1942: Holocaust (V1331)
Time and Place: 1942: Holocaust
Module V1331
15 credits
FHEQ Level 5
Module Outline
This module offers an opportunity to study the attempt by the Nazis to create a new world order by annihilating the Jews of Europe and targeting other groups - including gay people, Gypsies and people with disabilities - for discrimination and death. It provides a multilayered examination of the transition from prejudice to exclusion, to extermination, placing the Holocaust within the broader conceptual framework of Genocide in the twentieth century.
The module will consider issues such as: how was the so-called 'Final Solution to the Jewish problem' put into effect? Why is 1942 a key year in the development of the Final Solution? What part was played by the perpetrators across occupied Europe? It will deal with the reaction of the victim, and explore possibilities of resistance. It will ask whether is it accurate to characterize most people as bystanders, and will discuss the rescue options. The module will also deal with question of justice and memory.
Studying what happened will inevitably raise many questions about why it happened. The module will pay close attention to how it was possible for such a plan of mass murder to be carried out so effectively in such a short time at the hub of western civilization; a plan which relied on the active involvement of many people and the acquiescence of even more.
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | 100.00% | |
| Coursework components. Weighted as shown below. | ||
| Essay | A2 Week 1 | 90.00% |
| Exercise | T2 Week 8 | 10.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Teaching | SEMINAR | 2 hours | 101010101010 |
| Spring Teaching | LECTURE | 1 hour | 111111111111 |
How to read the week pattern
The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.
Dr Gideon Reuveni
Convenor, Assess convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/275775
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