The Holocaust HUM 1013
Black River Technical College
Spring Semester 2006
Contents
Course Description
“The
Holocaust” is a college transfer humanities course designed to help students
make meaning of one of the defining events of the 20th Century. Through film, text, and discussion, the
class examines what happened and why by exploring the complex roles of the
perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, those who resisted, and those who
were its victims. This study places the Holocaust within a historical context
allowing students to see the relationship of political, social, and economic
factors that impacted this watershed event.
First-person accounts will enable students to see that behind the
statistics are real people. The
universal dimensions and significance of the Holocaust as it relates to other
genocides will also be examined.
Instructor
Dr. Jan Fielder Ziegler
Administration--Office 155
Office Hours: MWF
9-10; TR 3:30-5
(870) 248 4000 Ext
4185 (870) 892-3171
Course Outline
Overview
II.
Post World
War I (1918-1933)
III.
Hitler
and the End of Illusions_(1933-1939)
IV.
Toward the
Final Solution (1939-1941)
V.
The Final Solution
(1942-1945)
Conclusions
Goals
To teach students what the Holocaust
was, as well as how, when,
where, and why the Holocaust occurred
To help students think critically about
such concepts as prejudice, stereotyping, obedience to authority, loyalty,
decision making, and justice
To provide students a valuable context
for understanding the use and abuse of power, and the role and responsibilities
of individuals, organizations, and nations
Class Organization
The class will meet Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 12:30 to 1:45, Room 103, Technology/Mathematics Building. The
class meetings will include group discussions of readings and other
assignments. Portions of the class will be delivered via
Web-based instruction and assignments.
Class Requirements
Five Exams
Class Participation
Responses to Web-Posted Discussion
Topics
Book Review and Presentation
Film
Review and Presentation
Texts and Video Resources
REQUIRED TEXTS
Bergen, Doris L. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust.
The
Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Word and Pictures, Publications
International, Ltd., 2000.
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS (Student is not required to purchase):
Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the
Final Solution in Poland
Waller, James. Becoming Evil
Wiesel, Elie. Night
Levi, Primo. Survival
in Auschwitz
Hallie, Philip.
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Speigelman, Art. Maus I-- Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale.
Becker,
Jurek. Jacob the Liar.
Hilberg,
Paul. Perpetrators, Victims,
Bystanders.
Rubenstein, Richard L. The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future.
Friedlander,
Saul. Nazi Germany and the
Jews: The Years of Persecution, Vol
1.
Schlink, Bernard. The Reader.
VIDEO/FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Night and Fog
Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines
Schindler’s List
A Beautiful Life
Judgment at Nuremberg
Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose)
The Devil's Arithmetic
The Boat is Full
Three Days in April
Jew Boy
The Ogre
The Wansee Conference
Nowhere in Africa
Europa, Europa
Genocide
The Wonderful, Terrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl