HIST 435 - The Holocaust

Description:
The focus is on the Nazi persecution and murder of Jews including antisemitic policies, concentration camps, Jewish ghettos, SS Einsatzgruppen and the mass shootings of Jews and Bolsheviks, death camps, and the Nuremberg Trials.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

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.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
1/22/21

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Winter Locations: Ellensburg