FF:CJCC08 Cultural-historical overview - Course Information
CJCC08 Cultural-historical overview
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Hana Bočková, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Jílková (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Hana Bočková, Dr.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 14:00–15:40 B2.42, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The main objectives of the course are:
- gaining an understanding of the historical and cultural development of the Czech lands and periodising it;
- clarification of the main characteristics of their cultural development;
- clarification of their present form from a political and cultural point of view;
- explanation of the historical and cultural development in a European context. - Learning outcomes
- After finishing the course students will:
- be familiar with the history of the Czech lands;
- understand the principles by which the main developmental stages were defined;
- understand the cultural development;
- recognise the specific features of contemporary Czech society;
- be able to characterize the particularities of Czech development and features which it shares with European development. - Syllabus
- A concise historical-geographic introduction.
- The Czech lands and their location. Bohemia and Moravia at the dawn of history. Traces of pre-historic cultures, Celts and Germanic peoples. Arrival of Slavs.
- Beginning of Czech civilization. Great Moravia, Roman Bohemia.
- Gothic Bohemia of the last Přemyslids and Luxemburgs.
- The Hussite revolution and its place in Czech history.
- Renaissance, humanism, Comenius and the Bohemian Brethren.
- Baroque and its legacy. Changes in the Czech cultural landscape.
- The national revival and formation of modern Czech culture in the 19th century.
- The diversity of Czech culture in the First republic.
- February 1948, Stalinism.
- The 1960s, the year 1968. Normalisation and Czech culture.
- Literature
- required literature
- České a československé dějiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Fortuna, 1991, 119 s. ISBN 80-85298-29-5. info
- recommended literature
- MAREK, Jaroslav. Česká moderní kultura. Vydání první. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1998, 335 stran. ISBN 8020406743. info
- SPUNAR, Pavel. Kultura středověku. 2. pozměn. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1995, 226 s. ISBN 8020005471. info
- HLOBIL, Ivo and Eduard PETRŮ. Humanismus a raná renesance na Moravě. Photo by Prokop Paul. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1992, 274 s. ISBN 8020003851. info
- not specified
- BĚLINA, Pavel. Dějiny zemí koruny české. 8. vyd. Praha: Paseka, 2002, 328 s. ISBN 80-7185-503-0. info
- KRSEK, Ivo. Umění baroka na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Edited by Zdeněk Kudělka, Photo by Prokop Paul. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1996, 739 s. ISBN 8020005404. info
- ČORNEJ, Petr. Dějiny zemí Koruny české. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 1992, 302 s. ISBN 8085192284. info
- ŠKARKA, Antonín. Půl tisíciletí českého písemnictví. Edited by Emanuel Macek - Pavel Spunar - Jan Lehár. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1986, 502 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- The seminar will use presentation, interpretation, analysis and comparison of the model of Czech history and culture with a model of the history and culture of students’ countries.
- Assessment methods
- To obtain a pass students have to pass a test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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