Summer 2025

Asynchronous Online Courses 

HIU, in partnership with Gratz College, will offer two 8-week asynchronous, fully remote courses beginning in early May and early July. 

See below for course descriptions and schedules. 

Summer Intensive F2F and Synchronous Online Courses

CH-600: Chaplaincy Program Retreat
June 13-15
77 Sherman St., Hartford, CT

The retreat is an opportunity for chaplaincy students to be together face to face, to build relationships, and to have an experiential deep dive into issues of spiritual care with the ill and grieving.  

The 3-day chaplaincy program retreat (CH-600) is a required component of HIU's MA in Chaplaincy program for students first matriculating in fall 2023. For students that entered the program before fall 2023, registration is welcome and encouraged, but not required. 

An intensive practicum course taught by Dr. Jan Fuller,  Spiritual Pastoral Care (CH-620), will run immediately following the retreat. The course will run in person from June 16-20 and continue asynchronously online through June 27.  When taken together with the retreat, the practicum course fulfills a Field Education requirement or an elective.

Registration for CH-600: Chaplaincy Retreat and for all summer courses can be completed in Populi.

HIU housing may be available. Please visit HIU's Housing page for addition information and links.

Consortium Cross-Registration Opportunities

Gratz College Exchange

Enrollment is limited to degree-seeking students. Please visit https://www.hartfordinternational.edu/global-community-partnerships/gratz-college-exchange for additional information and registration instructions.

Note Gratz's specific academic calendar and modality. 

Gratz Summer Term A: 5/7/25 – 7/1/25 (Asynchronous, 8 weeks)

HGS 556 - Genocide Prevention
Jeff Benvenuto
The 1948 United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide promised to “liberate mankind from [the] odious scourge” of genocide, but thus far the international community has failed to deliver. Our course will examine the many different aspects involved with this problem. We will confront the following questions: What is genocide, and is it preventable? What political factors forestall international responses to mass atrocities? How do the multiple aspects of intervention (humanitarian, political, and military) interrelate with one another? How is the principle of state sovereignty implicated in both the perpetration as well as the prevention of mass atrocities and group destruction? And finally, what are the roles of truth and justice in the prevention and punishment of genocide?

Gratz Summer Term B: 7/2/25 – 8/26/25 (Asynchronous, 8 weeks)

HGS 512 - Teaching the Holocaust
Christine Schmidt
This course focuses primarily on American Anti-Semitism since World War II, responses to it and  the impact of growing anti-Jewish violence both on Jewish identity and Judaism in the United States. Special consideration will be given to understanding Anti-Semitism in the wider history of American racism as well  related issues including freedom of speech, the complex relationship of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism, Jews and Whiteness and interfaith relations.