FSS:ENSn4581 Lifestyle - Course Information
ENSn4581 Lifestyle and Environmental Issues
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Müllerová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! HEN581 Lifestyle &&!NOW( HEN581 Lifestyle )&&TYP_STUDIA(N)
- 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-ENV)
- Course objectives
- The course is based on the accepted assumption that lifestyle choices, especially the dynamics and the structure of material consumption and free-time activities, have a decisive impact on nature (apart from population size and technologies). The course seeks to find and interpret environmentally friendly lifestyle choices and stresses the connections with mainstream lifestyle choices. It also attempts to question some journalistic stereotypes.
- Learning outcomes
- After attending the course, a student will be able to:
- identify main environmental dimensions of sociological research on lifestyles
- prepare research design for his or her master thesis. - Syllabus
- Introduction into the seminar contents and its requirements
- Key concepts of the lifestyle area and individuation/individualism
- Discussion on literature
- Discussion on student essays
- Literature
- required literature
- LIBROVÁ, Hana, Vojtěch PELIKÁN, Lucie GALČANOVÁ and Lukáš KALA. Věrní a rozumní: kapitoly o ekologické zpozdilosti (The Faithful and the Reasonable: Chapters on Ecological Foolishness). 1. vyd. Brno: Munipress, 2016, 328 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8454-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8412-2016. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods include:
introduction lectures about the theme of lifestyle
home preparation, reading of obligatory texts
structured discussion about the texts
seminar paper
critical discussion about papers. - Assessment methods
- Discussion of assigned texts, reading, and writing an essay. Participation at seminars is mandatory with a maximum of three absences allowed.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět je primárně určen studentům magisterského stupně oboru Environmentální studia. Minimální počet zapsaných studentů pro vypsání předmětu: 5
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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