ED635 Genocide & Human Rights in Modern History
Course topics range from the Armenian genocide, to the Holocaust, and to contemporary genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur, including their impact on women and children. The influence of the Holocaust on Raphael Lemkin’s definition of the genocide* will be considered. The history of efforts to document, resist and combat prejudice, racism, hate crimes, and genocide will be examined.*Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such a killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.