20803242History Nazi Germany-1919-1945
Course Information
Description
This course chronicles the rise and fall of the Third Reich. To accomplish this, the course will analyze National Socialism's historical roots, investigate Nazism's links with World War 1, chart Nazi Party growth in the 1920s and 1930s, explore the creation of the Nazi state, assess Germany's role in World War II, examine the Holocaust, and consider Nazism's legacy.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
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Assess primary and secondary historical sourcesAssessment StrategiesWritten ProductCriteriaexplain how historical actors represented their role in major events in Nazi Germanyassess the strengths and weaknesses of scholarly, historical analyses of Nazi Germanypresent historically informed analysis of primary and secondary sourcesprovide 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 presentAssessment StrategiesMap TestCriteriaidentify Germany’s significant physical geographical features on a mapidentify significant German cities and sites on a mapidentify European nation-states on mapexplore how Germany’s position in the heart of Europe affected its relationship with neighboring countries from 1871 to 1945describe 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 librariesAssessment StrategiesSkill DemonstrationCriteriaidentify appropriate topics for journal article critiques/book reviewswork with Madison College librarians to effectively use scholarly databases and other sourcescreate a bibliography modeled on the seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Stylesupply 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 instructorAssessment StrategiesIndividual and/or group project in online and/or in-person settingsCriteriagenerate historically informed responses to course content (assigned books and films)connect course content to the present and current eventsrespond to the analyses and interpretations offered by peers and instructorengage in constructive, collegial debate with peers and instructor
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Create analytically oriented and historically informed essays about Nazi GermanyAssessment StrategiesJournal, EssayCriteriause a writing process (multiple drafts)essay includes primary and secondary sourcesfollow the conventions of standard written Englishessay presents information that engages directly with historical issues and topicsessay is organized logically and coherentlyessay includes a bibliographyessay includes a thesis supported with sufficient evidencesources are cited using standard academic documentation
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Identify significant cultural, intellectual, political, and social origins of NazismAssessment StrategiesWritten ProductCriteriause a writing process (multiple drafts)explore how the era of German unification affected the development of Nazismexplain how Social Darwinism influenced Nazi ideologydescribe how Marxism influenced Nazi ideologystudy the relationship between antisemitism, Marxism, and Nazismcompare Nazism to other anti-democratic, anti-parliamentary European political movementsexamine the connections between World War I and Nazism
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Analyze the origins, growth, and fall of the Nazi PartyAssessment StrategiesEssay, review, and/or article critiqueCriteriaexplore what socioeconomic groups were attracted to Nazismexamine the role violence played in Nazi political campaigns before Nazi seizure of powerinvestigate the role propaganda played building popular support before the Nazi seizure of poweranalyze the interplay between political crises and Nazi electoral performance before the Nazi seizure of powerassess 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 StrategiesEssays, article critique and/or book reviewCriteriaexamine how the German concept of the people (das Volk) reflected Romantic rather than Enlightenment thoughtanalyze how unification affected the definition of the German Peopleinvestigate how the World War I helped create a “people’s community at the front and at homeexplore 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 presentAssessment StrategiesEssays, review, and/or critiqueCriteriaanalyze Nazi persecution of political opponents from 1933 to 1945investigate the origins, implementation, consequences, and legacy of the Nazi Genocide of European Jewsexamine the origins, implementation, consequences, and legacy of the Nazi genocide of those considered “sub-humanexplore the experience of Nazi occupation policies in the Soviet Union and other parts of Nazi-controlled Europeexamine 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 ReichAssessment StrategiesEssay, Review, and/or CritiqueCriteriaexamine the post-war tendency to view anti-Nazi resistors as traitorsdescribe how the horrors experienced by Germans during World War II developed a sense of victimizationexplore the development of extremist movements in the German military and police forcesinvestigate how Germany has grappled with the legacy and public memory of the Holocaust