The Bard Center for the Study of Hate is thankful to academics from around the world who have shared syllabi about hate for this database. Our hope is that professors will find inspiration, new materials, and ideas from other disciplines for their teaching and research. If you would like to add your syllabus, or know a faculty member who might, please email [email protected].
(BCSH also archives here two resources that might be useful for classes that address how Jewish students with strongly diverse opinions on Israel can have rational conversations about antisemitism from students at Brown University, and also a chapter from “The Conflict over The Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Debate,” focusing on how humans seek certainty, simplicity, and binary thinking around such hot-button “us” vs “them” issues.
COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
The Coalition of the Future: How we combat white nationalism and weave the fabric of democracy (a course in practice) — Simon Greer, Megan Black, Oberlin College, Fall 2021
ANTHROPOLOGY
Propaganda, Disinformation, and Hate Speech (HRTS/ANTH 3230 &ANTH 530) — Richard Wilson, University of Connecticut, Fall 2020
COMMUNICATIONS
Hate Speech (COMM 624) — Michael Waltman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Spring 2019
FRENCH
FR2311 Africa: Colonialism to Continental Crisis — Caroline Williamson Sinalo, University College Cork
FR4311 Trauma and Narrative in the Francophone World — Caroline Williamson Sinalo, University College Cork
HISTORY
Antisemitism, Past and Present — Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware, Fall 2018
Antisemitism Exercise — Henry Greenspan, University of Michigan
White Power Movements and Ideology — C. Richard King, Columbia College
Antisemitism — C. Richard King, Columbia College, Spring 2019
HIST S-1572 Holocaust in History, Literature and Film — Kevin Madigan, Harvard Divinity School, Summer 2019
HIST 190: Understanding the ‘Jewish Question’ In History, President Leon Botstein, Bard College, Spring 2024
INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES
Connections 255: Why We Hate — Matthew Hoffman, Franklin & Marshall, Spring 2018
2014 Bard College Network classes on Hate: Four classes looking through different foci, but with coordinated readings and exercises. Man As Monster: An Explanation of the Causes and Manifestations of Hate, Stephanie Saldana and Rebecca Granato (Al-Quds Bard College); Great Hatred: Little Room: Contested Ireland/Island, Peter Gadsby, Deirdre d’Albertis (Bard Annandale); Hate and Revolution, Ewa Atanassow (Bard Berlin); and The Nature of Hate, An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Galina Gorborukova and Elena Kim (Bard/American University of Central Asia)
Model Syllabus for the Study of Hate — Bard Center for the Study of Hate, 2019
Antisemitism: Anatomy of a Hatred — Kenneth Stern, Bard College, 2016
The Challenge of Discussing Issues Wrapped in Identity, Morality and/or Justice — Bard Center for the Study of Hate, model syllabus, 2019
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (see also Political Science)
The Far Right in Western Democracies — Cas Mudde, University of Georgia, Fall 2018
LAW (Crime)
Antisemitic Discrimination and “Other” Hate Crimes in Court — Reut Yael Paz, Berlin Institute of Technology, Fall 2020
Antisemitism and the Law — Bard Center for the Study of Hate, Model Syllabus, 2019
Hate Crimes — Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld, California State University, Stanislaus, Fall 2018
Hate Crime — Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine, Summer 2018
Current Issues in the Law: Hate Crimes, Bernard Haggerty, Fairhaven College, Winter 2010
Law and Religion — Reut Yael Paz, Berlin Institute of Technology, Fall 2020
Skokie: Free Speech and Community — a module by Ryan Coonerty, University of California, Santa Cruz
LITERATURE
The Literature of Hate — Danielle Christmas, UNC Chapel Hill , Fall 2019
PHILOSOPHY
Advance Topics in Philosophy and Law — Amy Baehr, Hofstra, Fall 2007
POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Holocaust — Arnold Leder, Texas State University
The Politics of Extremism — Arnold Leder, Texas State University
Hate, Violence and Pornography: Legal, Political and Ethical Considerations — Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, 2014-2015
Is There A Limit? Violence and Crime on the Internet — Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, 2011-2012
Media, Politics and Ethics — Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, 2013-2014
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology of Forgiveness (Psyc 185) — Loren Toussaint, Luther College, January 2019
PSY 3337: Psychology of Prejudice, Discrimination & Hate — Randall E. Osborne, Texas State University, Fall 2018
Psychology 3750: The Psychology of Hate — Toni Bisconti — University of Akron, Fall 2018
PUBLIC POLICY
Prejudice and Discrimination: Psychological Causes and Policy Implications — Jack Glaser, Berkeley, Spring 2018
RELIGION
E 4200/5200 The Ethics of Power and Racial Justice — Dawn M. Nothwehr, Catholic Theological Union, Spring 2019
RELI 305 Religion and Violence — John Sheveland, Gonzaga University, Fall 2018
SOCIOLOGY
SOC 437/537 Race and Ethnic Relations — Dwaine E. Plaza , Oregon State University
SOC 499/599 African American Resistance in the Era of Donald Trump — Dwaine Plaza & Marilyn Stewart, Oregon State University, Winter 2019
Women of Color — Dianne Dentice, Stephen F. Austin State University, Fall 2018
American White Nationalism — Dianne Dentice, Stephen F. Austin State University, Spring 2019
Extremism in American Society (with schedule of assignments) — Kristin Haltinner, University of Idaho, Spring 2019
Sociology of Antisemitism — Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut, Fall 2019