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Lecturer(s)
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Kohoutová Jitka, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Perutka Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course belongs to four Corefields of European Culture, taught in the first semester of the joint degree Master programme "Euroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context". It deals with cultural history of Europe and focusus on the basic concepts of European thought and culture, which fundamentally influenced the form and development of the European society in the modern history. Second part of the course focuses on developing students' academic skills, particularly their capacities to write an original research paper and to present their research topic orally. The topics discussed include: - Ideologies and populism - Migration and identity - Colonization and decolonization - Cultural diplomacy or soft power - Constructing gender identities - Roots and values of civil society - Nation, nationalism and nation state - origins, concepts and problems - City planning and urbanization - The Modernist movement contextualized - Media and Information Age The skills-oriented part includes: research aims, bibliography, primary and secondary sources, concepts and theoretical framing, research question and hypothesis, paper structure etc. The language of instruction is English.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Group work
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 24 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 75 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course should elucidate the basic cultural concepts of modern European history, while culture is understood in its broader sense and approached in a wider context of cruacial phenomena of the European development. Stress will be put on those concepts that influenced the development of society and still influence the European society today. Students are trained in writing an academic paper.
Students acquire good knowledge and understanding of European cultural development in the modern history and of the heritage of this development for the contemporary society. Students practice their skills of writing an academic paper - i.e. formulating their own research question, searching for relevant sources, critical interpretation of the sources, writing the paper including correct citation standards.
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Prerequisites
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Students are expected to have basic factual knowledge of modern European history and to be fluent in English.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Student performance, Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio, Seminar Work
1. Participation in the classes (max. 3 absences) 2. Active work in class 3. Weekly tasks, including 2 written reviews 4. In-class presentation of the paper draft 5. 1 academic paper with the following requirements: - 7-8 pages of the text (i.e. 11-13 000 characters, or 2 200- 2 500 words); - citation of the sources, using footnotes, Chicago style; - deadline: 19 January 2024 - content criteria: a) a paper analysing a historical primary source and discussing a historical issue; b) a primary source that reflects on the construction of identity (cultural, gender, national, ethnic, social etc.) - e.g. memories, private journal, travel journal, correspondence, oral histories; or creating image of the other in travel books, literature, photographs, press
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Recommended literature
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Alessandro Arcangeli, Jörg Rogge, Hannu Salmi. (2020). The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World. London and New York.
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George L. Mosse. (1988). The Culture of Western Europe. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. London.
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Norman Davies. (1997). Europe: A History. London.
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Peter Rietbergen. (2004). Europe. A Cultural History. London and New York.
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