| Course title | Places of memory/memory culture |
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| Course code | KHI/KBS55 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter |
| 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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Thematic blocks: 1. Textbook constructions of history. Remembering history at school. 2. Collective memory. On the border between history and sociology. AGIL paradigm. 3. History versus memory. Historians versus "eyewitnesses". Identity I. 4. Erinnerungsorte. 5. Collective remembrance. 6. Collective commemoration. 7. Collective forgetting. 8. Memorial site. 9. Example Terezín I. 10. Example Terezín II. 11. Historical culture. Identity II. 12. Example Ore Mountains I. 13. Example Ore Mountains II. 14. Introduction to the colloquium.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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On this course, students are actively acquainted with a fundamental text (Pierre NORA, Between Memory and History) for the concept of places of memory and, on its basis, build their own project for the concrete application of the selected place of memory into a representative form (media output). The course is 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) handling memory through examples of the Great War, especially in the context of Czech history; d) familiarisation with "places of memory" around the Ústí Region: 1. Terezín, 2. Under the patronage of UNESCO (Ore Mountains, stories of inscription, ambitions: Žatec, Terezín).
Students gain knowledge of the issue of memory culture and its current trends. They are able to independently apply general procedures to their own material of interest. They have skills they are able to use when creating their own projects to create places of memory. |
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none
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
The student prepares an independent expert text on a selected concept of memory studies or a review of a selected expert text (book) in the range of 5-10 standard pages. Upon completion of this assignment, students attend a colloquium to test their ability to verbalise and discuss the knowledge they have gained |
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| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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