The Holocaust in Art, Film, Literature, and Music

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a wide variety of secondary source material relating to the holocaust in art, film, literature, and music, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
• the Holocaust in art, film, literature, and music, in particular canonical and non-canonical representations of the Holocaust in the post-war world.
• a wide variety of primary sources relating to the Holocaust in art, film, literature, and music.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.
• research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in essays and written assignments.
• utilise and develop your time-management skills.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply your developed knowledge of the Holocaust in art, film and literature
• undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.
• engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to the Holocaust in art, film, literature, and music and its relationship to the wider world.

Topics to be explored in this module may include immediate post-war responses, film as witness, survivor testimony, fictional accounts, and holocaust ‘comedy’.

Teaching methods include seminars.

Learning methods include close analysis of a range of primary sources and discussion of key themes and ideas.

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.