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Lecturer(s)
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Elbel Martin, doc. Mgr. M.A., Ph.D.
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Miller Jaroslav, prof. Mgr. M.A., Ph.D.
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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 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. The topics discussed include: - Birth of European political thoughts - Birth of modern nations - The Industrial revolution and its impacts - Modern bourgeoisie and the culture of liberalism - Colonialism, imperialism and Post-Colonialism - Family life and women's status in the modern society - Fin-de-siecle Era and Dissolving Certainties - The Rise of Modern Consciousness - Ethics - Urbanization - Mass-media and their role in contemporary Europe 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 owrn 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, Seminar Work
Exam requirements: - participation in the classes; - participation in the class discussions; - thourough studying of the reading requirements before coming to the class; - 1 paper: 7-8 pages of the text (i.e. 11-13 000 characters, or 2 200- 2 500 words); original topic (own research question); citation of the sources, using footnotes (Chicago style)
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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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