| Course title | Genocides in the World from 1915 |
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| Course code | KPE/MGW |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter |
| Number of ECTS credits | 7 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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unspecified
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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| Learning outcomes |
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This English-language elective course traces the complex issue of genocide from the prehistory of the phenomenon to the present. The course emphasizes the following areas, which primarily follow a temporal and territorial axis: 1. The origin of the term genocide (Raphael Lemkin) and its definition (genesis and meaning of UN Resolution 260 of 1948); 2. The "prehistory" of genocide with examples from the pre-World War I period (empires, colonies and genocide); 3. The Ottoman genocide of Armenian, Assyrian and Pontic Christians and its denial by the Turks; 4. The Communist version of genocide I (Stalin's purges of the 1930s and 1940s); 5. The Jewish Holocaust I (origin and program); 6. The Jewish Holocaust II (implementation); 7. Communist version of genocide II (Mao's China, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia) and the anti-communist genocide in Indonesia 1965-1966; 8. Genocidal practices in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s; 9. Rwanda 1994; 10. Prevention and elimination of genocide in international relations;11. Genocide in international law; 12. Psychological, sociological and anthropological analysis of genocide; 13. Genocide in memory, genocide denial and freedom of speech. The course will also include a voluntary excursion in the region (e.g., Holocaust museums in Berlin or Poland, sites of concentration/extermination camps (Auschwitz, Treblinka).
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| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Written exam
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): European Union (2019) | Category: Economy | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Political Analysis and Strategy (2019) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Governance and Democracy (2023) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Governance and Democracy (2019) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): War and Peace Studies (2019) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): War and Peace Studies (2023) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2023) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): European Union (2023) | Category: Economy | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): European Union (2023) | Category: Economy | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Political Analysis and Strategy (2023) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): European Union (2023) | Category: Economy | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): European Union (2023) | Category: Economy | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): War and Peace Studies (2019) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2019) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Governance and Democracy (2019) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): European Union (2019) | Category: Economy | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): European Union (2023) | Category: Economy | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Political Analysis and Strategy (2019) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |