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Postgraduate Course: The Holocaust and Representation in History and Culture (CLLC11083)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe course is jointly organised by Dr Peter Davies and Dr Mary Cosgrove.

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 victim testimony and literary works.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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 testimonial and literary texts in a manner informed by the theoretical material on the course, as well as testing the usefulness of theory against these texts.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsHaRHC
Contacts
Course organiserProf Peter Davies
Tel: (0131 6)50 3632
Email: Peter.J.Davies@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 6536
Email: Natalie.Carthy@ed.ac.uk
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