COML 2580
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- Schedule of Classes - December 2, 2024 7:38PM EST
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Classes
COML 2580
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.
How is the memory of the Holocaust kept alive by means of the literary and visual imagination? Within the historical context of the Holocaust and how and why it occurred, we shall examine major and widely read Holocaust narratives that have shaped the way we understand and respond to the Holocaust. We also study ethical and psychological issues about how and why people behave in dire circumstances. We shall begin with first-person reminiscences—Wiesel's Night , Levi's Survival at Auschwitz, and The Diary of Anne Frank—before turning to realistic fictions such as Kineally's Schindler's List (and Spielberg's film), Kertesz's Fateless, Kosinski's The Painted Bird, and Ozick's "The Shawl." We shall also read the Kafkaesque parable of Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 and the fantastic cartoons of Spiegelman's Maus books as well as W.G, Sebald's Austerlitz. We shall conclude with several episodes of the acclaimed 2009-2017 French TV series A French Village.
When Offered Fall.
Distribution Category (ALC-AS, SCD-AS) (CA-AG, D-AG, LA-AG)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2580, JWST 2580
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
Instructors
Schwarz, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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