2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
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2017-2018 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HIST 219H - Genocide in Modern World


Credits: Four (4)
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
“Never again,” many people said about genocide after being exposed to the horrors of the Holocaust and concentration camps of World War Two.  However, in many ways the Holocaust was just a part of a number of modern genocides that preceded and would follow it.  In this class, we will look at a number of different genocidal campaigns across the globe in the late 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the international reactions to them, including (but not limited to) the Holocaust, the programs concerning the Aboriginal population in Australia, the eugenics movement in the United States, the genocide at Darfur, and Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia.  We will try to place these events in their local, political, international, and historical consequences and formulate reasons why the twentieth century has sometimes been labeled the “century of genocide.”