PdF:A2BP_DUSA History of the United States - Course Information
A2BP_DUSA History of the United States
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2005
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English (programme PdF, B-ZS)
- Course objectives
- General aims: To support students in a process of personalizing history and relating it to their own cultures and everyday experiences. To focus students learning on a variety of perspectives on historical isssues and to critically explore differing points of view on these issues. To provoke students into questioning stereotypes and challenging racist attitudes. To support students in their development of affirmative understanding of ethnic and cultural groups. The main topic of the course: Race and Membership in American History - membership not only as a sense of belonging to a group, but also as freedom and right to belong and to participate so as to live a full and decent life. In our course we are going to see how millions of Americans were fighting for this dream.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction: Historical Perception starts nowadays 2. American History Learning: Race and Democracy 3. Slavery and the South and North of the United States 4. The Period of Reconstruction: Segregation 5. Scientific Justification of Racism 6. Nation of Immigrants 7. Scientific Justification: From Darwin to Eugenics 8. Scientific Justification: Eugenics and the Power of Testing 9. Science and the State Policy: "Eugenics Laws" 10. American 'Imperialism': The "White Man's Burden" 11. American Fight for Freedom and Civil Rights 12. Case studies solving: "Becoming American"- the experience of Chinese Americans
- Literature
- O'CALLAGHAN, D. B. An illustrated history of the USA. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 144 s. ISBN 0582749212. info
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Teacher's information
- http://www.ped.muni.cz/weng/moodle
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2005, recent)
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