Overview
Description
Literary texts in English translation of major writers such Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Peter Weiss, Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, and others.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Core
CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- critically read literary and historical texts concerning the Holocaust and will be able to explain how prejudice, hatred, and dehumanization policies originate and manifest structurally.
- identify and analyze historical and cultural elements that produced the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders of the Holocaust.
- describe and examine how prejudice, hatred and dehumanization become rationalized within individuals and in society.
- analyze and integrate through oral and written formats representations of the Holocaust era from a variety of perspectives, including but not exclusive to the literary, historical, philosophical, and psychological, even though the major focus of the course will be the literary.