Study programmes

A graduate of the Oral History – Contemporary History study programme has got a wide range of knowledge of Czechoslovak, Czech and world history, and is able to evaluate it within various contexts, interconnected on a level of so-called “large” history, but also on a level of a relation of so-called “large” to “small” history within an area of individual human stories. Alumni mastered the methodological and methodic/technical knowledge and skills pertaining to contemporary history and are able to review the current state of research and to put the study in that framework. They are able to pose the research questions of the study and to propose various ways to answer them. They have got an excellent command of methodology of historiography with special emphasis laid at oral history method. They are able to analyze and interpret the historical sources and secondary literature, to argue in convincing manner in this regard and respect deeply the ethical and legal dimension of historiographic scientific understanding.
Thanks to the emphasis, put on oral history, graduates master the necessary communication skills, are able to understand others, to engage in a dialogue and evaluate the information provided instantly in a productive manner. They are also above par in using audiovisual equipment and processing its electronic and digital outputs.
Alumni of the Oral History – Contemporary History study programme are therefore able to assert themselves in the wide range of professions, where the key is to understand and master the interpersonal communication within the context of Czechoslovak, Czech and world contemporary history. Graduates are therefore able to obtain employment as academic researchers, but they are thanks to acquired knowledge, skills and experience also fully competent to fill a position in memory institutions (as archivists or museum custodians), NGOs (as instructors or coordinators), in companies running public surveys (as inquirers, analysts or project managers) or in media business (as spokespersons, editors or presenters).