Overview

Students of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies degree from Boston University will learn to probe and evaluate moral, spiritual, and ethical issues that are central to learning about, and from, genocides and human rights violations.

The study of government-sponsored crimes against humanity, the perpetrator state, the impact of extreme nationalism and the use of the media in spreading racism and prejudice, requires a multidisciplinary approach. The major accordingly draws on faculty trained in different disciplines and fields of expertise, including the history of the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide, African history, law, literature and film of the Holocaust and other genocides, political science, and religion.

Learning Outcomes

Students will acquire the intellectual tools to analyze the multifaceted social, economic, cultural, civil, and political components of society under genocidal regimes, under repressive governments with poor human rights records, and the closely interconnected domestic and international environments in which such regimes operate. They will develop proficiency in analyzing government-citizen relations, including the extent to which individuals, societies, and domestic and international NGOs can intervene to promote and protect human rights and prevent genocide.
Students will learn to probe and evaluate moral, spiritual, and ethical issues that are central to learning about, and from, genocides and human rights violations. These include questions about the prevalence of dehumanization and its relationship to prejudice; the complicity of “ordinary people” regarding mass violence and genocide; and the role of other nations in condemning or ignoring genocide.
Students will closely and critically examine the Holocaust and other genocides in the context of modern history and culture, with a strong focus on racism, antisemitism, the development of nationalist ideologies, and other root causes of genocide.
Students will learn to analyze the development and meaning of human rights and their relationship to genocide.
Through engaging and analyzing histories, other written texts, film and media, monuments, and other cultural and artistic phenomena created during and after genocides, students will grapple with and seek to understand the wide-ranging and even strongly divergent ways in which people experienced and drew meaning from these events and their aftermath, including an understanding of the role of collective and cultural memory.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Histories of Human Rights
International Human Rights
History of Genocide
The Holocaust
Twentieth-Century Germany
The Nazis

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Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-04 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

128 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Boston, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

Common Application
Secondary School Records
Senior Year Grades
Counselor Recommendation and School Report Form
Teacher Evaluation
English Proficiency Testing Results
Documentation of Financial Support
Copy of Data Page of Passport
Standardized Tests (Optional)

Tuition Fees

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69870 USD / year

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69870 USD / year

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69870 USD / year

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Boston

United States

1560 - 3239 USD / month

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