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KAA / MELI
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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MELI
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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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Ethnicity and Literature
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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,
4
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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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 / 15
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0 / 0
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0 / 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 / -
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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 |
0
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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 |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KAA/VTAL2
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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 the writing of ethnic minorities within American literature. It addresses the position of minority writing within a traditionally understood canon, the issues of the so-called opening-up of a canon, and some theoretical issues connected with ethnicity, "majority" and "minority" and the relationship of literature and culture. Attention is also paid to approaches to studying ethnic writing. Students will study selected works of Afro-American, Asian-American, Native American, Jewish American, and Hispanic-American literatures from the point of view of addressing issues of identity, double consciousness, relationship to the cultural mainstream, assimilation, first and second-generation immigrants, etc. Students will broaden their knowledge of the writing of ethnic minorities within American literature as well as their understanding of literary phenomena in broader socio-cultural contexts. Students will also deepen their ability of literary and textual analysis and application of theoretical concepts on a given literary text.
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Requirements on student
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Compulsory attendace. Reading done prior to each seminar, active participation in seminar discussions and activities. Further will be specified in the Moodle.
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Content
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Literature and ethnicity.
Majority versus minority, double consciousness.
Afro-American literature - so-called post-soul aesthetics.
American Jewish literature.
Native American literature.
Asian-American literature.
Chicano/Chicana literature (in English)
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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:
Bubíková, Šárka. Gains and Losses of Immigration in Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. American and British Studies Annual. Pardubice, 2010.
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Basic:
Piatek, Beata. History, Memory and Trauma. History, Memory and Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction. Krakov: Jagiellonian Univeristy Press, 2015.
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Basic:
Kolář, Stanislav. Seven responses to the Holocaust in American fiction. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2004. ISBN 80-86101-93-2.
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Recommended:
Bubíková, Šárka. Literatura v Americe, Amerika v literatuře : proměny amerického literárního kánonu. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart :, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86818-58-0.
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Recommended:
Wong, Herta Dawn. Louise Erdrich´s Love medicine : a casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-512722-6.
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Recommended:
Owens, Louis. Other destinies : understanding the American Indian novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8061-2673-6.
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Recommended:
Krupat, Arnold. Red matters : Native American studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8122-1803-5.
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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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26
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Samostatná kritická četba
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26
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Příprava na zkoušku
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24
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Domácí příprava na výuku
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36
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Total
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112
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
deepen students´knowledge on the writing of ethnic minorities within American literature; literary and textual analysis; understanding of literary phenomena in broader socio-cultural contexts |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Assessment methods |
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