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The course is designed for students who wish to acquaint themselves with different artistic representations of the Holocaust related experience in literature and film across time in various European cultures. Stories of rescue and heroism and various accounts of resistance will be analysed, including the voices of victims, survivors and witnesses as represented in literary and cinematic forms.

20x1hr seminars over both semesters as scheduled in MyCampus.

This is one of the honours options in SMLC and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus.

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into one of the SMLC Honours programmes, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation.

SLAV4041, TRS3034 and TRS4087

None

The standard assessments for this course are:

■ Time-limited assignment (1500 words) completed over a 4-day period - 50%

■ Essay (2000 words) - 50%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ There is no alternative to the time-limited assignment, but extra time can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for examination adjustments).

■ There is no alternative to the essay, but an extension to the deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for extensions).

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

This course aims to:

■ introduce students to a variety of artistic responses toward the Holocaust created over a period of time by survivors, witnesses and post-war generation artists of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds;

■ provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the ethics of representation regarding the traumatic experience in selected literary texts and films, across time in various cultures;

■ enhance student's awareness of the impact that the Holocaust and post-Holocaust traumas have had on selected cultures within Europe.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ produce sustain arguments in a written form on a variety of artistic representations of the Holocaust including their literary and cinematic depictions across time in various cultures; 

■ compare and contrast various aspects of artistic responses to the Holocaust and post-Holocaust traumas as reflected across time in different cultures;

■ analyse the impact that the Holocaust related experience had on the development of selected European texts and films.