Spring 2027

Holocaust: History, Memory and Education

Explores Holocaust history, memory, and education using American sites of memory to critically analyze Shoah representations in literature, films, memoirs, monuments, museums, and classrooms.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Simone Schweber4.1/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Examine and question cultural assumptions and knowledge claims about race, ethnicity, and religion

  • Improve written and oral communication skills by engaging in critical conversations, making presentations, practicing group projects and writing papers

  • Demonstrate self-awareness and empathy to other worldviews and cultural differences and apply course concepts outside of the classroom by engaging in respectful conversations about race, ethnicity, and religion in our multi-cultural society

  • Construct and develop a meaningful project around a topic that interests you

  • Articulate answers to and pose complex questions regarding ethical issues, connecting historical events to present circumstances regarding racial inequalities

  • Develop your academic writing by thinking carefully through your ideas and editing your work and your peers’

  • Pose and answer complex historical and ethical questions regarding the Holocaust, genocide, their representations and political uses, connecting historical events to present circumstances regarding racial inequalities

  • Develop interpersonal academic skills by editing peers’ work

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3 UW Guide 4

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Prerequisites

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CURRIC/EDPOL/HISTORY/JEWISH 515

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Professors

Spring 2027

Simone Schweber

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Raw average: 5.00/5 from 11 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SIMONE SCHWEBER is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Mutual entanglement of Holocaust history, memory, and education; political charge and moral complexity.
  • Representations of the Shoah in literature, films, memoirs, monuments, museums, and classrooms, focusing on American sites of memory.
  • Complex historical and ethical questions regarding the Holocaust, genocide, their representations, political uses, and connections to present racial inequalities.
  • Cultural assumptions and knowledge claims about race, ethnicity, and religion.

Skills

  • Critically analyzing representations of the Shoah in literature, films, memoirs, monuments, museums, and classrooms.
  • Posing and answering complex historical and ethical questions regarding the Holocaust, genocide, and racial inequalities.
  • Developing academic writing through careful thinking, self-editing, and peer editing.
  • Examining and questioning cultural assumptions and knowledge claims about race, ethnicity, and religion.

Grades

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CURRIC/EDPOL/HISTORY/JEWISH 515 · Spring 2027

Holocaust: History, Memory and Education

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CURRIC/EDPOL/HISTORY/JEWISH 515 · Spring 2027

Holocaust: History, Memory and Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
CURRIC/EDPOL/HISTORY/JEWISH 515 · Spring 2027

Holocaust: History, Memory and Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
CURRIC/EDPOL/HISTORY/JEWISH 515 · Spring 2027

Holocaust: History, Memory and Education

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