Course: Czech language for historians

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Course title Czech language for historians
Course code KHI/KBH46
Organizational form of instruction 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
Lecturer(s)
  • Koumarová Michaela, Mgr.
Course content
The teaching of the course in the part-time form includes the following topics in individual teaching blocks: 1. Development and classification of Czech in the context of European, especially Slavic languages (Stages of language development, typical changes) 2. Sound and graphic aspects of Czech (orthography, orthoepy) 3. Formal morphology 4. Syntax (commas in a sentence, comma in a simple sentence, irregularities in sentence structure, sentece constituents) 5. Stylistic principles of language expression (emphasis on professional functional style) 6. Professional text, requirements, principles, procedures

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with information in three basic areas. The basic and introductory part of the course is oriented towards current issues of the Czech language, it is a necessary intial revision of the student?s knowledge in grammatical, lexical and stylistic aspects. thecurrent codification of the language will be presented in a partial way, and the students? attention will be focused on problematic phenomena in everyday written and spoken communication. In the second strand, attention will then be focused on the requirements, requisites and procedures for the creation and presentation of a professional historical text, in the context of the field and the requirement of the presentation of professional texts expected of a graduate of the study. The las major subtopic of the first strand is related to this aspect, which will focus the student?s attention on the spectrum of principles of typographic requisties of a professional text (with regard to the new typographic standart - CSN 01 6910)
Skills and competences are directed towards two levels: 1) General and theoretical aspects of the field: The student is able to characterise the development of the Czech language in a basic way, to explain the nature of the individual stages of language development and to explain the main changes brought about by these stages. The student will be able to distinguish functional styles of the language with a focus on professional texts. In this case, the student knows the basic principles of text structure, stylystics, and can make appropriate use of professional terminology and knows the basic rules of computer typography.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
- active participation in the full-time part of the course - preparation of partial assignments during the semestres, assignments are given with regard to current knowledge - successful completion of the credit test at 75%
Recommended literature
  • Norma ČSN 01 6910 Úprava dokumentů zpracovaných textovými procesory.
  • ČECHOVÁ, M. a kol. Čeština, řeč a jazyk. Praha, 1995.
  • PRAVDOVÁ, M. - SVOBODOVÁ, I. Akademická příručka českého jazyka. Praha, 2014.


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