Course: Cultural History

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Course title Cultural History
Course code KHI/KHIX
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
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)
  • Nuska Bohumil, prof. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
1. Basic terms, etymology, abstraction, stylization, deduction and induction, typos. 2. Physical and cultural anthropology. 3. Anthropological types, human races, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, racism. 4. Culture and civilization. 5. Natural status of human, Neolithic revolution, hunter, gatherer, agrarian, shepherd. 6. Civilization and pre-civilization cultural phenomena. 7. Language. 8. Myth. 9. Art. 10. Religion. 11. Type. 12. Philosophy. 13. Science. 14. Book.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming)
  • Class attendance - 84 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Course will solve some terminological and ethymological questions in context of selected issues and problems of cultural anthropology.
The students will acknowledge themselves with the informations acording to the goal and the matter of the course.
Prerequisites
Unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined examination

attendance and exam
Recommended literature
  • Wolf, J.: Člověk a jeho svět, Praha 1993. Budil, I.: Mýtus, jazyk kulturní antropologie, Praha, 1992. Souriau, E.: Encyklopedie estetiky, Praha, 1994.
  • Wolf, J. Sociální a kulturní antropologie Praha, 1971.


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