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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. - 2. Human as a citizen. - What does it mean to be a citizen, what basic values and principles are important in his daily life? 3. - 4. Democracy as a part of the European heritage. - Who creates and who runs the democratic society? - How do democracies arise, develop, function? 5. - 7. Democracy as a way of life, as a value. - Citizen in the democratic society - what is the status of a citizen of the democratic society? - Civil society in a modern state - what are the possibilities of a citizen in the democratic society? - What values and principles are important for the citizen of the democratic society? - What are the rights, freedoms and obligations of a citizen of the democratic society and what are their guarantees and possibilities of protection? - What basic values and principles are necessary for today's democracies? 8. - 10. Democracy as a discussion - democratic ways of resolving conflicts and problems. 11. - 14. Democracy in today's world. - What conditions contribute to the development of democracy? - What threatens current democracies (internal situation)? - World citizens and the global civic sector? -How do contemporary democracies affect the world and how does the world shape the form of contemporary democracies?
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course is based primarily on an interactive approach to the problems of the democratic society, basic values and principles. It will enable students to work with diversity of opinion, to form and formulate their own attitudes in the study of democracy in today's world, the importance of civil society and democratic values and principles.
The student will gain the following professional knowledge: - can characterize the basic concepts of the topics citizen - civil society - democracy and its place in today's world - can use appropriate technical terminology - can clarify and exemplify the basic principles and values of a democratic society - can explain and exemplify the problems associated with active citizenship in the democratic society and the problems of contemporary democracies
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
During the course, students create their portfolio in which they collect all written outputs from individual lessons. Part of the course is also the active participation of the student in the selected project and the processing of the agreed written output. Credit will be awarded on the basis of portfolio submission and project presentation by the student.
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Recommended literature
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Bláha, P., Havlínová, I., Maškarinec, P., Vojtíšková, K. Politická participace: současné trendy, příležitosti a problémy jako inspirace pro Ústecký kraj.
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Fukuyama, F. Konec dějin.
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Heywood, A. Politologie.
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Huntington, S. P. Střetcivilizací. Boj kultur a proměna světového řádu.
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Linek, L., Císař, O., Petrúšek, I., Vráblíková, K. Občanství a politická participace v České republice.
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Timothy Snyder. Tyranie. Praha, 2017.
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Westheimer, J. & Kahne, J. What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Teaching for Democracy. 2004.
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