| Course title | Places of Memory/Memory Culture |
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| Course code | KHI/BPS21 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| 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 |
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| Course content |
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1. Textbook constructions of history. Remembering school history. 2. Collective memory. At the border of history and sociology. The AGIL formula. 3. History versus memory. Historians versus "rememberers". Identities I. 4. Erinnerungsorte. 5. Collective remembering. 6. Collective commemoration. 7. Collective forgetting. 8. Memorial place. 9. Example of Terezín I. 10. Example Terezín II. 11. Historical culture. Identities II. 12. Example of the Ore Mountains I. 13. Example of the Ore Mountains II. 14. Introduction to colloquium issues.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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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 |
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None
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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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. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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