Course: Field Trip: Following the Traces of the Sorbs

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Course title Field Trip: Following the Traces of the Sorbs
Course code KGER/0981
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kvapil Jan, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The following places will be visited during the excursion: museums, monuments, schools, kindergartens and expatriate organizations, including discussions. The stay will be realized in Bautzen and its surroundings.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Upper and Lower Lusatia was an integral part of the Czech Crown Lands from the Middle Ages until the 17th century. However, the specific relationship of the Czech lands to Lusatia and especially to the Slavic minority there has been cultivated to the present day. Learning outcomes of the course unit: The aim of the course is to acquaint with the history and present of the Lusatian Sorbs (also Wends) in the Czech and German context with the accentuation of minority education and Czech-Lusatian and German-Lusatian-Sorbian intercultural relations. Within the excursion, the participants will visit various places and institutions in Upper Lusatia, where various aspects of the Lusatian-Sorbian present and past will be demonstrated.
Students will gain an overview of the history and the present-day situation of the local Slavic minority of the Lusatian Sorbs in the Czech-German context. They will also learn to work with historical faxts and interret and/or mediate them.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students will comment on the facts acquired during the course of the excursion (photos and text) and prepare a report after the return from the excursion.
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Study plans that include the course
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Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): - (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology in the Czech-German Intercultural Context (A12) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (Double-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Teaching German Language and Literature for Secondary School (A14) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Intercultural German Studies (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Teaching German Language and Literature for Secondary School (A14) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Intercultural German Studies (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -