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Lecturer(s)
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Kleprlík Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Bubíková Šárka, doc. Ph.D.
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Kalavská Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Lectures: American landscape and its impact on settlement. American cultural regions. Colonial America. 18th-century US. 19th-century US. 20th-century US. People: Immigration. Slavery. Race relations. Native Americans. Values. Seminars - dr. Kalavská: details, texts and tasks viz Moodle Seminars - dr. Kleprlík: details, texts and tasks viz Moodle
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Methods of individual activities
- Contact teaching
- 39 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 39 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 36 hours per semester
- Preparation of a presentation (report)
- 10 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Cultural Studies is a subject which deals with the main phenomena of the target culture. Lectures are designed to provide not only a basic outline of cultural representations, but also their historical background and development. Furthermore, attention is paid to the reflection of cultural developments in various cultural products. In seminars, students are encouraged to utilise fact-based input from lectures in practical cultural activities, which they are encouraged to use in their own teaching practice/cultural experience. By facilitating cross-cultural comparisons, the seminars also strive to build students' own self-awareness and greater realisation of their own culture.
The coruse aims at the development of the ability of cultural analysis and comparison, intercultural competence, communicative competence.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
KAA/BKSB
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination, Student performance assessment, Work-related product analysis
Compulsory seminar attendance, recommended lecture attendance. Tasks in Moodle. Final oral exam. Dr. Kleprlík´s seminars: 1. Careful study of assigned texts 2. Presentation Dr. Kalavská´s seminars: 1. careful study of every required material; 2. presentation.
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Recommended literature
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CROWTHER, J. (ed.). Oxford Guide to British and American Culture. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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DATESMAN, M. K. a kol. The American Ways: In Introduction to American Culture. 2. vydání. White Plains NY: Longman, 1997.
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ELLIS, R. J. American Political Cultures. Oxford, New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
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KRUPAT, A. Red Matters: Native American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
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LUEDTKE, L. (ed.). Making America: the Society and Culture of the USA. Washington: USIA, 1987.
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MICKLETHWAIT, J.; WOOLDRIDGE, A. The Right Nation. Penguin Books, 2005.
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PURVIN, T. L. Encyklopedie dějin USA. Praha: Ivo Železný, 2004.
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RORTY, Richard. Achieving our country: leftist thought in twentieth-century America.. ISBN 0-674-00311-X.
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Shi, David E.. For the record : a documentary history of America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. ISBN 0-393-92444-0.
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TALLACK, D. Twentieth-Century America. Longman Literature in English Series. Longman, 1991.
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