| Course title | INTRODUCTION INTO HISTORY STUDIES |
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| Course code | KHI/PBH24 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| 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 |
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| Course content |
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Topics of lectures: 1. Scientific text, structure, types; ethics of scientific work 2. Bibliography, citations, sources and historical method 3. Biographical method, prosopography 4. Methods of historical anthropology, cultural history and history of everyday life 5. Memory studies 6. Methods of economic and social history, historical demography, quantitative and qualitative research methods 7. Geographical method, iconographic method 8. Gender analysis 9. Microhistory 10. Structural method, discursive analysis 11. Narrative, philological method, modern and postmodern 12. Popularisation and popular culture 13. Communication in science, academic and scientific departments, state organizations, bohemian research, research and study abroad Programme of the seminars: 1. How to set the topic of seminar paper and how to write it 2. Technique of quotations in scientific historical work 3. Narrative sources and their destiny - the legend of Kristian 4.- 5. Social and cultural anthropology (a paper on the book by C. Lévi-Strausse Thinking of natural nations, introduction into the issue, commented reading of part of the book, The Sad Tropics) 6. Historical demography (a paper on the book of J. Horský - M Seligová, Rodina našich předků, explanation) 7. - 8. Diplomatic sources - two documents of Václav I for the city of Brno and their statement to the problematic of medieval legal system (commented reading of two privileges from 1243, explanation of the development of medieval legal system, a commentary to the depicting of Heidelberg manuscript of Sachsenspiegel) 9. Historical semantics (a paper on a book by I. Němec, Slova a dějiny or Dědictví řeči, explanation of the role of Josef Macek, an example of explanation of historical semantics - living and the house in Czech Middle Age) 10. Toponomastics (a paper on the book by V. Šmilauer Osídlení Čech ve světle místních jmen, explanation) 11. Anthropomastics (a paper on the book of J.Beneš, O českých příjmeních, explanation of the importance of the study of patrocinies as possible political and cultural contexts of liking of personal names) 12.- 13. People on the edge (about the importance of the study of this issue, about F. Graus, minorities in history - Jews, Romanies) 14. Hunger and abundance in the history of Europe (a paper on a book Hunger and Abudance by Massimo Montanari, explanation)
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course should introduce the students to history as a scientific subject, with its position in the world of science and with its inner dividing, organizational structures in Czech Republic, sources and scientific literature, with the method that history works with. The students will gain basic practical skills in a historical paper.
The student will gain a clear knowlege of the subject and the ability to work idependently on a minor historical topic based on the study of literature and sources, demonstrated by the submission of a seminar paper. |
| Prerequisites |
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Introduction to History Studies I
KHI/PBH14 ----- or ----- KHI/ZHP |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
A clear knowledge of the subject and the ability to independently elaborate a minor historical topic based on the study of literature and sources, demonstrated by the submission of a seminar paper. Credit: active participation in the exercise, assigned topic of the seminar paper through the submitted assignment (3 parts: brief annotation, sources, literature); report. Examination: conditional on obtaining credit from both semesters; written part (test from the lecture material of both semesters); oral part (conditional on recognition of the seminar paper - submission at least 7 days before the deadline, discussion of the seminar paper and related questions). |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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