Course: Proseminar in Culture Studies

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Course title Proseminar in Culture Studies
Course code KGER/KUP
Organizational form of instruction 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. Introduction - definition of terms, structure, concepts and tasks 2.-3. Culture and German Studies 4-5.. History of German Studies as a science 6.-7. German studies in the Bohemian Lands and German studies and Czech society 8.-9. Nationalism and German Studies 10.-11. German Studies and Nationalism 12.-13. Germanoslavica 14. Summary and retrospective

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The seminar is an introduction to the study of intercultural German studies. The basic aim is to introduce students to professional terminology and to teach them how to work with archival and published texts in German from different eras. For this reason, each meeting includes the reading of a single source text, first printed in various period fonts, later written in Fraktur or Süterlin.
- acquire basic knowledge of the problems of intercultural German studies - begins to understand the research perspectives and terminology - learns to work with secondary literature and historical sources of 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
  • Becheer, P. a kol. (vyd.). Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der böhmischen Länder. Stuttgart, 2017.
  • Höhned, S. a kol. (ed.). Franz Kafka im interkulturellen Kontext. Wien, 2019.
  • Koschmal, W., Nekula, M. (vyd). Češi a Němci. Praha, 2002.
  • Kováč, D. et. al. Kultura jako nositel a oponent politických záměrů: Německo-české a německo-slovenské kulturní styky od poloviny 19. století do současnosti.. Ústí nad Labem, 2009.
  • Vietta, S. Europäische Kulturgeschichte: eine Einführung. Paderborn, 2007.
  • Wagner, M. Europäische Kulturgeschichte:gelebt, gedacht, vermittelt.. Wien, 2009.
  • Wierlacher, A. / Bogner, A. Handbuch interkulturelle Germanistik. Stuttgart, 2003. ISBN 000.


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