Genocide & Human Rights

Catalog description

Through an examination of four twentieth-century genocides (the Armenian Genocide from 1915 to 1917, the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945, the genocide in Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, and the genocide in Rwanda in 1994), the course will explore the concept of genocide and the development of national and global laws to prevent it, promote human rights, and prosecute abusers. Students will read primary and secondary sources and study genocidal violence as a particularly vicious form of state policy, as well as a human and personal experience of terror and murder.