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World History of the 20th Century is a non descriptive course that offers a synthetical overview of the past century with a particular interest in interpretations offered by social sciences. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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The goal of the course is to provide students with an ability to synthetise the events of the 20th century using some of the theoretical approaches. From methodogical perspective mainly comparison (synchronic and diachronic), contextualization, change of perspective (time and place) are used. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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Grading is based on the Dean's Measure no. 20/2019: https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-measure-no-20/2019
Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. Fourastié, Jean. Les Trente Glorieuses ou la révolution invisible. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Free Press, 1992. Hahari, Yuval Noah. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. New York: Spiegel & Grau: 2018. Hahari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus. A Brief History of Tomorrow. London: Harvil Secker, 2016. Hahari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens. A Brief History of Humankind. New York: Harper, 2014. Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Lowe, Keith: The Fear and the Freedom. London: St. Martin's Press, 2017. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. Patočka, Jan. Wars of the 20th Century and the 20th Century as a War. Télos 1976 (30): 116-126. Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Todorova, Maria. Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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Active participation in seminars based on the reading (20 pct), oral presentation (30 pct) and oral exam based on a seminar paper (50 pct). In sum 6 ECTS credits. Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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Regular participation of students in the seminar, which encompasses regular reading of the mandatory texts to the covered topics (approx. 180 pages) and active discussion based on this reader. Oral presentation (20 minutes) on the selected topic based on approx. 30 pages of texts. Oral examination based on the defense of small seminar paper (10 pages max.). Classification on the scale A-F:
Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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Selected topics:
Politics in the 20th Century - Liberalism vs. Communism vs. Fascism
Wars of the 20th Century - Violence as an anthropological constant?
Good Times, Bad Times - Economical Cycles, Crises & Miracles
Decolonization - Another Part of the World?
Social Sciences - Reflexive Approach, Constructivism, Linguistic Turn, Discourse
Narratives - End of History or The Clash of Civilizations?
Memory, Self-Reflection, Identity - Everywhere different, still the Same?
Media - The Medium is the Message?
Culture - Is it any Different from Politics? Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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Knowledge of English, basic knowledge of contemporary history at the grammar school level. This course is compulsory for History and Area Studies (HAS) Program, students of other programs will be enrolled only with teachers' permission! Last update: Emler David, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
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