Astropolitics - JPM687

• Title: Astropolitics
• Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (30)
• 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: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JPM747
• Is incompatible with: JPM747

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (02.09.2016)

Course deals with the geopolitics of the outer space and its relevance for the understanding of the world´s politics. Students taking this course will obtain basic knowledge about the relation of power and space in the outer space domain and the basic factors affecting political decisions in the outer space. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated how the outer space activities affect the terrestrial society and the global politics. Aim of the course is to enable its students to understand basic geopolitical realities of the final frontier and to be able to analyze political decisions related to the domain.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)

Kurz se zabývá geopolitikou vesmíru. V rámci přednášek jsou probírány jednotlivé stránky prostorové analýzy této domény.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (10.09.2018)

Readings, home assigments and attendance (max. 2 absences) - 20%

Presentation - 20%

Final paper (1-3 authors, 4-6.000 words) - 50%

Final test - 10%

 

Students are required to read the required readings and attend seminars with maximum of two absences (in a case of health or other grief issues student is supposed to contact lecturer). Main outcome of the student´s work in the course is the final paper that can be authored by up to 3 students. Students are expected to pick up their topic before the fifth week of the semester and to consult it with the lecturer. Final two seminars will be dedicated to the presentations of the students´ own research on the final paper. Final multiple-choice test will deal with the basic knowledge covered in the course. After their presentations students have a month to finalize their papers and upload them to the Moodle system. After grading the paper the personal discussion with the lecturer over the paper will be held as a final requirement.

Presentation structure - topic and its relevance, research question, methodology, sources, necessary contextual info, preliminary findings.

Final assessment:

100-91% - A

90-81% - B

80-71% - C

70-61% - D

60-51% - E

50-0% - F

Literature

English

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)

Available in Moodle

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)

Dostupná v systému Moodle.

Requirements to the exam

English

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)

Readings, home assigments and attendance (max. 2 absences) - 20%

Presentation - 20%

Final paper (1-3 authors, 4-6.000 words) - 50%

Final test - 10%

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)

Aktivní účast a úkoly - 20%

Prezentace - 20%

Závěrečná esej - 50%

Závěrečný test - 10%

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (03.11.2020)

Basis of the course lays in lectures accompanied by seminar based on students´ required readings that will be uploaded into the Moodle system. Final two lectures will present students´ own research that should enhance their understanding of the domain´s many characteristics.

 

1)      Introduction

2)      History

Bloc 1 - outer space as a physical space - understanding the environment, basic astrophysics, space weather, celestial bodies, effects of outer space environment on living organisms

Bloc 2 - outer space as a military-diplomatic space - space weaponization and militarization, space security, space law

Bloc 3 - outer space as a socio-economic space - economy of outer space, societal impacts of space utilization, commercial development of the outer space    

Bloc 4 - actors in the outer space - USA, Russia, Europe, China, India and minor actors

Bloc 5 - futuristic issues of space utilization - colonization of distant bodies, solar system economy, alien encounter, interstellar travel

Bloc 6 - student presentations

Entry requirements

Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.09.2019)

Opened only to the GPS students enrolled in 2018 or earlier. Others please sign up for JPM747