Environmental Challenges and Nature Conservation in Central Europe - YBAC062

• Anglický název: Environmental Challenges and Nature Conservation in Central Europe
• Zajišťuje: Kurzy UPCES, CET (24-AJ EXT)
• Fakulta: Fakulta humanitních studií
• Platnost: od 2025
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/4, KZ [HT]
• Počet míst: 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
• Garant: Mgr. Nikola Skladanová
• Třída: Courses available to incoming students

Anotace

Long-term human land-use in central Europe gives rise to serious environmental challenges such as pollution, deforestation and land-use change leading to fragmentation and degradation of natural habitats, landscape drainage, loss of landscape connectivity due to the continuous building of linear transport constructions, etc. The result is a serious threat for natural biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services, and, ultimately, the sustainable development of human society in central Europe. Ongoing climate change makes these challenges even more difficult to address. This course focuses on these environmental challenges and their possible solutions from the perspective of inhabitants of central Europe. The roles of various social, political and economic factors for defining and finding applicable solution are widely discussed. The local Prague environment is used as a classroom for documenting efforts towards nature restoration and biodiversity protection within the city.

Poslední úprava: Skladanová Nikola, Mgr. (14.01.2026)

Sylabus

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

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.

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.

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. (15.01.2026)

Požadavky k zápisu

The teaching period of the CET courses begins from January 26, 2026, 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 30, 2026, 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. (15.01.2026)