2024-43

Motion Introduced by: Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee

Date of First Reading: January 29, 2024

Date of Second Reading: February 26, 2024

Title of Motion: Request from The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies – for the establishment of a graduate certificate – Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Action Requested: This curricular proposal has received all college, school, unit and university administrative approvals, and is being presented to the Senate for review and voting decision. 

Rationale: The graduate certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies recognizes the importance of studying the Holocaust and other acts of genocide in order to give students the necessary contextualization to educate others while offering ideas about representation, memorialization and commemoration. The certificate will provide graduate students the theoretical and historiographical grounding for understanding the Holocaust as a watershed event and using it as a lens to examine other genocides in world history.