Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention Minor

Location(s): Main Campus

The Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention offers a minor in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (GMAP). The GMAP minor allows students to combine and supplement their major curricular requirements with a closely integrated set of undergraduate courses exploring the historical, conceptual, and practical issues and challenges surrounding global prediction and prevention of mass atrocities. This interdisciplinary minor encourages students to:

1) study historical and contemporary instances of genocides and mass atrocities from a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches;

2) gain familiarity with the basic political, moral, and legal concepts and theories by which we understand the origins, characteristics and context of real and threatened atrocities; and

3) explore deeply and critically current approaches for identifying risk factors for impending atrocities, deploying a spectrum of mechanisms designed to mitigate such risks and assessing the degree of success of those mechanisms. Declared GMAP minors who have completed at least three courses, including the required course, are eligible to apply for a Bloom Family Summer Internship Scholarship of up to $7,000 for a GMAP-focused placement.

Required Courses

One of the following Core Courses

At least one course from each of the three categories:

Historical and Contemporary Studies

GMAP 281
GMAP 381
GMAP 481

Concepts and Theories

GMAP 282
GMAP 382
GMAP 482

Practices and Methodologies

GMAP 283
GMAP 383
GMAP 483

Remaining Two Courses

The remaining two courses can be drawn from any of the three above-mentioned categories, or may be fulfilled by:

The following additional conditions apply:

No more than two 200-level courses (8 credits) may count toward the minor.
No more than two courses from the GMAP minor may count toward a student’s major.
Students must earn a C grade or better in all courses applied to the GMAP minor.
Students interested in the minor must be advised by one of the institute’s co-directors to select courses and declare the minor.
A GMAP-focused internship (GMAP 395 or approved internships offered with another prefix) or education-abroad experience, including one supported by the Bloom Family Summer Internship Scholarship program, can count for 1-4 credits.
No more than four credits of GMAP 397 , Independent Study in GMAP, or GMAP 497 , Advanced Independent Study in GMAP, may count toward the minor.

Courses that Meet Requirements

As of 2020, the following classes are recognized as meeting the requirements of the three GMAP categories. Additional courses will be added as appropriate. In consultation with one of the GMAP co-directors, students may receive permission to substitute alternative courses in any of the three areas.

Note

Students interested in declaring the minor should complete the “Add/Drop GMAP Minor Form” online. Once the form is received, I-GMAP will contact them to schedule an advising appointment with either co-director.