2009-2010 University Catalog 
  
2009-2010 University Catalog

SOCI 450 - The Holocaust: The Construction of Social History through Survivor Testimonies

Credits: 3
Examines Holocaust, destruction of European Jewry, through testimonies of survivors and narratives of historians. Topics include historical and cultural circumstances that encouraged German anti-Semitism, rise of Nazism, ghettoization of Jews in Poland, Jewish life in ghettos, European Jews under Nazi occupation, Jewish resistance, Christian rescuers, invasion of Russia and mobile killing units, life in hiding and passing, forced labor camps and concentration camps, responses of United States and world, and reflections on Holocaust today. Also considers eyewitness testimony, memory, narrative, and literature.

Prerequisites
60 credits, or permission of instructor.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week
3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week
0