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History of Great Britain and USA II - OPBA2A127B
Title: Dějiny Velké Británie a USA II
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/1, C [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: 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: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (08.02.2018)
This subject aims to familiarise its students with the basic aspects of the historical development in The United States of America beginning with the early settlement and colonisation of North America continuing through the first states founded in America, colonial administration, the War of Independence, the Civil War, the period of American industrial and economic growth passing to the basic aspects of American historical development in the 20th century: the participation in WWI, the interwar growth and crisis, the participation in WWII, the gradual establishment of the international relation net in which the USA appears to play the undeniable role as a co-creator of culture and politics of the 20th and 21st century. It is necessary for the students to be prepared for the seminars doing regular and obligatory homework, namely compulsory reading (focused on the content and topic-specific vocabulary) which forms the basis for the following seminar discussions which are subsequently supplemented by teacher´s presentations. Students make themselves familiar with the basic cultural and political development in the USA and its role in the global cultural and political context. The knowledge gained at the seminars is going to help the students to make themselves oriented in current international politics and moreover in compulsory courses of American literature.
Descriptors -
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (30.01.2021)

Online teaching / learning description:

- online teaching / learning is realised through Google Classroom platform (GC), this means that for each and every student it is compulsory to arrange the access to the GC course via the teacher (i.e. each student has a gmail account)

- online teaching / learning is realised in the following way:

·         each week on the teaching day the teacher sends so-called week preparation (tasks presented in GC) – typically, these tasks are compulsory for each and every course attender:

o   a ppt presentation + audio lecture

o   a week reading assignment (a short text or a video – typically a documentary + a worksheet + extracted vocabulary)

·         week preparation may also contain some other additional materials topically based, these materials are optional to be dealt with (other videos, articles, further reading tips)

·         course attenders are also offered consultations via Google Meet – these are announced through a Google document, in which, if interested or in need, students may sign up for

Literature - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (08.02.2018)

O´CALLAGHAN, B. An Illustrated History of the USA, Harlow: Longman Group UK Limited, 1991.

ZINN, H. A People´s History of the United States, New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005.

ZINN, H. A People´s History of American Empire, New York: St Martin´s Press, 2008.

YOUNG, E. American History for Everyone, Bloomington: Xlibris Corporation, 2008.

JOHNSON, P. Dějiny amerického národa, Praha: Academia, 2000.

TINDALL, G. – SHI, D. Dějiny Spojených států amerických, Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny 2008.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (12.09.2019)

80% attendance (max. 2 absences allowed)

end-of-the-course test consisting of three equal parts

·         knowledge (based on presentations) 1/3

·         vocabulary (compulsory reading based) 1/3

·        short essay (200 words; based on presentations and reading) 1/3

minimal percentage score to grant the credit is 65%

there are 2 attempts to pass the credit test

Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Jan Váňa (08.02.2018)

WEEK 1: The Early Beginnings of America

WEEK 2: Colonial America

WEEK 3: The War for Independence

WEEK 4: 19th century America

WEEK 5: The Civil War

WEEK 6: Reconstruction

WEEK 7: From the Great War to the Great Depression

WEEK 8: The Second World War

WEEK 9: The Cold War I. (intro)

WEEK 10: The Cold War II. (1950´s )

WEEK 11: The Cold War II. (1960´s + 1970´s )

WEEK 12: The Cold War II. (1980´s + 1990´s )

WEEK 1

The Early Beginnings of America

Layout:

Native Americans, Explorers from Europe, Virginia establishment, Puritan New England

 
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