The Board of Directors of the Center is composed of prominent UNR faculty members and community leaders. The minor program in HGPS is designed to connect ideas and experiences by focusing on social, historical, philosophical, political, cultural, and ethical issues in a wide variety of disciplines. Students are challenged to think critically and to examine the assumptions concerning issues of Holocaust, genocide, and peace. All courses will have a strong writing and communications component. 1 credit Strutured and supervised experience combining professional opportunities with reflective learning.
Students are to choose one three-redit course in each of the following categories.
Analysis of cuases and consequences of racial discrimination in society. 3 credits Branch of ethics that concerns morality. 3 credits each Institutional, social, economic and political development of the German states to 1848. Continued through the period of German unification, empire, the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era. 3 credits Propaganda in art in the U.S. and selected European countries.