Europe, 1914-1945: Dark Continent? - JWST2109


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History and Philosophy
	Course Outline: http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/ugoutlines.html
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
	Equivalent: EURO2482, HIST2482
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Explores examples of catastrophic wars and revolutionary upheavals, examines cases of ethnic-cleansing and genocide, and analyses the impact of ideologies on concepts of nation, race and gender. Themes include: Total War, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Anarchism and the "New Woman". Case studies will include Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, the Spanish Civil War, WWI & WWII, the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust.