Course: Historical Encounters and Struggles between Czechch and Germans

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Course title Historical Encounters and Struggles between Czechch and Germans
Course code KGER/HSP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
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)
  • Němec Miroslav, doc. Dr. phil.
Course content
1. Czechs? Germans? Austrians? On the question of national identities. 2. Slavs and Germans 3. Kingdom and Empire 4. Colonization in the Middle Ages? 5. Charles IV. 6. Reformation: Czech and German 7. The Dark Ages? The Age of Germanization? 8. Three national revivals in the Czech lands 9. National and state concepts 10. National agitation and cosmopolitanism 11. The nation-state and the national minority 12. The agony and disintegration of Czech-German society 13. New Neighbourhood Relations

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The seminar is an introduction to the study of Czech-German relations in the Intercultural German Studies programme. Its aim is to introduce students to the basic questions of mutual coexistence since the Middle Ages and at the same time to possible interpretive paradigms. The issues outlined in the seminar will be pursued in depth in other follow-up courses in the study programme.
- acquire basic knowledge of the problems of Czech-German relations - begins to orient himself in the perspectives of research - learns to analyse historical sources and handle secondary literature
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active, participating in discussions during the seminar, preparing and presenting a paper and submitting it in writing
Recommended literature
  • Hahn, E. Od Palackého k Benešovi. Německé texty o Češích, Němcích a českých zemích. Praha, 2015.
  • Kořalka, J. Češi v habsburské říši a v Evropě v letech 1815 - 1914. Praha, 1996.
  • Koschmal, W., Nekula, M. (vyd). Češi a Němci. Praha, 2002.
  • Seibt, F. Německo a Češi. Dějiny jednoho sousedství uprostřed Evropy.. Praha, 1996.


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