Course: Czech lands and the Habsburgs in the 19 and 20 century

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Course title Czech lands and the Habsburgs in the 19 and 20 century
Course code KHI/0629
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
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)
  • Pernes Jiří, doc. PhDr. Dr.
Course content
1. What Austrian archdukes might and might not afford in their lives. 2. Josef Mánes makes a portrait of Franz Joseph I 3. Bedřich Smetana composes Triumphal Symphony 4. Franz Joseph I and the National Theatre in Prague 5. The Fundamental Articles of 1871 6. Prague builds Rudolfinum 7. The Punctation 8. The Land Jubilee Exhibition in 1891 9. Franz Joseph I and the Museum of the Czech Kingdom in Prague 10. Franz Joseph I and the Czech Academy of Sciences and Art 11. Franz Joseph I and Czech-German dispute 12. The Habsburgs and Northern Bohemia 13. Beginnings of internal breakup of the Czech society with the Habsburgs 14. Unsuccessful efforts to modernize the Danubian monarchy 15. Fight of Czechs against the Habsburgs in the 20 century - causes and demonstrations

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Continuation of the lecture on relations of the Czech society in the 19 and 20 century to the Habsburg-Lorraine family and its selected representatives. The objective of the lectures is to break existing historic stereotypes such as that the Czech nation always suffered under the reign of the Habsburg family. The lectures are meant to explain to students that both parties in this relationship mutually affected each other, influenced each otherś behaviour and decision making. In the second half of the 19 century the Czech society developed rapidly under the reign of the Habsburg.Lorraine family and after that it integrated among modern European nations. The lectures aim to clarify incentives of selected decisions made by the Emperors Franz Joseph I of Austria and Charles I of Austria and to show a change of the relation of the Czech nation to this ruling family - from unconditional loyalty to open enmity.
Getting additional information about development of the Czech society in the second half of the 19 century and in the beginning of the 20 c., new perspectives of formation of Czech-Austrian and Czech-German relations.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
General knowledge of Czech history of the 19 century Elementary knowledge of German Interest in the topic
Recommended literature


Study plans that include the course
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Documentation of Historical Memorials (A14) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Cultural History (A14) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -