Introduction to Franz Kafka and his Historical Situation - YBAC003

• Title: Introduction to Franz Kafka and his Historical Situation
• Guaranteed by: UPCES, CET Courses (24-AJ EXT)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/4, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHS-239.html#2; http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jan Pospíšil; Bc. Lenka Lukešová; Mgr. Nikola Skladanová
• Incompatibility : YBAC03, YBAC048
• Interchangeability : YBAC048
• Is incompatible with: YBAC048
• Is interchangeable with: YBAC048

Annotation

English

This is one of the courses held in cooperation with the partner institution CET Academic Programs, designed for the US students and the Czech and international students of the Faculty of Humanities. The course focuses on Franz Kafka’s short stories and two of his unfinished novels within the context of Prague German literature. Kafka is examined within the framework of the modernist culture of the fin de siècle and early 20th century Vienna, and in relation to contemporary Czech authors and the expressionist and other Avant-garde movements. Using the methodologies of both literary and intellectual historians, the course provides background in the dominant and thoughtgiving voices on the literature on Kafka - from his contemporaries up to the present day - approaching Kafka’s work as a path towards the understanding of our time, and as a possible "passage into modernity".

Last update: Halbichová Lenka, Mgr. (15.09.2016)

Czech

This is one of the courses held in cooperation with the partner institution CET Academic Programs, designed for the US students and the Czech and international students of the Faculty of Humanities. The course focuses on Franz Kafka’s short stories and two of his unfinished novels within the context of Prague German literature.

Last update: Halbichová Lenka, Mgr. (15.09.2016)

Course completion requirements

Students  are required  to follow the instructions and requirements specified in the course syllabus. 

Winter semester: Final exams are held in the first half of December. There might be also midterm exams, see the syllabus.

Summer semester: Final exams are held in the first half of May. There might be also midterm exams, see the syllabus.

Last update: Lukešová Lenka, Bc. (03.08.2017)

Teaching methods

This is one of the courses held in cooperation with the partner institution CET Academic Programs, designed for the US students and the Czech and international students of the Faculty of Humanities.

These courses are scheduled either twice (2x90 min.) or once (1x180 min.) a week in the CET classrooms (Palackého 3, Praha 1).

Students are allowed to miss only one class per semester.

Last update: Lukešová Lenka, Bc. (09.08.2018)

Syllabus

http://www.cet-prague.cz/info/?action=changeCategory&category=Sylabus

Required reading materials (the Reader) will be sent to the enrolled students via e-mail as a pdf file.

One copy of the reader will also be available in the CET Library.

Last update: Halbichová Lenka, Mgr. (15.09.2016)

Registration requirements

The teaching period in the CET courses begins already within the week from Monday, September 2, 2019 onwards.

Because of the early beginning of the classes before the registration to courses is opened, students will not be able to register to the CET courses through the SIS.

In order to be allowed to enrol the course, you have to:

  *   attend all classes of the particular course during the first week and sign in the attendance sheet form

  *   By Friday September 6 (15:00) at the latest, send an e-mail obligatory registration to the course to [e-mail] to confirm that you would like to be enrolled into the course

If the number of students who fulfil these conditions outreaches the capacity of the course, the time of the confirmation e-mail decides.

Those student who fulfil the conditions will be enrolled to the course on the SIS through the International Office of the FHS.


To get access to the CET facilities during the first week of classes, the students need to ring the doorbell at the main entrance to the CET Center in Palackého 3, Praha 1, and wait to be let in by a buzzer.

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: Lukešová Lenka, Bc. (26.07.2019)