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Apr 18, 2024
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HGPS 410 - Literature of the Holocaust (3 units) CO13
Literary texts in English translation of major writers such Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Peter Weiss, Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, and others.
Prerequisite(s): General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. 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. identify and analyze historical and cultural elements that produced the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders of the Holocaust.
3. describe and examine how prejudice, hatred and dehumanization become rationalized within individuals and in society.
4. 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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