Fall 2024 Approved 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. Students may receive permission to substitute alternatives in any of the subcategories except "Core Courses". Please reach out at igmap@binghamton.edu with any additional questions about program requirements and approved courses.

MS in GMAP

Graduate Certificate in GMAP

Undergraduate Minor in GMAP


Master of Science in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Review the GMAP MS for additional details about the program

Core Courses:

  • GMAP 502: Comparative Genocides (Chris Davey)
  • PAFF 555: Intro to Nongovt Organizations (David Campbell)

Politics and Policy

  • AAAS 580D/COLI 535H/ENG 593F/TRIP 580R: Censorship (Monika Mehta)
  • GMAP 518C/PAFF 538A: Building Public Memory (Kerry Whigham)
  • MSHR 500: Human Rights Theory and Practice (Jakob Willibald Feinig)
  • PAFF 520: 21st Century Governance (Aleksey Tikhomirov)

Tools and Techniques

  • ANTH 572C/GMAP 538H: Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health (Barrett Brenton)
  • CS 515: Social Media Data Sci Pipeline (Jeremy Blackburn)
  • CW 593C: Creative Nonfiction (Leslie Heywood)
  • EDUC 507/GMAP 538D/HIST 530A: Issues: US History Before 1877 (Adam Laats)
  • ENVI 581S: Earth Justice (Divya Gupta)
  • GMAP 528B/PH 545: Population Health II (Miesha Marzell)

Special Topics in GMAP

  • AAAS 580R: Race and Popular Culture (John Cheng)
  • ANTH 570C: Ethnicity (Thomas Wilson)
  • HIST 560F: Russian Empire and Its Others (Heather Dehaan)
  • HIST 572C: Middle East Forced Migration (Kent Schull)
  • HIST 576K: China鈥檚 Borderlands (Yi Wang)
  • GMAP 538F: Forced Displacement: Politics and Law (Max Pensky)

Graduate Certificate in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Review the Graduate Certificate requirements for additional details

Core Course

  • GMAP 500: Essentials of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (usually offered every Spring Semester)

Concepts, Actors and Institutions in Atrocity Prevention

  • AAAS 580D/COLI 535H/ENG 593F/TRIP 580R: Censorship (Monika Mehta)
  • ANTH 570C: Ethnicity (Thomas Wilson)7
  • ANTH 572C/GMAP 538H: Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health (Barrett Brenton)
  • GMAP 518C/PAFF 538A: Building Public Memory (Kerry Whigham)

Historical Examples of Genocide and Mass Atrocity

  • AAAS 580R: Race and Popular Culture (John Cheng)
  • GMAP 502: Comparative Genocides (Chris Davey)
  • HIST 560F: Russian Empire and Its Others (Heather Dehaan)
  • HIST 572C: Middle East Forced Migration (Kent Schull)

Methods of Understanding Atrocities & Atrocity Prevention

  • GMAP 538F: Forced Displacement: Politics and Law (Max Pensky)
  • CW 593C: Creative Nonfiction (Leslie Heywood)  
  • EDUC 507/GMAP 538D/HIST 530A: Issues: US History Before 1877 (Adam Laats)
  • ENVI 581S: Earth Justice (Divya Gupta)

Undergraduate Minor in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Review the Undergraduate Minor requirements for additional details

Core Courses

  • GMAP 480: Essentials of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (usually offered every Spring Semester)

Historical and Contemporary Studies category

  • AAAS 374/HIST 374: China in the 20th Century (Yi Wang)
  • AAAS 382T/AFST 382E/HIST 384P/LACS 384E: Mixing Races in the Caribbean (Ramaesh Joseph Bhagirat)
  • AAAS 480D: Race and Popular Culture (John Cheng)
  • AAAS 484G/HIST 484M: China鈥檚 Borderlands (Yi Wang)
  • AFST 386A/HIST 386J: Making of the African Diaspora (Anne Bailey)
  • GMAP 481C: Comparative Genocide (Chris Davey)
  • GMAP 281A/GERM 241N/HIST 281K/JUST 284A: The Nazi State (Harald Zils)
  • GMAP 381C/HIST 381E/RUSS 380A/THEA 389K: Russia and Ukraine in Crisis (Ania Nikulina)
  • GMAP 481F/HIST 481F/RUSS 480A: Russian Empire and Its Others (Heather Dehaan)
  • GMAP 481G/HIST 485G: Middle East Forced Migration (Kent Schull)
  • HIST 363: War and Race in Early US (Robert Glenn Parkinson)

Concepts and Theories category

  • AAAS 383B/LING 380M: Language Politics (Katherine B Martineau)
  • AAAS 484F/ENVI 481S: Earth Justice (Divya Gupta)
  • AFST 380M/HIST 360/HMRT 380B: Law, Race and Social Change in 20th Century US (Donald G Nieman)
  • AFST 480L/HDEV 480M/ HMRT 485A/LACS 480A: Prisoner Rights Activism & State (Juanita Diaz)
  • ANTH 363/LACS 363: Anthropology of Developing Nations (Carmen Ferradas)
  • ANTH 480R/GMAP 483H: Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health (Barrett Brenton)
  • ANTH 480M: Ethnicity (Thomas Wilson)
  • CW 450: Creative Nonfiction (Leslie Heywood)
  • HDEV 380J/LACS 380D/PLSC 389R/SOC 370/WGSS 384K: Social Inequality (Kelvin Santiagovalles)
  • HDEV 400: Social Justice (Denise Yull)
  • HDEV 404/HMRT 404/LACS 480Y/WGSS 484F: Migration Gender and Human Rights (Chandiren Valayden)
  • GERM 380S/HIST 381D: Germany in the 1960s (Harald Zils)
  • LACS 380T/SOC 380N: Poverty and Discrimination (Hajra Aziz)
  • PLSC 380N: War Society (Benjamin Fordham)

Practices and Methodologies category

  • CS 415: Social Media Data Sci Pipeline (Jeremy Blackburn)
  • GMAP 383F/NURS 335B: Forensic Health of Victims (Mary Muscari)
  • GMAP 483A: Building Public Memory (Kerry Whigham)
  • GMAP 483F/PHIL 458L: Forced Displacement: Politics and Law (Max Pensky)
  • GMAP 483J/PSYC 473Z: Investigating a Crime (Brittany Nicole Race)