Course: CULTURAL HISTORY II

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Course title CULTURAL HISTORY II
Course code KHI/KDKU2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
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)
  • Pátek Jakub, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Subject circles of the individual lectures: I. SEMESTER 1. Prehistoric art 2. Culture and art of the Near East - Mesopotamia and Egypt 3. Ancient Greece 4. Roman culture and Roman empire 5. Early Christianity and its artistic expressions 6. Europe of the "dark" Middle Ages 7. Great Moravian Empire and pre-Romanesque art in Bohemia and Moravia 8. Europe after 1000 9. Romanesque culture in Bohemia and Moravia 10. The age of cathedrals 11. Gothic in Bohemia I 12. Bohemian Gothic II 13. Verification test

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes

The graduates from the course demonstrate basal knowledge of cultural and historical development during the period from prehistory to the early 20th century. They can synoptically characterize the cultural development in the significant areas and historical epochs. They also manifest knowledge of selected works of art and architecture within the above-mentioned time frame, the ability to identify these works and correctly classify them from both the aspect of the period of their style and dating. The graduates can employ the acquired knowledge depending on their professional orientation. The pedagogically-focused ones apply them in the framework of teaching history and disciplines of social sciences. The graduates of historical fields apply them in the framework of their research and publication activities. On a general level, all graduates manifest their cultural literacy by the acquired knowledge.
Prerequisites
1. Graduation from the course does not require previous graduation from any particular discipline. 2. The appropriate initial knowledge should at least cover the secondary-school history curricula. Knowledge of foreign languages is not required

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The subject is approved by two credit tests to prove whether a student managed at least the basic sum of the provided information at the end of each semester.
Recommended literature
  • Fučíková, E. - Bukovinská, B. - Muchka, I. Umění na dvoře Rudolfa II.. Praha, 1991.
  • Garin, E. Renesanční člověk a jeho svět. Praha, 2003.
  • Huyge, R. a kol. Umění renesance a baroku. Praha, 1970.
  • kol. aut. Baroko. Architektura - Sochařství - Malířství. Praha, 2007.
  • kol. aut. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II. (1, 2). Praha, 1989.
  • kol. aut. Umění italské renesance, Architektura - Sochařství - Malířství - Kresba. Praha, 2001.
  • kol.aut. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění III. (1,2). Praha, 2001. ISBN 80-200-0735-03.
  • kol.aut. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění IV. (1,2). Praha, 1998. ISBN 978-80-200-0587-0.
  • Neumann, J. Český barok. Praha, 1974.
  • Villari, R. Barokní člověk a jeho svět. Praha, 2003.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) Category: History courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer