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History of Central European Culture - JTM068
Title: Dějiny středoevropské kultury
Guaranteed by: Department of German and Austrian Studies (23-KNRS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 9
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:4/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: distance
Teaching methods: distance
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)
Culture is one of the fields where we can analyse substantial changes of the Central European societies. The course starts with the end of the traditions of the 19th century, covers the reactions to the trauma of the WWI, birth of new media and mass culture in the interwar period and role of the culture during the WWII. After 1945 mainly reflexive topics such as memory, relations of societies, cultures and politics are studied. The seminar is non-descriptive, concentrates on selected key topics.
Aim of the course -
Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

The aim of the course is to study the developments of the culture in Central Europe during the 20th century. The course understands culture as broadly defined societal field, alternative to politics. At the artistic level, mainly architecture, literature, film or photography are studied.

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Jiřina Tomečková (20.09.2023)

Hodnocení studentů je závazně založeno na škále písmen A-F, která vychází z Opatření děkanky číslo 17/2018 (https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018) a je následně upřesněno Opatřením děkanky číslo 20/2019 (https://fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-20/2019). 

 

Známkování:

A: 100-91 bodů

B: 90-81 bodů

C: 80-71 bodů

D: 70-61 bodů

E: 60-51 bodů

F: 50 bodů a méně

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

Selected literature from the reader accesible to students via Moodle platform:

 

-       BECKER, Anette. "The Avant-Garde, Madness and the Great War". In Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 35, No. 1, January 2000, p. 71-84.

-       CANALES, Jimena and HERSCHER, Andrew. "Criminal skins: Tattoos and Modern Architecture in the Work of Adolf Loos". In: Architectural History, Vol. 48, 2005, p. 235-256.

-       FALASCA-ZAMPONI, Simonetta. "Fascism and Aesthetics". In Constellations, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2008, p. 351-365.

-       HOERDER, Dirk. "Migration and Cultural Interaction across the Centuries". In German Politics and Society, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 2008, p. 1-23.

-       KLAUTKE, Egbert. "Urban History and Modernity in Central Europe" In The Historical Journal, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2010, p. 177-195.

-       LE RIDER, Jacques. "Mitteleuropa, Zentraleuropa, Mittelosteuropa. A mental map of Central Europe". In European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2008, p. 155-169.

-       MOSSE, George L. "Fascist Aesthetics and Society: Some considerations". In Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 31, No. 2, April 1996, p. 245-252.

-       PAUCKER, Henri R. Neue Sachlichkeit, Literatur im "Dritten Reich" und im Exil. Stuttgart, 1977.

-       REUVENI, Gideon. "The ‘Crisis of the Book’ and German Society after the First World War" In: German History, Vol. 20, No. 4, p. 438-461.

-       ROSSOL, Nadine. "Performing the Nation: Sport, Spectacles and Aesthetics in Germany, 1926-1936". In Central European History, Vol. 43, 2010, p. 616-638.

-       SCHOEPS, Karl Heinz. Deutsche Literatur zwischen den Weltkriegen. III, Literatur im Dritten Reich. Bern, 1992.

-       SCHORSKE, Carl E. Fin-de-siècle Vienna, New York, 1980.

Teaching methods -
Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

Active participation during the seminar based on the reader (3 credits) and final exam based on the defense of the seminar paper (6 credits). In sum 9 ECTS credits. 

Teaching is in online form: 

- Online classes take place on

Friday 20 October 2023 18.30-19.50

 https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/99045227403

Friday 10 November 2023 18.30-19.50

https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96464062498

- Reader, seminar papers offline through e-mail.

- Consultations online after previous contact through e-mail. 

- Exam online after previous contact through e-mail. 

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

Participation of students in the seminar, which encompasses reading of the mandatory texts to the covered topics (approx. 180 pages) and active discussion based on this reader. Oral examination based on the defense of seminar paper (20 pages max.).

Classification on the scale A-F:

  • 91 % and more   =>          A - excellent
  • 81-90 %             =>          B - very good 
  • 71-80 %             =>          C - good
  • 61-70 %             =>          D - average
  • 51-60 %             =>          E - acceptable
  • 0-50 %               =>          F - failed
Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

Selected topics:

Introduction - formal requirements, definitions of Culture and Central Europe

Modern art at the turn of 19th and 20th Centuries 

Reflections of WWI in Culture and Art

New Media: development of press and book market, radio and film

"Popular Culture" for "Mass Society"?

Nazi cultural policy and role of Culture in Resistance

Memory of WWII

Communist Architecture and Art

Sport as a cultural phenomenon

Role of culture in the dissent and revolutions of 1989/1990

Final conclusion and discussion

Entry requirements -
Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)
Knowledge of English, basic knowledge of contemporary history at the University BA level. 
 
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