HIST-257 History of the Holocaust

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Prerequisite: Placement into ENGL-100 or successful completion of RDNG-030, ACLT-075 or ACLT-076.
This course examines the background context and consequences of the Holocaust. Starting with the history of the Jewish people and anti-Semitism in Germany and Eastern Europe the course focuses on the experience of the European Jews as well as the other ethnic cultural and political victims of the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s within the global context of the Second World War.