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Oakwood High launches Holocaust and genocide studies course with Sinclair credit; students say it reshaped their understanding
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Oakwood High School is offering a semester Holocaust and genocide studies course through Sinclair Community College for three college credits. Teacher Matt Deters and four students described course goals, primary-source study of victims and perpetrators, and student projects on survivors and uprisings.
Oakwood High School this year launched a semester-long Holocaust and genocide studies course offered for three college credits through Sinclair Community College, a teacher and students told the board May 12.
"Because we have more time than a typical college course...I have added in materials on genocide studies," said Matt Deters, a high school social studies teacher, describing course content that covers the Holocaust and other twentieth- and twenty-first-century genocides including Namibia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia and modern examples students…
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