FSS:HEN586 Introduction to Environmental - Course Information
HEN586 Introduction to Environmental Studies - seminar
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Hana Librová, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Kateřina Rezková (assistant)
Mgr. Dana Zajoncová (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ivona Tolarová - Timetable
- Thu 10:00–11:40 U32
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Kurz je volitelný seminář. Zapsat jej mohou studenti bakalářského studia environmentálních studií, kteří jsou zároveň zapsáni v povinném předmětu/přednášce Úvod do studia environmentalistiky (ENS 114) a kteří si chtějí prohloubit přednášenou látku.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Environmental Studies (programme FSS, N-HE)
- Environmental Humanities (programme FSS, N-HE3)
- Course objectives
- The discusion-based seminars expand on the HEN 433 Introduction to Environmental Humanities lectures and further examine in a professional manner recent events of environmental import presented in daily press.
Students will deepen their knowledge acquired in the Introduction to Environmental Humanities course and become more competent in making decisions about the focus of their further study. - Syllabus
- Week 1 – Introductions, discussion about the seminar content and its requirements
- Week 2 – What is science? Are environmental humanities a science?
- Week 3– Science of multiple paradigms
- Week 4 - Various views on the state of the World and its development
- Weeks 5 through 7– Ecosystems and human prosperity
- Week 8- Nature, values and nature conservationists
- Weeks 9 & 10- Opinions on solving ecological distress
- Weeks 11 through 13- Presentation of students’ seminar papers followed by discussion
- Literature
- KELLER, Jan. Až na dno blahobytu. 2. vyd. Brno: Hnutí Duha, 1995, 143 s. info
- Assessment methods
- Seminars aim at using discussion and further readings to deepen students’ knowledge of the material presented in the Introduction to Environmental Humanities course. The discussion topics listed in the course overview will be further expanded and announced during lectures. Seminar requires students to read in advance Czech, English and German texts in preparation for the discussion as well as to write a mandatory research essay.
Evaluation of students’ performance is based on the following; Mandatory attendace (maximum of three absences are allowed during the semester), reading of assigned literature, a short essay titled ‘Attempt at an environmentalist commentary on a newspaper/journal article’, short presentation of one’s essay at the seminar - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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