Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- collect data and information, evaluate it and synthesise it within your own work
- demonstrate critical time management skills by handling several tasks competently at the same time.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse a wide range of primary sources (including images), with regard to their specific context, and comment succinctly on their significance
- reflect on the wide-ranging impact of the Holocaust, in particular in regard to memory.
- develop a coherently-written argument based on an engagement with primary sources and secondary texts.
- identify and engage with the most important historiographical texts on the subject.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the experience of other victims of the Nazi regime
- The background to the Holocaust, its antecedents, and the nature of antisemitism before 1933
- Jewish responses to Nazi persecution
- the history of the rise of Nazism, of Nazi Germany, and in particular of the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 260 |
Teaching | 40 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Jeremy Noakes and Pridham, G (2000). Nazism 1919-1945, vols 2+4. Exeter.
Ulrich Herbert (ed.) (2000). National Socialist extermination policy. Berghahn.
Saul Friedländer (1998). Nazi Germany and the Jews. Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
Mark Roseman (2001). The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting. Penguin.
Philip Burrin (1994). Hitler and the Jews. Arnold.
Ian Kershaw (2001). Hitler, Vol. 1 and 2. Penguin.
Daniel J. Goldhagen (1995). Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Knopf.
Götz Aly (1998). The Final Solution. Arnold.
David Cesarani, (ed.) (1994). The Final Solution. Routledge.
Neil Gregor (2000). Nazism. Oxford.
Jeremy Noakes and Pridham, G (2000). Nazism 1919-1945, vols 1+3. Exeter.
Omer Bartov (ed.) (2000). The Holocaust. Routledge.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External