The course wishes to expose students to the entrepreneurial mindset and to provide them with the encouragement and tools to turn ideas in the field of Holocaust education and commemoration into concepts for projects and products.

The course will be conducted as an active workshop, in which students will work in teams in a creative and collaborative atmosphere. They will learn basic concepts in the field of social entrepreneurship and innovation; mapping methodologies of relevant challenges and eco-system; they will experiment with the creation and designing of concepts and minimal viable products (MVP) and experience with tools for pitching (elevator pitch) and creating a business model.

The course will be held separately for the zoom group and the physical group in class, therefore the groups will study in alternate weeks with each group studying every other week. A joint session will be held at the end of the semester for both groups, in which the final concepts will be presented. 

Course syllabus

In this course, we will consider goals, methods, content, and messages of teaching and learning about the Holocaust (TLH). We will delineate the development of Holocaust education and more specifically the place of Holocaust in school curricula, formal and informal education. TLH raises a host of educational questions regarding our goals as educators; what is successful Holocaust education and how the cultural surrounding is reflected in TLH. We will consider all these questions from multidisciplinary perspectives, including pedagogical, psychological, and philosophical aspects.

Course syllabus