GPH 350 Geographies of the Holcaust

3.0 Credit(s)

This course provides students with a geographical understanding of the Holocaust. Through lecture and class discussion, students will learn how mapping and geo-visualization expand our understanding of the history of the Holocaust. Theories from cultural and political geography will be used to study how the Nazi’s constructed a spatial network of death, including ghettos and concentration camps. Nazi spatial policies of ethnic cleansing and controlling mobility will be examined. Refugee narratives will be used to study resistance to Nazi spatial and genocidal policies. The course concludes with the study of museums and memorials to the Holocaust and the role of such places in current debates over genocide, refugees and human rights. Three lecture hours.