Fall 2014  |  SOC 4090 Section 001: Topics in Sociology -- Never Again! Memory and Politics after Genocide (26948)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
GLOS 4910 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 15
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Topic prereq - jr or sr or grad student
Class Description:
This course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. How do individuals, communities and societies come to terms with these atrocities? How do successor regimes balance the demands for justice with the need for peace and reconciliation? How is public memory of the atrocities constructed? Section I provides an overview of the basic concepts and themes of this class: defining mass violence, collective memory and forgetting in post-atrocity contexts, and transitional justice. In Section II we will look at memory of the Holocaust among descendants of victims and descendants of perpetrators and its impact on the way other communities shape and represent their memories of mass violence and victimhood, i.e. their specific demands, symbolic politics and judicial strategies. In Section III we will address cases from around the globe and different historical settings, including the legacies of State terror in Latin America, the aftermath of Stalinist mass violence in Eastern Europe and American Indian struggles for memory and justice. This course will be conducted as a combined lecture and discussion course. This format will be supplemented by occasional in-class group activities.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
5% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
15% Film/Video
20% Discussion
15% Small Group Activities small group work
Workload:
40-60 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
Other Workload: one short essay
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26948/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
24 August 2014

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