HIST 535 - The Holocaust

• Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in the history of the Holocaust.
• Explain that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methods or patterns of analysis.
• Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward well-supported arguments.
• Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting evidence.
• Analyze differing explanations of historical change and the connections-between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
• Synthesize different patterns of interpretation and different methodologies used by scholars in assessing or explaining the history of the Holocaust.
• Analyze how interpretations of the Holocaust have shifted significantly since 1945.