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KAA / BAMKK
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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BAMKK
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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American literature in Cultural Context
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
3
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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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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NO
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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 / 0
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0 / 20
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0 / 2
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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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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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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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 |
S|N |
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 |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KAA/AMKK
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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:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The course focuses on important milestones in the history of American literature since its beginnings to the end of the 2Oth century. Seminars concentrate on the analysis of the chosen texts and discussion about historical and cultural context.
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Requirements on student
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Seminar attendance and participation in discussions.
Oral examination at the end of the term.
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Content
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Colonial Literature
Literature of the Revolution and Enlightenment
Early 19th Century Fiction
Transcendentalism
Realism, naturalism
Modernism (Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance)
Literature of the American South
The Beat Generation.
Afro-American Literature, Jewish-American Literature
American Literature in the 1980s and 1990s
(All the texts are available in Moodle)
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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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Recommended:
Kenner, Hugh. A Homemade World: American Modernist Writers. New York: Knopf, 1975.
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Recommended:
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Oxford University Press, 1964.
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Recommended:
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of Ages. Harcourt Brace, 1994.
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Recommended:
Marcel Arbeit, Jakub Guziur. Vypravěči amerického Jihu. Praha - Litomyšl: Paseka, 2006.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will develop their communicative competence, competence of literary and cultural analysis and intercultural competence. |
Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Assessment methods |
- Oral examination
- Work-related product analysis
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