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)