The Holocaust 1

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The background to the Holocaust, its antecedents, and the nature of antisemitism before 1933
• the history of the rise of Nazism, of Nazi Germany, and in particular of the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime
• the experience of other victims of the Nazi regime
• Jewish responses to Nazi persecution

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
• develop a coherently-written argument based on an engagement with primary sources and secondary texts.
• reflect on the wide-ranging impact of the Holocaust, in particular in regard to memory.
• identify and engage with the most important historiographical texts on the subject.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate critical time management skills by handling several tasks competently at the same time.
• collect data and information, evaluate it and synthesise it within your own work

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.