Course: Contemporary Trends in Research

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Course title Contemporary Trends in Research
Course code UHV/STRB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kubeš Jiří, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
History as a science; narrative history; the origin of edition sets and magazines in the 19th century. The crisis of historicism; the discovery of the relativity of values; Lamprecht. The beginnings of historical sociology; Durkheim, Weber, and the American school (Turner and others). The "Annales" school; its basic characteristics, founders, and further development. Historical social science; Germany, Fischer, Wehler, Kocka. Marxism, its main features, the specifics of Leninism, the development and the representatives from this group of historians. Formalism, its characteristics and main representatives. Post-modern period; Lawrence Stone; an outline against the doctrines known till that time; Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard; Fukuyama and his end of history. The way from macro-history to micro-history. Ginzburg, Braudel, the history of everydayness. The linguistic turn. Historical debates of the present. The return to the early tradition. History being literature.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce students to some of the current historical trends of the present, and to trace their roots in the 19 and 20 centuries. Attention will be drawn to the development of historiography and current discussions regarding its tendencies. An increased level of attention will be drawn to the important movements of the present or the recent past.
The student will learn about basic trends in research, which will be supported by reading the most interesting works.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation

There will be an oral exam at the end of the course and students will submit a list of at least 10 titles (books or articles) of literature.
Recommended literature
  • BOURDIEU, P. Sociální prostor a symbolická moc, in: Cahiers du CeFReS, No. 8. Praha, s. 213 - 233, 1995.
  • BOURDIEU, P. Teorie jednání. Praha: Karolinum, 1998.
  • BURKE, P. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. Škola Annales (1929-1985). Praha: NLN, 2005.
  • BUTLER, J. Trampoty s rodom. Feminizmus a podrývanie identity. Bratislava, 2003.
  • DÜLMEN, R. Historická antropologie. Praha, 2002.
  • ELIAS, N. O procesu civilizace, Díl 1-2.. Praha, 2007.
  • FOUCAULT, M. Dějiny sexuality I. Vůle l vědění; II. Užívání slastí; III. Péče o sebe.. Praha, 2003.
  • Fukuyama, F. Konec dějin a poslední člověk. Praha, 2002.
  • GEERTZ, C. Interpretace kultur. Praha: Slon, 2000.
  • Grenz, Stanley. Úvod do postmodernismu, Praha : Návrat domů 1997, 199 s..
  • IGGERS, G. Dějepisectví ve 20. století. Praha: NLN, 2002.
  • Michel de Certeau. Psaní dějin. Praha, 2011.
  • NIETZSCHE, F. Nečasové úvahy. Praha: Oikúmené, 2005.
  • Roland Barthes. Smrt autora. Aloze č.3. Praha, 2006.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter