Spring 2023 Courses

On this page, you will find information about pre-approved courses for the three GMAP academic programs and their corresponding categories.

Additional courses will be added as appropriate. In consultation with I-GMAP's Assistant Director Amanda Nichols, students may receive permission to substitute alternatives in any of the subcategories except "Core Courses".

GMAP MS | GMAP Graduate Certificate | GMAP Minor

GMAP MS


REVIEW the GMAP MS CURRICULUM FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Core Courses

  • GMAP 500: Essentials of GMAP (Max Pensky)
  • GMAP 503: Intro to Non-government Organizations (David Campbell)
  • GMAP 504: Transitional Justice (Kerry Whigham)
  • GMAP 550: Mechanism of Atrocity Prevention (Amanda Nichols)
  • GMAP 580: Field Placement (Amanda Nichols) 

Politics & Policy

  • AAAS 580F: Japanese Asia Pacific War of Expansion (David Stahl)
  • ANTH 570C: Contemporary Fascism (Douglas Holmes)
  • EDU 508/HIST 530B: Issues in US History 1877-Present (Adam Laats)
  • HIST 540H: Migration and Citizenship (Wendy Wall)
  • HIST 576E: Nationalism in East Asia (Yi Wang)
  • PAFF 523: Intro to Policy Analysis (Matthew Uttermark)

Special Topics

  • ANTH 572G: Human Migration & Disease (Jeffrey Lum)
  • COLI 535W/SPAN 581K: The Environment in Caribbean and Latin America (Giovanna Montenegro)  
  • ENG 593C/GMAP 538F: Creative Nonfiction (Leslie Heywood)
  • PAFF 520: 21st Century Governance (Aleksey Tikhomirov)
  • PLSC 663H: Federalism & Decentralization (Mikhail Filippov)

Tools & Techniques

  • ANTH 520: Political Ethnography (Thomas Wilson)
  • ANTH 571D: Ethnographic Dilemmas (Thomas Wilson)
  • ENVI 581W: Environmental Communication: Nature of People and Places (Nirav Patel)
  • MSHR 505: Methods of Human Rights Research (Suzy Lee)
  • NURS 581B: Forensic Health Essentials (Mary Muscari)
  • NURS 581F: Forensic Health of Offenders (Mary Muscari)
  • PH 538: Concept & Researching Community Global Health (Miesha Marzell)
  • PH 540: Population Health I: Concepts and Measurements (Miesha Marzell)

GMAP Graduate Certificate


Review the Graduate Certificate Requirements for additional details

Core Course

  • GMAP 500: Essentials of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (Max Pensky)

Concepts, Actors and Institutions in Atrocity Prevention

  • GMAP 503: Intro to Non-government Organizations (David Campbell)
  • GMAP 504: Transitional Justice (Kerry Whigham)
  • PAFF 520: 21st Century Governance (Aleksey Tikhomirov)

Historical Examples of Genocide and Mass Atrocity

  • AAAS 580F: Japanese Asia Pacific War of Expansion (David Stahl)
  • ANTH 570C: Contemporary Fascism (Douglas Holmes)
  • EDU 508/HIST 530B: Issues in US History 1877-Present (Adam Laats)
  • HIST 540H: Migration and Citizenship (Wendy Wall)
  • HIST 576E: Nationalism in East Asia (Yi Wang)

Methods of Understanding Atrocities & Atrocity Prevention

  • ANTH 520: Political Ethnography (Thomas Wilson)
  • ANTH 571D: Ethnographic Dilemmas (Thomas Wilson)
  • ENVI 581W: Environmental Communication: Nature of People and Places (Nirav Patel)
  • MSHR 505: Methods of Human Rights Research (Suzy Lee)
  • NURS 581B: Forensic Health Essentials (Mary Muscari)
  • NURS 581F: Forensic Health of Offenders (Mary Muscari)
  • PAFF 523: Intro to Policy Analysis (Matthew Uttermark)
  • PH 538: Concept & Researching Community Global Health (Miesha Marzell)
  • PH 540: Population Health I: Concepts and Measurements (Miesha Marzell)

GMAP Minor


Review the Undergraduate Minor webpage for full information about the minor

Core Course

  • GMAP 200: Introduction to Genocide Prevention (Saghar Birjandian)
  • GMAP 480: Essentials of GMAP (Max Pensky)
  • GMAP 483B: Transitional Justice (Kerry Whigham)

Historical and Contemporary Studies category

  • AAAS 380J: Internment & Family Histories (John Cheng)
  • AAAS 384S/HIST 384M/HMRT 380D: Minorities in China and Beyond (Yi Wang)
  • AAAS 455: Japanese Asia Pacific War Exp (David Stahl)
  • AAAS 480L/HIST 484C: Nationalism in East Asia (Yi Wang)
  • AFST 280F/GEOG 106/HIST 280G/LACS 210/SOC 280E: Latinx in the U.S. (Marina Malli)
  • ANTH 480S/PLSC 485S: Contemporary Fascism (Douglas Holmes)
  • ARAB 385C/HIST 385J/ISRL 315/JUST 315: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Shay Cole Rabineau)
  • COLI 331F/ENG 380H/ISRL 386K/JUST 343: Post Holocaust Literature (Paul Burch)
  • COLI 380P/LACS 383B/WGSS 483G: Specters of Colonialism (Giovanna Montenegro)
  • COLI 381R/ENG 380L/GERM 380X/HIST 381P: Nazi Culture (Harald Zils)
  • COLI 480T/ENG 450J/ISRL 385B/JUST 441: Holocaust Fiction (Paul Burch)
  • COLI 480Q/ENVI 481K/SOC 480X/SPAN 481E: The Environment in Carib. and LA (Giovanna Montenegro)
  • GERM 380I/HIST 381Z: Post-War Germany (Harald Zils)
  • HIST 281D/RUSS 281D: Borderlands of Eastern Europe (Heather Dehaan)
  • HIST 373/LACS 373: Race in Latin America (Nancy Applebaum)
  • HIST 482E/LACS 482D: Cold War Latin America (Nancy Applebaum)
  • PHIL 456F: Liberalism, Fascism & Legitimacy (Eric Janec)
  • PLSC 358: Russian and Post-Soviet Politics (Mikhail Filippov)
  • PLSC 389Q: Minority Politics in the Middle East (Ekrem Karakoc)
  • PLSC 389Y: Continental MENA Politics (Mert Can Bayar)

Concepts and Theories category

  • AAAS 380N/HDEV 314/HMRT 314/LACS 380K/PPL 380C: Class, Global. & Human Dev. (Chandiren Valayden)
  • ANTH 480T: Human Migration & Disease (Jeffrey Lum)
  • COLI 383F/GERM 380O/GMAP 381D/JUST 384D: The Art of Exile (Neil Pages)
  • CW  450C: Creative Nonfiction (Leslie Heywood)
  • ECON 415: Gender & Economic Development (Sulagna Mookerjee)
  • ENVI 382J: Nat. Resource Equity in Global South (Divya Gupta)
  • HDEV 342/HMRT 342/PLSC 380N/PPL 380D: Intro to Human Rts Thry & Prac (Stephanie Malmber)
  • HDEV 361/HMRT 361: Global Migration Flows & Procs (TBA)
  • HDEV 380H/LACS 302/SOC 380S: Human Rights in Latin America (Tim Schmidt)
  • PHIL 380J: Human Rights & Development (Nicole Hassoun)
  • PHIL 456H: Reparations for Hist Injustice (Robert Guay)
  • PLSC 382O/PPL 380B: Race in American Law (Ricardo Laremont)
  • PLSC 382R: Political Ideology (Gregory Alan Robinson)
  • PLSC 389V: Multi-Level Governance (Jongho Park)
  • PLSC 486F: Autocratic Governance (TianYi Zhao)

Practices and Methodologies category

  • AAAS 480F/AFST 480K/LACS 480D/PSYC 480A: Multicultural Psychology (Jiyun Elizabeth Shin)
  • ANTH 364/PLSC 389D: Political Anthropology (Douglas Holmes)
  • ANTH 482B: Political Ethnography (Thomas Wilson)
  • NURS 335: Forensic Health Essentials (Mary Muscari)
  • NURS 335C: Forensic Health of Offenders (Mary Muscari)
  • PSYC 473M: Witnessing a Crime (Brittany Nicole Race)
  • PSYC 473R: Investigating a Crime (Brittany Nicole Race)
  • SW 380B: Complex Trauma & Recovery (Kelley Lynn Cook)