REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

 

 1. Analyze the conditions leading to genocide in Armenia and the Soviet Union and the outcome of these events to determine themes related to genocide throughout the century.

 2. Evaluate the history of anti-Semitism in Europe and the social, political, economic, and cultural developments that helped create a climate in which the Holocaust could occur.

 a. Describe and explain the rise of the Nazi Party, Hitler's synthesis, the creation of the racial state--the Third Reich, and the responses to its actions during the prewar period (1933-1939).

 b. Describe and explain the processes which culminated in genocide--from isolation to the "Final Solution" and the reactions to the Holocaust, exploring the inter-relationships between the perpetrators, the victims, the rescuers, the bystanders, and the resisters (1939-45).

 c. Describe and explain the aftermath (1945- ), i.e. the death marches, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, the United Nation's Genocide Convention, and the return or resettlement of the Jews.

 3. Analyze and explain the implications of the Holocaust for relevant events, i.e. the contemporary episodes of "ethnic cleansing" (Guatemala, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, etc.), racism, value of diversity, and the legacy for the future.

 4. Four general goals integrate history with workplace skills:

 a. Acquire information from many sources.

 b. Process complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clarity.

 c. Evaluate the impact of time and space on perspective.

 d. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.

 5. Throughout the course, students should be introduced to course content, practice using course content, and demonstrate they can:

 a. Describe how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course change over time.

 b. Analyze the events covered in the course in historical context and recognize how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspective.

 c. Communicate orally and in writing about the subject of the course, and select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems and compile information.

 d. Utilize different resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.

 e. Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation.

 f. Identify types of primary sources, the point of view and purpose of their author or creator.

 g. Create substantive writing samples, which employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, and document those sources correctly.

 h. Construct knowledge in the discipline and synthesize historical narratives and timelines from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments.

 

 

 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE

 

 I.     Genocide Pre-Holocaust

      a. Armenia

      b. Holodomor

 II. The Third Reich & the Final Solution

      a. Background and Context

              i. Anti-Semitism in History

             ii. World War I and Its Aftermath

            iii. Weimar Republic, 1918-1932

            iv. Hitler & Nazi Party, 1918-1933

      b. The Holocaust

              i. The Racial State

             ii. Propaganda

            iii. German Foreign Policy

            iv. Ghettoization

             v. Mobile Units & Actions

            vi. Camp System

            vii. Resistance & Rescue

           viii. Liberation & Survivors

      c. Aftermath & Legacy

              i. Nuremberg Trials

             ii. Displaced Persons

            iii. UN Genocide Convention

            iv. Holocaust Denial

 III. Genocide Post-Holocaust

      a. Guatemala

      b. Cambodia

      c. Bosnia

      d. Rwanda

      e. Sudan

      f. Burma