Course: Introduction to Regional History

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Course title Introduction to Regional History
Course code KHI/KBS50
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)
  • Zábranský Vilém, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Thematic blocks: 1. Introduction to the subject - regional history through the lens of historical sciences, regional studies and local history. 2. Regional history and the natural environment - study possibilities, sources. 3. What material sources can tell us. 4. Regional national history museums. 5. Regional galleries, ethnological, archaeological and historical open-air museums. 6. Immovable monuments, monument care and its organisation (with an emphasis on regional issues). 7. Written sources in regional historical work. 8. Archives and their organisation. 9. Historical maps and the study of cadastres in regional historical work. 10. Memorial books and chronicles in regional historical work. 11. Oral history in regional historical work, basic principles of processing personal accounts of witnesses. 12. Czech-German historiography until 1918. 13. Czech-German historiography until 1938. Sudeten-German and German historiography on Czech history after the Second World War.

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of regional history as an integral part of the historical sciences. Attention is paid to specific sources that can be used to study regional history, and various types of regional historical workplaces are introduced. Given the distinctive development of historical work in the border regions of Bohemia through to the end of the Second World War, there is also a basic overview of Czech-German or Sudeten-German historiography.
Students gain the necessary basic overview of regional history, which they can use in their own regional history work in the future.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Written test, participation in seminars.
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