Summer Session 2024
CENS 201 Language and Social Justice
Term 1 | online | asynchronous | 3 credits
How does language contribute to social injustice? What role does language play in achieving social justice? These are the overarching questions we will explore through a variety of case studies. Topics will include gender hierarchies, health disparities, cultural differences, race and racialization, language and Indigeneity, language loss and emancipation. Individualized assignments will support your learning progress throughout the course.
CENS 304 Representations of the Holocaust: Auschwitz
Term 1 | online | asynchronous | 3 credits
This course will examine the Holocaust and related aspects of Nazi Germany, by focusing on Auschwitz. Auschwitz was an industrial compound, a concentration camp, a medical research site and an extermination facility; it served to imprison, terrorize, enslave, and kill. Its operations, as well as the so-called “twisted road” that led to it, provide a horrific and revealing example of the strange ways in which the Third Reich ruled by a strange mixture of chaos and consent.The course explores these issues by analyzing a set of diverse sources, including first-hand accounts (by both victims and perpetrators), interviews, documentaries, feature films and literary fictionalizations.