AIH264 - The Holocaust
Unit details
Year: | 2019 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Trimester 1 Unit Chair: | Tony Joel |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | AIH251, AIH252, AIH351, AIH352, AIH364, AIH464 |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 6 two-hour seminars - Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 |
Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online): | 6 two-hour online seminars – Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 |
Content
Topics addressed include: the growth of antisemitism; the emergence of Hitler and the Nazi Party; the persecution of German Jews and other supposedly inferior "racial" groups; Hitler's motivations for initiating the Second World War; the persecution of Jews in Poland following the Nazi invasion, particularly the effects of ghettoisation; victims' responses to persecution; the development of the Nazis' so-called "euthanasia" programs; the "war of annihilation" following Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union; mass shootings of Jews and other Soviet civilians; the Nazis' development of state-sanctioned, industrialised mass killing through the establishment of death camps; the "Auschwitz experience"; and the post-war aftermath of the Holocaust.
Assessment
Campus:
Assessment 1 (Individual) - Seminar Exercises (2000 words - 50%)
Assessment 2 (Individual) - Presentation (2000 word equivalent - 50%)
Cloud (online):
Assessment 1 (Individual) - Online Exercises (2000 words) - 50%
Assessment 2 (Individual) - Presentation (2000 words) - 50%
Unit Fee Information
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