THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: THE CAUSES, PROCESS, AND CONSEQUENCES
The course “The Armenian Genocide: The Causes, Process, and Consequences” provides fundamental knowledge about the Armenian Genocide and examines the causes, process, and consequences of it.
It presents the basic concepts:
- What is a Genocide
- What events and factors caused the Armenian Genocide?
- What decisions led to such crimes?
- Whether Armenians or Great powers could have prevented it.
- What are the lessons of the Armenian Genocide?
The purpose of the course is:
- to provide students with basic knowledge about the crime of genocide and especially about the Armenian Genocide,
- to present the racial violence that occurred in the 20th century, the reasons for the initiation of such violence, the process, the participants and methods, as well as the consequences of it for different peoples,
- to elucidate the goals and motives of the perpetrators of genocide, understand the similarities and differences of different genocides through comparisons,
- to present the causes, process, consequences of the first Genocide of the 20th century.
- on the basis of factual material, teach the student to independently analyze and evaluate similar phenomena and learn from them.
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- to master the facts and phenomena associated with the subject,
- to compare, analyze, describe, discuss the most important cases and events of the course,
- to argue, describe, discuss, evaluate the key cases and events of the given period of Armenian history,
- compare, analyze, classify relevant factual material,
- to recognize and present the rules, principles, and main targets of teaching the subject in the educational process.
60 hours, 2 credits
