Graduate Certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies

This innovative certificate program offers an opportunity to explore graduate level scholarship in the growing fields of comparative genocide, conflict studies and human rights. Offered in conjunction with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the history department, the interdisciplinary academic program explores issues ranging from the cultural, historical, and theoretical impact of the Holocaust to more recent genocides in throughout the world including Latin America, Southeast Asia, East Africa and Southeastern Europe.

Grounded in a deep commitment the research and pedagogy of human rights, the certificate program brings participants face-to-face with the urgent theoretical questions surrounding genocide, including the political, economic, cultural, social, and psychological causes and expanding into recent efforts at national and international efforts at reciprocity, reconciliation, and prevention.

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Program Requirements

Program Features

  • A fully online track 
  • Priority access to the programs and workshops of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  • Graduate scholarships, fellowships and partial funding for study and travel.
  • Fall, spring, and summer start dates with one year completion option
  • Courses and credits may be applied to the master’s programs at Salem State University (with permission from graduate coordinator of your program.)
  • Annual international study/travel and service courses

Download the Holocaust and Genocide Studies graduate certificate brochure.

Careers

The certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies prepares you with the knowledge and skills to succeed in a variety of 21st century careers. Our graduates currently work in K-12 education as teachers, administrators and counselors. Others enter government and the non-profit positions in diverse roles including human rights advocacy, social work, youth counseling, courts and immigration law. Many choose to continue their academic study and use the certificate to complete their applications to masters and doctoral programs in human rights, peace and conflict studies, security studies, genocide prevention and law.

Program Objectives

The graduate certificate program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies provides the knowledge, theory and practical skills in the growing fields of comparative genocide studies and international human rights advocacy. Working with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, it will prepare or supplement students for continued study in master’s and doctoral programs in Holocaust and comparative genocide, area studies, conflict and peace studies, security studies, genocide prevention and international policing and human rights, international and immigration law.

It also prepares educators and administrators to teach and implement mandated human rights and comparative genocide curricula, the knowledge and skills to lead national and state agencies and non-profit organizations, foundations and NGOs. In order to accommodate all prospective and current students, the certificate program is designed as both as a stand-alone, non-degree certificate or as an element of a master’s degree program at Salem State University.

The certificate will achieve the following three objectives:

(1) deepen student’s interdisciplinary knowledge of comparative genocide and conflict studies and human rights and expand their critical thinking skills,

(2) provide students with opportunities for attending public lectures by international experts, intensive seminars, curriculum workshops and extensive international study and travel courses and institutes;

(3) prepare students for advanced graduate degrees and careers in schools, public sector agencies, non-profits and NGOs, international security and aid organizations and human rights advocacy.

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Have a Question?

Whether you want to learn more about courses, faculty members or general program information, get in touch with graduate program coordinator Chris Mauriello to see what this program has to offer you.

Interested in learning more about graduate school at Salem State? Visit our graduate admissions events page for upcoming events and graduate admissions counselor appointments.

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