Readings in Current Events and Cultural Contexts - L0120

• Title: Readings in Current Events and Cultural Contexts
• Guaranteed by: HTF - Katedra filozofie (28-05)
• Faculty: Hussite Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2022 to 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• 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: Gerald Robert Ostdiek, BA, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Gerald Robert Ostdiek, BA, M.A., Ph.D.
• Is interchangeable with: LPHI35

Annotation

Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)

This course explores what’s happening in the world today - and how our experience of the world is shaped through media representation. Readings will be drawn from a variety of international news sources and focus on the significant events of today’s world. This source material is supplemented by texts offering critical analysis. Students should prepare themselves to discuss the goings-on within a wide variety of social, economic, political, scientific, and religious circumstances.

Syllabus

Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)

This course has no pre-planned syllabus: each week we respond to the events in the news. However, there are certain elements around which all such events, along with their media representation, can be analyzed. These include notions of Ur-Fascism, Cultural Hegemony and Sociological Imagination, as well as Media analysis by Jay Rosen.

Course completion requirements

Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (10.12.2022)

To earn credit for this course, a student must demonstrate his/her understanding of the subject matter through class participation and via examination, both written and oral. Attendance is mandatory: if a student misses a significant number of classes, he/she will be required to write an additional term paper.

Literature

Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (30.11.2022)

Povinná:

Selected from contemporary news sources (including the NY Times, Haaretz, Der Spiegel International, Al Jazeera English, and etc.), and supplemented with related material from various disciplines (including C. Wright Mills and Umberto Eco), including media analysis (Jay Rosen). These readings change each semester, but generally include:

PAUL, Richard a Linda ELDER. The Art of Close Reading [online]. Illinois State University [cit. 2022-10-16]. Dostupné z: https://education.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/casei/0002-5The%20Art%20of%20Close%20Reading%20Title%20Page.pdf

ROSEN, Jay. Various analysis and readings [online]. [cit. 2022-10-16]. Dostupné z: http://pressthink.org

DUNCOMBE, Stephen. Cultural Hegemony, from Beautiful Trouble, 2012, New York: OR Books

ECO, Umberto. Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995

MILLS, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination. 1959 [1976]. New York: Oxford University Press.