What is the Florida State University
Holocaust Institute for Educators?
This week-long program at Florida State University provides teachers with the requisite knowledge,
skills and abilities to teach their students and other teachers about the Holocaust. The
instruction enables school districts to implement and meet the 1994 Florida legislative mandate
and the Georgia legislative mandate that information about the Holocaust be taught in schools.
Why was the Institute established?
Florida State University established the Institute in 1994 to provide teachers with the materials,
methods and abilities to teach their students and teacher colleagues about the Holocaust.
The Institute thus provides the support to teachers and their school districts needed to implement
the legislative mandate for instruction in Holocaust studies. Designed to ensure that the
important lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten, the Institute explores the broad ramifications
of the Holocaust and its application to current genocide studies.
Who should attend?
The Institute is designed primarily for secondary school teachers and college faculty; however,
elementary school teachers (fourth grade and above) and those interested in Holocaust studies
are also welcome to apply. The curriculum is of special interest to teachers of history, language
arts, humanities and the arts.
What are the benefits?
- Up-to-date information on the Holocaust and its impact on other countries
- Instruction by a variety of faculty who are experts in their fields
- Sessions on teaching materials and methods for hands-on use in the classroom
- Time to share ideas with colleagues from across the state and region
- Seeing the Holocaust through the eyes of survivors
- Academic credit, in-service credits and continuing education units available
- Implementation of the 1994 legislative mandate that information on the Holocaust
be taught in the schools
- Scholarship support
- Networking with colleagues who are teaching Holocaust studies
What is special about the Florida State University program?
Florida State University's program is one of the most intensive and extensive of those offered in
this region. For example, we have a seven-day program in comparison to other programs of one
or two days duration. We bring together faculty from several community colleges and universities
along with history, religion, English, and education faculty from FSU to lend their particular
expertise to the Institute. The teachers‰Ûª experience is further enriched with guest lectures from
nationally known speakers. In past years these speakers have included:
- Michael Berenbaum, previously from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and president
of the Shoah Foundation;
- Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel;
- Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University;
- Dr. Nechama Tec, Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut at Stamford and author of Resilence and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust and
- Dr. Robert Gellately, the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at FSU and
author of Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945; The Nuremberg Interviews; and Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Catastrophe.
How does your district benefit?
Participants will return to your school, having attended the Institute and completed a project or
research paper. The project is typically a redesign of lesson plans to include information about
the Holocaust, a program on the Holocaust for the community, or an in-service program to
educate other teachers about teaching the Holocaust. Attendance at the Institute will help your schools
meet the 1994 legislative mandate to teach about the Holocaust.
What can your district or college do?
We invite your district or any of your schools to select and sponsor one or more of your finest teachers or supervisors, grades 4 - 14 to be participants in the sixteenth annual
Holocaust Institute for Educators
The Florida State — Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center
June 21 — 27, 2009
Tallahassee, Florida
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Course Specifics
| Course Number: |
EUH 5249: The Holocaust in Historical Perspective (graduate)
EUH 4241: The Holocaust in Historical Perspective (undergraduate) |
| Dates: |
Sunday - Saturday, June 21 - 27, 2009 |
| Time: |
Sunday, June 21: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Monday - Friday: 8:00 am - 9:00 pm
Saturday, June 27: 8:30 am - 1:30 pm |
| Location: |
Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center
505 W. Pensacola St.
Tallahassee |
| Credit: |
4 semester hours of graduate credit; 3 semester hours of undergraduate credit; or 4.5 CEUs. Participants should arrange for in-service credit in advance with the individual counties. |
| Fee: |
$1143.00/graduate credit
$495.00/undergraduate or CEU credit
The course fee includes tuition, lunches, textbooks and materials. Scholarship assistance is available. |
| Instructors: |
Dr. Neil Betten (History Department, FSU) and
Dr. Cynthia Waddell Stone (Visiting Instructor, FSU) and others |
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