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British Art and Identity I - OEBAA1719Z
Title: British Art and Identity I
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [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: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Class: Předměty v angličtině - bc.
Classification: Teaching > English
Annotation -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
The first part of the course focuses mainly on British architecture, particularly on some of Britain's greatest historic buildings throughout the course of the last thousand years and examines their impact on Britain's social history. Each of the six thematic units opens with a viewing of a documentary on the respective historical period buildings and is accompanied by a discussion of a selected text or a novel relevant to that particular period. The emphasis is put on the 'living' aspect of architecture and its indispensable role in shaping and reflecting a given society and its national and regional identities respectively. On completing this part of the course, the students should have gained a 'vantage-point' perspective that will deepen and broaden their understanding of the British social structure and the differences and similarities that obtain between theirs and our own cultural and social spaces.
Descriptors
Last update: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D. (25.09.2020)

Distance learning will be taking place online, essentially in the form of interactive communication and via seminars and consultations in MS Teams. Study materials will be provided electronically via the aforementioned channels. E-mail communication will also be used in support of the previously mentioned forms.

Literature -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)

Dimbleby, David (2007) How we built Britain. London: Bloomsbury.

Dimbleby, David (2009) Seven Ages of Britain. The story of our nation revealed by its treasures. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Hatherley, Owen (2012) A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain. London: Verso Books.

Pragnell, Hubert J. (2007) Architectural Britain: From 1066 to the Present Day. London: National Trust Books.

York, Trevor (2009) British Architectural Styles. An easy reference guide. Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books.

Syllabus -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)

Ø  WEEK 1-2

Theme 1: Norman to Perpendicular Style - 7th to 16th c.

First relevant buildings in the East of England, castels, cathedrals and chapels - Ely, Norwich, King's College Chapel

Ø  WEEK 3-4

Theme 2: Elizabethan Renaissance - 17th c.

Stately homes and Jacobean houses

Ø  WEEK 5-6

Theme 3: Scottish Architecture in Time

Stirling Castle and Scottish Parliament

Ø  WEEK 7-8

Theme 4: The Impact of Industrial Revolution - 18th c.

Georgian houses, canals, mines, bridges, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland

Ø  WEEK 9-10

Theme 5: Victorian Period and the Urban North - 19th c.

Factories, town halls, hospitals, dance halls, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Blackpool

Ø  WEEK 11-12

Theme 6: Modern Britain and the Suburban South - 20th c.

Tower blocks in London, functionalist houses in South East England

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

credit test 70% minimum, drawing of a building

 
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