WFU VIRTUAL STUDY ABROAD FAIR
HST 311 (3 credits)
This program serves as a capstone experience for students enrolled in HST 236, The Nazi Holocaust to 1941, and HST 237, The Nazi Holocaust from 1941. It is an opportunity to visit many of the key sites of Holocaust memory discussed in these courses. This includes visits to the Warsaw Ghetto and Museum of Polish History, the Auschwitz death camp and Jewish quarter of Krakow (including a visit to the museum on the site of Oskar Schindler’s factory), to the Jewish community of Prague and the Theresienstadt Ghetto) and to the Holocaust memorial and Jewish museum in Berlin).
The course is not, however, limited to students who previously enrolled in one or both sections. Since it is open to all Wake Forest students, this course will provide a comprehensive introduction for students who are less knowledgeable about the subject.
By the end of the trip all students will gain an understanding of the complicated history of this period including the various actions of the perpetrators, victims, bystanders, collaborators, and beneficiaries involved.
This course will allow students to encounter sites of the Nazi genocide and to compare and contrast the ways in which three different countries have chosen to memorialize this historical period. It will challenge students to consider questions of historical complicity with mass violence and their moral obligations in the face of illegitimate violence and oppression.
Although students are able to learn a great deal about this historical moment from a variety of tools, such as textbooks, case studies, interviews, and a range of primary source documents, there remains a significant benefit to viewing the sites of the Holocaust first-hand. Students will be able to see for themselves the ways in which Nazism transformed many European spaces into containment and killing centers, and to observe how various countries have contended with this difficult historical period.
This program serves as a capstone experience for students enrolled in HST 236, The Nazi Holocaust to 1941, and HST 237, The Nazi Holocaust from 1941. It is an opportunity to visit many of the key sites of Holocaust memory discussed in these courses. This includes visits to the Warsaw Ghetto and Museum of Polish History, the Auschwitz death camp and Jewish quarter of Krakow (including a visit to the museum on the site of Oskar Schindler’s factory), to the Jewish community of Prague and the Theresienstadt Ghetto) and to the Holocaust memorial and Jewish museum in Berlin).
The course is not, however, limited to students who previously enrolled in one or both sections. Since it is open to all Wake Forest students, this course will provide a comprehensive introduction for students who are less knowledgeable about the subject.
By the end of the trip all students will gain an understanding of the complicated history of this period including the various actions of the perpetrators, victims, bystanders, collaborators, and beneficiaries involved.
This course will allow students to encounter sites of the Nazi genocide and to compare and contrast the ways in which three different countries have chosen to memorialize this historical period. It will challenge students to consider questions of historical complicity with mass violence and their moral obligations in the face of illegitimate violence and oppression.
Although students are able to learn a great deal about this historical moment from a variety of tools, such as textbooks, case studies, interviews, and a range of primary source documents, there remains a significant benefit to viewing the sites of the Holocaust first-hand. Students will be able to see for themselves the ways in which Nazism transformed many European spaces into containment and killing centers, and to observe how various countries have contended with this difficult historical period.