In the Classroom

For professors and teachers, the history of the Holocaust is a challenging but important topic of study for the classroom. Examination of this history provides critical lessons about human behavior, political oppression, discrimination, citizenship, civil rights, philosophy, ethics and more. Though an unsettling subject, it is crucial to teach today's students about the horrors of the past.

At Michigan State University, instructors incorporate these lessons across disciplines and areas of studies.

Kenneth Waltzer is one of MSU's professors who is an expert in studying and teaching about the Holocaust. Waltzer teaches history in James Madison College at Michigan State University and directs the Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. His course, "Jews and Anti-Semitism," aims to increase student knowledge about Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism and their relation; acquaint students with the profound and distinctive tragedy of the Holocaust and the challenges the Holocaust poses to much that we believe; increase student understanding of human behavior under the harshest, most oppressive, conditions; and sharpen student attitudes and dispositions about responses to refugees and to genocides in a world of nation states.

Learn more about Waltzer’s course MC 387: Jews and Anti-Semitism (PDF)* 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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