Vu2 History of Vietnamese Studies

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 12:00–13:40 J.212
Prerequisites
no requirements
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
At the end of the course the students will have a general knowledge about the major, they will know the history of Vietnamese studies in Czech Republic and in the world. Finally the students should be able to understand the data important for Vietnamese studies, i.e. related history and the structure of public institutions in Vietnam. The course History of Vietnamese Studies 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 – in such a case only final written examination with requirements of more moderate results is needed to pass the course.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course:
- students will be able to describe the process of discovering of Vietnam and its neighborhood by the European cultural area, especially from the 16th to the 19th centuries;
- students will know main figures of Roman-Catholic missions in Vietnam from the 16th to the 19th centuries and know their main works and their contribution to the knowledge of Vietnam in Europe;
- students will know about the beginnings of Vietnamese studies in the West in the period of the French colonial era, they will know main scholars of the period and know their principal works;
- students will know about the essential Chinese sources to the history a culture of Vietnam;
- students will orientate in the history of the Vietnamese studies in France (since the end of the colonial era), Russia, Germany, USA etc. and know about the centers of Vietnamistic research worldwide;
- students will be familiar with Vietnamese studies in Czech (and Slovak) Republic, will know main scholars and their works;
- students will have a general idea about the content of the subject field.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction. 2. History of discovering of Vietnam. 3. Colonization of Vietnam. 4. Chinese and Asian viewing of Vietnam. 5. European viewing of Vietnam. 6. First informations about the Vietnamese language in Europe. 7. Influence of Chinese and European languages on Vietnamese. 8. Important specialists in Vietnamese studies and their principal works. 10. Centers for Vietnamese studies in Czech Republic and in the world. 11. Czech-Vietnamese relations and Vietnamese in Czech Republic.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Kdo byl kdo. Čeští a slovenští orientalisté, afrikanisté a iberoamerikanisté. Praha: Libri, 1999.
    not specified
  • Whitfield, Danny J. 1976. Historical and Cultural Dictionary of Vietnam. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press.
  • Brouček, Stanislav. 2016. The Visible and invisible Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. Prague: Institute of Ethnology CAS.
  • VASILJEV, Ivo. Za dědictvím starých Vietů. Imigrace, adaptace, majorita. Edice článků, studií, materiálů a diskuse k problematice novodobé imigrace do ČR. Ed. Stanislav Brouček. Praha: Etnologický ústav AV ČR, 1999.
  • Nguyễn Như Ý (gen. ed.). 1994. Thư mục ngôn ngữ học Việt Nam: Tiếng Việt, Tiếng Anh, Tiếng Pháp, Tiếng Nga. Bibliography of Vietnamese Linguistics: Vietnamese, English, French, Russian. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Văn hóa.
  • HLAVATÁ, L., IČO, J., KARLOVÁ, P., STRAŠÁKOVÁ, M. Dějiny Vietnamu. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2008.
  • NGUYỄN, Văn Huyên. The Civilization of Vietnam. Hà nội: Thế Giới Publishers, 2013.
  • HUARD, Pierre - DURAND, Maurice. Connaissance du Viêt-Nam. Paris & Hanoi: Imprimerie Nationale & Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 1954.
  • SLAVICKÁ, Binh. Praktická fonetika vietnamštiny. Praha: Karolinum, 2008.
Teaching methods
Lectures,presentations and discussion about literature (fundamental books representing the history of Vietnamese studies and the process of acquainting Europe with Vietnam)
Assessment methods
Students of the study programme Vietnamese Studies: 1) three written tests during the course - at least 50 % of correct answers is needed to pass for final written examination; + 2) final written examination: at least 75 % of correct answers is required to pass the course. Students of other study programmes: only final written examination is compulsory: at least 50 % of correct answers is needed to pass the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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