INTRODUCTION TO HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES

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Open only to Graduate students. This course will introduce students to using a variety of primary sources and data to explore key issues and debates in scholarship on modern mass violence. The course will address racism, colonialism, destruction of indigenous societies, slavery, nationalism, social relation in extremis, and state violence. Students will also consider how global Holocaust memory has shaped the scholarly use of key concepts such as genocide, memory, reparations, justice, bystanders, security, and human security.