Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HIST 4770 - Perspectives on the Holocaust: Sources and Interpretation
This seminar-style course introduces students to working closely with, researching, and writing and speaking about Holocaust-related sources. After a brief overview of the Nazi period and the Holocaust, discussions focus on five major themes: the diversity of Jewish experience during the Holocaust; gender and the Holocaust; the perspectives of perpetrators and bystanders/enablers; comparisons between diaries and memoirs in order to explore how memory influences understanding of past events; and representations of the Holocaust in literature and the arts since 1945. Students also develop their skills in academic writing, research and textual analysis, and public speaking, and participate in complex debates about past events and their impact on the present.
Requisites: Senior and (HIST 3281 or 3681 or HIST 3682 or HIST 3770) and an additional 6 credit hours in History, for a total of 9 credit hours
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Speaking and Listening, Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to state critically, describe, and consider a variety of issues related to the Holocaust as a historical subject, the scholarly study of the Holocaust, and the Holocaust’s legacy and enduring impact.
- Students will be able to use information from sources about the Holocaust with enough interpretation to develop a comprehensive analysis.
- Students will be able to analyze assumptions (their own, those of witnesses, perpetrators, and survivors; and those of historians of the Holocaust) systematically and methodically and evaluate carefully the relevance of contexts when presenting a position
- Students will be able to state a specific position/perspective that is thoughtful, recognizes complexities, and acknowledges limitations as well as state conclusions and implications about the Holocaust both logically and sensitively.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner, adapt and apply skills and methodologies, and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts.
- Students will be able to make connections across disciplines and perspectives, since this course combines elements of history, literary studies, Jewish studies, memory studies, and gender and sexuality studies.
- Students will be able to complete an assignment using a specific format and language, in ways that enhance meaning through a variety of written and spoken/oral assignments and challenges.
- Students will be able to deliver presentations with a compelling purpose/main point using appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication.
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