Course: Diplomatics II

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Course title Diplomatics II
Course code KAPV/PBA45
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
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)
  • Rak Petr, PaedDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Bureaucratization, production of diplomatic documents, rules of procedure and files. 2) General typology and hierarchy of diplomatic documents in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries. 3) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of political administration 1848 - 1938 (governorship, district and provincial offices). 4) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of occupation administration in the breakaway borderlands. 5) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of occupation administration in the protectorate. 6) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of national committees (1945-1989). 7) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of justice (courts, state prosecutor's offices, prosecutor's offices). 8) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of police, military and repressive forces. 9) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the field of financial administration. 10) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the area of municipal self-government in 1848 - 1945. 11) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the area of large estates and state forests. 12) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the area of disappearing rustics, agricultural self-government and collective farms. 13) Administrative system and diplomatic activity in the area of industrial enterprises. 14) Typology of accounting documents.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to deepen basic information about diplomatics as a key auxiliary historical science. The course is divided into blocks that systematically focus on individual areas of research into diplomatic documents.
The student will acquire knowledge of the development of diplomacy in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries; the creation of file marks and file plans; diplomatic documents of state administration offices, self-governing bodies and national committees; literature on diplomacy in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries. They will learn to identify diplomatic documents; describe and analyze diplomatic documents.
Prerequisites
Diplomatika I.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Orientation in auxiliary sciences of history, Czech history and history of administration from the year 1848 to the present.
Recommended literature
  • Eva Šmilauerová. Správní vývoj a diplomatika písemností okresních národních výborů v letech 1945-1960, SAP 32, 1982, 43-169..
  • Hana Vodičková. Příspěvek k dějinám české odborné terminologie netradičních druhů dokumentů, AČ 59, 2009, s. 201-240..
  • Heinrich Otto Meisner. Archivalienkunde vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1918. Göttingen, 1969.
  • Petr Rak. Diplomatika II. Elektronická studijní opora pro studenty se specifickými vzdělávacími potřebami. Ústí nad Labem, 2014.
  • Vácslav Babička. Číslo jednací a spisová značka, Archivní časopis 28, 2008, s. 1-13..


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