Module SOC3046 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3046: The Holocaust and Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
1.Introduction & orientation: Why study the Holocaust?
2.Uniqueness and comprehensibility: Was the Holocaust a unique event?
3 Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Modernity thesis: was the Holocaust an essentially modern phenomenon?
4 The nature of evil: Radical or Banal?
5 Social psychology: situationist explanation and the fundamental attributional error
6 Explaining direct perpetrators' actions and motivations: Browning's situationist explanation
7 Explaining direct perpetrators' actions and motivations: Goldhagen's cognitive explanation
8 Rescue and resistance: supererogation, ordinary goodness and the social conditions of altruism.
9 Normalisation of the Holocaust? Comparison & analogy with other genocides and putative cases of social wrong- and evil-doing
10 Knowledge, ignorance and responsibility
11 Judgement and understanding: compatible or incompatible?
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 127 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 16.5 | 11 x 1.5 hour lectures |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 5 | 5 x fortnightly 1 hour smaller group seminars |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activities | 1.5 | Revision session |
| Guided independent study | 47 | Assigned readings associated with each lecture |
| Guided independent study | 40 | Preparation for essay |
| Guided Independent Study | 40 | Preparation for exam |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/
