Gratz College Online Graduate Programs in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
GRATZ COLLEGE
Online Graduate Programs in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– GEORGE SANTAYANA
Why Gratz?
Gratz College, founded in 1895, is the oldest college of Jewish Studies in America. Gratz began teaching about the Holocaust and collecting Holocaust survivor testimonies in the late 1970’s. Today, Gratz College has the largest Holocaust and Genocide Studies program available online. Gratz welcomes students from all religious and ethnic backgrounds for an unparalleled graduate education.
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Choose your path. Courses are completed entirely online in accelerated, asynchronous, intensive sessions. All online sessions are 8 weeks long and run year round.
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Earn a 2-course micro- credential
Choose any 4 courses for a Graduate Certificate
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Earn a Ph.D. for high-level academic research
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Choose from 40+ courses such as:
• The History of Antisemitism • Teaching the Holocaust • Teaching the Holocaust through Museums and Memorials • Hitler’s Other Victims • Children of the Nazi Era • Their Brothers’ Keepers: Rescuers and Righteous Gentiles • Holocaust Art • Resistance in the Holocaust • The Holocaust and the Church • America’s Response to the Holocaust
• From Armenia to Auschwitz: An Examination of the First Modern Genocides • The Native American Genocides • Rwanda’s Genocide and Its Legacies • The Cambodian Genocide • The Holodomor: Ukrainian Famine/Genocide of 1932-33 • Gender and Genocide in the 20th Century • Genocide in the Modern World • Genocide Prevention
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Our Students Make an Impact
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Currently, 66% of Gratz Holocaust and Genocide Studies students are educators.
Students in our Holocaust and Genocide Studies program include middle school and high school teachers, librarians, military and college instructors, and museum educators. We also have students who wish to deepen their knowledge to speak in the community, such as descendants of survivors, clergy mem- bers, and others from a variety of professions. Students and alumni represent 37 states and the District of Columbia as well as 7 countries outside of the U.S.
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Our Faculty
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Gratz College has an outstanding faculty with expertise in both the history of the Holocaust and Holocaust education, as well as a group of instructors specifically chosen for their research on the other modern genocides.
“…To compare is not to equate. Rather, the goal is to analogize, draw parallels, build bridges, and practice empathy.” – DR. JEFF BENVENUTO Dr. Benvenuto teaches courses on Unveiling the Underpinnings of Genocide, The Native American Genocides, Genocide in the Modern World, and Genocide Prevention.
“The ongoing discussions with professors and students within the online forum are very helpful to gather insight and knowledge crucial to understanding the Holocaust and all of its many nuances as well as seeing our- selves and how we as humans and educators are affected by the
“Gratz provides excellent academic opportunities in a warm and welcoming atmosphere. The staff and faculty couldn’t be any more helpful or capable, and the scholastic bar is challenging and very high. I am proud to
be a student at Gratz.” — CURRENT PH.D. STUDENT
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What students and alumni are saying about Gratz College
From the variety in course selections, to the engaging online discussions between classmates to the encouraging and supportive faculty, I was able to expand my learning and feel a part of a community whose goal was to make this
world a better place. — Melissa Mikel, 2020
M.A.H.G.S graduate and current Ph.D. student
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Scholarship and financial aid available to qualified applicants
Does your state have mandated Holocaust and Genocide education requirements? Ask about Gratz training seminars for teachers.
Teaching about the Holocaust? Do you have more questions than answers? Gratz College can help.
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