University of Tennessee at Martin professor Dr. Alice-Catherine Carls in history,
program leader, and Union University's Dr. Stephen Carls in history, program co-leader, will be joined by
Mercer University's Dr. David P. Gushee, in ethics and theology, and
Rhodes College's Dr. Stephen R. Haynes in religious studies in offering an interdisciplinary
Holocaust travel/study experience. The course includes some class instruction during the spring semester, followed by a
trip to Europe beginning right after Union University's May 2008 graduation and ending in early June 2008.
Participants will make major stops in Berlin in Germany, Prague in the Czech Republic, and Cracow, Auschwitz, and Warsaw in Poland.
Tour plans include visits to such places as the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the concentration camp of Theresienstadt near
Prague, the Jewish ghetto from Schindler's List in Cracow, the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, the Jewish Ghetto Heroes'
Memorial in Warsaw, and the Treblinka Death Camp Memorial outside Warsaw. Since the general culture of the countries visited
will be an integral part of understanding the meaning of what occurred in the 1930s and 1940s, there will be opportunities to
go to national landmarks, museums, churches, and other sites in each of the countries visited, and to experience local
traditions and customs.
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