FSS:EVSn5042 Hungarian-Slovak relations - Course Information
EVSn5042 Central Europe and Hungarian-Slovak relations
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Vratislav Havlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Vratislav Havlík, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! EVS442 Hungarian-Slovak relations && !NOW( EVS442 Hungarian-Slovak relations )
Předmět je určen pro studenty magisterského navazujícího studia. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course is intended to give the students a basic knowledge on the field of the modern history of Central Europe and the development of Slovak-Hungarian relations.
At the end of the course students should be able to: have deeper understanding of the history of Central Europe and Slovak-Hungarian relations
have deeper understanding of actuall issues in the relations between Slovakia and Hungary
explain the changes of selected political actors
interpret the changes of relations between Slovakia and Hungary - Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students should be able to:
have deeper understanding of the history of Central Europe and Slovak-Hungarian relations
have deeper understanding of actuall issues in the relations between Slovakia and Hungary
explain the changes of selected political actors
interpret the changes of relations between Slovakia and Hungary - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction + Historical milestones of Central Europe in the 20th century
- 2. Germans, Magyars and the the central-european region around WW1
- 3. Historical milestones of slovak-hungarian neighbourhood (1848-1918)
- 4. Masaryk and Germans
- 5. Trianon, Beneš and creation of Czechoslovak-Hungarian border
- 6. Horthy and pursuit of Trianon revision
- 7. Benes decrees and hungarian-slovak relations 1945-1989
- 8. Hungarian-Slovak relations after 1989
- 9. Hungarian minority in Slovakia and minority parties
- 10. Main issues in Hungarian-Slovak relations during the last decade
- 11. Documentary film + discussion
- 12. Contemporary central European relations
- Literature
- recommended literature
- KENEZ, Peter. Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets : the establishmentof the communist regime in Hungary, 1944-1948. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, ix, 312. ISBN 9780521747240. info
- KONTLER, László. A History of Hungary : millennium, in Central Europe. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, 527 s. ISBN 1403903166. info
- MOLNÁR, Miklós. A concise history of Hungary. Translated by Anna Magyar. 1st pub. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xviii, 370. ISBN 0521667364. info
- not specified
- MAREŠ, Miroslav and Vratislav HAVLÍK. Jobbik's successes. An analysis of its success in the comparative context of the V4 countries. Communist and post-communist studies. Pergamon Press, 2016, vol. 49, No 4, p. 323-333. ISSN 0967-067X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.08.003. info
- Central European history and the European Union : the meaning of Europe. Edited by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xxii, 258. ISBN 9780230549371. info
- Teaching methods
- Discussion, readings of the study materials, groups projects.
- Assessment methods
- The course is finished with exam. The student can acquire credits for 1/3 multiple choice tests (max. 32 points), 2/presentation (max. 28 points) and 4/ Exam essay (max. 40 points). The mimimum to pass the exam is 60 points.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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