Indian University Unveils History Course Covering The Armenian Genocide

Presidency University in Kolkata, India, has launched a course on the history of mass violence, featuring the Jewish Holocaust, with the aim of understanding the causes of the phenomenon and how it can be prevented by tracing its history from the 20th century to our times.

The recently-launched postgraduate course is titled “A History of Mass Violence: 20th Century to the Present” and is taught to MA (History) third-semester students.

The course content includes the Armenian genocide, the Indonesian killings of 1965-1966, genocide in Burundi, Pol Pot and the Cambodian genocide, episodes in Rwanda, and the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, among others.

Presidency University was established in 1817.

(The Economic Times)