Holocaust Education Design (224-0-20)
Instructors
Daniel Maurice Cohen
Meeting Info
Annenberg Hall 303: Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM
Overview of class
How can we design engaging and relevant Holocaust education? How has Holocaust education developed over time? What is its purpose? And what is its future? In this course, we will consider and debate the complexities and challenges of Holocaust pedagogy, including responding to learners' emotions and misconceptions. We will ask how Holocaust pedagogy can be applied more generally to teaching about histories of atrocity and contemporary injustices. We will explore the possible goals of educating about the Holocaust, the merits and challenges of addressing all of the Nazis' target groups, and the relationships between Holocaust education and educating about atrocities more broadly. We will study the benefits and challenges of prioritizing specific perspectives, including those of victims, survivors, the second and third generations, rescuers, liberators, bystanders, perpetrators, and collaborators. Through theoretical texts, fiction, film, witness testimony, school curricula, and museum and online exhibitions, we will explore appropriate and inappropriate teaching methods and we will consider the design of training for Holocaust educators across formal and informal learning environments. Student learning will be assessed through creative responses to course materials, journaling, and open projects, including group work.
Evaluation Method
Creative Assignments; Journal Entries; Class participation; Open Projects
Class Attributes
Attendance at 1st class mandatory
Enrollment Requirements
Enrollment Requirements: AntiReq: Students must not have taken SESP 324-0.