights Law
LAW7218 International Humanitarian Law

HSY4660/HYM4/5660 - Recording Oral History: Theory and Practice
HSY4210/HYM4/5200 - History and Memory: Oral History, Life Stories and Commemoration
HYM5410A and HYM5410B - Research Project in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
HYM5420 - Placement for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
INT3/4140/ITM4140 - After Atrocity: The Holocaust, South Africa and Rwanda

Mapping Genocide

'Crisis Watch' by International Crisis Group
www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1200&l=1

International Campaign to End Genocide, via Genocide Watch website
www.genocidewatch.org/campaigntoendgenocide/about.html

'Holocaust News', a contemporary news digest
http://aggregator.truthbeauty.info/holocaust/

See also Resources.

Graduate School of
Advanced Jewish Studies