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Curriculum / Summer 2009
The current summer curriculum consists of four courses in Central European civilization and history, political science, Czech film, and Czech language.
Challenges
to European Politics
The main goal of this course is to familiarize students with the politics of transition in Europe that happened during the last quarter of this century. It is designed to highlight developmental tendencies in European politics and to enable students’ deeper understanding of not only recent developments but also of future potential problems of European politics. The course will start from the question whether we can speak about Europe as a whole and will continue with characteristics of European non-democratic regimes of the past, dissidents’ activities of Central and Eastern Europe, theories of transition and the processes of transition in comparative perspective. The course will be concluded with specification of challenges to democratization, i.e. nationalism legacy of the past.
Instructor:
Dr. Vladimíra Dvořáková, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Prague School of Economics; Petr Vymětal, Junior Researcher, Center of Economic Studies, Prague School of Economics
Milestones
of the Czech History and Civilization
The course provides an introduction to cultural aspects of Czech
and in broader sense Central European environment. It concentrates
on major historical events and processes that have shaped future
developments in the area and contributed to various aspects of
the Czech national identity. Cultural awareness is initiated through
readings and lectures followed by discussions. Visits to historically
important sites in Prague and the Czech Republic are an integral
part of the course. Participants are expected to gain background
knowledge of the region's history and civilization, to understand
and examine issues of social changes and their effects on and
interaction with social fabric of the nation. The course is complemented
with reading and analysis of important fiction of respective epoques.
Instructor:
Petr A. Bílek, Associate Professor Chair of Department of Czech Literature, Charles University, Prague
Pavel Sládek, Institute for Near East and African Studies, Charles University
Modern Czech
Film
The course provides a deeper insight into the issues of modern Czechoslovak history and socio-cultural developments as documented by both major feature films and documentaries. Viewed against the general backdrop of key historical events, the participants will gain more intimate knowledge and understanding of the unique modern Central European experience as interpreted by famous film makers many of which helped create the phenomenon of the Czech New Wave (Academy Award Laureates Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel among them). Film screenings will include films covering World War II., the Stalinist Fifties, the period of political and cultural thaw of the Sixties, the most significant works of the post-1968 Soviet invasion years as well as post-1989 Velvet Revolution trends and controversies of the Czech film art.
Instructor:
Ivana Doležalová, film theorist, and publicist
Elementary
Czech
The course is designed to give stu-dents the ability to handle
everyday situations in Czech by focusing on listening and reading
com-prehension, speaking and beginning writing skills, introduction
to Czech grammar.
Instructors:
Jitka Kauerová, Lecturer of Czech
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