FSS:ZUR702 Paradig.systems of culture - Course Information

ZUR702 Paradigmatic systems of culture

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc. (lecturer)
PhDr. Mgr. Zdeněk Havlíček (assistant)
Mgr. Pavel Sedláček (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová

Timetable

Fri 1. 10. 8:30–10:00 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka, Fri 12. 11. 8:30–10:00 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka, Fri 10. 12. 8:30–10:00 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course provides the basic information on culture as a product and on the grammar of culture as a presupposition of human communicative behaviour. The course sets the context of cultural concepts and makes a system of the approaches to the history of culture. The course clarifies categories as (human) culture, cultural area, sub-culture, contra-culture, development of culture, cultural epoch, human communication, communication presuppositions and competences, communication technologies, media and medial contents, structural principles of culture (centrism), art, cultural trend, style, cultural traditions, sub-culture, cultural standards and values, cultural and artistic types and genres (formats), myths, rituals, values, and concepts of the world. It then provides criteria for periodization of cultural history. At the and of the course, the students will be able to understand that culture and its products form a text that can be read and understood if they know the ‘grammar’ of a culture and the ‘grammar’ of human communication.

Syllabus

• 1st session: Cultural concept in social and cultural anthropology and in the theory of mass communication. Cultural paradigms and history of culture.
• 2nd session: Myths and rituals. Mythology and myths of the origin of the world. Art, traditions, artistic artefacts.
• 3rd session: Constructional principles of culture and art (epochs, cultural trends and tendencies). Polar constructional principles of culture (art) and developmental dynamism.
• 4th session: Arts, traditions, artistic artefacts.
• 5th session: Social and cultural space-time, hierarchy of cultural areas. Sub-cultures and contra-cultures.
• 6th session: Culture of antiquity.
• 7th session: Medieval culture.
• 8th session: Renaissance culture.
• 9th session: Culture of Baroque, Classicism, Rococo and Enlightment.
• 10th session: Culture of Romanticism, National Revival, Modernism and Art Noveau.
• 11th session: Modernism and Avant-garde. Artistic trends. Artistic groups and manifest.
• 12th session: Post-Modernism.
• 13th session: Final evaluation of the course.

Literature

• Debicki, Jacek - Favre, Jean-François - Grünewald, Dietrich - Pimentel, Antonio Filipe: Dějiny umění. Malířství. Sochařství. Architektura. Praha : Argo, 1998.
• Gombrich, Ernst Hans: Příběh umění. Praha : Argo : Mladá fronta, 1995.
• Pavelka, Jiří - Pospíšil, Ivo: Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno : Nakladatelství Georgetown, 1993.
• Petráň, Josef, a kol.: Dějiny umělecké kultury II.1. Praha : Karolinum, 1995.
• Soukup, Václav: Přehled antropologických teorií kultury. Praha : Portál, 2000.

Assessment methods

lectures, four writtem work, paper, writtten test

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Pro imatrikulační ročníky 2004/2005 a 2005/2006.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: blokově.

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