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KAA / LIKU
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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LIKU
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Title
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Literature and Cultural Studies
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Form of course completion
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State final examination
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Form of course completion
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State final examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
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Cred.
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Type of completion
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Oral
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Type of completion
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Oral
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Time requirements
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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1 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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No
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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Part of the final state exam.
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Requirements on student
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Reading list of at least 30 titles from both British and American literature.
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Content
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Britská literatura:
1. Old English and Middle English Literature
2. Renaissance, Reformation and Humanism, Elizabethan drama, poetry, prose
3. Classicism and Romanticism in British literature
4. English Novel from Defoe to Hardy
5. Victorian literature
6. Early 20th c. British literature, Modernism
7. The World Wars in British literature
8. Post-war British Prose and Poetry
9. 20th c. Drama: from the Revival until T. Stoppard
10. Outline of British Post-Colonial and Post-Modern literature
Americká literatura:
11. Colonial and 18th cent. writing
12. Early 19th cent. American literature
13. Romanticism in American literature
14. 2nd half of the 19th cent. literature, regionalism, local color, Naturalism
15. Early 20th cent. American literature, modernism
16. American drama
17. American post-WW II prose and poetry, Beat generation
18. Afro-American literature and other ethnic writing
Britská studia
1. The question of Britishness - symbols, nations, stereotypes
2. Early history - myths and legends
3. "Middle" history - Tudor England to the 18th century
4. "Later" history - 19th and 20th century - Georgian and Victorian Britain, the Wars and the end of the Empire
5. Regionality - regional identities and the North/South divide
6. Ethnicity
7. Social groupings - class identity, social mobility
8. Attitudes - stereotypes and change, conservatism, multiculturalism, "being different"
Americká studia
9. Climate in US, its consequences for landform, settlement, and land use
10. US cultural regions
11. US cultrual history: Colonial and 18th century America 19th century US until Civil War; Post-Civil War 19th cent. US; US in the the 20th cent.
12. People in US; Native Americans; Immigration; Slavery, Race Issues, Ethnicity, Cultural pluralism.
13. American values; stereotypes, beliefs.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
ABRAMS, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Fort Worth. Harcourt Brace, 1999. ISBN 0-15-505452X.
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Basic:
Alexander, Michael. A history of English literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. ISBN 0-333-67226-7.
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Basic:
RULAND, R.; BRADBURY, M. Od puritanismu k postmodernismu. Praha. MF, 1997.
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Basic:
LAUTER, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature.. D.C. Heath Lexington, 1990.
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Basic:
SANDERS, A.. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. 3rd ed.. Oxford : OUP, 2004. ISBN ISBN 0-19-926338-.
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Recommended:
HILFER, T. American Fiction since 1940. Longman Group, 1992.
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Recommended:
LEE, B. American Fiction 1865 ? 1940.. Longman Group, 1994.
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Recommended:
PECK, J. - COYLE, M. Literary Terms and Criticism. Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2002. ISBN 0-333-962583.
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Recommended:
RULAND, R.; BRADBURY, M. Od puritanismu k postmodernismu. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997.
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Recommended:
LAUTER, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Lexington: D.C.Heath, 1990.
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Recommended:
ABRAMS, M.H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1993. ISBN ISBN 0-393-96289-.
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Recommended:
Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory. London: Penguin Books, 1998. ISBN 0-14-051363-9.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Part of the final state exam.
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Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Assessment methods |
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