Program:
Unit 1 Introduction. Methodology. Definitions.
(Jan. 13, 15) (assigned readings)
Unit 2 The Origins of Genocide. Mass Killing and Genocide. Comparative Genocide Studies.
(Jan. 20, 22) (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. 27, 29) (Jones, p.39-63; Valentino, p.30-65; assigned readings)
Unit 4 Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing.
(Feb. 3, 5) (Jones, p.67-100; Valentino, p.66-90; assigned readings)
Unit 5 The Armenian Genocide. War, Massacre, and Deportation.
(Feb. 10, 12) (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. 17, 19) (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. 24*, 26) (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. 3, 5) (Jones, p.185-211; Valentino, p.132-151; assigned readings)
Unit 9 Bosnia and Kosovo. Gendercide and Genocide. Communist Mass Killing in China.
(Mar. 10, 12) (Jones, p.212-231; Valentino, p.117-132; assigned readings)
Unit 10 Holocaust in Rwanda. Background to Genocide. Genocidal Frenzy.
(Mar. 24*, 26) (Jones, p.232-257; Valentino, p.178-195; assigned readings)
* PROJECT PROPOSAL
Unit 11 Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide. Counterguerrilla Mass Killing. Guatemala, Afghanistan.
(Mar. 31, Apr. 2) (Jones, p.261-306; Valentino, p.196-233; assigned readings)
Unit 12 Political Science and International Relations. Empirical Investigations. Democracy and Genocide.
(Apr. 7, 9) (Jones, p.307-341; assigned readings)
Unit 13 The Future of Genocide. Genocide Denial. International Criminal Tribunals. Humanitarian Intervention.
(Apr. 14, 16) (Jones, p.345-409; Valentino, p.234-253; assigned readings)
Unit 14 Conclusion. Review.
(Apr. 23*) (assigned readings)
* FINAL PAPER * PORTFOLIO
(Apr. 25 – 30, tba*) * FINAL EXAM