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HIS 253
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Title: | The Holocaust and Genocide |
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Long Title: | The Holocaust and Genocide in the 20th Century |
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Course Description: | Examines the historical preconditions, ideologies, causes, and processes that culminated in the Holocaust in Nazi Germany as well as other genocides around the world in the 20th century. This course analyzes events and what they represent in historical context through a variety of disciplines and methodologies. It differentiates the inter-relationships between perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. The course also evaluates how eyewitness memories, historical research, and media representations all shape our contemporary understanding of these events. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | NCE 10.19.17 JLG |
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Origin Notes: | RRCC |
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Status Notes: | Made course active |
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
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