_ Welcome Genocide students, please check this section regularly for reminders, updates and resources. Upcoming due dates: Walk in your shoes - Mini essay and poster board - TBA
Course Outline (2017-2018)
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Is identity fluid? What is your universe of obligation? What happens when collectivist values trump the needs of individuals?
3. Conformity and Obidence
This class will explore human behaviour by examining the work of Milgram, Zimbardo and Asch.
5. Human Rights
We'll explore the evolution of human rights legislation and contemporary case studies. In class activity Activity: Human Rights or National Sovereignty? You decide. Human Rights Case Studies: Refugees and Migrant Peoples, LGBTQ, Rohingya People, Aboriginal Peoples, Women, Caste System, Torture, Displaced People , Journalists, or your choice.
7. Armenian Genocide
Introduction to the Armenian genocide, key players, and historical context
9. Exploring genocide through primary documents
11. Armenian Genocide Essay
Assignment to be distributed in class Check out the University of Toronto's essay writing tips - http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/general/general-advice
13. Guest Speaker - Ukrainian Famine
15. The Holocaust
Introduction to the Holocaust, history of anti-semitism, Nazi ideology/propaganda
17. The Rise of the Nazi's and Anti-Semetism
During this lesson we'll explore the German school system, Nazi propaganda, the Nuremberg Laws, Kristellnacht, and indoctrination of youth
19. Art Spieglman's Maus
We'll be reading Spiegelman's Maus I and II and exploring life before, during and after the Holocaust.
21. A War within a War
Understanding the Holocaust.
23. Armed Resitance
Case study: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Film: Defiance
25. The Cambodian Genocide
Historical Context
27. The Cambodian Genocide
Visual Timeline activity
Human Rights Presentations
This course studies contemporary as well as past events. We'll be exploring contemporary issues such as the plight of migrants, food security, etc.
2. Racism, Discrimination and Prejudice
What is race? To what extent is race a social construct? We'll seek to understand prejudice through the use of the social sciences using Gordon Allport's prejudice scale and Jane Elliot's blue eye, brown eye experiment.
4. What is Genocide?
How is genocide different than mass murder? Exploring the legal definition of genocide and the legacy of Raphel Lempkin.
During this lesson we'll investigate life in the ghettos. Case study: Lodz ghetto and the Warsaw ghettos. Film clips: Schindler's List
20. Targetted Minorities
In class web quest to explore the treatment of Jehovah Witness, Homosexuals, Black europeans, Roma, Socialists, Communists, and other people's targeted by the Nazi's
22. Resistance - part I and II
Exploring concepts of resistance during the Holocaust.
24. Justice and Liberation
The Nuremberg Trials, Displaced Persons
26. The Cambodian Genocide
The Killing Fields
28. Rwandan Genocide
Historical context: colonial relationships, Hutu and Tutis