Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies - Virtual Information Session

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Great. So thank you all for joining today. My name is Jen Redwanski, and I'm the Associate Director for Graduate Admissions here at Stockton University, and we are here to tell you a little bit more about our Masters of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program. This is a really unique and spectacular program we have here at the institution. And so over the next little bit of time, we're going to tell you a little bit more about it, why it's unique, why it should be something that maybe you'd want to consider. We are joined by the program, one of the program's faculty members.

Christina Morris, who is going to tell you more about the program. But before we do that, just a couple of housekeeping items. One, we are recording this session and so if you are watching this live, we want to just let you know that it is being recorded. If you have questions and are watching it live, you can put those questions in the chat.

And we would encourage you to do so, but you may want to wait to put those questions in the chat until the very end because more than likely we will get to all of the things that you have questions about. But if we don't, then we'll take those questions live at the end. If you are watching this pre recorded, we are going to share our contact information with you at the very end of the session at the recording. And you can reach out to us via e-mail, phone or check our website. So without further ado, I am going to turn things over to Doctor Morris. Thank you so much for joining us today and telling.

Telling us more about this great program.

Thank you. So hi everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today to hear a little bit about Stockton's Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. As Jen said, I am Doctor Christina Morris, Associate professor of Communication Studies and Genocide studies. And the first thing I, I guess you would like to know is Stockton's MOG program. Who are we? Who are we? And you might be like, well.

What does MOG mean? Well, the first thing to know is that Stockton itself is the land of acronyms. So Stockton's Master of Arts and Holocaust and genocide, we call it the MOG program, right? So it's less of a mouthful. OK, so now that we know what we're talking about the MOG program, let's talk about learn a little bit about where the program came from. So the the Stockton's MOG program was founded in 1998 and it was the first program of its kind in the country.

Now the MUD program grew out of Stockton's Holocaust Resource Center, which we're going to discuss a little bit later. And in its origins, it began very much as a Holocaust centered program. However, as the field has evolved, so has the program itself. So it it went from being like Holocaust as like primary place to.

Kind of comparative Holocaust and genocide to what we have now, which is really a much more kind of like contemporary way of dealing with these issues.

Where the program now encompasses things like refugee and migration studies, ecocides, settler colonial studies, critical Holocaust studies, this kind of stuff. We are located in southeast New Jersey, just outside of Atlantic City. We are about an hour from Philadelphia and about 90 minutes from New York City, so there's easy access. And, uh, if you choose to live on campus with US1 really cool thing. We have two campuses right near one another.

One is in a New Jersey State forest in the other is right on the beach. So kind of cool.

OK, so other than those sort of background facts, what makes a Stockton's Mug program unique? Well, the MOG program offers a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum providing students with rich perspectives on core problems and issues of genocide, past and present. We are proud of our small class sizes.

And our seminars that are designed to meet students interests and needs. When you study with us, you will study with peers and professors from all over the world, uh through face to face and online courses taught by internationally renowned faculty. The program prepares its graduates for employment in education, museums and organizations that aim to understand, stop and prevent.

Mass atrocities. Our program is also truly collaborative in many ways.

Both in the sense of the students and collaborating with one another, collaborating with professors across the university, but also because of how we were founded. We have deep connections all over the country and the world with different museums, centers, etcetera. So there's all kinds of cool opportunities for students, our generous fellowships and scholarships also.

Help make it so that.

Our education with us is more affordable.

OK, so.

You might be wondering then, like who do we learn from when we're there? Who are the MOD faculty? Well, like I said, we have a uniquely interdisciplinary faculty with expertise, wide range history, political science, anthropology, criminal justice education, like you know, you name it, along with expert instructors that we bring in from law, religious studies, museum studies, etcetera. And we all work together to support our students.

So.

I just wanted to share with you guys a little bit about some of our core faculties, so you could sort of see what we're working with here. So first, we have Doctor Roz Siegel. Dr. Siegel is the program director and his work focuses on Central and Southeast Europe, offering expanded ways of understanding the Holocaust and its implications for today. Doctor Siegel has numerous prestigious publications, international fellowships, and publishes in publishes.

And academic and popular press venues. We then have our our own doctor Hayes. Doctor Hayes is main research interest revolve around the ways that Germany has grappled with the legacy of the Third Reich and the Second World War as well as the Holocaust. Doctor Hayes is also the Co director and primary researcher for the South Jersey survivors project, which we're going to show you in just a second.

And then me, uh, with an academic background in rhetoric, my work considers pre and post conflict discourses at the intersections of gender.

Media, politics, popular thought and public memory My field work has mostly been in the Balkans with a specific focus on Serbian nationalist discourses before and after the wars in ex Yugoslavia we also have Doctor Mary Johnson. Doctor Mary Johnson has a PhD in women's history. She served as the senior historian at Facing History and ourselves for more than 35 years and today Doctor Johnson works as.

Consulted for Classrooms Without Borders as well as Holocaust and genocide curriculum development. And then for us, she's a adjunct professor and an education specialist. Doctor Lauren Velasco is a political scientist and director of Stockton's Global Studies Program, and her research centers on transitional justice, human rights, and international law, with a focus on Latin America and gender.

Doctor Jazz Bonnen White is, to me, has one of our most interesting backgrounds. She actually began as a primatologist and then became an anthropologist and is now a professor of criminal justice. She specializes in critical security studies, Emergency Management, human security, and community response to conflict in crisis. She's one of The Pioneers of Stockton's refugee studies program, and she's done field work in Palestine and in Northern Ireland, as well as being.

Volunteer trainer for the Red Cross. OK and then our sort of last batch of props I'll share with you. We have Doctor Jordan Corson, who's an assistant professor of education, and his work is at the Nexus of migration studies, activism and educational theory. Doctor Said Hadi is a sociologist and assistant professor of criminal justice, and her work addresses female victimization and criminalization within the.

Context of global conflict, immigration and forced migration with attention to the global South and then finally a mog graduate himself, we have Doctor Matthew hohn. Dr. Hon has a PhD in Latin America, American studies, and his work focuses on various aspects of state violence in Latin America, particularly at the intersection of gender and.

Doctor Hon is also an adjunct for us. OK. So other than our amazing faculty that are sort of regular, offer classes on a regular basis, we also have.

A visiting scholar, right, the Ida E King distinguished Professor of Holocaust and Genocide studies and Stockton has hosted some of the most distinguished Holocaust and genocide scholars and, and practitioners for this visiting scholarship. So you can just see some of the names of, of these folks on here and, and some of them are like really quite well known, umm, in, in the field and, uh, so through this, uh, Ida King.

Visiting professorship, we bring all kinds of interesting folks that can also sort of offer classes and that can work with our students. OK Stockton also boasts a unique curriculum. The MUD curriculum takes a truly interdisciplinary approach, blending foundational Holocaust and genocide scholarship with the most contemporary issues in genocide studies and special opportunities for deep case studies so that while they're.

With us, right, we study the Holocaust as just one part of a mosaic of modern genocide and mass violence before, during, and after the Second World War. Our students interrogate the central processes in the making and unmaking of mass violence, injustice, and genocide passed, present and worldwide. And and to this end, our students can learn about so many different things.

European empire building, settler colonialism and the destruction of indigenous societies.

The transatlantic slave trade and the legacy of racial terror and white supremacy in the United States. The rise of exclusionary nationalism in the nation state in the 20th century. Refugees, migration, human security, and and more.

So there's a lot, I guess like all this to say, there's a lot of different ways to engage in a lot and and a lot of different kinds of.

Studies of atrocity that go into our program and right it it's not just sort of the Holocaust or how you sort of traditionally think of maybe genocide studies. So you might be wondering then what does it mean to study this thing right? Like like what does your curriculum look like? Well, the mod curriculum is a really interesting we have.

Thought really carefully and about our sort of three pronged approach here, right. So we have core classes that all.

Of our mod graduate students take we have entered graduate studies, which is just a one credit class and then we have intro to Holocaust and genocide studies and and research methods in Holocaust and genocide studies. Those everybody is required to take other than those three students take 7 to 8 electives depending on if they're going to do a capstone project birth thesis 7 to 8 elective courses, two of which need to be Holocaust related the others can be.

Your choice and then you do either a capstone project or a thesis A thesis is self-explanatory, right it's a thesis, but a capstone project, I think that's another place that we're really unique because the capstone project can be we've had students of course internships, right we've also had students do curricular design work on opening Holocaust centers in their own high school We've had people do had one student do a podcast series about genocide we've.

People do graphic novels, right? So like your capstone is you work on that in association with your advisor and sort of decide what works for you according to what your goals are right with the program and with the degree.

Umm, yes, OK, here you can also see just a range if, umm, if you're wondering, just a range of the different kinds of courses, uh, elective courses that we have offered over the last few years, right? And, umm.

This is just to sort of give you a sense of the kinds of things we, you know, we offer. We for me personally, I often ask the students from this semester, what is it you guys want to study? What kind of class do you want me to put together for next time? Right. And so sometimes we take our cues from the students. What is it that they want to learn about at a certain level? OK. And and my students interestingly, and luckily, my students are also allowed in association with their advisor to take courses in one of other one of Stockton's.

Masters program, So American studies, criminal justice, business education, instructional technology, if you know if they like OK.

All right, so Oh yeah. The next thing I need to share with you is our incredible. Something else that makes us unique and really I think very special is we have a unique plan of passionate students. Our students come from a wide range of backgrounds and interests, and the thing they share in common is a passion for understanding the processes of global mass violence.

And genocide. But really, like, there are so many umm.

People from different places and different walks of life and that like, and we really do work to foster a cooperative environment so that everybody is learning from each other, right? So like, OK, who are our students in peers from all over the United States and all over the world. Our students are online, in person or a blend of both, depending on their sort of needs and abilities.

Ability to to come to us. Umm, some students are fresh from their undergraduate degree, right? This is the next thing that they do.

Others come later for other reasons. Some already have a master's degree in something else or a law degree or whatever, or practicing lawyer or work in NGOs and they want to like get this degree as like an enhancement for them, right? We have a lot of K12 teachers that come to get this because they get a master's degree, they get a pay bump and then they can incorporate.

Holocaust and genocide education into their curriculum. Some people have a heritage interest like people that are let's say like second or third generation.

Survivors be like from from Armenia, from Rwanda, from all different places that want to learn more, right? And then we have people that are continuing on to their PhD. So really just a huge range. And I wanted to share with you guys just a few of our current students. So the this first slide here is our students that are currently on campus students, right? So it's just a few of our on campus students, but just to show you.

Range we have Ren Bell and Ren comes to us right out of their bachelor's degree in theater and performance studies. Ren is a full time face to face student and for their for their thesis, they're focusing on this album that came this photo album that came out of Auschwitz and the ways that it's been sort of used and employed, right. We also have as an on campus student right now Aaliyah Taebi Aaliyah.

To us already with a master's degree as an anthropologist, Aaliyah is from Pakistan. She's an online or I'm sorry, she's an on campus student, face to face full time student and and she finished the degree in the four semesters, right. She didn't, she finished it in right like like 2 years. So some people like like take their time, they take one class at a time or whatever and there's no sort of.

Umm, you know, hard and fast rule about how fast you have to move through, but I just, you know, just so you know that there's people moving through at different levels and Aleah made it through nice and quick.

Elizabeth Memorial Corona Elizabeth is studying. Elizabeth, sorry. Elizabeth is a practicing therapist and a licensed social worker. She is a Armenian descendant of Armenian genocide survivors, and her work is focusing on Armenians in Jerusalem, the trend and the generational transmission of trauma. And yes, Yasmin Abu Saima is.

With us from Gaza, she's the Palestinian student, she's an on campus student.

Face to face. And she was a professional journalist before she came to us. And now she her project is comparing news analysis across Israeli, Arabic and English press. OK. And then we have just, this is just like a sampling of our online students, right? Melvin got Melvin Gonzalez studying gender and power and online discourses around the genocide in Guatemala. He is a part-time student and he has a degree in history.

Sam Haley studies gender, settler colonialism, borders and displacement. She has a degree in gender studies. She's a part-time student who joins us from Michigan and and she is the Co president of our Mod student Society, right, which I'll talk about in just a second. But the way that our online and our on campus students blend completely seamlessly is one of my favorite parts, right? Like, like there's no sort of discrimination.

Nelly Abrahamian is an online student from Yerevan from Armenia.

And she's studying the Armenian genocide, retribution and a competing historical narratives. Mohammed Hassan, it is a Bihari activist from Bangladesh who is currently living as a refugee in Amsterdam. He already has a law degree and he is with us, you know, to study the sort of issues facing Bahari activists in Bangladesh. And then Jensartan, another like example. Jen is an online.

She's a full time.

Public school teacher and a mother, she originally was joining us from Alaska and then her husband was in the military, got transferred. Now she's in Tennessee and she's doing a fascinating project on looking at the the Holocaust and genocide education across those three states, right. So all this to show you that we have such an amazing range, right, of students and, and you know, these are just a few.

Another sort of thing that makes Stockton's mock program unique is our cooperative research opportunities.

So I had mentioned earlier that Stockton Head, our mod program originated from our Holocaust Resource Center. So our resource Holocaust Resource Center was founded in 1986. The Sam and Sarah Chauffeur Holocaust Resource Center collects oral testimonies of Holocaust survivors, liberators, and rescuers in New Jersey, as well as assisting survivors in writing and publishing their memoirs. Our library posts one of the most extensive English language holdings on the Holocaust and other genocides.

Of any comparable institution in the country. And here you can see off to the corner is our founder, the incomparable GAIL Rosenthal of blessed memory, and her successor ervin Moreno Rodriguez, who is currently our program director. There are innumerable resources that we have through our Holocaust Resource Center, and it really is a special place.

Just to give you a sense, this is the outside of our Holocaust Resource Center and you can see at top.

The umm, metal rails that are going I guess perpendicular to the building.

The building itself, right, the outside, the facade is made, uh, of pieces and parts from the railroad tracks that were leading to Auschwitz. And we have our own sort of like, uh, curated collection of, uh, donated artifacts from survivors, et cetera. It's, it's just a really interesting place. We do a lot of education work, umm, et cetera. So I wanted to give you guys just a little taste of what the Holocaust Resource Center is all about.

And so I have included just a short video.

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So part of what you saw in that video is some of the ways in which our students are enabled to participate in the curation and execution of all different kinds of exhibitions. You saw the the project about the hidden children of Holland that Doctor Mike Hayes helped to.

And and students helped to facilitate. I also wanted to share with you and Jen will put this in the chat.

Students have the opportunity at Stockton to work alongside the MOG professors on large scale research projects, public facing projects. So one of our most recent ones is the same Doctor Hayes South Jersey Holocaust survivor project. And through this project they they've collected all different.

Images and and stories of our local Holocaust survivors from Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland County. There's biographies of various people. So the students have gained like skills with interviewing, bright skills with, I guess, curating the archive and then also working with one of our Ida King professors, Dr. Dinka Hyundai.

She came to us from the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam and taught our graduate students and professors about story mapping.

So then you can also find on this site a story map of the different, it happened to be chicken farms that a lot of the survivors did for work when they came to New Jersey. So there's like a, you know, also story mapping with, you know, the different business profiles, etcetera, right, so.

Again, like.

Hopefully like these, this range of projects shows you sort of the resources that we have available as well as the ways in which you can learn real sort of research skills that work for you not only in academia, but if you want to go further museum studies, et cetera, right? And here's our doctor Hayes working with some graduate students we also have.

A Stockton has the Refugee Studies Initiative that promotes cross disciplinary research on displacement and refugees.

Through scholarships and events that facilitate discussions between faculty, students, and other folks from around the world that join us for various programming, the initiative also works with other academic institutes to create collaboration and highlight the voices, perspectives, and activism of refugees and displaced people. So just an example of our work in this capacity.

Is a our international workshop in 2002 that was supposed to be marking 70 years since the General Assembly of the UN adopted the Refugee Convention.

And we were able to bring together scholars, activists, artists to consider issues and questions in thinking about teaching and intervening in a world with nearly 1,000,000 forcibly displaced people. Panels are focused on the politics of law and environmental security, identities and displacement, state violence, international aid and advocacy, all kinds of different sort of.

Panels right different ideas. It also came with an exhibition after the end of the world displaced persons and displaced persons camps, which was with us in It was created by the United Nations and.

The Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity at CUNY. And you know, then sort of shared with us. So, you know, that's just an example of the kinds of things that we are able to do.

Because of the.

People that we have and the connections we have, right? So we also have unique Co curricular opportunities. We have lecture series, we have educational seminars. Anything that the Holocaust Center puts on for K12 teachers, our mock students are welcome to be part of at no charge. So there's all kinds of options, you know, opportunities for trainings.

Research projects, study tours and study abroad opportunities. MOG society. Just real true.

Collaboration and camaraderie. So umm, like, like hopefully general drop the link in the chat where you can see some of our, uh, previous events. Umm, uh, but I mean book discussions, reading groups, professional development activities, umm, education seminars that educators can get that, you know, education credit hours, career development panels, all kinds of stuff. Umm, and then maybe one of the most interesting.

Exciting aspects are our field trips and study tours. Every year there's at least two, if not more opportunities for field trips.

This past year, the student, Doctor Siegel, took the students to the United Nations.

While for a debate, which was very interesting for them and then another field trip, Doctor Hayes took them to DC, took the students to DC to see various, you know, like monuments and discuss, right, the emergence of history and stuff like this, right? But the study tours are super exciting because it offers students an opportunity to learn while traveling internationally with Stockton faculty and staff.

Uh, we used to have a, a range of Holocaust specific study tours that went to Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, et cetera. And then the groups would be accompanied also by Holocaust survivors. But more recently, since at least 20/20/18, are, uh, study tours have broadened in scope. In 2019, Doctor Siegel LED a group of students to Thessaloniki in the Macedonia region of Greece and Haifa in Israel.

They've also gone on. There's another trip they took about borders, disputed borders, where they went to Cyprus and then to Israel, Palestine and in in this case, they were the Stockton students were accompanied by students from Cyprus as well as Palestinian students and Israeli students as they went in these different spaces. So it ends up being a really sort of exciting opportunity. This is the group that went to Cyprus and.

In Palestine, but it's kind of like it's just a umm.

It's a really amazing and interesting way to learn on the ground with your fellow students, meet new people, right, et cetera, et cetera. OK, Umm, I also, uh, earlier I mentioned the mag society, which is our, uh student, sort of like MOG student group. And the MOG society also creates opportunities for sort of intellectual camaraderie, uh, for on campus students and for our, our students online, right? They sometimes they have movie nights. This is.

Of a coffee break they did where they invited the faculty. And so like, those of us physically were in the room. And then also we brought our online students in so we could all chat with each other, right? But there's a real sense of community.

And not only for the students on campus.

OK. But maybe even more importantly, we have a range of unique funding opportunities.

And not that I can, I can't obviously promise that every student will get fully funded. However, I can promise that while you are studying with us, there will be several opportunities for you to be funded in various ways, right? Umm, and uh, of course we have graduate assistantships and umm, again, not everybody will get a graduate assistantship, but everybody will have the opportunity to compete for one way. We also have Stockton Foundation scholarships.

Specifically for MOG students and when our MOD students apply for those scholarships, we make sure that they get them. We have also funding to support student research, travel to archives and conferences, for example, funding special funding for students who work on issues of refugee and displacement and also opportunities for on campus part time employment. Right so.

Yeah, so like, like I said, I can't guarantee everybody's gonna get paid everything, but everybody will get something. That's just how we work. OK, So you might think, OK, then this is a lot of great stuff, but I want to know what people do. How have people used their math degree? Well, our graduates have employed their degree in a range of capacities, nonprofit work, NGO development work.

Museums and cultural institutions. K12 Educators, Community College professors, or adjunct professors.

A stepping stone to PhD study a supplement to a law degree right there's all different ways that as many.

Of people come to the program are as many of things that people can do with a degree, right? And, and we, we're here to help you reach your goals. I wanted to just share with you a few of our featured alumni just to give you a sense of the range of types of, of work people have gone into or have done with a degree. And these are just the ones that I had pictures of.

Photos of right, like, like the range is huge. And remember, most importantly, when you see alumni from all these different places means network, right? We have a network of people that we know at a lot of institutions, right?

So you see, Tiara here is the PhD student currently in Cultural studies.

Doug Survey, who is a mob graduate, went on to be today. He is the executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.

You see, Doctor Cyan Loyal is a now a professor of political science. Rachel Herman is an educational specialist today for the Shoah Foundation.

In, in you know, California. Amanda Coven is the director of education for the Oregon Oregon Sorry Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Lori Garcia, senior director of education at Holocaust Museum in Houston. Andrea Heyman, assistant director for Young Leadership for the Anti Defamation League. Jess Holton, assistant manager of education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

Right. And then.

Some of our like real recent grads, Brianna Doherty, she is Doug Survey's assistant at the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, Isabel Blanco works for the Northern California Catholic Social Services. And then here we have Irvin Marino Rodriguez, who you saw a few slides ago, who is a 2022 graduate of the MOG program and is our current director of the Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton. So.

This is just a few. And again, it's the people that I happen to have pictures of. But like, there are, you know, so many different ways that you can sort of mold this to your experience. OK, so now Jen's got a few words for you.

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Yes, ma'am.

Awesome. All right, I got a little bit of an error message that popped up. So it made me nervous there for a second. So now you've heard some great things about how the program works, the courses that you would take, the opportunities that you would have as a student. So let's talk a little bit more about, well, how do you become a part of this? How do you apply? So First off, I want to make sure that I will put dropped a link for you as well with all this information, which is on our website that maps it all out for you. But we want you to know the application for fall 2025 is currently still open. So there is time to still apply.

Starting this September, the if you're considering applying for next year for 2026, so either for spring or for fall that application will be available.

Later in August. So just keep that in mind as well. So for the application, there is an application fee and you may qualify for an application fee waiver. You can reach out to us to, to check on that if you are interested. The application fee is $50.00 to get your application started or what we call submitted, umm, that allows you to load materials to it. It's not going to actually put it into review. It's just submitting it to begin.

Umm, so one of the. So here's a list of things that you will need in order to umm work on your application to complete it for review. First, there is an essay and a writing sample that needs to be submitted. You'll be able to see the prompts for the essay once you have either put in the waiver code or the $50.00 deposit umm, that will give you umm, the information you need to load that as APDF. The biggest thing I can encourage you to do as you work on your essay is one that you do not utilize AI to write your essay. Umm, it needs to be your own words.

However, you do need to have it proofread, so please feel free.

To umm have someone proofread that for you. In addition to that, you need to make sure you answer the essay prompt. Umm, that is critical in in making sure that your your application you know is going to be more successful is is answering that prompt.

The next thing and then it'll give you information about the length and and the information needed for the writing sample if needed too. Then you'll also need 3 references. You will be putting in your references their e-mail address, their name and their title. So please make sure you have those prepared ahead of time. You reach out to your references, let them know that you will be.

Putting their name in because as soon as you put their e-mail in, it's going to shoot that information off for them to complete their electronic reference form. We also suggest that you copy and paste their e-mail address in instead of typing it free hand. I can't tell you how many folks put that e-mail address in and then type it in correctly and then the references never get done and that's not helpful to you in completing an application.

These references should also be people that can speak to your academic success and your work within Holocaust and genocide studies if possible, on top of that, but more importantly, to speak to you being able to be successful in an academic setting at the graduate level. So although maybe you've known your next door neighbor for 20 or 30 years and you take their trash out and you help watch their cat, they're still not going to be the perfect reference for you for this. What we're looking for are academic references, professional references.

That can can speak to your success.

And then lastly, the next two items resume, you'll upload that as APDF and then your final transfer, final official transcripts from any institution that you've attended. And so if you have an associate's degree, if you have another masters degree, if you attended multiple institutions, we will need umm, transcripts from every single one of those schools to complete your application. So please have those sent and there's instructions on how to have those sent electronically to our institution.

Umm, you can have them sent, uh, paper, but really at this point, electronic is the way to go. You get verification when they've been received. It's a, it's a quicker process, umm, if you are an international applicant, we will also need to receive a few additional pieces of material and one of those being, umm, a umm.

Evaluated transcript from if your, if your school qualifies for international transcript evaluation, there's a list of the schools that are needed and if you have any questions, you can reach out to us. Umm, we also have an international graduate admissions counselor here in our office. His name is Matt Shaw. You are more than welcome to schedule an appointment with him. He can answer any questions you have about umm, international education, whether you're gonna be doing it online or you're gonna, you're planning to travel here to the United States to try to study with us. Umm, Matt is the.

Here within graduate admissions, so we would encourage you to make an appointment with him as well.

So with that being said, and I know someone had said there is a little bit of an echo, I apologize for that. That can occasionally happen when there's more than one of us on on the call. But hopefully you were able to get all of that information. I'm going to drop the link to the program here in the chat. But also, Christina, you wanna tell us a little bit more as I'm doing that about, you know, other ways to contact us. And then if you would like to begin putting additional questions in the chat, we will get to all the ones that are already there. There's some great questions, but please feel free.

To add to those questions.

OK, so how do you learn more about Stockton's MOG program? Wait, where did it go? There we go. Alright, how do you learn more about the program? So if you want to learn more about Stockton's mug program, you can of course go to the MOG website and there is some information. It's not as up to date as we would necessarily like it to be, but it's.

Because of this guy. This is our program director, Doctor Roz Siegel, And you, you can also reach out to him.

He can give you a sense of, umm, you know, you'll get a sense of like you're fit, whether it's sort of the right program where you might, you know.

What kind of funding might be available to you, et cetera, et cetera, right. That's who, uh, you're gonna want to contact and he's Raz dot Siegel, like all of our e-mail at Stockton, right, first name dot last name. OK. And if yeah. So if you want to talk about specific aspects of the program, we also then have.

To apply.

Yes.

Right, we have the the www.stockton.edu back slash graduate more questions. You can contact the Graduate School at Stockton. So, umm, I think now, umm gosh, I'm we're open to any questions you guys have. If I went fast, I'm sorry and I am happy to uh, uh yeah to answer any questions.

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Awesome, Yep. I'm going to pop this one back on. So then folks can also, you know, just jot that down, take a quick screenshot on the site. Doctor Morris had mentioned, yes, you can also reach out to Doctor Siegel. He is, you know, we have so many things happening. That's one of the reasons we said the website is constantly being updated. But there's just so much going on that we'd be updating almost every single day with things that are, that are happening and and all of that, which is very exciting. But on this graduate page, this also takes you to our main page. You can reach out to me and my team here.

Umm, and that also allows you to make virtual umm appointments with anyone of our counselors here. So you can do an information session just one-on-one or ask more detailed questions about the application process. So, but with that said, as you all are putting additional questions in umm, Christina, I'll field field some of these to you. I was able to answer a couple of them as we went. Umm, somebody had asked if this webinar will be available. Yes, we will post this on our website and we can get that to you as well once the recording is finished. Usually takes about 24 hours to receive.

That link and so we should have it by tomorrow. So thank you for that question.

Next question, is the MOG program Holocaust and genocide or genocide and Holocaust focus? Meaning one or the other or both? So this person said their primary interest is on the Holocaust with a secondary interest in genocide.

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OK, got it. Sorry about that. I, I muted so that I wouldn't echo on Jen's and then OK, there you go. OK.

The program, OK, it's your choice, right? It's your choice. So that's why if you look at like how the electives work where it says you have to take two electives focused on the Holocaust, you can take all your electives focused on the Holocaust, right? If we, we make it so that like like what you're interested in, we provide those resources or or at least help you find those.

Resources so like.

I mean, your classes would be a combination probably depending on who you had for specific classes and what we were offering in a given semester, but to research your project, the resources available to you with regard to studying the Holocaust, that we have tons of that, right? So, like, umm, because it began as a Holocaust program. I, I promise you that, uh, all the, and it's.

It used to be more Holocaust students than genocide students. Now it's more students interested in other genocides than the Holocaust. But there's still a very strong Holocaust re representation, and every semester there are classes offered that are focused on the Holocaust.

Yep, it's go ahead at least.

Our Yep, OK.

Mm-hmm. Yes.

Is it possible to complete the program entirely online? Yes, and it is. And in fact, something that's really cool about it is that.

We have like long before the pandemic, we mastered Zoom so that like we have on the screen all the students that are online and in the room are all the face to face students. And even like if we break up in Teams for discussion, we mix it up right? So that like, yeah, you can complete it online. Sometimes we offer.

Asynchronous classes that you can complete in your own time, right? Like asynchronously. But we've moved away from that a bit because we found that we have a greater sense of community and learning from one another, doing it with this blended model. Also, a lot of times some of our online students, depending on how far away they live or what they feel like, come visit for, come visit, come, you know, oh, I'm gonna, you know, I'll, I'll be there for a week. They've made friends with other grad students. They come visit, go to class in person.

Week and then they go home right. So like there's all different kinds of ways you can do it but yes, you can absolutely complete it online.

The only caveat to that is when you begin your application, it will ask you what which program you're applying for because they are different in the application process and and based on a couple different things. So you do need to choose either in person or online at the point of starting your application. So just keep that, you know, keep that thought in mind.

But we're flexible.

Yes.

Umm.

And then how quickly can the program be completed? OK, so.

That is up to you also.

Typically, if you are going to write a thesis.

OK, wait, if you're not going to write a thesis, you can actually finish more quickly, right? If you're not going to write a thesis and you're going to be a full time student, you could definitely finish in, umm, I bet. I mean, I've seen people finish in three full semesters, so like a year and a half. If you write a thesis, 2 years is probably the fastest you're gonna finish.

However.

There is no such thing as too slow or too fast. Doctor Siegel usually advises the students that want to get in and out quick, right? But there are plenty of reasons that students take their time, right? Like I said, because they come to us with full time jobs, with other responsibilities and stuff like that. Sometimes people go full on at the beginning and then are like, OK, OK, life circumstances. That meant I've had to chill out a bit, right? So like.

Your needs, right What you want to study, what you, how fast you want to do the program, all that stuff.

You kind of work out with us in that first one credit class, that intro to grad studies class. You kind of like think through, right? Like, like, how do I make this program work for me?

Are there others?

Yeah.

Yep. Umm, so the next there is one, is there an extra cost for the study abroad field trips and study tours in addition to the tuition? Umm, not necessarily for the field trips that are local, umm, but uh, Christina, do you want to talk a little bit more about like maybe the study tour, umm?

For the local field trips, and again, sometimes we have students like for the UN trip, some of our online students joined physically for the UN trip because it's in New York and that was easy for them to get to you, right? So like umm, but the trip itself, uh, the center paid for, you know, so sometimes if they're just day trips, the Holocaust center will pay or it'll be like $10.00. But for the study tours there is like you are expected to pay something. Umm, but.

There's been all K like, umm. Depending on who's leading the trip, there are different kinds of funding opportunities available.

For our students, so like Ren Bell, who's my graduate assistant during the school year in the summer, did some work for the two professors that were leading the abroad trip. And for the last two years, Ren's been able to go on the abroad trips without paying because Ren did work for these professors, right? So like there's ways to make it work, right? Depending on sort of where, where you're at, right?

Yeah. And the last of the last few broad trips are some of our students that live abroad have actually met up with our students that are over there, right. So like, yeah, it's kind of cool.

It's a very unique aspect to Stockton because I think so many times we associate with being able to go to abroad with like a whole semester about, you know, being away someplace. And the study tours are such a unique thing where you're only going for two to three weeks somewhere as part of a course, but two to three weeks is a lot easier to manage than an entire semester of living someplace, you know, And Stockton coordinates all of your, you know, travel. They coordinate, you know, every place that you're staying and your meals. I had the opportunity to actually go on one of our study tours as.

Staff member and and to assist in one, you know, at the undergraduate level and it was just a phenomenal way to do things because I and as a student, you do all your payments through the bursar's office just like you do your tuition and then everything is managed for you and it's you talk through it throughout your course and that leads up to, you know, this awesome opportunity to be abroad. So really, really unique thing I think that Stockton does that other institutions don't do in these, you know, short periods.

Yeah. And then?

So we did have oh, go ahead.

So there's a question when was the last time a field trip took students to death? Cancer concentration camps, so.

Umm, OK, the Holocaust Resource Center, so not the MOG program, right, but the Holocaust Resource Center with whom we are associated, uh, it works closely with the Department of Education for New Jersey, right? The, the Department of Holocaust Education and they still do annual trips. They just got back from a trip with one of our few, uh, remaining compass mentis Holocaust survivors in the area.

Umm ma Dame, who is a Dutch, uh, child survivor.

They were able to go to Holland. They were able. So like we still do go.

It's just that the the actual MOG program professors have been taking students on a little bit different kinds of trips, but the trips to the Holocaust sites still exist and are still associated with Stockton more broadly, just not, you know, directly the MOG program, right. So like they just got back from from a trip to the desk campsites. I believe in they, I know they went to the Netherlands, but they may have also, I don't remember if they went to Poland or Germany, but they went to, you know.

At least two if not three of the places. So it's still like pretty regular if it's something that you know 1 is interested in.

Excellent.

Are you?

Do we have any other questions or is there anything I'm forgetting to tell them?

I don't think so. I think we covered an awful lot, which is pretty exciting because I think this program is very comprehensive and I think that that's why it's a great opportunity that we've been able to share that. But I don't see any other additional questions in the chat.

I'll tell you guys one more thing. If you are abroad, if you're anywhere in the country and you say like, Oh yeah, I go to Stockton. People may not necessarily know Stockton, but if people do know Stockton, it is because of this program. People who study this stuff know this program. Umm, which like I thought was super exciting when I started working here. And we'd be like reading a textbook for class. And I'm like, Oh my God, they mentioned Stockton's pro, right? Like I would meet people at conferences.

That would ask me. So like that's kind of an exciting, I guess, you know, little thing. What is the tuition cost that I do not?

So, umm, I can handle that one. So if you see the link in the chat that I posted, the very last link, which is the Holocaust and genocide study website on the left hand side, it says financial information. If you click on that, that's gonna pull up, umm, the cost per credit. Uh, so each one of our graduate courses, uh, is charged per credit. So each semester is depending on how many classes you'll be taking. So if you're doing it part time, full time, it's all just based on how much you're doing at that time. Umm, the tuition does, does have four different.

Price points though, so to map it all out right here, I would say go to that site, you can see it very clearly. We're fully transparent, but there is an in state and out of state rate and then there's excuse me, there's three rates, not 4IN state and out of state. And then there's the online rate. So there are three different price points for for those depending on how you'll be attending the the program. So just keep that in mind. Also keep in mind that this is the course rate for the 2526 fiscal year. And so if you're planning on coming for next fall, so.

All of 2026 there is a possibility that those costs could change and so I always just like to share that with everyone. But it is on the the MOG website and you can click there on the left hand navigation to view it.

Mm-hmm.

And you can reach out to Doctor Siegel, what we put on there and, and to talk through like, you know, what kinds of funding you might be eligible for depending on, you know, where you're at.

OK.

Yes, all right, well, thank you all so much for joining and for having some phenomenal questions That always makes it really fun when we're umm presenting and and get to have engage with you all. Please continue that engagement. If you have additional questions, do not hesitate to reach out to either the program or to graduate admissions. We're here to help you through this process, umm, and to navigate how we can make this work for you. And we thank you for taking the time and Doctor Morris, thank you for taking the time. You know, even more so everyone always says what is the main reason I should come to Stockton for graduate?

And I always tell people, without question, it's our faculty. We have some of the most amazing people who work in our programs, and you are a prime example of that. So thank you for sharing your experience and your time today. It really means a lot. So I hope everyone has a wonderful day and we'll talk with you all soon. Take care everybody, Bye, bye.

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