Program:
Unit 1 Introduction. Methodology. Definitions.
(Jan. 14, 16) (assigned readings)
Unit 2 The Origins of Genocide. Mass Killing and Genocide. Comparative Genocide Studies.
(Jan. 21, 23) (Jones, p.1-38; Valentino, p.1-29; assigned readings)
Unit 3 Colonial and Imperial Genocides. War, and Social Revolution. The Perpetrators and the Public.
(Jan. 28, 30) (Jones, p.39-63; Valentino, p.30-65; assigned readings)
Unit 4 Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing.
(Feb.4, 6) (Jones, p.67-100; Valentino, p.66-90; assigned readings)
Unit 5 The Armenian Genocide. War, Massacre, and Deportation.
(Feb. 11, 13) (Jones, p.101-123; Valentino, p.152-166; assigned readings)
Unit 6 Communist Mass Killing. Collectivization and Famine. Stalin’s Terror. National Minorities. The Gulag.
(Feb. 18, 20) (Jones, p.124-146; Valentino, p.91-117; assigned readings)
Unit 7 The Jewish Holocaust. Ordinary Germans and the Nazis. Jewish Resistance. Auschwitz-Birkenau.
(Feb. 25*, 27) (Jones, p.147-184; Valentino, p.166-178; assigned readings)
* MIDTERM EXAM
Unit 8 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. War and revolution. Genocidal Ideology. Buddhists and Ethnic Minorities.
(Mar. 4, 6) (Jones, p.185-211; Valentino, p.132-151; assigned readings)
Unit 9 Bosnia and Kosovo. Gendercide and Genocide. Communist Mass Killing in China.
(Mar. 11, 13) (Jones, p.212-231; Valentino, p.117-132; assigned readings)
Unit 10 Holocaust in Rwanda. Background to Genocide. Genocidal Frenzy.
(Mar. 18, 20* ) (Jones, p.232-257; Valentino, p.178-195; assigned readings)
* PROJECT PROPOSAL
Unit 11 Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide. Counterguerrilla Mass Killing. Guatemela, Afghanistan.
(Apr. 3) (Jones, p.261-306; Valentino, p.196-233; assigned readings)
Unit 12 Political Science and International Relations. Empirical Investigations. Democracy and Genocide.
(Apr. 8, 10) (Jones, p.307-341; assigned readings)
Unit 13 The Future of Genocide. Genocide Denial. International Criminal Tribunals. Humanitarian Intervention.
(Apr. 15, 17) (Jones, p.345-409; Valentino, p.234-253; assigned readings)
Unit 14 Conclusion. Review.
(Apr. 22, 24*) (assigned readings)
* FINAL PAPER * PORTFOLIO
(Apr.27 – May 3, tba*) * FINAL EXAM