FF:AJ16056 Eng. Social History - Course Information
AJ16056 English Social History 1707 - 1945
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2003
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Lidia Kyzlinková, CSc., M.Litt. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková - Timetable
- Thu 13:20–14:05 31, Thu 14:10–14:55 31
- Prerequisites
- Students may take English Social History I and II (AJ16055 and 16056) in any order or may take only one of them if they so choose.
- 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 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/18 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- This course will try to show how the English people came to form a community and what kind of community it has been in its successive stages of development. Some theories of national culture and the relationship between nation, culture, and identity will be presented and dis-cussed. Englishness and some English myths will be explored while focusing on scenes of English life in significant periods of English history in chronological order. Some handouts will be based on such fiction that reflects the situation of the English people in a particular period. The materials will include a number of video extracts taken from older or recent films of British production.
- Syllabus
- This course will try to show how the English people came to form a community and what kind of community it has been in its successive stages of development. Some theories of national culture and the relationship between nation, culture, and identity will be presented and dis-cussed. Englishness and some English myths will be explored while focusing on scenes of English life in significant periods of English history in chronological order. Some handouts will be based on such fiction that reflects the situation of the English people in a particular period. The materials will include a number of video extracts taken from older or recent films of British production.
- Literature
- Geoffrey Elton: The English
- Women in the eighteenth century : constructions of femininity. Edited by Vivien Jones. London: Routledge, 1990, xi, 257 p. ISBN 0-415-03488-4. info
- EDWARDS, David L. Christian England. Rev. ed. London: Collins, 1989, 3 sv. v 1. ISBN 0-00-627404-8. info
- MORTON, A. L. A people's history of England. Edited by J. F. Horrabin. Berlin: Seven Seas Publishers, 1965, 565 s. info
- READER, W. J. Life in Victorian England. London: B.T. Batsford, 1964, xv, 176. info
- CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. A history of the english-speaking peoples. [Vol. 2], The new world [Churchill, 1956]. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956, xi, 433 s. info
- Early Victorian England, 1830-1865. Vol. 1. Edited by G. M. (George Malcolm) Young. London: Oxford University Press, 1934, xxv, 414 s. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Seminar; Assessment: seminar performance, final test in credit week. / Hodnocení: příspěvky v semináři (40%), závěrečný test v zápočtovém týdnu (60%)
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2003, recent)
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