CJVLFH Language for the Humanities

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Hanovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PaedDr. Marta Holasová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Anna Maryšková (assistant)
Mgr. Dana Plíšková (assistant)
Ing. Daniela Svobodová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Hanovská, Ph.D.
Language Centre Faculty of Arts Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Anna Maryšková
Supplier department: Language Centre Faculty of Arts Division – Language Centre
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
Course objectives
To help students acquire relevant theoretical vocabulary in their field of study and enhance their independent work in academic settings.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- Refer to an important book in their field of study and discuss its theoretical problems in English
- Know and discuss key theoretical concepts in their field of interest
- Work autonomously to achieve their academic goals
- Read and write critically
- Arrange an online meeting in an academic setting
- Organize an online meeting and conduct theoretical discussions in an online environment
Syllabus
  • This course consists of one-to-one online sessions during which a CJV lecturer verifies the student's profound theoretical knowledge of a book from their field of interest and the student's ability to discuss the content of the book in English. Students choose a book from the "list of literature" attached to this syllabus, read it, and write a summary or interpretation of the book, submitting it to the course’s homework folder. Consequently, they arrange an online meeting with the course supervisor. At this meeting, they must prove that they have read the book and written the summary or interpretation themselves. They will be examined by a CJV teacher who verifies their comprehension of the book's principal arguments and ability to defend their understanding by asking critical questions. A successful examination or defence of the text, lasting 20-30 minutes, accompanied by a submitted glossary of 40 words, results in 2 credits. This course offers a fast (though not easy) way to gain credits and practice academic competencies such as summary or interpretation writing and oral argumentation in a foreign language. It is also recommended for Erasmus students and is conducted in English.
Literature
  • HICKEL, Jason. The divide : global inequality from conquest to free markets. First American edition. New York: W. W. Norton & company, 2018, 344 stran. ISBN 9780393651362. info
  • ALTHUSSER, Louis. On the reproduction of capitalism : ideology and ideological state apparatuses. Edited by Étienne Balibar - Jacques Bidet, Translated by G. M. Ggoshgarian. New York: Verso, 2014, xxxiv, 285. ISBN 9781781681640. info
  • ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. ed. New York: Verso, 2006, xv, 240. ISBN 1844670864. info
  • World anthropologies : disciplinary transformations within systems of power. Edited by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro - Arturo Escobar. New York: Berg, 2006, 341 s. ISBN 1845201906. info
  • Empire's new clothes : reading Hardt and Negri. Edited by Paul A. Passavant - Jodi Dean. New York: Routledge, 2004, vii, 344. ISBN 0415935555. info
  • TAYLOR, Charles. Modern social imaginaries. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004, 215 s. ISBN 0822332930. info
  • TAYLOR, Charles. Modern social imaginaries. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004, 215 s. ISBN 0822332930. info
  • DOLLIMORE, Jonathan. Death, desire and loss in Western culture. 1st Routledge paperback ed. New York: Routledge, 2001, xxxii, 384. ISBN 0415937728. info
  • HARDT, Michael and Antonio NEGRI. Empire. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000, xvii, 478. ISBN 0674006712. info
  • TAYLOR, Charles. Hegel and modern society. Repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xii, 180. ISBN 0521293510. info
  • BEAUVOIR, Simone de. The second sex. Translated by H. M. Parshley. London: Vintage, 1997, 762 s. ISBN 009974421X. info
  • Encountering developmentthe making and unmaking of the Third World. Edited by Arturo Escobar. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995, ix, 290 p. ISBN 0691001022. info
  • COLLINGWOOD, R. G. The idea of history : with lectures 1926-1928. Edited by Jan van der Dussen. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, liii, 510. ISBN 0192853066. info
  • BALIBAR, Étienne and Immanuel Maurice WALLERSTEIN. Race, nation, class : ambiguous identities. 1st pub. London: Verso, 1991, vii, 232. ISBN 0860915425. info
  • BUTLER, Judith. Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity. 1st pub. New York: Routledge, 1990, xii, 172. ISBN 0415900433. info
  • TAYLOR, Charles. Sources of the self : the making of the modern identity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989, xii, 601. ISBN 0674824261. info
  • FANON, Frantz. The wretched of the earth. Edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. 1st ed. New York: Grove Press, 1968, 316 s. info
  • BERGER, Peter L. and Thomas LUCKMANN. The social construction of reality : a treatise in the sociology of knowledge. First edition. New York: Doubleday & company, 1966, vii, 199. info
  • THOMPSON, E. P. The making of the english working class. New York: Vintage Books, 1963, 848 s. info
  • KUHN, Thomas S. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962, xv, 172. info
  • HOGGART, Richard. The uses of literacy : aspects of working class life with special reference to publications and entertainments. Harmondsworth: Penguin books in association with Chatto and Windus, 1958, viii, 326. info
Teaching methods
consultations upon request
Assessment methods
glossary of forty words (see the instructions in learning materials); an essay (detailed interpretation of a book); oral examination
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
Note related to how often the course is taught: pouze konzultace.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: konzultace.
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