JCTC6912 - Holocaust Research: Trends and Problems

Semester 1, 2013  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Avril Anne Alba
Phone: +61 2 9351 5226
Email: avril.alba@sydney.edu.au

Description

Holocaust research has become highly specialised and fragmented in recent years. This unit of study will concentrate on current controversies such as the debates on conceptualisation, periodisation, and explanation. The behaviour of perpetrators, victims and bystanders, the growing gap between academic history and popular history, on memory and memorisation as well as on historical grounds and Holocaust denial.

Assessments

1x5000wd essay (100%)

Classes

2x1-hr seminars/week

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