Week
|
Date |
Lecture/Discussion/Activity
|
Assignment |
1
|
Aug 30
|
Course
Introduction
Context: European Antisemitism
Discussion: The Dreyfus Affair
|
|
2
|
Sept 6
|
Lecture:
Hitler and the Rise of the Nazis
Discussion: Nazi Propaganda |
Dwork, Ch. 1-4
|
3
|
Sept 13
|
Film and
Discussion |
|
4
|
Sept 20
|
Lecture:
Life in Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe
Discussion: Hitler Youth and the League of German
Girls |
Dwork, Ch. 5-7
|
5
|
Sept 27
|
Film and
Discussion |
|
6
|
Oct 4
|
Lecture:
The SA, SS and Gestapo
Discussion: Nazi Sterilization and Euthanasia
Programs |
|
7
|
Oct 11
|
Film and
Discussion |
|
8
|
Oct 18
|
Midterm
Exam |
|
9
|
Oct 25
|
Lecture:
Life in the Ghetto
Discussion: The Yellow Star |
Dwork, Ch. 8-9
|
10
|
Nov 1
|
Film and
Discussion |
|
11
|
Nov 8
|
Lecture:
The Final Solution and Concentration Camps
Discussion: How "Ordinary Men" Became Murderers
|
Dwork, Ch. 10-14
|
12
|
Nov 15
|
Field Trip to the Holocaust
Memorial Center [MAP]
**Arrive at the Center at 9:15am |
|
| 13 |
Nov 22
|
Film and
Discussion |
|
No
Class - Thanksgiving Week
|
14
|
Dec 6
|
Document
Analysis Presentations
Discussion: Anne Frank's Diary |
Read Anne
Frank's Diary
Document Analysis Due |
15
|
Dec 13
|
Final
Exam
|
|
History of the Holocaust