Official Catalogue Listing
Please click below to view the Resistance to Genocide Interdisciplinary Minor requirements in the official University Southern California Catalogue.
Please note: The minor requirements listed below will go into effect FALL 2025 and be reflected in the 2025-2026 USC Catalogue when published.
To resist genocide effectively, we need to understand its history — the factors that have brought it about and those that have enabled people to prevent, resist or recuperate from mass violence.
This interdisciplinary minor draws upon USC faculty in a dozen academic units researching the causes, results and representations of attempted genocide as well as resistance to genocidal mass violence. Courses include attention to different definitions of genocide, its occurrence around the world and its representation in literature and the arts.
Course Requirements
The minor requires five courses (20 units); at least four must be at the upper-division level. As with all minors, students must choose at least four courses (16 units) outside their major department and four courses (16 units) that are not being used to satisfy any other subject requirement.
List A — Introduction to Genocide
- HIST 237 Fascism: 4
- HIST 271 Early Native American Stories: 4
- JS 211gw The Holocaust Units: 4
- POSC 248gw Human Rights Units: 4
- POSC 260 Global Ethnic Politics Units: 4
Upper-Division Requirements
Choose four courses (16 units) from the lists below, at least one from each list:
List B — Representations of Genocide
- COLT 379 Nationalism and Postcolonialism in East Asian Cinema: 4
- COLT 485 The Shoah (Holocaust) in Literature and the Arts Units: 4
- ENGL 444m Native American Literature Units: 4
- FREN 373g Remembering Loss, Writing Memory Units: 4
- ITAL 352 The Holocaust in Italian Fiction and Film Units: 4
- JS 362 Terror and Resistance in Literature and the Media Units: 4
- MUSC 430m Music and the Holocaust Units: 4
List C — The Reality of Genocide
- ANTH 315g Native North Americans: 4
- ANTH 357g Cultures of Genocide, Cultures of Care Units: 4
- COMM 479 Trauma and Communication: 4
- HIST 321 The Crusades: 4
- HIST 323 The Holocaust in 20th Century Europe Units: 4
- HIST 364 Religion and Difference in the Modern Middle East: 4
- HIST 448 South Africa: Race, Power, and Resistance: 4
- IR 313 Religions and Political Violence Units: 4
- JS 315g Anti-Semitism, Racism and Other Hatreds Units: 4
- LAW 310w Global Justice for Mass Atrocities and Genocide: 4
- MDA 330 The Armenian Heritage: History, Arts, and Culture Units: 4
- REL 334 Religion and Colonial Encounter: 4