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History of Great Britain and the USA I - OPBA2A124B
Title: Dějiny Velké Británie a USA I
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (02.09.2017)
This subject aims to familiarise its students with the basic aspects of the historical development in The United Kingdom beginning with the early settlement and Celtic and Roman society established on the British Isles, continuing through the arrival of Germanic tribes, the establishment and development of Anglo-Saxon society, the ascension of William the Conqueror to the Hundred Years´ War, the ascension of the Tudors, Stuarts, the outbreak of the Civil War, the establishment of the republic towards the Industrial Revolution. Further on the students learn about the history of the 19th century – the establishment and development of the colonial empire until the dawn of the 20th century. Students also deal with the historical development of Great Britain in the 20th century: the participation in WWI, the interwar Britain, the participation in WWII, Britain in the post-war period and its role in gradual decolonisation and European integration. It is necessary for the students to be prepared for the seminars doing regular and obligatory homework, namely compulsory reading (focused on the content and topic-specific vocabulary) which forms the basis for the following seminar discussions which are subsequently supplemented by teacher´s presentations. Students make themselves familiar with the basic cultural and political development in the UK and its role in the European and also global cultural and political context. The knowledge gained at the seminars is going to help the students to make themselves oriented in current European politics and moreover in compulsory courses of English and British literature.
Descriptors -
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (30.09.2020)

Online teaching / learning description:

- online teaching / learning is realised through Google Classroom platform (GC), this means that for each and every student it is compulsory to arrange the access to the GC course via the teacher (i.e. each student has a gmail account)

- online teaching / learning is realised in the following way:

·         each week on the teaching day the teacher sends so-called week preparation (tasks presented in GC) – typically, these tasks are compulsory for each and every course attender:

o    a ppt presentation + audio lecture

o    a week reading assignment (a short text or a video – typically a documentary + a worksheet + extracted vocabulary)

·         week preparation may also contain some other additional materials topically based, these materials are optional to be dealt with (other videos, articles, further reading tips)

·         course attenders are also offered consultations via Google Meet – these are announced through a Google document, in which, if interested or in need, students may sign up for

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (02.09.2017)

MC DOWALL, D. An Illustrated History of Britain, Harlow: Longman Group UK Limited, 2006.

KEARNEY, H. The British Isles: A History of Four Nations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

ROSS, D. England: History of a Nation, New Lanark: Geddes et Grosset, 2005.

ACKROYD, P. The History of England Volume I: Foundation, London: Macmillan 2011.

ACKROYD, P. The History of England Volume II: Tudors, London: Macmillan 2012.

RIDLEY, J. A Brief History of the Tudor Age, London: Constable et Robinson, 2002.

ACKROYD, P. The History of England Volume III: Civil War, London: Macmillan 2014.

ACKROYD, P. The History of England Volume IV: Revolution, London: Macmillan 2016.

LOWE, N. Mastering Modern British History, London: Palgrave 2017.

KUMAR, K. The Making of English National Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

 

MORGAN, K. et all. Dějiny Británie, Praha: Nakladetelství Lidové noviny, 2010.

WORMALDOVÁ, J (ed.). Dějiny Skotska, Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2005.

MOODY, T. – MARTIN, F. et all. Dějiny Irska, Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2012.

Syllabus
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (02.09.2017)

WEEK 1: The Earliest Times

WEEK 2: The Early Middle Ages

WEEK 3:The High and Late Middle Ages

WEEK 4: The Tudors I

WEEK 5: The Tudors II

WEEK 6: The Stuarts I

WEEK 7: The Stuarts II + 18th century politics

WEEK 8: The Industrial Revolution + the establishment of the empire + Napoleonic Wars

WEEK 9: The Years of Self-confidence: England in 19th century

WEEK 10: Great Britain 1910-1936

WEEK 11: Great Britain 1936-1945

WEEK 12: The Age of Uncertainty: Great Britain 1945-2000

Course completion requirements
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (12.09.2019)

docházka 80% (max. 2 absence) // 80% attendance (max. 2 absences allowed)

závěrečný test skládající se ze tří bodově shodných částí // end-of-the-course test consisting of three equal parts

·         znalosti (odvíjí se od presentací) // knowledge (based on presentations) 1/3

·         slovní zásoba (odvíjí se od povinné četby) // vocabulary (compulsory reading based) 1/3

·         krátká esej (200 slov; odvíjí se od presentací a četby) // short essay (200 words; based on presentations and reading) 1/3

minimální bodová hranice pro udělení zápočtu je 65%

minimal percentage score to grant the credit is 65%

počet pokusů na složení zápočtového testu: 2 pokusy

 
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