Exploring our Common Humanity:

Integrating the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Into The Curriculum

Curriculum sections include:
Model Lesson Plans for Teaching about the Holocaust


3 Day Professional Workshop
July 21-23, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Sonoma State University
$50 Stipend • Meals provided
1 unit of academic credit available @ $55
Deadline to register: June 1
Register early, limited enrollment.


Academic Content:

  • Provides background in understanding the Holocaust and recent genocides
  • Meets California History/Social Science and Language Arts Standards and Service Learning
  • Includes guidelines developed by US Holocaust Memorial Museum for teaching the Holocaust
  • Sample curriculum materials available.

Curriculum sections include:

  • Model Lesson Plans for Teaching About the Holocaust
  • Learning about Human Rights
  • Taking Oral Histories
  • Creating Responsive Projects

Participants will gain important knowledge about the history and definitions of genocide; the historical, social, religious, political and economic factors that collectively resulted in the Holocaust; the moral and ethical issues raised by the Holocaust and other genocides; methods for helping students understand how the use and abuse of power leads to human rights violations; implications of prejudice, racism, anti-Semitism and stereotyping in any society; and how democratic values and citizen responsibility are important aspects in the prevention of genocide.

Presenters will include:

Dr. Myrna Goodman, Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide at SSU

Dr. Elaine Leeder, Dean, School of Social Sciences at SSU

Phyllis Rosenfield, Executive Director, Listening for a Change, Santa Rosa, California

Caroline Chinn Gonsalves, Multi-Cultural Instructor, Listening for a Change, Santa Rosa, California

Contact Julie Barnes at (707)664-2600 for more information or to register.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, the School of Social Science and the School of Extended Education at Sonoma State University, Listening for a Change, and with special support from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the San Francisco Jewish Community Endowment Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund