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Holocaust Studies

The introduction of this area of study marks the establishment of the first comprehensive undergraduate pathway in Holocaust Studies in the UK.  This area of study offers students the unique opportunity to bring together a broad range of approaches from the humanities and social sciences fields.  It may be taken in combination with any one of the other Combined Studies study areas (including Jewish Studies).

Course units in this area of study encourage students to contextualise key historical, ideological and cultural developments of the Holocaust within relevant national and international frameworks.

Of 120 credits each year, students may take 40, 60 or 80 units in Holocaust Studies.  Of these, a minimum of 40 units must be taken each year from the core area of Holocaust Studies.  The core courses presently available are:

YEAR 1

• Introduction to Holocaust Studies
• German history 1789-1945
• Introduction to Judaism

YEAR 2

• Sources of Holocaust Studies
• Jews in Europe 1789-1939
• Introduction to the history of Jewish-Christian-Relations
• Gender, sexuality, race: the trials of young adulthood in early 20th-Century literature
• Cultures of empire

YEAR 3

• Holocaust theology
• Consequences of the Holocaust on Western societies and Jewish history
• The Jewish-Christian-Muslim controversies from the earliest time until the Middle Ages 
• The search for normality: German culture and totalitarianism / national identity 1945 - present
• Culture and society in Germany, 1871-1918
• Assent and dissent in the Third Reich
• Fascist Italy
• Remembering the Second World War after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe
• Refugees in modern world history
• BA dissertation in Holocaust Studies

In addition, students may take a further 20 credits from courses relevant to Holocaust Studies from an interdisciplinary point of view, for example, in modern languages, history, religions and theology, art history and social sciences.  This range of course unit options reflects the high quality of interdisciplinary work in Holocaust Studies in Manchester.

For further details, contact Cathy Gelbin (cathy.gelbin@manchester.ac.uk)