Course: Diplomacy II

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Course title Diplomacy II
Course code KAPV/PMH40
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Rak Petr, PaedDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1.) Bureaucratization, production of diplomatic documents, rules of procedure and files. 2.) General typology and hierarchy of diplomatic documents in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries. 3.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of political administration 1848-1938 (governorship, district and provincial offices). 4.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of occupation administration in the breakaway borderlands. 5.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of occupation administration in the protectorate. 6.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of national committees (1945-1989). 7.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of justice (courts, state prosecutor's offices, prosecutor's offices). 8.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of police, military and repressive forces. 9.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of financial administration. 10.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of municipal self-government 1848-1945 11.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of large estates and state forests. 12.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of disappearing rustics, agricultural self-government and collective farms. 13.) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of industrial enterprises. 14.) Typology of accounting documents.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to deepen basic information about diplomatics as a key auxiliary historical science. The course is divided into blocks that systematically focus on individual areas of research into diplomatic documents.
The student will acquire knowledge of the development of diplomacy in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries; the creation of file marks and file plans; diplomatic documents of state administration offices, self-governing bodies and national committees; literature on diplomacy in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries. They will learn to identify diplomatic documents; describe and analyze diplomatic documents.
Prerequisites
Orientation in the auxiliary sciences of history, Czech history, and the history of administration from 1848 to the present; ability to read Gothic script and Neo-Gothic cursive; mastery of the basics of Latin, ability to translate and understand German texts of a diplomatic nature.
KAPV/PMH30

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Participation in classes, study of recommended literature, writing a paper on a given topic, successfully writing an exam test.
Recommended literature
  • Eva Šmilauerová. Správní vývoj a diplomatika písemností okresních národních výborů v letech 1945-1960, SAP 32, 1982, 43-169..
  • Hana Vodičková. Příspěvek k dějinám české odborné terminologie netradičních druhů dokumentů, AČ 59, 2009, s. 201-240..
  • Heinrich Otto Meisner. Archivalienkunde vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1918. Göttingen, 1969.
  • Petr Rak. Diplomatika II. Elektronická studijní opora pro studenty se specifickými vzdělávacími potřebami. Ústí nad Labem, 2014.
  • Vácslav Babička. Číslo jednací a spisová značka, Archivní časopis 28, 2008, s. 1-13..


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