Course: METHODS OF HISTORICAL WORK I

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Course title METHODS OF HISTORICAL WORK I
Course code KHI/KMPH1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
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)
  • Fukala Radek, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Tomíček David, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The issue of the reception of the French Annales School. Crucial methods and approaches: Braudel?s long duration (longue durée), total conception of history, history of material culture (civilisation matérielle), quantitative history (histoire quantitative), immobile history (histoire immobile), serial history (histoire sérielle), history of mentalities (historical culture). American New History. "Cleometrists". New Economic History in the United States. Neo-liberalism and business history. Theory of industrial society and theory of modernization. German economic historical school. Traditional German economic and social histories. Wehler?s global teaching on history of society. The issues and methods of economic and social histories. Theory of cyclical development (Arnold J. Toynbee). History and psychoanalysis. Psychohistory. Collective experience and psychology (J. Huizinga). New methods and approaches: From macro-history to micro-history; Historical anthropology; History of the everyday and holiday; History of sexuality and family; History of childhood, old age, death; History of the everyday; Instant history; People on the edge; History of climate; History of the body; History of eating; History of science and technology. Method of oral history focused on filing of interviews; What is oral history? Verbally described image of the human past; History of oral history; Methodology of oral history; transcription, analysis and interpretation of interviews, ethical codex of oral history; legal confirmation of oral history; preserving material for other researchers; account of an interview; characteristic off-verbal expressions of a narrator; analysis and interpretation of a record - division of an interview to subject sections; hierarchizing of collected data according to their significance; selection of criteria: of contents, phenomenalistic, psychological, linguistic; Interpretation - understanding and explaining the meaning of claims passed in an interview. Contextualization; employing oral history - academic researches, educational literature, biographies, educating pupils and students, family history, regional history, exhibitions, audio-visual documents. Introduction to the issue of gender studies; Development from feminism to the concept of gender and the contemporary trends; Status of an European woman during Middle Ages; Status of an European woman from the early modern times to the 19th century; Legal amendment of the female status in the Habsburg monarchy between 1811 and 1918; Gender and family from the 19th to the early 21st centuries; Employment of women and its aspects in the 19th and 20th centuries; Education from the gender view and its development in modern society; Gender in the field of politics in modern world; Gender problems in various environments of world continents in the 20th and the early 21st centuries; The issue of gender in developed democratic societies in the 20th and the early 21st centuries; Remaining debts in the equal status of men and women at present and ways to their elimination.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The subject spans three semesters with the hour dotation one lecture - one seminar. Its aim is to introduce students to the development of historiographic methodology in the course of the 20th century and to the current trends of historical research. Its contents accentuate the methods employed by both earlier and more recent history as well as interdisciplinary overlaps. During the first semester, the students become familiar with generally conceived subjects such as history and historical thinking, a work of historiography, approaches developed by significant historians of the French Annales School and economic and sociological tendencies in historiography and, subsequently, with the issues of microhistory and historical anthropology. The second semester is devoted to oral history as a specific method of historiography and to the connected methods of exploring modern history, including interdisciplinary approaches. The third semester is focused on the issues of gender history and gender in general as a useful category of historical analysis.
The graduates are orientated in the methodological challenges of the 20th-century historiography. They are able to explain both the positives and pitfalls of the individual approaches on an example of concrete works. They can identify appropriate methods in researching particular types of sources and understand the conclusions of a related expert discussion. They understand the concept "historical fact and its interpretation", distinguish genres of historiographic writing and the relevant stylistic methods. They master professionally well-founded work with narrators-eyewitnesses, can appropriately incorporate their testimonies to the historical context and are able to cope with practical aspects of working with a testimony (interview). Last but not least, they can operate with the category of gender in connection with Women?s/Men´s history.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students are required to attentively and actively participate in the education, read the assigned literature and submit a written essay.
Recommended literature
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  • Bahenská, M. Počátky emancipace žen v Čechách. Praha, 2005.
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  • Burke, P. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. Praha, 2004.
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  • Čadková, K. - Lenderová, M. - Stráníková, J. Dějiny žen aneb Evropská žena od středověku do 20. století v zajetí historiografie. Pardubice, 2006.
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  • Malínská, J. Do politiky prý žena nesmí - proč? Vzdělání a postavení žen v české společnostii v 19. a na počátku 20. století. Praha, 2005.
  • Marek, J. O historismu a dějepisectví. Praha, 1992.
  • Muir, E. - Ruggiero, G. (edd.). Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe. Baltimore - London, 1991.
  • Perks, R. T. - Thompson, A, (edd.). The Oral History Reader. London - New York, 1998.
  • Vaněk, M. a kol. Naslouchat hlasům paměti: teoretické a praktické aspekty orální historie. Praha, 2007.
  • Vaněk, M. Orální historie ve výzkumu soudobých dějin. Praha, 2004.
  • Vaněk, M. Orální historie. Olomouc, 2003.
  • Věšinová, E. - Maříková, H. Společnost žen a mužů z aspektu gender. Praha, 1999.
  • Veyne, P. Jak se píšou dějiny. Praha: P. Mervart, 2010.
  • Vodáková, A. - Vodáková, O. Rod ženský. Kdo jsme, odkud jsme přišly, kam jdeme. Praha, 2003.


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 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter