Food and Culture: Czech and Global Perspectives - YBAC057

• Anglický název: Food and Culture: Czech and Global Perspectives
• Zajišťuje: Kurzy UPCES, CET (24-AJ EXT)
• Fakulta: Fakulta humanitních studií
• Platnost: od 2024
• Semestr: oba
• E-Kredity: 6
• Rozsah, examinace: 0/4, KZ [HT]
• Počet míst: zimní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen); letní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Další informace: https://bakalar.fhs.cuni.cz/SHV-211.html#2; https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-1016.html#2
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; předmět lze zapsat v ZS i LS
• Garant: Melinda Reidinger, Ph.D.; Bc. Lenka Lukešová; Mgr. Nikola Skladanová
• Vyučující: Bc. Lenka Lukešová; Melinda Reidinger, Ph.D.; Mgr. Nikola Skladanová

Anotace

When we source, prepare, and consume foods we transform the products of nature into culture, but what is guiding these practices? How can an understanding of food practices enrich our experience abroad? This course serves as an introduction to food studies, placing special emphasis on food and beverages in Czech culture. Topics include the roles food plays in European history and in empires, and the way foodways are involved in ethnic identity, memories, and relationships with the landscapes that sustain physical and cultural thriving. We also analyze local and global trends in food processing and gastronomy. Interdisciplinary aspects from fields such as those history and memoirs, literature, economics, and environmental studies enrich the anthropological perspective. There are field trips to Sapa, the Vietnamese culture and culinary center of Prague, and to the Staropramen brewery and the microbrewery Pivovarský dům, as well as a hands-on cooking class with a Czech chef.

Poslední úprava: Skladanová Nikola, Mgr. (18.07.2024)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

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

Winter semester: Final exams are usually held in the second half of November / 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.

Poslední úprava: Skladanová Nikola, Mgr. (18.07.2024)

Metody výuky

This is one of the courses held in cooperation with our partner institution CET Academic Programs, designed for US students and Czech and international students of the Faculty of Humanities.
These courses are scheduled either twice or once a week in the CET classrooms (Palackého 3, Praha 1).

Attendance is mandatory.

Poslední úprava: Skladanová Nikola, Mgr. (18.07.2024)

Sylabus

https://cetacademicprograms.com/college-study-abroad/programs/czech-republic/cet-prague/

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.

Poslední úprava: Skladanová Nikola, Mgr. (18.07.2024)

Požadavky k zápisu

The teaching period of the CET courses begins already within the week from January 27, 2025, onwards. 

Because of the early beginning of the CET tuition period before the Faculty course registration is opened, students will not be able to register for the CET courses through the SIS.

In order to be allowed to enroll in the course, you have to:

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

  *   send a registration e-mail to [e-mail] by January 31, 2025, to confirm that you would like to be enrolled in the course

If the number of students who fulfill these conditions exceeds the capacity of the course, the time of the registration e-mail decides the order of their enrolment. 

Successful students will be enrolled in the course in the SIS by the FHS International Office.


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.

 

INFORMATION FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS:

Because the teaching period of CET courses begins early, these courses are available in spring semesters only for those exchange students who are spending a full academic year at Charles University. They can enroll in 2 CET courses per semester depending on the available capacity and are expected to select regular courses in addition to the CET (YBAC-coded) courses.

 

Poslední úprava: Skladanová Nikola, Mgr. (16.01.2025)