Fall 2026

For a description of the course modalities, please see here.

Asynchronous Online Courses

Gratz College courses:
See below, under Consortium Cross-Registration Opportunities

Face-to-Face (F2F), Hybrid Synchronous, and Synchronous Online Courses

Monday

Time	Course	Instructor	Modality	Room
5:00 - 7:00 PM	HI-539 Interrogating Abraham: Examining Intersections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	Grafton	Hybrid Synchronous	77 Sherman 206
7:00 - 9:00 PM	AM-550 Qur’ān Recitation/ Tajweed I	Dogan/Ghassal	Synchronous Online	N/A
3:30-5:00 PM F2F Discussion 5:00-7:00 PM Lecture	IP-511 Healing Trauma from the Inside Out (Section 1)	Shanmugavelayutham	F2F	77 Sherman 205
5:00- 7:00 PM Lecture 7:00 - 8:30 PM Online Discussion	IP-511 Healing Trauma from the Inside Out (Section 2)	Shanmugavelayutham	Synchronous Online	N/A

Tuesday

Time	Course	Instructor	Modality	Room
10-11:30 AM	IP-530 Co-Curricular Learning Community	Khan	F2F	Budd Building
4:00 - 7:00 PM	CH-530 Chaplaincy Models and Methods	Fuller	Synchronous Online	N/A
5:00 - 7:00 PM	CH-550 Field Education I	Mansoor	Synchronous Online	N/A
5:00 - 7:00 PM	SC-522 Hebrew Bible Survey	Robertson	Hybrid Synchronous	77 Sherman 205
7:00 - 9:00 PM	WS-605 Rites of Passage	Dahill	Hybrid Synchronous	77 Sherman 206

Wednesday

Time	Course	Instructor	Modality	Room
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sept. 2, 23, Oct. 7, Nov. 4, 18	IP-613 Identity and Otherness in Religious Communities	Norton	F2F	77 Sherman 205
5:00 - 7:00 PM	RS-525 American Religious Realities: Spiritual Leadership in Time of Crisis	Ansari/Watts	Hybrid Synchronous	77 Sherman 206
7:00 - 9:00 PM	TH-553 Intro to Islamic Theology	Qureshi	Hybrid Synchronous	77 Sherman 205

Thursday

Time	Course	Instructor	Modality	Room
5:00 - 7:00 PM	WS-600 Eco-Spirituality	Dahill	Hybrid Synchronous	77 Sherman 206
7:00 - 9:00 PM	DI-550 Intro to Interreligious Studies	Mosher	Synchronous Online	N/A
7:00 - 9:00 PM	CH-520 Theology and Scripture in Spiritual Care Practice	Simsek	Synchronous Online	N/A

MAP Intensive

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
August 10-28

IP-500 Introduction to Peacebuilding

(MAP students only)

Kumove

F2F

60 Lorraine St

Meeting Room

PhD

Continuing Ph.D. students should consult with their research advisors to outline their course plan for the 2026-2027 academic year and submit registration forms directly to the Registrar's Office. Registration forms can be found in the Form & Document Center.

Doctor of Ministry

DM-810 Colleague Seminar I: The Changing American Religious Landscape (Norton)
This course is delivered synchronously online from 7:00 - 9:30 PM | Dates: August 31, September 28, October 5 and 19, November 2, 16, and 30, December 14

DM-820 Colleague Seminar III: Transformative Leadership and Practice (Trimble)
This course is delivered synchronously online 7:00 - 9:30 PM | Dates: August 31, September 28, October 5 and 19, November 2, 16, and 30, December 14

Doctor of Ministry Fall Retreat Dates: September 16-18 in-person

Black Ministries Program

See the Black Ministries Program page for more information about the BMP leadership certificate program, admissions, and courses.

Consortium Cross-Registration Opportunities

Consortium courses can satisfy program electives for HIU students. To register, in consultation with their academic advisor, students must complete the Consortium Cross-Registration Pre-Approval form and any other registration forms required (i.e., for Chaplaincy Innovation Lab or BTI). Finds all forms at HIU's Form & Document Center.

Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium

Students enrolled in Hartford International University’s degree programs have the unique opportunity to take classes through the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium (BTI), a consortium of seminaries and theological schools in the Boston area and beyond.

Full instructions for the cross-registration process can be found here - Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium

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.

https://www.gratz.edu/admission-aid/applications/non-matriculated-registration-form

Note Gratz's specific academic calendar and modality. Many courses are asynchronous.

Fall 2026 Gratz College Courses

Course ID	Course Name	Teacher	Session	Description
ASM 605/805 - FA26A	Antisemitism and Literary Joy	Saenger, Michael	A	This course examines how great works of Western art and literature have carried, normalized, and aestheticized antisemitic ideas across centuries. Rather than simply “canceling” difficult works from the past, students will learn to engage them critically, appreciating their artistic power while confronting the machinery of Jew-hatred embedded within them. The course begins with broader debates over cancel culture, historical sanitization, and the ethics of encountering offensive cultural artifacts. Students will then study representations of Jews in works by figures such as Caravaggio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wagner, considering how these portrayals turned Jews into jokes, villains, symbols, or threats. Ultimately, the course asks how historic cultural antisemitism continues to echo in contemporary forms of Jew-hatred, including the visual and narrative scripts that circulate today in digital culture.
HGS 522/742	Children of the Nazi Era	Marlow, Jennifer L	A	All children of Nazi-occupied Europe, from those raised to fulfill the Aryan ideal to those targeted for destruction, were deeply impacted by Nazi ideology, the horrors of war, and genocidal goals. For students seeking to broaden their knowledge of Holocaust history and educators seeking age- appropriate connections for the classroom, this course will explore the Nazi design for the children of Europe, the world response, and the experiences of children through their own lens.
HGS 529/729	Nazi Medicine and the Holocaust	Phillips, Carson	A	This course examines the racial policies and medical crimes of the National Socialist regime in Germany. Beginning with 1933 Sterilization Law, it traces the involvement of medical professionals in the T4 euthanasia program to medical experiments carried out in care facilities and the concentration camp system. It also covers the quest for justice and the reverberations of Nazi medicine in a contemporary context and how medical ethics continue to be shaped by the Nazi medicine and the Holocaust.
HGS 605/805 - FA26A	Polish-Jewish Literature After the Holocaust	Mostowski, Lizy	A	The Holocaust permanently changed not only the physical Polish landscape but likewise the cultural and literary landscapes. Post-Holocaust Polish-Jewish literature responds not only to the Holocaust but also to this cultural fracture. This course will explore questions such as: What is Polish-Jewish literature? How do ghosts figure into this body of literature and what do they represent? How do ghosts shape how memory is explored after the Holocaust? What is testimony and how does it figure into literature? Together, we will read literary works in translation by Julian Tuwim, Abraham Sutzkever, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Agata Tuszyńska, Hanna Krall, Rutu Modan, and others alongside theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Pierre Nora, Marianne Hirsch, Shoshana Felman, and Dori Laub to explore concepts of memory and testimony across literary genres in the historical context of post-Holocaust Poland.
ASM 605/805 - FA26B	Zionism and Its Critics	Hirschhorn, Sara	B	Description coming soon….
ASM 605/805 - FA26B2	Navigating Nonprofits in Antisemitism	Shaeffer, Zach	B	This course prepares practitioners to teach about antisemitism in peer-based, organizational, and advocacy settings outside of formal classrooms. Students move through a complete facilitation sequence, developing personal narrative, content knowledge, and frameworks to introduce Jewish identity accessibly, explain the history of antisemitism and how it travels across ideological traditions, and engage the specific ways anti-Jewish ideas surface in Israel-Palestine discourse and contemporary public life. Students also learn engagement strategies to respond to difficult questions. For the final project, students design and deliver an introductory teaching presentation for a defined non-classroom audience.
HGS 524/744	Transcending Trauma: The Psychosocial Impact of the Holocaust	Isserman, Nancy	B	The evolution of the fields of Holocaust and Trauma Studies has been striking over the past 60 years. We will present the current knowledge with expanded insights informed by our own research. The foundation for the course will draw upon the interview-based qualitative research of the Transcending Trauma project, the study of coping and adaptation after extreme trauma, presenting life histories of Holocaust survivors and their family members to contextualize the survivors’ trauma within their pre-war and post-war experiences.
HGS 554/754	The Warsaw Ghetto	Michlic, Joanna	B	This course discusses the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest Nazi ghetto in occupied Europe, and some of the earliest attempts to record its history. In studying this Jewish population, segregated by force in the capital of occupied Poland, the course will address several key issues concerning the terms of Jewish existence behind the ghetto walls as well as aspects of the contemporary interactions between Germans, Jews, and Poles. Course topics will include the Nazi establishment of the Jewish District, the Jewish authorities (the Judenrat), Jewish welfare institutions, daily life in the ghetto, ghetto culture, relations among Jews and Gentiles, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and other related aspects.

HIU's engagement with Gratz College, and BTI are all part of HIU's commitment to Global & Community Partnerships.

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