POLS 355 - Exploring the Holocaust and Genocide

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This course examines the history, causes, effects and ethical issues involved with the genocide against European Jews and Gypsies from 1933-45. Studies Christian anti-Semitism as it contributed to the Holocaust, and compares these events to other holocausts: the Armenian genocide, killing fields of Cambodia, slavery, genocide in Rwanda, Native Americans after the European conquest, and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Prerequisite(s): No pre-requisite