Course details

Name: ENGL - 219

Title: THE HOLOCAUST AND THE PRESS BEFORE DURING AND AFTER

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2013

Credits: 3

Description:
Journalism Elective; Jewish American Studies Elective, but open to all with no prerequisite. This troubling and challenging course will examine in searing detail how the American (and some foreign) press reported on the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945 while it was happening. The central questions are: What did the American public know? When did they know it? And if they knew it, then why was nothing done? In other words, what would your grandparents have read over their morning orange juice about the factory-like, assembly-line murder of 6 million Jews, and Sinti/Roma people, homosexuals, Communists, labor organizers and others? The course will combine the disciplines of journalism, history, anthropology, sociology, ethics and religion. There will be intensive reading of the history of the Holocaust and of World War II; disturbing documentary and propaganda films of the death camps; hopefully visits to the class by Holocaust survivors; possible trips to Holocaust museums in New York and Washington; and most of all, examination of newspapers and magazines of the period, studying how the articles were written, how accurate they were, and how prominently (or not) they were \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"played\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" in the publications. The Holocaust and the free world\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s burden to \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"do something\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" also will be related to other genocides such as in Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. There will be short essays, a mid-term, history quizzes, and most of all, an original research paper using primary sources (period newspapers) that actually will make a genuine contribution to the scholarship of the Holocaust.

Last updated on 2013-03-18 By Hollander Ron (hollanderr)

Schedule: Wednesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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  • International Issues (3a)
  • Ethnic Studies (3b)

Teaching Faculty: Hollander Ron (hollanderr)

Is course canceled: No