HOLOCAUST: HISTORY, MEMORY AND EDUCATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Comm QR - Communication B Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine and question cultural assumptions and knowledge claims about race, ethnicity, and religion Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Improve written and oral communication skills by engaging in critical conversations, making presentations, practicing group projects and writing papers Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate self-awareness and empathy to other worldviews and cultural differences and apply course concepts outside of the classroom by engaging in respectful conversations about race, ethnicity, and religion in our multi-cultural society Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Construct and develop a meaningful project around a topic that interests you Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Articulate answers to and pose complex questions regarding ethical issues, connecting historical events to present circumstances regarding racial inequalities Audience: Undergraduate 6. Develop your academic writing by thinking carefully through your ideas and editing your work and your peers’ Audience: Undergraduate 7. Pose and answer complex historical and ethical questions regarding the Holocaust, genocide, their representations and political uses, connecting historical events to present circumstances regarding racial inequalities Audience: Graduate 8. Develop interpersonal academic skills by editing peers’ work Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine and question cultural assumptions and knowledge claims about race, ethnicity, and religion Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Improve written and oral communication skills by engaging in critical conversations, making presentations, practicing group projects and writing papers Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Demonstrate self-awareness and empathy to other worldviews and cultural differences and apply course concepts outside of the classroom by engaging in respectful conversations about race, ethnicity, and religion in our multi-cultural society Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Construct and develop a meaningful project around a topic that interests you Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Articulate answers to and pose complex questions regarding ethical issues, connecting historical events to present circumstances regarding racial inequalities Audience: Undergraduate 6. Develop your academic writing by thinking carefully through your ideas and editing your work and your peers’ Audience: Undergraduate 7. Pose and answer complex historical and ethical questions regarding the Holocaust, genocide, their representations and political uses, connecting historical events to present circumstances regarding racial inequalities Audience: Graduate 8. Develop interpersonal academic skills by editing peers’ work Audience: Graduate