By Judy Young Drache
Members of CHES, including some Holocaust survivors, are pleased to note that a third-year undergraduate course on the Holocaust will be offered by Carleton University as of September 2022.
The course will be online, which we hope will allow for a larger number of registered Carleton students to take it than would be the case for an in – person course. Indeed, if it is well advertised, interested students from across the country might also be able to register for it. To read more …
Entitled, The Holocaust: Historical and Religious Dimensions, the course is being presented by the departments of Religion (RELI 3140) and History (HIST 3714) and is described in the Carleton Course Calendar for 2022-23 as follows: “Introduction to the historical and religious dimensions of the Holocaust. The foundations, perpetration and consequences of the Nazi Final Solution will be examined through primary sources including survivor testimony.” A detailed course description and syllabus with the required reading list is now available online at: https://carleton.ca/religion/wp-content/uploads/Syllabus-RELI-3140HIST-3714-Fall-2022.pdf
The course instructor is Megan Hollinger, currently a PhD student at the University of Ottawa researching community-based alternative solutions for combatting antisemitism in Canada. Her MA thesis (Carleton University) is entitled, Legal Responses to Antisemitism and anti-Jewish Hate in Contemporary Canada. She has received several awards and scholarships during her graduate studies and has published a number of research papers.
We understand that the course will be offered for the next three years and are delighted to add that the financial basis for this course has been assured through funds raised by CHES for Holocaust Education programs while affiliated with Carleton’s Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies from 2015 to 20.
We congratulate Carleton University on this important endeavour and hope that the course becomes a success so it can be offered in future years. While CHES is no longer officially associated with Carleton, we are happy to see the fruit of our collaboration live on in the form of this academic legacy.
