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Fall 2024  |  JWST 3633 Section 001: The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (21036)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:
Closed (3 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. No knowledge of German required.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21036/1249

Fall 2023  |  JWST 3633 Section 001: The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (33253)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
GER 3633 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Rapson Hall 56
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. No knowledge of German required.
Class Description:

THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITES

Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and media representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; colonialism, genocide, and the Holocaust; Holocaust memory and the digital age. Writers/filmmakers will include Heimrad Bäcker, Rob Fitterman, Art Spiegelman, Georges Perec, W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss, Charles Reznikoff, Alan Sondheim, H.G. Adler, Günther Grass, Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Harun Farocki, Daniel Blaufuks, Alain Resnais, and Claude Lanzmann.

Who Should Take This Class?:
The course is open to everyone.
Learning Objectives:
This course addresses the Student Learning Outcome of mastering a body of knowledge and a mode of inquiry. The range of materials we will read and discuss in this class will help students to ascertain the key historical, philosophical and aesthetic questions that are at the heart of Holocaust studies today. Students will learn how to evaluate and think critically about the vast amount of information on the Holocaust that is available. The Holocaust is a topic with which many students already feel a degree of familiarity: they have read novels and memoirs, seen Hollywood films about the Holocaust, and in general have a relationship of some sort to this pivotal moment in western culture. This course will introduce students to writers, thinkers, and artists who offer new and challenging ways to approach the Holocaust, in particular about the artistic forms that Holocaust memory takes. The class is intended to enable students to gain new knowledge about the Holocaust that will help them in the critical evaluation of questions about the artistic representation of the Holocaust, the politics of Holocaust memory, and the interplay between document and source in Holocaust historiography. In addition, students will develop critical skills of contextualizing and interpreting historical and cultural material, with a focus on how to formulate and execute an argument for a paper.
Grading:
70% Essays and Exams; 30% class participation (including Canvas posts)
Exam Format:
Midterm short answer exam; Final essay exam
Class Format:
60% Lecture; 40% discussion
Workload:
One 5-page paper; midterm and final exam; 75 pages on average of reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33253/1239
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2023

Spring 2021  |  JWST 3633 Section 001: The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (52407)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
Meets With:
GER 3633 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Seventy years after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s.
Class Description:

THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITES

Decades after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. Writers/filmmakers will include Heimrad Bäcker, Rob Fitterman, Art Spiegelman, Georges Perec, W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss, Charles Reznikoff, Alan Sondheim, H.G. Adler, Günther Grass, Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Harun Farocki, Daniel Blaufuks, Alain Resnais, and Claude Lanzmann.

Learning Objectives:
This course addresses the Student Learning Outcome of mastering a body of knowledge and a mode of inquiry. The range of materials we will read and discuss in this class will help students to ascertain the key historical, philosophical and aesthetic questions that are at the heart of Holocaust studies today. Students will learn how to evaluate and think critically about the vast amount of information on the Holocaust that is available. The Holocaust is a topic with which many students already feel a degree of familiarity: they have read novels and memoirs, seen Hollywood films about the Holocaust, and in general have a relationship of some sort to this pivotal moment in western culture. This course will introduce students to writers, thinkers, and artists who offer new and challenging ways to approach the Holocaust, in particular about the artistic forms that Holocaust memory takes. The class is intended to enable students to gain new knowledge about the Holocaust that will help them in the critical evaluation of questions about the artistic representation of the Holocaust, the politics of Holocaust memory, and the interplay between document and source in Holocaust historiography. In addition, students will develop critical skills of contextualizing and interpreting historical and cultural material, with a focus on how to formulate and execute an argument for a paper.
Grading:
70% Essays and Exams; 30% class participation (including Canvas posts)
Exam Format:
Midterm short answer exam; Final essay exam
Class Format:
60% Lecture; 40% discussion
Workload:
One 5-page paper; midterm and final exam; 75 pages on average of reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52407/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2020

Spring 2020  |  JWST 3633 Section 001: The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (67465)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
GER 3633 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 108
Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Seventy years after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s.
Class Description:

THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITES

Seventy years after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students'
historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"> mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd
and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. Writers/filmmakers will include Heimrad Bäcker, Rob Fitterman, Art Spiegelman, Georges Perec, W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss, Charles Reznikoff, Alan Sondheim, H.G. Adler, Günther Grass, Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Harun Farocki, Daniel Blaufuks, Alain Resnais, and Claude Lanzmann.

Grading:
70% Essays and Exams; 30% class participation, Moodle
Exam Format:
Midterm short answer exam; Final essay exam
Class Format:
50% Lecture; 50% discussion
Workload:
One 5-page paper; midterm and final exam; 100 pages on average of reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67465/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
14 November 2016

Fall 2017  |  JWST 3633 Section 001: The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (36125)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
GER 3633 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 110
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Seventy years after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s.
Class Description:

THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITES

Seventy years after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students'
historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"> mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd
and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. Writers/filmmakers will include Heimrad Bäcker, Rob Fitterman, Art Spiegelman, Georges Perec, W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss, Charles Reznikoff, Alan Sondheim, H.G. Adler, Günther Grass, Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Harun Farocki, Daniel Blaufuks, Alain Resnais, and Claude Lanzmann.

Grading:
70% Essays and Exams; 30% class participation, Moodle
Exam Format:
Midterm short answer exam; Final essay exam
Class Format:
50% Lecture; 50% discussion
Workload:
One 5-page paper; midterm and final exam; 100 pages on average of reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/36125/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
14 November 2016

Spring 2017  |  JWST 3633 Section 001: The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History (70396)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
GER 3633 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 108
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Seventy years after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students' historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between personal experience, historical events, and forms of representation. This class will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s.
Class Description:

THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITES

Seventy years after the end of the second world war, the Holocaust continues to play a formative role in public discourse about the past in Germany and Austria. As the event itself recedes into the past, our knowledge about the Holocaust has become increasingly shaped by literary and filmic representations of it. This course has several objectives: first, to deepen students'
historical knowledge of the events and experiences of the Holocaust, and at the same time to introduce critical models for examining the relationship between mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"> mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">will introduce students to the debates about the politics of memory and the artistic representation of the Holocaust, with special focus on public debates about the complex ways in which Holocaust memory surfaces in contemporary Germany and Austria, and by the accrual of layers of text and discourse about the Holocaust. We will explore the controversies and debates about public Holocaust memorialization in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. We will also explore the complex interplay between documentary and fictional accounts of the Holocaust, with attention paid to literary and film texts that challenge and "remediate" the limits of Holocaust representation. Additional topics will include Holocaust testimony; Holocaust memoirs, and 2nd
and 3rd generation Holocaust literature, the Historians' Debate of the 1980s. Writers/filmmakers will include Heimrad Bäcker, Rob Fitterman, Art Spiegelman, Georges Perec, W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss, Charles Reznikoff, Alan Sondheim, H.G. Adler, Günther Grass, Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Harun Farocki, Daniel Blaufuks, Alain Resnais, and Claude Lanzmann.

Grading:
70% Essays and Exams; 30% class participation, Moodle
Exam Format:
Midterm short answer exam; Final essay exam
Class Format:
50% Lecture; 50% discussion
Workload:
One 5-page paper; midterm and final exam; 100 pages on average of reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/70396/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
14 November 2016

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