World History of the 20th Century - JTB118

• Title: World History of the 20th Century
• Czech title: Světové dějiny 20. století
• Guaranteed by: Department of German and Austrian Studies (23-KNRS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 10 / unknown (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. Tomáš Nigrin, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Pre-requisite : {Skupina prerekvizit pro BP_HAS - 2. ročník}
• In complex pre-requisite: JTB122, JTB123, JTB124, JTB125, JTB126, JTB127, JTB128, JTB129

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

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.

Aim of the course

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

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. 

Course completion requirements

Last update: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (05.10.2023)

Grading is based on the Dean's Measure no. 20/2019: https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-measure-no-20/2019

• 91% and more   => A
• 81-90%             => B
• 71-80%             => C
• 61-70%             => D
• 51-60%             => E
• 0-50%               => F

More in SMĚRNICE S_SO_002: Organizace zkouškových termínů, kontrol studia a užívání klasifikace A–F na FSV UK.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

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.

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.

Teaching methods

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

Active participation in seminars based on the reading (2 credits), oral presentation (2 credits) and oral exam based on a seminar paper (2 credits). In sum 6 ECTS credits.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

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:

• 91 % and more   =>          A - excellent
• 81-90 %             =>          B - very good 
• 71-80 %             =>          C - good
• 61-70 %             =>          D - average
• 51-60 %             =>          E - acceptable
• 0-50 %               =>          F - failed

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

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?

Entry requirements

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

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.