Passing the study plan

For the defence of the rigorous thesis, it is necessary to submit a manuscript of at least 180,00 thousand characters (written on white A4 paper, numbered sheets bound in solid folders) and to prepare a presentation summarising the research project culminating in the rigorous thesis in 10-15 minutes. The obligatory part of the author's manuscript is the title page, which includes the name of the university, faculty, institute, the title of the thesis, the author's name and the year of preparation, as well as a statement of the originality of the thesis, the table of contents and the list of references. The thesis is submitted in three copies and entered into the IS MU. The defence takes place in front of the departmental committee.
The thesis must contain original results or original elaboration of a comprehensive part of the research problem in the field of ethnology, at a level that corresponds to the publication standard of the field. A monograph or an original manuscript of at least 180,000 characters may be submitted as a rigorous thesis. An unaltered text of a thesis cannot be submitted as a rigorous thesis. The thesis may take the form of a collection of the candidate's published works or works accepted for publication, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction and commentary.
The state examination consists of a defence of the rigorous thesis and the student's answers to questions set from the broader thematic areas (1. the methodology of the field; 2. the historiography of the field; 3. the realities of historical forms of traditional culture, its contemporary forms and issues of ethnic processes and identities). The state examination verifies the student's ability to participate in the professional debate within the current disciplinary discourse and his/her potential to orient himself/herself in the theoretical-methodological concepts applied in the field and the realities addressed by ethnology.

The rigorosum procedure is not a standard study, it is initiated on the basis of the submission of an application and a rigorosum thesis.

Some topics of defended rigorous theses:
-The Role of School and Teachers in the Transmission of Folk Culture in the Horňácko Region (PhD Thesis Proposal)
-Social life on the background of the changes in the Moravian countryside during late socialism (PhD Thesis Proposal)
-Traditional methods of fire protection in the Moravian countryside and innovations until the end of 19th century (PhD Thesis Proposal)
-Transformations of Folk Culture in the Context of its Protection and Revitalization (with Folk Dress and Folk Dance in Wallachia as Case Studies) (PhD Thesis Proposal)
-A rural house in the Tábor region (Kozácko) and its development in the 19th century. A contribution to the typology of folk house in the Czech lands (PhD Thesis Proposal)
-The influence of dominant handicraft production on the formation and transformation of rural communities illustrated by an example of municipalities Křižánky and Metylovice. Identification of specific forms of handicraft production. (PhD Thesis Proposal)

Suggestion of other possible topics:
-Ethnocultural traditions in contemporary society
-Issues of intangible cultural heritage: innovation, heritization, identity
-Cultural memory and ethnic identity
-The phenomenon of festivities nowadays
-Transmission of folk music and dance traditions and their current existence