Genocide: A Social Justice Issue

Genocide is both the gravest of crimes under international law and the ultimate violation of human rights. Unfortunately genocides and other atrocities continue to happen around the globe, including during our present day. This course studies the role that nationalism, propaganda, the media and film have played and continue to play in genocide. You will study how these factors played out in Armenia, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia and with the Rohingya people. Understand the role of power, privilege and oppression as well as political forces in defining a crime against humanity as a genocide or not.