Drawing on a series of case studies, students will explore the relationship between deportation and genocide and investigate the perpetrators, the victims, the causes, and the consequences.
Athena Title
Deportation and Genocide
Pre or Corequisite
One course in HIST or POLS or SOCI or AFST or FYOS or INTL
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to arrive at conclusions about the history of deportation and genocide through gathering and weighing evidence, logical argument, and listening to counter argument.
By the end of this course, students will be able to write stylistically appropriate papers and essays. Students will be able to analyze ideas and evidence, organize their thoughts, and revise and edit their finished essays.
By the end of this course, students will be able to identify how the history of deportation and genocide shaped diverse social and cultural attitudes toward ethnicity and identity, trauma and evil, and history and memory, encouraging them to understand diverse worldviews and experiences.
By the end of this course, students will be able to apply appropriate methodological approaches to their analysis of primary sources and to organize their evidence to show historical continuities and discontinuities.
Topical Outline
1. What is genocide?
2. What is the historical relationship between genocide and deportation?
3. Are modern and premodern deportations distinct?
4. Was Indian Removal the first modern deportation? Part I
5. Was Indian Removal the first modern deportation? Part II
6. The genocide in California
7. Genocide in European colonies
8. Nazis and the Shoah: The causes
9. Nazis and the Shoah: The perpetrators
10. Nazis and the Shoah: The victims
11. Stalin and Ukraine
12. Oral history archives, Part I
13. Oral history archives, Part II
14. S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
15. The fight over memory
Institutional Competencies
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
