This course is designed for educators who want to teach about the Holocaust. Participants will become familiar with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum´s (USHMM) Guidelines for teaching this topic as well as a brief history of the Holocaust and a survey of the resources available online at the Museum´s website. This course will familiarize participants with written and website materials and methods appropriate for teaching about the Holocaust at different age levels.

Attendance is required for all sessions to receive credit.

Registration for this course will close on October 8, 2009. Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

Today, the Eugenics Movement is widely regarded as a brutal movement which inflicted massive human rights violations on millions of people. This workshop expores theories as to why the testing movement got started; what was behind immigration restrictions passed earlier in the 20th Century; why society tolerated the thousands of women that were sterilized against their will; the origins of the many anti-miscegenation laws; and more acts that were all designed to produce a more pure race in the U.S. This workshop will introduce you to the American Eugenics Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and its significance. You will learn more about how Social Darwinism motivated societal change.