Listed in: First Year Seminar, as FYSE-113
Ellen R. Boucher (Section 01)
Sean Redding (Section 02)
April D. Trask (Section 03)
In the last century, genocide has occurred all too often. The Holocaust is the most famous case, but it was not the first, nor has it been the last. Indeed, in the past 25 years, genocide has occurred in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sudan. But just what is genocide? Why do states engage in mass murder? How do they mobilize citizens to become perpetrators? What happens to societies in the aftermath of genocide? Was the Holocaust unique, or can we make important comparisons to other instances of genocide? And finally, what are the politics surrounding the term “genocide”? We will examine these and other questions through the in-depth study of three particular cases of genocide: the Nazi murder of Jews during World War II, Pol Pot’s massacre of Cambodians in the 1970s, and the 1994 killings in Rwanda.
Fall semester. Professors Boucher, Redding, and Trask.
Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 204
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 204
Section 02
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 203
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 203
Section 03
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 205
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 205
| Section(s) | ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | "A Problem from Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide | New York: Basic Books, 2013 | Power, Samantha | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| All | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland | New York: Harper Perennial, 1998 | Browning, Christopher R. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| All | Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland | New York: Penguin Books, 2002 | Gross, Jan T. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| All | Survival In Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity | New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996 | Levi, Primo | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| All | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | New York: Harper Perennial, 2006 | Ung, Loung | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| All | "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing | New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2014 | Graff, Gerald | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.