Course: HISTORY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

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Course title HISTORY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Course code KHI/DSY
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
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)
  • Mikušek Eduard, PhDr.
  • Karlíček Petr, Mgr. Bc. Ph.D.
  • Holub Pavel, PhDr. Bc. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Period to 1526 2. Period 1526?1620 3. Period 1620?1740 4. Period 1740?1848 5. City administration 6. Patrimonial administration 7. Period 1848?1918 (central administration) 8. Period 1848?1918 (regional administration) 9. Period 1848?1918 (self-government) 10. Period 1918?1939 11. Occupation 1938?1945 12. Period 1945?1991 13.-14. Judicial, financial and other types of public administration

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The history of public administration in the lectured extent introduces students to the organization of public administration on the territory of the Bohemian state between Middle Ages to the present, while emphasis is laid on the field of political administration. The lectures on the institutions of public administration are linked with information about the preservation and archive deposition of their written production as a significant moment for understanding both their organization and factual operation and also methodical historical studies in general. The contents of the lectures takes into account the related issue of the subject State and Legislative History, which is simultaneously assigned by the curricula. Therefore, the constitutional and legal foundations of the history of state administration are only briefly outlined during the lectures and the education focuses on administrative institutions as the directors and coordinators of written documentations, and thus also on the significance of the discipline for historical heuristics. The main aim of the lectures is to explain the significance of the subject matter and to facilitate the students? orientation in professional literature. The lectured subject matter is divided into lessons mainly concentrated on political administration presented in chronological order.
The students can concretize the administrative development of the Czech lands by enlisting the basic institutions of the legislative and executive powers in their historical transformations and are in general features orientated in the given issue, including the knowledge of the relevant professional literature and sources. With regard to the hourly subsidy of the subject, it cannot be expected that the students become closely familiar with the Bohemian/Czech and Czechoslovak history of public administration in utmost detail and depth.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students are required to attend lectures, respond in the framework of the continuous discussions and study the compulsory literature.
Recommended literature


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter