Topics of lectures: 1. Introductory lesson - What is history? 2. Concept of time and history, periodization of history. 3. Legal standards of the work of a historian (Archival Law, Copyright Act, Quotation Standards, etc.; An overview and mission of research workplaces (archives, libraries, universities, scientific institutions) 4. Sources and their classification; work with the sources (heuristic, external and internal critique, interpretation) 5. Methodology of historian's work 6. History as a tool of legitimization 7. Historical memory 8. Question of historical time, "progress" and "development"; structuralism and the problem of continuity/discontinuity 9. Historian as an authorial subject (text as an objective of the historian's work, levels of scientific writing, historian as a critic, rules of drawing up a scientific work, quotation standards, bibliographic records, concepts of bachelors or diploma thesis) 10. History and storytelling/ history and literature; literature as a historical source 11. The historian and the Internet; electronic sources of information and how to work with it 12. Printed sources of information and how to work with them (scientific literature, lexicons, encyclopaedias, synthesis, monographs, anthologies, scientific periodicals; annotations, reports, reviews, presentations) 13. Formal adjustment of the text, proofreading, editing. 14. Final presentation of the students' work.
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The aim of the course is to develop individual thinking and creative abilities of the student while working with scientific literature and sources, writing of various types of scientific text stressing the importance of the future bachelor's thesis (in the form of elaborating a proseminary work). In the seminar we read theoretical texts and methodology of historian's work. The written and oral performance of the students will be cultivated. They should be able to comprehend and present the exposition of a given topic, various forms of argumentation and formulation of hypotheses and arguments, to create a logical structure of a shorter text and more extensive writing and to test various rhetoric and stylistic processes suitable for the chosen genre and objective.
The students will get to know the basic principles of historian's work and they will be able to refer in a logical and critical way on the scientific text and they will be able to create, present and defend their own scientific text. The seminar cultivates the written and oral performance of the students, who will then be able to present the given topic, create the logical structure of a shorter text as well as a longer work and they will test various rhetoric and stylistic method possible for the given text; their ability to critically evaluate and interpret the sources and literature will be deepened.
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