20TH CENTURY GENOCIDE (HIS 323)

Term: Spring 2012

Faculty

	Karen Elizabeth HuberShow MyInfo popup for Karen Elizabeth Huber
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Schedule

Tue-Thu, 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM (1/9/2012 - 5/2/2012) Location: MAIN TATE 228

Description

323: 20th Century Genocide
Goal: To familiarize students with the history of genocide during the twentieth century and encourage them to think critically about defining and responding to instances of mass killing.
Content: The first half of the course will be spent studying the largest and most influential of these Genocide, the German murder of approximately six million civilians during World War II. We shall consider the origins of the Holocaust, its social, cultural, political, and economic aspects, and the results of this genocide for European and world history. In the second half of the course we shall turn to the legal definition of genocide as established by the United Nations following the Holocaust. Using this definition we shall survey other alleged and confirmed acts of genocide from the twentieth century.
Taught: Fall. Alternate years.
Gen. Ed. Category: Synthesizing.
Credit: 3 hours.