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KSKA / BAPOL
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KSKA
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BAPOL
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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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Anthropology of Policy
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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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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
1
[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 / 0
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0 / 0
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0 / 20
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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 |
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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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KSKA/EAPOL
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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 prepares students for the critical analysis of mainly public policies and understanding of the process of their creation. Students will learn to understand the contexts influencing the creation of policies and to evaluate the possible impacts of policies not only on the formerly planned target groups, but also on the bureaucratic systems themselves. Particular examples will illustrate policy as a moral concept, tool of the government, complex network of actors, mobiliser of resistance and form of governance, that influences everyday lives of many people.
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Requirements on student
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Regular presence and activity in the course - reading of the texts, discussion, homework based on study support (uploaded before the lesson) and handing in an analysis of policy with the possibility of presentation in the class.
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Content
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1. Anthropology of policy and the study of public policy
2. Development of the study of policy in anthropology
3. Role of the expert knowledge and elites in the formulation of policy, formulation of policy in the higher levels of bureaucratic apparatus
4. Lower-level bureaucrats or street-level bureaucracy
5. Methods in research for/of policy, evaluation of public policies and projects
6. Study of social reforms, comparison of current reform trends
7. State approaches to poverty, measuring poverty, precarization and changing nature of work
8. State and local cultural models of welfare
9. Securitization and policies of zero tolerance
10. Gentrification and idea of social mix
11. Commodification and decommodification of housing, social housing
12. Policy analysis discussion/presentation with students
13. Finishing and evaluation of the course
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Guarantors:
PhDr. Hana Synková, Ph.D. (100%),
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Lecturer:
Mgr. Michaela Konopíková, Ph.D. (100%),
PhDr. Hana Synková, Ph.D. (100%),
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Seminar lecturer:
Mgr. Michaela Konopíková, Ph.D. (100%),
PhDr. Hana Synková, Ph.D. (100%),
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Literature
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Basic:
The reader is uploaded in documents.
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Recommended:
Shore, C., S. Wright, D. Pero (eds.). Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Anatomy of Contemporary Power. London, UK: Berghahn, 2011.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
knowledge of English |
Competences acquired |
The course prepares students for the critical analysis of policies and understanding of the process of their creation. Students will learn to understand the contexts influencing the creation of policies and to evaluate the possible impacts of policies. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Assessment methods |
- Home assignment evaluation
- Student performance assessment
- Work-related product analysis
- Presentation
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