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Assess primary and secondary historical sources
Assessment Strategies
Written Product
Criteria
explain how historical actors represented their role in major events in Nazi Germany
assess the strengths and weaknesses of scholarly, historical analyses of Nazi Germany
present historically informed analysis of primary and secondary sources
provide interpretations of historical events and developments based on analysis of primary and secondary sources
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Examine the changing borders and boundaries of Germany from 1815 to the present
Assessment Strategies
Map Test
Criteria
identify Germany’s significant physical geographical features on a map
identify significant German cities and sites on a map
identify European nation-states on map
explore how Germany’s position in the heart of Europe affected its relationship with neighboring countries from 1871 to 1945
describe how the Adolf Hitler’s view of physical geography and natural resources molded Nazi Germany’s colonial and expansionist foreign policy
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Conduct historical research using Madison College libraries
Assessment Strategies
Skill Demonstration
Criteria
identify appropriate topics for journal article critiques/book reviews
work with Madison College librarians to effectively use scholarly databases and other sources
create a bibliography modeled on the seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style
supply a word processing file that follows formatting instructions and utilizes automated features supplied by word processing programs
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Collaborate with peers and instructor
Assessment Strategies
Individual and/or group project in online and/or in-person settings
Criteria
generate historically informed responses to course content (assigned books and films)
connect course content to the present and current events
respond to the analyses and interpretations offered by peers and instructor
engage in constructive, collegial debate with peers and instructor
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Create analytically oriented and historically informed essays about Nazi Germany
Assessment Strategies
Journal, Essay
Criteria
use a writing process (multiple drafts)
essay includes primary and secondary sources
follow the conventions of standard written English
essay presents information that engages directly with historical issues and topics
essay is organized logically and coherently
essay includes a bibliography
essay includes a thesis supported with sufficient evidence
sources are cited using standard academic documentation
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Identify significant cultural, intellectual, political, and social origins of Nazism
Assessment Strategies
Written Product
Criteria
use a writing process (multiple drafts)
explore how the era of German unification affected the development of Nazism
explain how Social Darwinism influenced Nazi ideology
describe how Marxism influenced Nazi ideology
study the relationship between antisemitism, Marxism, and Nazism
compare Nazism to other anti-democratic, anti-parliamentary European political movements
examine the connections between World War I and Nazism
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Analyze the origins, growth, and fall of the Nazi Party
Assessment Strategies
Essay, review, and/or article critique
Criteria
explore what socioeconomic groups were attracted to Nazism
examine the role violence played in Nazi political campaigns before Nazi seizure of power
investigate the role propaganda played building popular support before the Nazi seizure of power
analyze the interplay between political crises and Nazi electoral performance before the Nazi seizure of power
assess and analyze popular views of the Nazi Party and its members from 1920 to 1945
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Analyze the Nazis’ belief in and conception of the National People’s Community (Volksgemeinschaft)
Assessment Strategies
Essays, article critique and/or book review
Criteria
examine how the German concept of the people (das Volk) reflected Romantic rather than Enlightenment thought
analyze how unification affected the definition of the German People
investigate how the World War I helped create a “people’s community at the front and at home
explore how the Nazis informally and then legally defined those inside and out of the national people’s community
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Develop historical empathy for the tens of millions of people affected, harmed by National Socialism from 1919 the present
Assessment Strategies
Essays, review, and/or critique
Criteria
analyze Nazi persecution of political opponents from 1933 to 1945
investigate the origins, implementation, consequences, and legacy of the Nazi Genocide of European Jews
examine the origins, implementation, consequences, and legacy of the Nazi genocide of those considered “sub-human
explore the experience of Nazi occupation policies in the Soviet Union and other parts of Nazi-controlled Europe
examine how the Third Reich fundamentally reshaped German and European demography, politics, and political boundaries
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Analyze how Germany has dealt with the legacy and memory of the Third Reich
Assessment Strategies
Essay, Review, and/or Critique
Criteria
examine the post-war tendency to view anti-Nazi resistors as traitors
describe how the horrors experienced by Germans during World War II developed a sense of victimization
explore the development of extremist movements in the German military and police forces
investigate how Germany has grappled with the legacy and public memory of the Holocaust