Course: Places of Memory/Memory Culture

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Course title Places of Memory/Memory Culture
Course code KHI/BKS21
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Märc Josef, Mgr.
Course content
In the combined form of study, the teacher is in contact with the students in the form of direct contact teaching, consultation hours, online consultations and email communication.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
In the course, students will actively get acquainted with the basic text (Pierre NORA, Between Memory and History) for the concept of places of memory and on its basis they will build their own project for a specific application of the selected place of memory into a representative form (media output). The course will be taught in the following areas: a) development of the basic theoretical concepts of places of memory and their elaboration: collective memory, historical culture, historical consciousness and awareness, memory culture...; b) scaffolding for the training of the required skills: critical reading, communication and discussion skills, principles for writing a professional text...; c) treatment of memory with examples of the Great War, especially in the context of Czech history; d) familiarisation with the "memory of places" of selected sites in the Ústí nad Labem region: 1. Terezín, 2. Under the patronage of UNESCO (Erzgebirge, stories of inscription, ambitions: Žatec, Terezín).
Students will gain knowledge of the issues of commemorative culture and its current trends. They are able to independently apply general procedures to their own material of interest. They have skills that they are able to use in their own projects of creating places of memory.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The student prepares an independent professional text from a selected concept of memory studies or a review of a selected professional text (book) in the range of 5-10 standard pages. Upon completion of this requirement, students will complete a colloquium to test their ability to verbalize and discuss the knowledge they have acquired.
Recommended literature
  • HALBWACHS, Maurice. Kolektivní paměť. Praha, Sociologické nakladatelství, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7419-016-2.
  • Kolektiv. Česko-německá místa paměti: Sborník příspěvků. Ústí nad Labem, 2010.
  • KREISSLOVÁ, Sandra. Konstrukce etnické identity a kolektivní paměti v biografických vyprávěních českých Němců. Na příkladu vzpomínek Němců na Chomutovsku. Praha. 2013.
  • Pierre NORA. Mezi pamětí a historií : problematika míst. Praha, 2010.
  • Zdeněk VAŠÍČEK Françoise MAYER. Minulost a současnost, paměť a dějiny. Brno. 2008.


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