UZCJX003 Master' s State Exam

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
To take the exam students are required to possess the desired number of credits and to have their diploma work accepted.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The Final State Examination is to demonstrate : 1) The student’s ability - to handle assigned scholarly problems in a cultivated manner, to respond in discussion and display a capacity for matter-of-fact reasoning, to utilize their knowledge of literature and of other sources in expert debate . 2) The students’ knowledge - of relevant facts and factual material, of basic as well as advanced methodology in the particular field, of scholarly literature. 3) The students’ skills - to formulate theses and assertions and the ability to support them, to compose a clearly structured overview and interpretation of a given problem, to approach scholarly sources critically. The aim of the linguistic part of the State exam is to check good knowledge of present-day Czech at all levels, as dealt with in the particular linguistic disciplines (phonetics, phonology, morphology, word-formation, syntax, lexicology, stylistics). Other expected skills are knowledge of the particular terminology, orientation in linguistic methodology. The part of the final exam which involves literary science comprises following topics: 1. Propaedeutics of literary science. 2. Literary theory. 3. Old Czech literature. 4. Czech literature of the 19th Century. 5. Czech literature of the first half of the 20th Century. 6. Czech literature of the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st Century. Advanced knowledge of the problems concerning literary history and literary theory, thorough acquaintance with relevant works in the field as well as the ability to analyse literary text are presupposed. Examination in didactics forms part of the final exam.
Syllabus
  • The state exam has three parts: 1. The defence of the Diploma Thesis. 2. Exam by an examination board. 3. Exam in didactics of Czech (this part includes pedagogy, general didactics, psychology for teachers, didactics of Czech language and literature). The final mark also includes the mark from the didactics of Czech. Questions for the final state examination are are available on the websites www.phil.muni.cz/wucj and www.phil.muni.cz/wucl.
Literature
  • viz studijní literatura k dílčím disciplínám
Teaching methods
The defence and the exam have an oral form.
Assessment methods
The defence of thesis and the exam are held by board of examiners consisting of three members. The result of this exam is one mark for both sections.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Vždy ve zkouškovém období (po jarním semestru v červnu a v září, po podzimním semestru v lednu).
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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