Genocide

Course Description

Genocide - Semester One

Unit 1 - Human Nature

Unit 2 - Holocaust

Unit 3 - 20th -21st Century Genocides and Human Rights Abuses

 

September 6 - October 25

Unit One - Human Nature: Faces of the Enemy, Milgram Experiment, Stanford Prison Experiment, Bystander Effect, Diffusion of Responsibility, Kitty Genovese Murder, Cults, The Wave, Forms of Intolerance

 

October 26 - December 23

Unit Two - The Holocaust: Genocide of the Namib and Herero, History of Antisemitism, Prewar Jewish Life, Rise of the Nazis, Nazi Germany, Ghettos, The "Final Solution", Jewish Resistance, Liberation and Justice

 

January 3 - January 23

Unit Three - Genocide and Human Rights Abuses: Armenia, Ukraine Famine, Cambodia, Rwanda, Balkans, Sudan, and etc.