Course: Introduction to Historiography

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Course title Introduction to Historiography
Course code KHI/BKH53
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 7
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)
  • Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Hrbek Filip, PhDr.
Course content
The teaching of the course in combined form includes the following topics in individual teaching blocks: 1. Historiography until the emergence of historical science; Historiography at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, positivism and historicism, historiography and sociology; historical sociology; 2. The origins of the Annales school, the concept of the Long Duration, Braudel's concept of total history, historical geography 3. Generations of the Annales School, history of the everyday, microhistory and historical anthropology 4. Cultural history, Czech historiography after 1989 and historiography at the turn of the millennium Within the framework of self-study, students deal with the topics included in the compulsory literature and in particular in the course outline, tasks assigned in the full-time part of the course or in the Moodle learning system, as well as on the basis of individual consultations with the teacher carried out in person, on-line (blue.ujep.cz) or by correspondence (e-mail).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the main contours of the development of modern historiography, with an emphasis on trends in the development of historiography in the 20th century, taking into account intersections with other disciplines (philosophy, sociology, economics, anthropology, geography). The central point of the interpretation is the search for the possibilities of interdisciplinary approaches (as a way out of the crisis of historicism and historical positivism, or ideological dogmatism), which has been present in various forms in the works of prominent authors since the beginning of the last century. Emphasis is placed on the following themes forming the content of the lectures. In the seminars, interpretation is supplemented by reading assignments in the literature, which are then interpreted together.
The student is oriented in the problems of modern historiography and its genesis and can explain its institutional anchoring. The student will explain the importance of the Annales journal and school and describe the contribution of the first generation of its representatives. The student will be able to name the main directions of interdisciplinary overlap into other fields. Identifies important historians of the interwar period and analyses key features of their work. Explains the basic principles of quantitative history and lists its major exponents. Describes the main features of the third generation of the Annales school, microhistory and historical anthropology. Characterize the influence of selected foreign historians on the formation of modern Czech historiography.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Written test, oral exam.
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