UCSB Hist 33D, L 1: Elephants, Fruit Salad & Smoothies
Prof. H. Marcuse, 23 Sept. 2003

• Syllabus
• Enrollment questions
• Elephants, Fruit Salad & Smoothies
• Films tonight

Syllabus:

Course goals:

• learn about the historical facts of the Holocaust
• learn about how people try to explain events

Requirements

• Attendance: films & field trip, too (10pts)
• midterm: 4 questions (4x4=16pts)
• internet: resources, contact, final projects
• journal: 8 entries (8x4=32pts)
• final project (10+10=20pts)
• final exam (12+10=22pts)

Readings

Writing Assignments

• Journal: 8 entries
• your reflections about: news articles, lectures, readings, etc.
• one page, single spaced: ¼ summary; ¾ reflection & analysis
• Final Projects
• can & should be done by groups
• pick a topic and research it
• web publication: homepage text; reviews, images, annotated links
• dates:10/14 proposal; 10/30 drafts; 11/20 final

Enrollment Questions

• Budget cuts: 50, not 60-90 spaces
• roll call
• How many not called?
• Waiting list

Elephants, Fruit Salad & Smoothies (link to essay)

"Interdisciplinary"

• History (process, context)
• Film, Art (representations)
• Science (ideology of)
• Psychology (individual behavior)
• Sociology (group behavior)
• Education (learning process)

Smoothies: Disciplines all mixed up

• history: individual behavior in groups in historical situation, exposed to representations
• art: representations understood by individuals as members of groups who have learned to understand visual codes
• sociology: group behaviors conditioned by individual experiences of historical events and their representation and interpretation

Homework

Think about the meanings, define:

• Nazism
• Holocaust

What images do you associate with each?

Films tonight 6:30, 1920 Buchanan

• Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003): Triumph of the Will (1935)
  40 mins. (of 70)
  • "greatest propaganda film of all time"
• Ray Mueller: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
  last 56 mins of tape 1, first 18 mins. of tape 2.

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