A Guide to History Studies in Prague - OEBDD1705Z ((Archives, Libraries, etc.))

• Title: A Guide to History Studies in Prague
• Guaranteed by: Katedra dějin a didaktiky dějepisu (41-KDDD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/0, Ex [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 10 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://pedf.cuni.cz/PEDFEN-110.html
• Note: priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jana Kepartová, CSc.
• Class: Předměty v angličtině - mgr.
• Classification: Teaching > History
• Is interchangeable with: OEN2305001

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Jan Kremer (15.02.2021)

The course is designed as a introduction for foreign history students who are interested in studying Czech history. It is focused on explaining basic geographical and chronological concepts as well as national metanarratives and Czech historical stereotypes. It also presents topics and methods of contemporary Czech historiography.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Jan Kremer (15.02.2021)

Textbooks:

●       Agnew H., The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Stanford 2004.

●       Čornej P. – Pokorný J., A Brief History of the Czech Lands to 2004, Prague 2004.

●       Pánek J. – Tůma O. (Eds.), A History of the Czech Lands, Prague 2009.

●       Polišenský J. V., History of Czechoslovakia in Outline, Prague 1991 (2^nd edition).

●       Teich M. (Ed.), Bohemia in History, Cambridge University Press 1998 (Course Reader).

 

Recommended Readings

●       Blaive M., The 1989 Revolution as a Non-Lieu de Mémoire in the Czech Republic, https://cz.boell.org/sites/default/files/downloads/http___oldmail.otoman(1).pdf

●       Bolton J., Worlds of Dissent. Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism. Harvard 2014.

●       Bren P., The Greengrocer and His TV. The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring, Ithaca 2010.

●       Cornwall, M. and R. J. W. Evans (eds.), Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, Oxford 2007.

●       Crowley D. – Reid S., edd. Socialist Spaces. Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc 2002.

●       Demetz, P. (1997). Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City, Hill and Wang New York.

●       Gellner E., Nations and Nationalism, Oxford 1983.

• Holý L., The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation. National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation, Cambridge 1996.

• Macura V., The Mystifications of a Nation: The ‘Potato Bug’ and Other Essays on Czech Culture, Madison 2010.

●       Novák J. (Ed.), On Masaryk, Amsterdam 1988.

●       Pehe J. (ed.), The Prague Spring: A Mixed Legacy, London 1988.

●       Ripellino A. M., Magic Prague, UCP 1993.

●       Rupnik J., The Other Europe, New York 1989.

• Sayer D., Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century, Princeton 2013.

●       Sayer D., The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Princeton University Press 1998.

●       Svobodný P., Historical Institutes, History Departments, Archives, Museums in the Czech Republic. A Guide, Prague 2000.

●       Trencsényi, B. and Kopeček, M. (eds) (2006-2007). Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) Vol. I-II, Central European University Press Budapest – New York.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Jan Kremer (15.02.2021)

Written essay.