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Poslední úprava: CERNOCHO/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (11.02.2011)
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Poslední úprava: CERNOCHO/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (11.02.2011)
The students will be offered regularly both selected pages from different books (see bibliography) and English-speaking articles on fresh developments in the countries under review (EU information, newspapers, academic journals). Ash, Timothy Garton: The Magic Lantern. New York, Random House, 1990 Čornej, Petr-Pokorný, Jiří: A brief History of the Czech Lands. Praha, 2003 Michnik, Adam: Letters from Freedom.University of California Press, 1998 Stein, Eric: Czecho/Slovakia. Uni. of Michigan Press, 1997 Tismaneanu, Vladimir: The revolutions of 1989. London/N.Y., Routledge, 1999 Wasserstein Bernard: Barbarism and Civilization. Oxford Uni. Press, 2007 |
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Poslední úprava: CERNOCHO/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (11.02.2011)
Requirements: General interest in European politics and in integration studies is expected. The course is based on active participation. The teacher will help the students choose and work on their final paper paying respect to their major and minor studies. Advice will be offered concerning individual travel plans in Central Europe.
Class attendance is mandatory. The midterm test (app. 30 minutes) will be written in the classroom in the middle of the semester. It will test basic acquaintance with the issues discussed in the first five weeks. The final written exam in the classroom (app. 30 minutes) will test basic acquaintance with the issues discussed in the second half of the course. The final paper ( 8-10 pages ) will be handed over for evaluation in the last week of the semester. The selection of the topic will start by the end of March, the teacher will help with respective sources or interview persons.
Assessment: The grading will be based on attendance and participation in the discussions, midterm test, final written exam and final paper. Class attendance and active participation: 20% Midterm essay: 20 % Final written test: 20 % Final Paper: 40% |
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Poslední úprava: CERNOCHO/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (11.02.2011)
Weekly structure of the course: 1st week The introduction to the course is very much about terminological problems. From book to book and from article to article any student of the above-mentioned topics is confronted with inconsistent usage of geographic, political and ideological terms and concepts: e.g. East and Central Europe, European integration, Czech and Bohemian, totalitarian, communist or socialist, Austrian, German or German-speaking etc. Each term has one or more connotations and should be used adequately. Different definitions of Central European space. This course will deal with major turning points in the modern political history (XX. century) of five Central European states: Czech republic, Slovak republic, Poland, Austria, Hungary. Reading: Čornej,P.-Pokorný,J.: A brief History of the Czech Lands. Praha, 2003 2nd week Basic data (political maps, demography, religions, nations and nationalities, languages, etc.) of Central European countries. Reading: Statistics prepared by the lecturer. 3rd week Central European countries in the process of European integration in XX. century. Reading: Documents prepared by the lecturer.
4th week The World War I and the collapse of Empires. The new states in Central Europe. The political history of Czechoslovakia 1918 - 1945. Reading: Krejčí, Jaroslav "Czechoslovakia at the Crossroads of European History" London, 1990 (selected pages) 5th week The political history of Czechoslovakia 1945 - 2010. Reading: Krejčí, Jaroslav "Czechoslovakia at the Crossroads of European History" London, N.Y., 1990 pp. 172 - 202 6th week The political history of Poland. Midterm test Reading: Ash, Timothy Garton, "History of the Present", The Penguin Press, GB, 1999 (selected pages) 7th week The political history of Austria and Hungary. Evaluation of the midterm test. Selection of the final topic. Reading: The selected texts will be prepared by the lecturer 8th week Convergent and divergent developments in Central European space after 1918. General discussion. Reading: Wandycz, Piotr S. "The Price of Freedom" London, N.Y., 1993 (selected pages) 9th week The democratic revolutions 1989 in Central Europe. Constitutional, political, economic and cultural changes. The economic transformation in former communist countries. Reading: Wheaton, Bernard - Kavan, Zdeněk "The Velvet Revolution" Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford, 1992 (selected pages) 10th week The constitution as an expression of political philosophy of the respective country: the constitutions of the Czech and Slovak republics. Poland, Austria and Hungary. Reading: The Czech Constitution. The Slovak Constitution. The Polish Constitution. The Austrian Constitution. The Hungarian Constitution. (The abbreviated texts will be prepared by the professor ). 11th week Five years of the membership of Central European states in the European Union. The developments from May 2004 till spring 2010. Final written exam. 12th week Presentation of the final papers. Evaluation of the course. |
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Poslední úprava: CERNOCHO/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (11.02.2011)
Tento předmět vyučují odborníci z ÚJOP. Bližší informace včetně rozvrhu a kontaktů na vyučující najdete na http://it.pedf.cuni.cz/socrates/index.php?link=32〈=en. V případě, že máte zájem o zápis do předmětu, kontaktujte vyučujícího předmětu (Jiří Holub email: jiri@holub.cz) a požádejte ho o zařazení do předmětu. |