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HIST 5

Holocaust: History and Memory

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Holocaust, murder of six million Jews by Germans in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, is one of crucial events of modern history. Examination of origins of Holocaust, perpetrators and victims, and changing efforts to come to terms with this genocide. Exploration of forces that led to Holocaust, including emergence of scientific racism, anti-Semitism, and machinery of modern state. Consideration of debates about implementation of genocide, including significance of gender and sexuality, relationship between war and genocide, meanings of resistance and culpability, and political and philosophical implications of Holocaust. Exploration of how genocide of European Jewry was intertwined with targeting of other victims of Nazi rule, including Roma, Slavs, black Germans, disabled, homosexuals, and political opponents of National Socialism. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.64
n = 534 · 4 terms · ± 0.023
A range
79%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
11%
90% of those passed
D / F / W
3.6%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 40823W
Enrolment by term: 23W 408
Peak 408 Most recent 408 in 23W 1 term on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 54 · 9.0%
  • A 268 · 44.7%
  • A- 102 · 17.0%
  • B+ 39 · 6.5%
  • B 26 · 4.3%
  • B- 15 · 2.5%
  • C+ 5 · 0.8%
  • C 3 · 0.5%
  • C- 4 · 0.7%
  • D+ 3 · 0.5%
  • D 1 · 0.2%
  • D- 1 · 0.2%
  • F 13 · 2.2%
  • P 57 · 9.5%
  • NP 6 · 1.0%
  • I 1 · 0.2%
  • DR 1 · 0.2%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
STEIN, SARAH 3.64 3.64 534 4 79%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term