Holocaust and Genocide Studies
This interdisciplinary program is led by the ACJC and incorporates four Monash partners:
- Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
- History Department
- Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
- Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
The Holocaust and Genocide Studies program provides undergraduate and postgraduate study sequences focussed on 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 program culminating in an annual International Aftermath conference. Students are taught 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 and placement units offer professional development – students may work in NGOs, museums, courts, and memorial centres. A range of scholarships supporting placement units and research are offered by the ACJC. The Coursework Scholarships Unit and the Monash Research Graduate School have more information.
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.
The program also offers several intensive overseas units in Europe and Rwanda. In 2011 students were given the opportunity to explore the theme of reconciliation in South Africa and Rwanda (Seeking Justice) and in 2012 students will follow the Final Journey of European Jews through Berlin, Prague, Krakow and Vilnius.
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.
Undergraduate Units
ATS2600/ATS3600 Holocaust in an Age of Genocide
ATS2632/ATS3632 Post-Conflict: justice,memory, reconciliation
ATS2691/ATS3691 Politics, Violence and Memory
Overseas Units
Overseas Study Intensives
ATS3314 Seeking Justice: South Africa and Rwanda (not offered in 2012)
ATS3284 Final Journey: Remembering the Holocaust
Honours and Postgraduate Units
General information on postgraduate units.
- ATS4314 Seeking Justice: South Africa and Rwanda *
- ATS4286 Final Journey: Remembering the Holocaust
- ATS4290/APG4290/APG5290 Holocaust memories: Landscape, mourning, identity
- APG5293 Genocidal thought *
- APG4318 Jewish Literature of Destruction *
- APG5294 Fascism, Nazism and racial and social utopias
- APG5298 Representing genocides: Media, testimony, history
- APG4629/APG5629 Global justice: Civil and human rights after 1945
- APG5800 Placement for holocaust and genocide studies (12 points)
- LAW7026 Overview of international human rights law
- LAW7218 International humanitarian law
*not offered in 2012
Honours and Postgraduate Degrees
Honours
Master of Applied History (Holocaust and Genocide Studies) – flier [pdf 1.24MB]
Master of Arts (Research 100%)
Master of Arts by Coursework and Research (through a discipline approved by the Arts Faculty)
Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Research)
PhD
For all enquiries about coursework or research in this area, please contact acjc@monash.edu or the following:
- Coursework – Karen Auerbach
- Research – Leah Garrett