Monash University Handbooks 2008

HSY3580 - The Holocaust in an age of genocide

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Arts

Leader: Mark Baker

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2008 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

As for HSY2580

Objectives

Upon completion, students will be expected to possess:

  1. a knowledge of events leading to the Holocaust, its course and aftermath;
  2. an understanding of Jewish responses to the Holocaust across Europe;
  3. an understanding of the issues involved in representations of the Holocaust, including literature and the arts;
  4. an appreciation of how collective and national memories of genocide are created;
  5. An understanding of the United Nations Genocide Convention and debates about the definition of genocide;
  6. A knowledge of the major cases of post-war mass killing and their relationship to the Holocaust

Assessment

Participation: 10%
Historiographical essay (1000 words): 20%
Research essay (2500 words): 40%
Examination (1000 words): 30%

Contact hours

One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week

Prohibitions

HSY2580, JWC2580

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