Conceptions and Interpretations of Central European History - JMMZ082

• Title: Conceptions and Interpretations of Central European History
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2009 to 2009
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (12)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc.
• Is incompatible with: JMM093

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc. (12.02.2024)

This course concentrates on framing and interpreting of modern Central European history. It puts an emphasiz on generalizing schemes as well as on Central European links to neighbouring areas like Austria, Germany, Russia or the Balkans and brings also examples of national perspectives or projections of national interests to concepts of Central Europe.

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc. (12.02.2024)

Required readings:

Johann P. Arnason, Introduction. Demarcating East Central Europe. European Journal of Social Theory 8(4), 2005, pp. 387-400;

Robin Okey, Central Europe/Eastern Europe: Behind the Definitions: Past and Present, No. 137, 1992, pp. 102-133;

Karl A. Sinnhuber, Central Europe: Mitteleuropa: Europa Centrale: An Analysis of a geographical term. Transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers), No. 20, 1954, pp. 15-39;

Recommended readings:

Berend, T. Iván, History derailed : Central and Eastern Europe in the long nineteenth century. Berkerley : University of California Press, 2003;

Berend, I., Decades of Crisis. Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1998;

Berend, I.T., Central and Eastern Europe 1944-1993. Detour from Periphery to Periphery. Cambridge University Press 1998;

Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries, A history of Eastern Europe : crisis and change. London 2007

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc. (12.02.2024)

Course assessment is based on A-F scale defined by Dean´s of the Faculty provision 17/2018 (https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018aj) obligatory for all courses and lecturers. Read the provision carefully before applying!

Asssessment structure:

1. Coursework and debate (10 points)

2. Simple test veryfying understanding of compulsory reading (each class); it´s good to prepare synopsis of texts for each class (30 points)

3. Paper (60 points)

Paper (5 000 words), topics (short abstract + list of sources) to be agreed by 17 March 2019, submit deadline: 26 May 2019, paper (Word document) will be sent to [e-mail].

Paper should focus on a clearly defined topic including three items: problem/concept, history, Central Europe (soft overlappings with Balkans,Russia or Eastern Europe possible)
Paper structure:
a) introduction (selection of the topic, research question/hypothesis, comments on sources)
b) text (approaches and methods, which arguments were selected and why, which authors support/do not support your arguments)
c) conclusion (should bring answer to your introductory questions)
d) list of sources

3. Assessment
a) coursework 10 %

b) test 30 %
b) paper 60 %

4. Plagiarism strictly prohibited!!! (https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-provision-no-182015)

5. Only one absence without leave permitted, second absence like that results in one grade down, and after the third absence like that don´t bother yourself with the course at all :-)

6. Warning: this is an MA course typical of bachelors low survival rate!

Syllabus

Last update: VYKOUKAL (18.02.2013)

Programme (reader - files attached in SIS):

21.02. Introduction
28.02. Hodos, Wandycz
06.03. Arnason, Okey
13.03. Sinnhuber
20.03. Halecki
27.03. Szücs
03.04. Berend
10.04. Berger
17.04. Romsics
24.04. Porter
15.05. Tucker