PrF:D1SVZ01 Theory of State I - Course Information
D1SVZ01 Theory of State I
Faculty of LawAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Guaranteed by
- doc. JUDr. Jan Svatoň, CSc.
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Andrea Kalivodová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law - 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
- Theory of Law (programme PrF, D-TPV4) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of this field of study is to learn about notions and functions of a modern state. The outset of the study programme is, in particular, the institutional notion of state and its characterisation. Attention is paid for the structure and activity of modern state and status of individual in the context of further concepted questions of democracy, constitutionality and self-government.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to: understand the crucial terms of theory of state and political science; describe the organizational structure of modern state; characterize functions of modern state and political system generally; understand the basics of human rights protection.
- Syllabus
- State and its characterisation, modern state, its signs and organisation, activity of modern state and its functions, democracy and state, modern state and status of individual.
- Literature
- required literature
- FILIP, Jan and Jan SVATOŇ. Státověda (Theory of State and Politics). 5th ed. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2011, 264 pp. ISBN 978-80-7357-685-1. URL info
- not specified
- SVATOŇ, Jan. Vládní orgán moderního státu : jeho původ, vývoj a charakter v některých evropských státech (Government body of modern state : its origin, development and character in some european states). 1. vyd. Brno: Doplněk, 1997, 140 pp. ISBN 80-85765-89-6. info
- CHANDLER, J. A. Místní správa v liberálních demokraciích : úvodní náčrt. Vyd. 1. Brno: Doplněk, 1998, 264 s. ISBN 8072390236. info
- Teaching methods
- homeworks, reading of scheduled literature, group consultations, information mail at the beginning of the semester
- Assessment methods
- credit
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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