Course: The Theory and Metodology of the History 2.

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Course title The Theory and Metodology of the History 2.
Course code KHI/TMH2X
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Portmann Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) New trends in modern age research 2) Working with archive materials of totalitarian regimes 3) Prosecution materials and theit usefullness for historians 4) Oral history, contrafactual history 5) Myths about Czechoslovakian history 6) Tabu versus reality 7) Individual and collective memory

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 16 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 16 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The lecture will introduce the basic characteristics of non-empiric elements of historical thinking and scientiffic historic knowledge of the 20th century in contemporary historiography. The historic thinking and its specific part - scientific knowledge - understand as socio-cultural phenomenon, i.e. intellectual product bound on the universal time designated cultural streams as the creation of the objective picture of world - including its evaluation and having its esthetic and ethic extent.
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.
KHI/TMHVO
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KHI/TMHX

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Active attendance on discussions (lessons); fulfilment of homework; passing a test successfully; study of recommended literature
Recommended literature
  • Beneš, Z. Historický text a historická kultura. Praha, 1995.


Study plans that include the course
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