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The course and prefix are being changed for the proposed major in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and to conform to ISP Interdisciplinary Outcomes. It will then be cross-listed as IIWS 254, applicable to the Women’s Studies Minor. The title is being changed (Women in, not and, the Holocaust) to underscore women’s involvement in the Holocaust.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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IIHGS 254/IIWS 254 Women in the Holocaust
IHHIST 253 The Second World War
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The course prefix is being changed to include the course within the Integrative Studies Program in the Humanities.
IHHGS 256 Religion and Violence
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The Holocaust and other forms of genocidal violence often cannot be understood without coming to terms with the religious dimensions of their violence. Understanding this dimension in human affairs calls for a disciplined investigation of the role of the religious imagination, especially the way it configures “the other” in the world it inhabits and shapes for its own adherents and with those who stand outside its boundaries. This course will link our study the Holocaust and genocide to the investigation of other situations of religious and symbolic violence occurring at home and around the globe.
IIHGS 255 Genocide
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This will be a foundational and required course for all students either majoring or minoring in the redesigned program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
IHHIST 252/IHHGS 252 The Holocaust
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The course prefix is being changed to (a) fit the new Holocaust and Genocide Studies program, and (b) include the course within the Integrative Studies Program in the Humanities.
IHENG 251/IHHGS 251 Literature of the Holocaust
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The course number as listed by the English Department is being changed to correspond to the same offering in the proposed Holocaust and Genocide Studies program. The prefix is also being changed, again to correspond to the new prefix adopted by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program. The description has been slightly altered to accurately reflect which authors may be included in class readings (i.e. 2004 Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz.).
IHHGS 233 A History of the Jews
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Judaism and Jewish history has been covered together in a single semester. The addition of this course will allow for a more in-depth coverage of these two rich and complex subjects in separate courses. Evidence indicates that students of the Holocaust benefit considerably when given the opportunity to better understand the central group victimized by Nazi Germany. So long as those victims remain abstract entities (which they most often were to the perpetrators), or no more than the number “six million,” it is impossible to properly appreciate and empathize with the sorrow and loss experienced by survivors. A grounding in Jewish history is, accordingly, a crucial component of a well-rounded program in Holocaust education.
HGS Minor Program Proposal
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Keene State College has supported an interdisciplinary minor in Holocaust Studies since 2002-03. During the past three years, faculty members engaged in that program have evolved an expanded academic option that combines genocide studies with an undergraduate major. As a separate document, that proposed new program is being evaluated concurrently with this redesign of the minor. Given the new Holocaust- and genocide-related courses planned for the new baccalaureate program, it is only proper to expand and redefine the options open to students wishing to pursue no more than a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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HGS Major Program Proposal
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The new baccalaureate program will speak to the multidisciplinary and integrative studies’ mission embraced by Keene State College in the early 21st century, while serving to address in substantial depth issues of discrimination, persecution, and genocide that plague a world seeking tolerance, diversity, international cooperation, and peace. While other colleges and universities offer undergraduate minors in Holocaust and genocide studies, and a few offer graduate programs—Clark University stands alone with a Ph.D.—Keene State College will be on the cutting edge as the first institution to offer an undergraduate major in this field. This should be viewed as a crucial and significant opportunity as students engaged in our minor increasingly express a desire to major in the field. The baccalaureate program will provide significant new background for young adults entering public service while, at the same time, providing a diverse and solid liberal arts education.
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HGS 499 Senior Project
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The aim of this course is to provide a distinctive opportunity for unusually gifted seniors, as demonstrated by prior work throughout their undergraduate career, to substitute an individualized research project for their seminar. This should in no way demean the seminar, the discipline’s traditional capstone course, but rather offer a separate avenue for intense work for bright and self-disciplined seniors.