LMKB_a215 Alcohol in culture - theory and practice

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Fonioková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Miroslav Kotásek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D.
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 18:00–19:40 D32
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 7/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar will point at the often questionable role of alcohol in today's culture across almost all the continents. On the one hand there is alcohol as "cultural heritage", while the government does not collect the appropriate taxes (wine); on the other hand alcohol is an enormously important economic product, at the same time featuring in the role of a potential instigator of serious addictions. The main focus of the seminar is to point at the role of alcohol as artistic inspiration, narrative plot, or the object of marketing and advertisement.
Learning outcomes
Student after completing the course
will be able to analyze marketing and advertisment campaigns of alcohol producers
will have acquired a basic awareness of the culturally-specific treatment of alcohol on an almost global level
will have acquired basic knowledge of the media-specific treatment of alcohol (in narrative, poetry, film, fine arts, and autobiography)
will be able to create their own alcoholic cocktail and evaluate it critically
will be able to use the acquired knowledge in creating either an "essayistic" or "artistic" text
Syllabus
  • Alcohol and France (surrealism, the avantgarde)
  • Alcohol and the Sea (The Carribean, Cuba)
  • Alcohol and/in Painting
  • Alcohol and/in Film
  • Alcohol in and/in Central Europe
  • Alcohol and/in Japan
  • The Palm Wine Drinkard (Alcohol and/in Africa)
  • Alcohol and /in Comics
  • Alcohol and/in Music
  • Alcohol and/in Northern America I (Prohibition, "Jazz Age")
  • Alcohol and/in Northern America II (normalizing substance abuse)
Teaching methods
pre-class reading/viewing, class discussion, teachers' input, audiovisual materials, practical exercises
Assessment methods
1 presentation during the semester (5-10 min); final assignment (creative or theoretical) and the student's own alcoholic cocktail recipe
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
General note: Předmět bude otevřen a vyučován při minimálním počtu 6 zapsaných studujících.
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