Course: Historiography history

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Course title Historiography history
Course code KHI/HISTZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Ducháček Milan, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Abstract: The course will acquaint studentsn with the main development trends, streams and schools of historic science in the 20th century, i.e. positivism and historicism, at first. The attention will concentrate on the methods of exploration claimed by modern historiography, on its methodological attitudes and teoretic constructs which exercise or influence. A part of course will be reading of texts. Thematic definition: 01)-02) Survey of the development of historic science in modern times 03) Empirism? Base of historical knowledge? 04)-05) Empric-critic paradigma of historical science (classical historic science of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century 06)- 07) "New history" as overcoming historicism and positivism (school Annales as a pattern) 08)-09) Historic materialism and marxist historiography 10) Linguistic turn and historiography 11) Ethnology and historiography 12) Microhistory and return of historic fact? 13) Historic antropology - new chance of historiography 14) Summary and discussion 14) Závěrečná diskuse

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Demonstration of student skills, Lecture
  • Class attendance - 42 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 54 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 54 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course will acquaint students with the main development trends, streams and schools of historic science in the 20th century, i.e. positivism and historicism, at first. The attention will concentrate on the methods of exploration claimed by modern historiography, on its methodological attitudes and teoretic constructs which exercise or influence. A part of course will be reading of texts.
It corresponds to the definition of the subject and to the demands given in syllabus.
Prerequisites
Fulfilment of previous study obligations, see the study program.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Practical demonstration of acquired skills, Presentation of acquired experience via portfolio

Active participation in the discussion at the exercises Submission of a bibliography of individual reading (5 titles, of which 3 books) and two annotations of specified texts (entries from the book Concepts and History) within the specified deadline Conditions for passing the exam: Knowledge of basic compulsory literature for the course (see Literature). Knowledge of at least six selected publications or articles from the list of recommended literature (always at least three for the domestic and at least three for the European / world historiographical context (of which always 2 + 2 whole books and only 1 + 1 articles / chapters from books). The oral exam will take place on the basis of knowledge of the content of lectures, the content and interpretation of texts from exercises and the application of demonstration of acquired knowledge and skills on the basis of individually studied texts.
Recommended literature
  • ALBRECHT, Stefan ? MALÍŘ, Jiří ? MELVILLE, Ralph (eds.)). Die ?sudetendeutsche Geschichtsschreibung? 1918?1960: zur Vorgeschichte und Gründung der Historischen Kommission der Sudetenländer: Vorträge der Tagung der Historischen Kommission für die böhmischen Länder (vormals: der Sudetenländer) in Brünn vom 1. bis 2. Oktober 2004 aus Anlass ihres fünfzigjährigen Bestehens,. München, 2007. ISBN 978-3-944396-24-8.
  • BERGER, Stefan ? FELDNER, Heiko ? PASSMORE, Kevin (eds.). Jak se píšou dějiny. Teorie a praxe. Brno, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7325-398-1.
  • BURKE, Peter. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. Škola Annales (1929?1989). Praha, 2004. ISBN 80-7106-719-9.
  • ČORNEJ, Petr. Historici, historiografie a dějepis. Praha, 2016. ISBN 978-80-246-2482-2.
  • EIBACH, Joachim ? LOTTES, Günther (edd.):. Kompass der Geschichtswissenschaft. Ein Handbuch,. Stuttgart, 2011. ISBN 978-3838522715.
  • HANUŠ, Jiří ? VLČEK, Radomír (edd.). Historik v proměnách doby a prostředí 19. století. Brno, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86488-44-8.
  • HANUŠ, Jiří ? VLČEK, Radomír (edd.). Historik v proměnách doby a prostředí 20. století. Brno, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7286-154-5.
  • HUNT, Lynn (ed.). The New Cultural History. Berkeley, CA, 1989. ISBN 978-0520064294.
  • IGGERS, George. Dějepisectví ve 20. století. Praha, 2002. ISBN 80-7106-504-8.
  • KONRÁD, Ota. Německé bylo srdce monarchie? Rakušanství, němectví a střední Evropa v rakouské historiografii mezi válkami. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7422-133-0.
  • KUTNAR, František - MAREK, Jaroslav. Přehledné dějiny českého a slovenského dějepisectví. Praha, 1997.
  • STORCHOVÁ, Lucie a kol. Koncepty a dějiny. Proměny pojmů v současné historické vědě. Praha, 2014. ISBN 978-80-87271-87-2.
  • TUCKER, Aviezer. Our Knowledge of the Past. A Philosophy of Historiography. Cambridge ? New York, 2004. ISBN 9780511498381.


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