HI6036 - Holocaust Testimony and Cultural Memory

The primary method of teaching for this module is through seminars. In these sessions, we will have a variety of presentations and group and whole-class discussions. The module uses a blended learning strategy that will make extensive use of Blackboard. Pre-seminar tasks and links will be posted each week: these will include readings, quizzes and mini-research projects. Lectures for some weeks will also be made available as screencasts. You will post weekly journals of responses to the material studied, which will form the basis for your subsequent essay assignment.

Your academic development will be supported through your module tutor, engagement with your peers, and through the programme leader. The module tutor will be accessible within publicised Feedback and Consultation hours and via email. Your peers will provide you with a collaborative learning environment, and your programme leader will guide you through the requirements and expectations of your degree programme, of which this module is part. You will also be supported through individual engagement with the academic literature, lectures, and resources available on the eLP. Formative feedback will be on-going through seminar activities and assessment tasks.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of an interdisciplinary selection of cultural artefacts and texts on the Holocaust
2. Apply key ideas such as trauma, testimony, cultural memory and representation to the analysis of testimony and cultural texts and artefacts

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
3. Establish your own considered position on debates on testifying to, representing and memorializing the Holocaust
4. Display an ability to analyse different kind of sources

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
5. Show sustained reflection on your own experience of engaging with representations of the Holocaust

1 x 3,000-word essay (weighted 50%).
This essay will be written in response to one question chosen from a list provided by the module tutor.
(MLOs 1-5)

1 x two-hour seen exam paper (weighted 50%).
In the exam, you will discuss short extracts from sources that will have been looked at closely in the seminars.
(MLOs 1-4)

Through weekly journal responses, you will undertake work that is formative for your subsequent assignment. Formative feedback for each assessment will be provided in seminars, including practice gobbet answers. Verbal and written feedback will be given on all summative assessed work. Feedback on initial summative assessments will enable you to improve on later ones.

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This module traces ways in which survivors have attempted to bear witness to the Holocaust. Students will consider the continuing impact of the Holocaust on the lives of its surviving witnesses and their children as well as the challenges of representing the Holocaust. To this end, students will encounter different forms of Holocaust testimony: from recorded interviews and courtroom proceedings to memoirs and diaries, and from different kinds of literary texts.