Course: DIPLOMATICS II

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Course title DIPLOMATICS II
Course code KHI/KDIP2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
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)
  • Rak Petr, PaedDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Subject circles of the individual lectures: 1. Bureaucratization, production of diplomatic documents, agenda and documentation codes 2. General typology and hierarchy of diplomatic documents dating to the latter half of the 19th and the 20th centuries 3. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of political administration 1848?1938 (governorate, regional and land offices) 4. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of occupation administration in the separated borderland 5. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of the occupation administration in the Protectorate 6. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of national committees (1945?1989) 7. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of justice (courts, state prosecuting attorney?s offices, prosecutor?s offices) 8. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of police, military and repressive sectors 9. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of financial administration 10. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of communal self-government 1848?1945 11. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of manors and state forests 12. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of the vanishing rustical, agricultural self-government and Standard Farming Cooperatives 13. Administrative system and diplomatic activities in the sphere of industrial enterprises 14. Typology of accounting documents

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to broaden students? elementary knowledge of diplomatics as the crucial auxiliary historical discipline. The course is divided into blocks, each of which systematically focuses on the individual fields of researching written diplomatic documents.
The graduates acquire knowledge of the developments in diplomatics of the latter half of the 19th and the 20th centuries, creating the documentation registery numbers and documentation plans, diplomatic written documents issued by the offices of state administration, self-governmental bodies and national committees and literature on diplomatics published during the latter half of the 19th and in the 20th centuries. They learn to identify diplomatic written documents as well as describe and analyse these documents.
Prerequisites
The graduates become orientated in auxiliary historical sciences, in Bohemian history and history of public administration to 1848. They also acquire the skill of reading Gothic writing and Neo-Gothic italics and have managed the basics of Latin language. They can also translate and understand German-written texts of diplomatic nature.

Assessment methods and criteria
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Students are required to participate in the education and to submit a paper on a selected issue found in the diplomatic written documents after 1848.
Recommended literature
  • Hana VODIČKOVÁ. Příspěvek k dějinám české odborné terminologie netradičních druhů dokumentů. Archivní časopis, 2009.
  • Heinrich Otto Meisner. Archivalienkunde vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1918. Göttingen, 1969.
  • Vácslav Babička. Číslo jednací a spisová značka. Archivní časopis, 2008.


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 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer