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KAA / BKSA
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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BKSA
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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 Cultural Studies
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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-
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Type of completion
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-
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
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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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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0 / 80
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0 / 0
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0 / 4
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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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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter 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 |
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 |
Yes
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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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KAA/KSA
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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KAA/BKSB
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Meet all prerequisites before registering
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YES
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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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KAA/BAMKU
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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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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.
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Requirements on student
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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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Content
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Lectures:
American landscape and its impact on settlement.
Cultural regions.
Colonial America.
18th century US.
19th century US.
20th cent. US.
People: Immigration. Native Americans. Slavery. Individual, Community, Society.
Stereotypes, beliefs, symbols. Cultural regions of the USA
Seminars - dr. Kalavská: viz Moodle
Seminars - dr. Kleprlík: Colonial Period: theocracy, religious freedom, puritan ethics.
Towards Independence; Ideals of American Revolution.
Struggles to create a "more perfect Union".
Firsta party system: Federalist vs. Democratic-Republicans.
Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy.
Slavery as Institution, debate on abolition vs. state-rights.
Reconstruction of the South; Lost cause narrative, Jim Crow laws.
Progressive ideas in America; immigration policy.
Multiculturalism vs. Cultural Pluralism.
Civil Rights Movement; Counterculture of post-war America.
Being an American. Americanization: (A Good or Bad Word?)
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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:
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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Basic:
DATESMAN, M. K. a kol. The American Ways: In Introduction to American Culture. 2. vydání. White Plains NY: Longman, 1997.
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Recommended:
RORTY, Richard. Achieving our country: leftist thought in twentieth-century America.. ISBN 0-674-00311-X.
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Recommended:
ELLIS, R. J. American Political Cultures. Oxford, New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
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Recommended:
PURVIN, T. L. Encyklopedie dějin USA. Praha: Ivo Železný, 2004.
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Recommended:
LUEDTKE, L. (ed.). Making America: the Society and Culture of the USA. Washington: USIA, 1987.
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Recommended:
CROWTHER, J. (ed.). Oxford Guide to British and American Culture. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Recommended:
KRUPAT, A. Red Matters: Native American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
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Recommended:
MICKLETHWAIT, J.; WOOLDRIDGE, A. The Right Nation. Penguin Books, 2005.
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Recommended:
TALLACK, D. Twentieth-Century America. Longman Literature in English Series. Longman, 1991.
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Kontaktní výuka
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39
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Domácí příprava na výuku
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39
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Příprava prezentace (referátu)
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10
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Příprava na zkoušku
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36
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Samostatná kritická četba
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26
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Total
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150
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
The coruse aims at the development of the ability of cultural analysis and comparison, intercultural competence, communicative competence. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Methods of individual activities
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Assessment methods |
- Written examination
- Work-related product analysis
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