PdF:AJ5_ERKA Ethnic Culture of the USA - Course Information
AJ5_ERKA Ethnic and Regional Culture of America
Faculty of EducationSpring 2001
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Michael George, M.A. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- AJ5_DUSA History of the US
- 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 11 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/11, only registered: 0/11 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-SS)
- Course objectives
- This seminar/discussion course will look at America not as one land, but as a collection of very different cultures. Regional differences such as North-South and New England-California and the ethnic differences of Afro-Americans, Mexican-Americans and Native Americans will be studied. The point will be to try to understand what it means for a land to be so culturally diverse and still one nation. The resulting different speech patterns of each region and group will also be noted. This is a "round table" seminar where each student is expected to have read the assigned text and share his/her opinions during the discussion.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction. 2. The U.S.A. as a land of contrasts 3. Sectionalism, East and West 4. Sectionalism, North and South 5. Race, African Americans 6. Race, Mexican Americans. 7. Race, Native Americans, and others 8. Multi culturalism 1 9. Multi culturalism 2 10 - 15. Student research presentations
- Literature
- Fuchs, Lawrence, The American Kaleidoscope, Wesleyan U Press,1995
- Eitzen, Stanley and Zinn, Maxine, Conflict and Order, 1995
- Mindel, Charles and Habenstein, Robert, eds., Ethnic Families in America, Elsevier, 1981
- Mc Gilbert, Michael, The Character of Americans, Dorsey Press, 1964.
- Gray, Herman, Watching Race, U of Minnesota Press, 1995
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Typ výuky: seminář
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2001, recent)
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