How to Study, Read and Write - RETA9801

• Title: NZP-How to Study, Read and Write
• Guaranteed by: Katedra filosofie a religionistiky (27-FR)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jan Kranát, Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Jan Roskovec, Ph.D.

Annotation

The aim of the course is to introduce methods of writing academic work. The students should be able to write and
publish their papers and theses. The course is based on explanation of the Humboldt ideal of University, principles
of both classical and modern hermeneutics (Schleiermacher, Gadamer, Ricoeur) and elements of interpretation of
texts and writing scientific articles. Special attention is paid to computer typography.

Structure of the subject:

1) Science and humanities
2) Understanding texts
3) Interpretation of texts
4) Scientific articles and papers
5) Computer typography – typesetting
6) Computer typography – text editors
7) Computer aids for theology
8) Printed aids for theology
9) Information resources in the library
10) Reading student papers

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (01.06.2020)

Literature

AUGUSTINE. De doctrina Christiana. Oxford early Christian texts. R.P.H. Green (ed. and trans.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. ISBN 0-198-26334-1

WOO, B. Hoon. Augustine’s Hermeneutics and Homiletics in De doctrina christiana, in: Journal of Christian Philosophy 17 (2013): 97-117.

GRONDIN, Jean. Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics. Yale: Yale University Press, 1994.

GILL, Eric. An Essay on Typography [1931] , Boston: David R Godine. 2000. ISBN 978-0-87923-950-3.

BRINGHURST, Robert. The Elemets of Typographic Style (3rd ed.), Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks. 2004. ISBN 978-0-88179-133-4.

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (01.06.2020)