High School Dual-Credit Course

The Holocaust Resource Center offers the dual-credit program Holocaust, Genocide and Modern Humanity (ID 1800) to New Jersey schools. The dual-credit course provides an opportunity for motivated high school students to earn university credit at a reduced fee and access the HRC's many resources. 

We are proud to host ID 1800 in more than forty-five New Jersey schools in the following counties:

• Bergen
• Burlington
• Essex
• Hudson
• Middlesex
• Monmouth
• Morris
• Passaic
• Somerset
• Sussex
• Union

For more information or to learn how your district can participate, please contact: Sarah Coykendall, Managing Assistant Director at 908-737-4632 / coykends@kean.edu

"I was initially at a loss when Dr. Goldberg approached me to ask my Holocaust and Genocide Studies class at Sparta High School to create some art to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre since I had never done a project like this before and wasn’t sure how to begin. I decided to use a basic principle of Holocaust education as my guide and try to find ways to humanize the Jewish victims of the Nazis and their collaborators and help students see them as individual human beings, as mothers, fathers, brothers, sons, and daughters. I found some helpful resources online via the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle, which included biographies of survivors,  video testimonies, and an art project. I also collaborated with Christine O'Brien- Mase, one of the art teachers at Sparta High School and herself a graduate of Kean’s Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Holocaust Studies. Together we came up with an art project we both thought would be accessible and meaningful for my students, and one which would both honor and humanize the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. I’m very proud of how my students took this assignment to heart and were able to accomplish such wonderful work." - William Brennan

To view his students' artwork, click here.

To see this featured in Sparta High School's Highlights, click here.

Joe Nappi teaches the dual-credit ID1800 Holocaust, Genocide and Modern Humanity at Monmouth Regional High School and serves as his district representative to the Diversity Council. Since taking over the Holocaust class, he has taken over 600 students to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. where he has been honored to serve as a Museum Teacher Fellow since 2019. His work in challenging his students to "Be the Change" they wish to see in the world has seen his students pursue a variety of philanthropic endeavors, taking on problems both local and global. His students have pursued campaigns to end human trafficking, infuse Holocaust and Genocide education in curricula nationwide, and raise money for refugee resettlement in the United States…just to name a few! 

Check out Joe's featured blog on the PBS Teachers Lounge: "10 Tips for Teaching About the Holocaust"

Click here to read "Breaking the ‘Problem Child’ Myth" highlighting 2023-24 NJ State Teacher of the Year Joe Nappi

Since 2019, Summit High School has partnered with the HRC to allow students the opportunity to earn college credit through our dual-enrollment course. Mr. Harpster's ID 1800: Holocaust, Genocide, and Modern Humanity class at Summit High School worked with the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ to participate in the "Adopt a Survivor" program. For the Spring 2022 semester, Mr. Harpster's class became familiar with a Fran Malkin's life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Following their correspondence with Fran, students worked on a project that informs viewers, students, and community members of Fran’s story. The students created a window display, which represents a different part of Frans story. There is a description in the middle of the top windows. The glass that is inside each windowpane was taken from broken pieces that were puzzled back together, almost like a mosaic. The students pledged to continue to tell her story in the years to come.