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Overview:
Undergaduate Course Offerings |
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EGE
409 Impact of the Holocaust on German Literature and Film (3) How propaganda (particularly
film) contributed to the rise of Nazism. Postwar literature and films will
be used to illustrate issues such as compliance to the regime, the role of
the Vatican and legal institutions, individual and group responsibility,
literary and cinematic representation of the Holocaust, guilt and the
debates surrounding reconciliation, the contemporary relationship of
Germany and Israel, and the legacy of the Holocaust for children of victims
and perpetrators. |
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HIS 332 Holocaust
(3) Focuses
on ethnic, nationalistic, economic, and religious causes of the Holocaust,
including 20th-century Nazism, racism, and anti-Semitism, concluding with
study of the Nuremburg trials. |
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HIS 349 The Jew in
History (3) Review of their 4,000 year
history and of those civilizations that have welcomed the Jewish people.
the study of the Jewish people in contemporary society is an important
feature of the course. |
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HIS
423 Modern Germany (3) Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries: Napoleonic
Era, Rise of Prussia, nationalism and unification, imperialism and World
War I, National Socialism, World War II, and divided Germany. |
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PHI
180 Introduction to Ethics (3) Great ethical
systems of history and their application to personal and social life. The
right and the good; the nature of values; and critical dilemmas. |
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SOC
490 Topical Seminar in Sociology (3) A topical seminar on the sociology of religion
and the Holocaust. |
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