The Holocaust ((4 Credits))

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The student will study the Holocaust in order to gain some insight into the reasons--historical, cultural, institutional, political--why human beings committed these atrocities against other human beings, as well as the mechanism by which the perpetrators carried them out. The student will also study the broader history of modern Germany to put the Holocaust in context. This course, in studying the Holocaust, will address social justice issues, including race, class, and gender, as well as explore matters of intersectionality so that students gain an understanding of how overlapping forms of identity-based discrimination interact with one another.