Course: INTRODUCTION INTO HISTORY STUDIES

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Course title INTRODUCTION INTO HISTORY STUDIES
Course code KHI/USH
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
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)
  • Velímský Tomáš, doc. PhDr. CSc.
  • Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Topics of lectures: 1. What is history? Does history make any sense? Is there any sense in dealing with history? 2. Historical sciences and their position in the system of sciences 3. Historical sciences and their inner dividing 4. Organization of historical sciences in Czech Republic, expert magazines 5. Basics of historical method, bibliography, edition of sources 6. Sources and literature - basic information, what is the source critique (primary and secondary critique) 8.- 10. Basic overview of types of sources (stress on material, iconographic and mainly written sources) 11. Methods of historical work (induction and deduction, direct and indirect method, synchronic and diachronic approach, progressive and retrospective method, structural analysis) 12. Methods of historical work (quantitative methods, model analysis, probe method, comparative method, typology and periodization). 13. Biographic method, prosopography, microhistory 14. Geographical method, historical geography, historical cartography Programme of the seminars: 1. How to set the topic of seminar paper and how to write it 2. Technique of quotations in scientific historical work 3. Narrative sources and their destiny - the legend of Kristian 4. - 5. Social and cultural anthropology (a paper on the book by C. Lévi-Strausse Thinking of natural nations, introduction into the issue, commented reading of part of the book, The Sad Tropics) 6. Historical demography (a paper on the book of J. Horský - M Seligová, Rodina našich předků, explanation) 7. - 8. Diplomatic sources - two documents of Václav I for the city of Brno and their statement to the problematic of medieval legal system (commented reading of two privileges from 1243, explanation of the development of medieval legal system, a commentary to the depicting of Heidelberg manuscript of Sachsenspiegel) 9. Historical semantics (a paper on a book by I. Němec, Slova a dějiny or Dědictví řeči, explanation of the role of Josef Macek, an example of explanation of historical semantics - living and the house in Czech Middle Age) 10. Toponomastics (a paper on the book by V. Šmilauer Osídlení Čech ve světle místních jmen, explanation) 11. Anthropomastics (a paper on the book of J.Beneš, O českých příjmeních, explanation of the importance of the study of patrocinies as possible political and cultural contexts of liking of personal names) 12.- 13. People on the edge (about the importance of the study of this issue, about F. Graus, minorities in history - Jews, Romanies) 14. Hunger and abundance in the history of Europe (a paper on a book Hunger and Abudance by Massimo Montanari, explanation)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course should introduce the students to history as a scientific subject, with its position in the world of science and with its inner dividing, organizational structures in Czech Republic, sources and scientific literature, with the method that history works with. The students will gain basic practical skills in a historical paper.
The students will acquire basic knowledge about the subject. They will use this knowledge in practice by elaborating the seminar paper.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Attendance at the course, elaborating of seminar paper of 5 pages of scientific text on a given and approved topic. The students have to pass a written test and an oral exam (show knowledge of expert quotations, one question from the basic types of historical written sources, one question from the methods of historical work).
Recommended literature
  • Bloch, Marc. Obrana historie aneb historik a jeho řemeslo. Praha, 2011.
  • Eco, Umberto. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc, 1997.
  • Flodr, Miroslav. Iura originalia civitatis Brunesis. Brno, 1993.
  • Ginzburg, Carlo. Sýr a červi. Praha, 2005.
  • Graus, František. Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde. 14. Jahrhundert als Krisenzeit. Göttingen, 1987.
  • Graus, František. Pest, Geissler, Judenmorde. 14. Jahrhundert als Krisenzeit. Göttingen, 1987.
  • Horský, Jan - Seligová, Markéta. Rodina našich předků. Praha, 1997.
  • Horský, Jan. Dějepisectví mezi vědou a vyprávěním. Praha, 2009.
  • Horský, Jan. Teorie a narace. Praha, 2015.
  • Hroch, Miroslav a kol. Úvod do studia dějepisu. Praha, 1985.
  • Le, Goff, Jacques. Svatý František z Assisi. Praha, 2004.
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. Montaillou, okcitánská vesnice v letech 1294-1324. Praha, 2005.
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Myšlení přírodních národů. Praha, 2000.
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Myšlení přírodních národů. Praha, 2000.
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Smutné tropy. Praha, 2011.
  • Ludvíkovský, Jaroslav ed. Kristiánova legenda. Praha, 2018.
  • Montanari, Massimo. Hlad a hojnost. Dějiny stravování v Evropě. Praha, 2003.
  • Montanari, Massimo. Hlad a hojnost. Dějiny stravování v Evropě. Praha, 2003.
  • Němec, Igor - Horálek, Jan ed. Dědictví řeči. Praha, 1986.
  • Němec, Igor ed. Slova a dějiny. Praha, 1980.
  • Petráň, Josef. Dějiny českého venkova v příběhu Ouběnic. Praha, 2012.
  • Semotanová, Eva. Historická geografie českých zemí. Praha, 1998.
  • Semotanová, Eva. Mapy Čech, Moravy a Slezska v zrcadle staletí. Praha, 2001.
  • Smetánka, Zdeněk. Legenda o Ostojovi. Praha, 2004.
  • Svoboda, Jan. Staročeská osobní jména a naše příjmení. Praha, 1964.
  • Šmilauer, Vladimír. Osídlení Čech ve světle místních jmen. Praha, 1960.
  • Třeštík, Dušan. Češi a dějiny v postmoderním očistci. Praha, 2005.
  • Třeštík, Dušan. Mysliti dějiny. Praha, 1999.
  • WIHODA, Martin a kol. Úvod do studia dějepisu I-II. Brno, 2014.


Study plans that include the course
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Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Documentation of Historical Memorials (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): History (double subject) (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): History (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter