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List of courses taught around the world using archive testimony

Over 130 courses at 12 universities have drawn upon the Institute’s testimonies in over 20 disciplines and fields. The courses demonstrate the range of topics and themes that the Institute's archive of video testimonies can help illuminate. Use the table below to see what the trends are for testimony-enhanced courses taught at colleges and universities around the world.

See the list of courses below or download a PDF of the course list.

Institution Course Title Department/Discipline Term Instructor
California State University, Bakersfield Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning Religious Studies 2007 Fall Liora Gubkin
California State University, Bakersfield Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning Religious Studies 2008 Spring Liora Gubkin
California State University, Bakersfield Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning Religious Studies 2009 Winter Liora Gubkin
Freie Universität Berlin Inventory Software & Computer Assisted Data Entry Art History 2007 Summer Karin Kranhold
Freie Universität Berlin Shoah and "Visual History" Eastern European Studies 2007 Summer Gertrud Pickhan
Freie Universität Berlin Holocaust in Eastern Europe: History and Remembrance Eastern European Studies 2008/09 Winter Gertrud Pickhan, Gerhard Wolf
Freie Universität Berlin The Culture of Remembrance regarding the Victims of Nationalsocialism: "Holocaust Education" and the Use of Testimony within Education Educational Sciences/Institute for Catholic Theology 2008 Summer Verena Nägel, Matthias Blum
Freie Universität Berlin Cultural Studies English Literature 2007 Summer Anja Schwarz
Freie Universität Berlin Visual History Film Studies & Cinematography 2007 Summer Judith Keilbach
Freie Universität Berlin Spielberg Film Studies & Cinematography 2008 Summer Bernhard Gross
Freie Universität Berlin Lifestories and Collective Memory ("Visual History Archive" of the Shoah
Foundation Institute)		 German and Dutch Philology 2007/2008 Winter Irmela von der Lühe
Freie Universität Berlin The Women’s Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück History 2007 Summer Anne Kwaschik
Freie Universität Berlin History and Film History 2008 Summer Ina Ulrike Paul
Freie Universität Berlin Images, Text Sources in Competence-Oriented History Classes History 2008 Summer Martin Lücke
Freie Universität Berlin Dealing with the National Socialist Past in Europe 1945-1990 History 2007/2008 Winter Amd Bauerkäuer
Freie Universität Berlin History in Moving Pictures: Films as Source and Medium History 2007/2008 Winter Uwe Puschner, Johannes Zechner
Freie Universität Berlin Selected Topics on the History of Public Communication; Image-Text Journalism History 2007/2008 Winter Bernd Sösemann
Freie Universität Berlin Remembering + Narrating = History? Introduction to Historical Science Theories History 2008/09 Winter Christine Gundermann
Freie Universität Berlin The I of Others – Ego Documents and Historical Learning History 2008/09 Winter Marin Lücke
Freie Universität Berlin Theory, Methodology & History of the Science of History History 2008/09 Winter Oliver Janz
Freie Universität Berlin War and War Memories in Modern European History History 2008/09 Winter Oliver Janz
Freie Universität Berlin Culture, Gender, Media II: Visual Cultures Institute for English Philology 2008/09 Winter Sabine Schülting
Freie Universität Berlin Contemporary Jewish History: Jewish Berlin - Module Jewish Studies 2007 Summer Klaus Hermann
Freie Universität Berlin Jewish Autobiographies in the 20th Century Jewish Studies 2007 Summer Silvia Cresti
Freie Universität Berlin Contemporary Jewish History: Jewish Berlin - Module Jewish Studies 2008 Summer Klaus Hermann
Freie Universität Berlin The Jewish Confirmation of Girls and Boys - On the Question of Gender in 19th and Early 20th Century Judaism Jewish Studies 2008 Summer Klaus Hermann
Freie Universität Berlin Contemporary Jewish History: Jewish Berlin - Module Jewish Studies 2006/2007 Winter Klaus Hermann
Freie Universität Berlin Legislation and Commemoration Jewish Studies 2007/2008 Winter Silvia Cresti
Freie Universität Berlin Jews in the GDR Jewish Studies 2008/09 Winter Bill Rebiger
Freie Universität Berlin Tools of the Trade for Jewish Studies Researchers Jewish Studies 2008/09 Winter Klaus Hermann
Freie Universität Berlin Transnational Migration and Interwoven History Latin American Studies 2007/2008 Winter Franka Bendemagel, Birgit zur Nienden
Freie Universität Berlin Cultures of Commemoration & European Identity: Italy & Germany In Comparison Political Science 2007 Summer Edith Pichler
Freie Universität Berlin European Cultures of Remembrance in Comparison Political Science 2008 Summer Edith Pichler
Freie Universität Berlin Testimonies and Memorial Pedagogy Political Science 2008 Summer Christian Geissler Jagodzinski, Katharina Obens
Freie Universität Berlin Evaluation of Material and Documents on the History of the Second World War in Germany and Central Europe Political Science 2007/2008 Winter Johannes Schlootz
Freie Universität Berlin Policy of Extermination: The Nationalsocialist Mass Murder of the European Jews Political Science 2007/2008 Winter Hajo Funke, Johannes Tuchel
Freie Universität Berlin Project Course – Developing an Internet Exhibition: Political Prisoners of the Concentration Camp in Oranienburg Political Science 2007/2008 Winter Siegfried Mielke, Günter Morsch
Freie Universität Berlin Project Course: Book Project – Metal Workers within the Resistance and in Emigration Political Science 2007/2008 Winter Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz
Freie Universität Berlin Between Zeitgeist and Propoganda: Testimonies & Documents on the National Socialist Era Political Science 2008/09 Winter Johannes Schlootz
Freie Universität Berlin Who Testifies for the Witnesses? Perspectives of Work with Survivors of National Socialism Political Science 2008/09 Winter Katharina Obens, Tanja Seider
Freie Universität Berlin Qualitative Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences Sociology 2007 Summer Sabine Pokorny
Freie Universität Berlin Nationalsocialism in Germany and It's Consequences Sociology 2008 Summer Helgard Kramer
Freie Universität Berlin Qualitative Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences Sociology 2008 Summer Sabine Pokorny
Freie Universität Berlin Qualitative Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences Sociology 2007/2008 Winter Sabine Pokorny
Freie Universität Berlin Nationalsocialism in Germany and It's Consequences Sociology 2008/09 Winter Helgard Kramer
Freie Universität Berlin Remembrance-Memories-Commemoration: Analysis of National Socialism after 1945 Sociology 2008/09 Winter Christina Herkommer
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Holocaust: Memory and Gender Cultural Studies 2008/09 Winter Atina Grossmann
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Oral History as Method in Scandinavian Historiography History 2006/2007 Winter Izabella Dahl
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Research Workshop on the Former Uckerman Youth Concentration Camp Political Science/Gender Studies 2008 Summer  
Monash University Australian Jewry: History and Society History 2007 Lionel Sharpe
Monash University Holocaust, The History 2007 First Semester Mark Baker
Monash University Holocaust in an Age of Genocide History 2008 First Semester Mark Baker
Monash University Holocaust Memories History 2008 First Semester Mark Baker
Monash University Recording Oral History: History and Practice History 2008 First Semester Alistair Thomson
Monash University The Uses of the Past History 2008 First Semester Alistair Thomson
Rice University Fieldwork Anthropology 2004-2005 Christopher Kelty
Rice University Law and Society Anthropology 2004 Spring Jennifer Hamilton
Rice University Violence, Terror, and Social Trauma Anthropology 2005 Spring Julie Taylor
Rice University Text As Property, Property As Text Anthropology/Classics 2004 Spring Christopher Kelty
Rice University Rhetoric Anthropology/Linguistics 2004 Spring Stephen Tyler
Rice University Introduction to Argumentation English 2004-2005  
Rice University National Identity & Public Memory French Studies 2008 Spring Julie Fette
Rice University Between Resistance and Collaboration: Individuals Responding to National Socialism German 2005 Spring Maria-Regina Kecht
Rice University From Democracy to Dictatorship: German History 1890-1945 History 2005 Fall Peter Caldwell
Rice University War & Genocide in the 20th Century History 2005 Fall Irene Guenther
Rice University War, Women, and Home Front History 2005 Fall Irene Guenther
Rice University Introduction to Judaism Religious Studies 2004-2005  
Rice University Who Is (Not) a Jew? Religious Studies 2004 Fall Gregory Kaplan
Rice University Who Is (Not) a Jew? Religious Studies 2005 Fall Gregory Kaplan
Rice University Who Is (Not) a Jew? Religious Studies 2007 Fall Gregory Kaplan
Rice University Religion in Eastern Europe under Communism Religious Studies, Slavic Studies 2005 Spring Zoe Knox
Rice University Religion in Eastern Europe under Communism Religious Studies, Slavic Studies 2006 Spring Zoe Knox
Rice University Documentary Production Visual Arts 2004-2005  
Rice University Gender and Symbolism Women & Gender Studies 2004 Spring Jennifer Hamilton
Rice University Women and National Socialism Women & Gender Studies, German 2005 Fall Maria-Regina Kecht
Rice University Women and National Socialism Women & Gender Studies, German 2005 Spring Maria-Regina Kecht
Syracuse University The Literature of the Holocaust: Interpreting Genocide Freshman Forum 2008 Fall Dena Mandel
Thompson Rivers University Ethics and The Holocaust Philosophy, History and Politics 2006 Jeff McLaughlin
University of California, San Diego Why Hitler? Why Auschwitz? History 2009 Spring Susanne Hillman
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Germany Since 1914 History 2009 Spring Russell Spinney
University of Michigan Holocaust, The History 2005-2006  
University of Minnesota Human Rights and Genocide Workshop Education 2007 Summer  
University of Minnesota History of The Holocaust History/Jewish Studies 2007 Fall Stephen Feinstein
University of Minnesota History of The Holocaust History/Jewish Studies 2007 Spring Stephen Feinstein
University of Minnesota History of The Holocaust History/Jewish Studies 2008 Spring Stephen Feinstein
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 20th-Century Europe History 2008 Eve Duffy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Holocaust History 2008 Christopher Browning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History of The Holocaust History 2008 Fall Christopher Browning
University of Southern California The Shoah (Holocaust) in Literature and the Arts Comparative Literature 2009 Fall Moshe Lazar
University of Southern California Geospatial Information Management Computer Science 2009 Fall Cyrus Shahabi
University of Southern California The Holocaust in Literature and Film General Education/Arts and Letters 2009 Fall Wolf Gruner
University of Southern California France and the French from Napoleon to Mitterand History 2009 Spring Vanessa Schwartz
University of Southern California Mass Violence and Genocide in the 21st Century History 2009 Fall Wolf Gruner
University of Southern California Italian Composition and Conversation Italian 2009 Fall Catarina Crisci
University of Southern California The Holocaust Judaic Studies 2009 Fall Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Representing the Holocaust: Memory, History and National Identity Arts and Letters 2007 Fall Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Representing the Holocaust: Memory, History and National Identity Arts and Letters 2006 Spring Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Representing the Holocaust: Memory, History and National Identity Arts and Letters 2007 Spring Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California The Holocaust in Literature and Film Arts and Letters 2009 Spring Wolf Gruner
University of Southern California Advanced Writing for Business Business 2004-2005 Lee Cerling
University of Southern California Creating the Nonfiction Film Cinema-Television 2003-2004 Mark Harris
University of Southern California Creating the Nonfiction Film Cinema-Television 2004-2005 Mark Harris
University of Southern California Presentations of The Holocaust Cinema-Television 2004-2005 Michael Renov
University of Southern California Representations of The Holcaust Cinema-Television 2004-2005 Michael Renov
University of Southern California Genocide, Human Rights, and the Media Communications 2004-2005 Stephen O'Leary
University of Southern California Genocide, Human Rights, and the Media Communications 2007 Spring Stephen O'Leary
University of Southern California The Shoah (Holocaust) in Literature and the Arts Comparative Literature 2006 Fall Moshe Lazar
University of Southern California French IV: Paris as Seen by Writers, Filmmakers, and Photographers French 2009 Spring Colin Keaveney
University of Southern California French IV: Paris as Seen by Writers, Filmmakers, and Photographers French  2008 Fall Colin Keaveney
University of Southern California Anne Frank was Not Alone: Holland and The Holocaust Freshman Seminar 2003-2004 Anthony Anderson
University of Southern California Memory and History: Video Testimonies of The Holocaust Freshman Seminar 2006 Fall Douglas Greenberg
University of Southern California Anne Frank was Not Alone: Holland and The Holcaust Freshman Seminar 2006 Spring Anthony Anderson
University of Southern California Anne Frank was Not Alone: Holland and The Holocaust Freshman Seminar 2007 Spring Anthony Anderson
University of Southern California Anne Frank was Not Alone: Holland and The Holocaust Freshman Seminar 2008 Spring Anthony Anderson
University of Southern California Anne Frank was Not Alone: Holland and The Holcaust Freshman Seminar 2009 Spring Anthony Anderson
University of Southern California Cinema & History History 2006 Fall Vanessa Schwartz
University of Southern California Producing Film Histories History 2007 Fall Vanessa Schwartz
University of Southern California Public Memory History 2006 Spring Karen Halttunen
University of Southern California Holocaust in 20th Century Europe, The History 2009 Spring Wolf Gruner
University of Southern California Research Seminar on Modern Visual Culture History, Visual Studies 2008 Fall Vanessa Schwartz
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2005 Fall Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2006 Fall Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2007 Fall Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2008 Fall Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2005 Spring Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2006 Spring Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2007 Spring Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Holocaust, The Judaic Studies 2008 Spring Sharon Gillerman
University of Southern California Terrorism and Genocide Political Science 2006 Fall Richard Dekmejian
University of Southern California Terrorism and Genocide Political Science 2007 Fall Richard Dekmejian
University of Southern California Terrorism and Genocide Political Science 2008 Fall Richard Dekmejian
University of Southern California Psychological Adjustment Following Traumatic Life Events: The Case of Genocide Psychology 2009 Spring Beth Meyerowtiz
University of Southern California Sociology of Memory Sociology 2008 Fall Macarena Gomez-Barris
University of Southern California Sociology of Violence Sociology 2009 Spring Macarena Gomez-Barris
Yale University European Bestsellers in Contemporary Fiction German Studies/Literature 2004-2005 Matthias Konzett
Yale University German Literatures of Resistance: 1945 to the Present German Studies/Literature 2004-2005 Matthias Konzett
Yale University Ornament and Crime in Cosmopolitan Vienna German Studies/Literature 2004-2005 Matthias Konzett
Yale University History and Memory – The Whitney Seminar on European Identities History/Humanities 2004-2005 Jay Winter
Yale University Visuality and Violence Women’s and Gender Studies, American Studies 2004-2005 Laura Wexler
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin Helping Jews in Germany during the Holocaust: Forms, Motives, Risks, and Reception Center for Research on Antisemitism 2008 Summer Winfried Meyer
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin National Socialism as the Subject Matter of Practical Museum Work Center for Research on Antisemitism 2008/09 Winter Wolfgang Benz

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