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Teaching and learning about the Holocaust (TLH) raise a host of educational questions: How should it be taught? What should be our goals as educators? What can be considered successful Holocaust education? It also raises many pedagogical, philosophical and even theological challenges. In this course we will map three aspects of the question: Why did the Holocaust occur? This question can be broken down into sub-questions: What were the historical circumstances and chain of events which led to the Holocaust? How could people act as they did in the Holocaust, as perpetrators, bystanders, and helpers? How could God have allowed such an atrocity to occur, or, if we reject the idea of God, what does the existence of such evil imply about reality? We will cover each question in turn in this course, touching on pedagogies, educational goals, and educational assessment. Course Syllabus