Va4 Analytical tutorial on the Culture of Vietnam

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 8:00–9:40 L21
Prerequisites
"Vs4 Culture of Vietnam" should be enrolled simultaneously (or finished earlier)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course goal is reading of various books on the topic of the course, their analysis and critical review. The course Analytical tutorial on the Culture of Vietnam is a profile core course of the study programme Vietnamese Studies. Content of this course and acquired knowledge will be also a part of the Final State Examination. The course is open for students of other study programmes.
Learning outcomes
After completion of the seminar students will have a deeper insight into selected topics of the Vietnamese culture (for issues see Syllabus of this course or course Vs4). Students will also know about basic literature dealing with corresponding issues. Students will be inspired to narrow their own research interest and approach their own field work. Students will be led to think over the actualizations of the Vietnamese traditions in the modern society, as well as continuity and transformations of the Vietnamese cultural tradition within Vietnamese communities abroad.
Syllabus
  • We will focus on issues, which are currently frequently discussed in the western Vietnamese studies. Students will have an opportunity to focus also on topics according their own interest (through reading of sources and literature or basic field work).
  • Examples of possible topics connected with religion:
  • - a question of Vietnamese religion or Vietnamese religions in the Western scientific literature since the 18th century;
  • - the modern Vietnamese Buddhism and its reinterpretations of the premodern Vietnamese Buddhist tradition;
  • - Vietnamese tradition and European cultural impact in the first half of the 20th century;
  • - various forms of the Christianity in Vietnam;
  • - modern syncretic religions in Vietnam;
  • - religions of ethnic minorities.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Sources of the Vietnamese tradition. 2012. Edited by George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner and John K. Whitmore. New York: Columbia University Press.
    not specified
  • Cuong Tu Nguyen. 1998. Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of Thien Uyen Tap Anh. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
  • ADRIANO DI ST. THECLA. Small treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese. Edited by Mariya Berezovska - Olga Dror - Lionel M. Jensen. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002, 239 stran. ISBN 9780877277323. info
  • Marr, David G. 1981. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial 1920-1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
  • Cadière, Léopold. 1944-1955-1957. Croyances et pratiques religieuses des Viêtnamiens. 3 vol. Saïgon: École française d'Extrême-Orient (1955-1958, réimpr. 1992).
  • Taylor, Philip. 2004. Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Teaching methods
seminar (complementary lectures, reading and examining sources, reports of selected scholarly works read by students, discussion)
Assessment methods
active participation, self-study, draft with main points of selected publication and its presentation, then writing the final paper with the results of discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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