Course

Holocaust and Genocide in Historical Perspective - ARTS2285

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Humanities and Languages

Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1

Excluded: ARTS2280, HIST1031, HIST2074, JWST1001

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

Subject Area: History

The aim of 'Holocaust and Genocide' is to encourage an understanding of the phenomenon of genocide through incidences of mass killing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and ways in which people respond to state-sponsored violence. The course predominantly focuses on an intensive study of the Holocaust, and offers diverse perspectives on the groups of perpetrators, victims and bystanders. The course also looks closely at other genocides committed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War (Slavs, religious minorities, disabled and homosexuals) and in the last part moves on to examine the Holocaust in relation to other acts of genocide and mass killing during the twentieth and twenty-first century (Armenian genocide, Yugoslavia and Rwanda).

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