Course: The Issue of Minorities

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Course title The Issue of Minorities
Course code KFL/PRM19
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Jetmarová Jana, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The course has two major objectives: first, to acquaint students with theoretical framework of the study of ethnic, cultural and religious minorities, second, to familiarize them with selected ethnic, cultural and religious minorities in the Czech Republic and in the wider European context. The course will be divided into two parts. In the theoretical part, attention will be paid to key theoretical concepts (culture, identity, ethnicity and ethnic group, nationalism and nation, race and racism, basic models of interethnic and intercultural coexistence). In the descriptive part, sudents will be familiarzed with the Jewish, Roma, Vietnamese and Muslim minorities in the Czech Republic and in Europe.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
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Recommended literature
  • ANDERSON, Benedict. Představy společenství: Úvahy o původu a šíření nacionalismu. Praha: Karolinum. 2008. ISBN 978-80-246-1490-8..
  • BARŠA, Pavel. Politická teorie multikulturalismu. Vyd. 2. Brno: CDK (Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury), 2003. ISBN 80-7325-020-9..
  • ERIKSEN, Thomas Hylland. Antropologie multikulturních společností: rozumět identitě. Praha: Triton, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7254-925-2..
  • GELLNER, Ernest. Národy a nacionalismus. Praha: Josef Hříbal, 1993. ISBN ISBN 80-900892-9-1..
  • NEČAS, Ctibor. Romové v České republice včera a dnes. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 1999. ISBN 80-7067-952-2..
  • OSTŘANSKÝ, Bronislav. Malá encyklopedie islámu a muslimské společnosti. Praha: Libri, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7277-404-3..
  • ŠIŠKOVÁ, Tatjana. Výchova k toleranci a proti rasismu. Praha: Portál, 2008. ISBN 80-7367-182-4..
  • UHEREK, Zdeněk. Cizinecké komunity z antropologické perspektivy: vybrané případy významných imigračních skupin v České republice. Praha: Etnologický ústav AVČR, 2008. ISBN 978-80-87112-12-0..


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