Undergraduate - UnitATS3314 - Seeking justice: South Africa and Rwanda

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Monash Passport category	International Short Field Experience (Explore Program)
Offered	Not offered in 2014
Coordinator(s)	Assoc Prof Mark Baker, Dr Noah Shenker, Dr Daniella Doron

Notes

Previously coded INT3140

Synopsis

This unit will bring together students from Monash campuses in Australia and South Africa to study the contemporary histories of post-genocide and post-conflict societies, through two specific cases: the South African approach after apartheid and local and global responses to the Rwandan genocide. Held in the winter semester as a two-week intensive, students will spend a week in Johannesburg and a week in Rwanda exploring public debates on memory and justice through visits to memorial sites and museums. Places to be explored include Soweto, the Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill, the Murambi genocide memorial, and a Gacaca village trial.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have:

an understanding of the human impact of genocide and conflict on the communities that survive it
an understanding of the modern historical contexts in which these conflicts emerged
an appreciation of the issues and the agencies involved in rebuilding states and societies after genocide and conflict
the capacity to describe and analyse questions of memory and justice using historical examples
In addition, students undertaking this unit at fourth-year level will be expected to have the ability to analytically differentiate between the different forms genocide and conflict manifest themselves in.

Assessment

Major essay (6000 words): 50%
Short writing exercise or text analysis (1000 words): 20%
Exam (2 hours): 30%

Chief examiner(s)

Assoc Prof Mark Baker and Dr Noah Shenker

Workload requirements

One 4-hour lecture per day, five days a week, for three weeks

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

History
Holocaust and genocide studies
Human rights
International studies
Jewish studies

Prohibitions

ATS4314, APG4314