Prague over the centuries I - OENDD1736Z

• Title: Prague over the centuries I
• Guaranteed by: Katedra dějin a didaktiky dějepisu (41-KDDD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 12 [hours]
• 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
• Is provided by: OEBDD1733Z
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Iva Beránková

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Iva Beránková (11.08.2021)

To what extent may Prague be currently considered a global city? Which nationalities and ethnicities have come to Prague, shaped its character, met, influenced each other as well as clashed? Who and why was expelled? What do the town´s monuments, street names, demolished buildings and forgotten public festivities tell about the history of the city? Within the scope of the excursions in Prague´s streets, squares, and corners, we will focus on the selected social, political as well as cultural context of the city´s history, including the politics of memory and overlaps with the contemporary life of its inhabitants. Moreover, we will explore examples of a wide range of primary and secondary sources (film trailers, maps, city views, buildings, memorials and commemorative plaques, personal correspondence, political posters, cartoons etc.) through which the history of the Czech capital can be viewed and reconstructed. Finally, we will discuss how these historical topics can be applied in project teaching and historical excursions with students.

Literature

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (03.06.2020)

Sources and Literature:

1)     Hugh AGNEW, The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Stanford 2004.          

2)     Madeleine ALBREIGHT, Prague Winter. A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948,   New York 2013.

3)     Petr ČORNEJ - Jiří POKORNÝ, A Brief History of the Czech Lands, Prague 2015.

4)     Peter DEMETZ,Prague in Black and Gold. Scenes From the Life of a European City, London 1998.

5)     Peter   DEMETZ, Mein Prag. Erinnerungen 1939 bis 1945, Wien 2019.    

6)     Peter   DEMETZ,Prague in Danger. The Years of German occupation, 1939-45). Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater         and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War, New York 2009.

7)     Paul GINNIS, The Teacher's Toolkit, Bancyfelin 2002.

8)     Jaroslav PÁNEK - Oldřich TŮMA (ed.), A History of the Czech Lands, Prague 2019.

9)     Nancy M. WINGFIELD, Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech, Cambridge 2007.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Iva Beránková (15.02.2023)

Written paper (10 pages).

Each student will choose one of the primary and secondary sources (film trailers, maps, city views, buildings, memorials and commemorative plaques, personal correspondence, political posters, cartoons etc.) and make the analysis in the cultural and historical contexts with regard to the teaching practice.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Iva Beránková (15.02.2023)

Sylabus/Topics for the walks:

 

1) Introduction - European Cities and city maps; the beginnings of urbanism and historical city centres; comparative point of view

2) Prague I – Middle Ages/Early Modern Ages; Praga Caput Regni. Prague in the 14th – 16th century, The Diversity of Baroque Prague (17th – 18th century)

3) Prague II – Early Modern History/Modern History; Prague in the 17 - 19th century

4) The Uprising of Modern Prague (19th/20th century) – urbanisation, industrialisation, nationalisation and social changes

5) Prague in Protectorate (1938-1945). Life under the Occupation

     Prague and the Communism, New face of Prague after 1989

6) Presentation of students´ reflections on Prague – the mixture of architecture and history, places of of memory