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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

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

Essay (2000 words) - 50%

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

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.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.