The Holocaust and Representation in History and Culture (P02009)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P02009

This course introduces students to the representation of the Holocaust in different cultural forms since 1945. Examining how the Holocaust continues to impact European collective and individual memory and imagination, the course is structured around the analysis of memory debates in distinct fields: history and historiography, public rituals of commemoration and material culture, literature, theology, and philosophy.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures), (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Other subject areas

Divinity, (School of Divinity, Schedule B)

History, (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the students will:

- Be able to contextualise and evaluate critically theoretical approaches to Holocaust representation, and will have a sensitivity to the ethical implications of the theories they study
- Have an overview of major debates on Holocaust representation in post-war Europe
- Be able to work with historical, literary [and other?] texts in a manner informed by the theoretical material on the course, as well as testing the usefulness of theory against these texts.