HGPS 410 - Literature of the Holocaust

(3 units)

Literary texts in English translation of major writers such Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Peter Weiss, Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, and others. (General capstone course)

Prerequisite(s): CH 201 or CH 202 or CH 203 ; ENG 102 ; junior or senior standing.

Units of Lecture: 3
General Capstone Course
Offered Every Spring
Student Learning Outcomes (if available):
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to 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.
2. Students will be able to identify and analyze historical and cultural elements that produced the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders of the Holocaust.
3. Students will be able to describe and examine how prejudice, hatred and dehumanization become rationalized within individuals and in society.
4. Students will be able to 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.

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