Course detail

History

FEKT-MDEJAcad. year: 2010/2011

This one -term and reshaped study course addresses some significant periods or historical events in both the world and Czech history.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

ThMgr. Milan Klapetek

Department

Continuing Education and Counselling Centre (CVP)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The ability for better understanding of the substance of various contemporary streams of thought, and better perceptiveness of the fundamentals of civil society.

Prerequisites

The special knowledge are not required.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The conditions for sucssesfully finishing course are given by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course of studies is to give the students a better insight into the basic issues of human community during the course of history, for better understanding of the substance of various contemporary streams of thought, and better perceptiveness of the fundamentals of civil society.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

B. Horyna: Idea Evropy
Emery Reves: Anatomie Míru
J. Burckhardt: Úvahy o světových dějinách
Kosina: Světové dějiny
P. Johnson: Zrození moderní doby

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning

    branch EE-FLE , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective general

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

ThMgr. Milan Klapetek

Syllabus

Origins and beginnings of historical mind
Primeval eastern cultures in the light of the history
Ancient superpowers in peace and at war
History of a nation that lived for the idea
Greek democracy in a form we did not experience yet
Alexander contra Démosthénes
What was between Rome and the medieval age?
French revolution
Ways of Europe to the eastern cultures
The United States of America - an experiment of the New World
Beginnings of the National Revival
Czech National Revival
Contemporary times and the theory of the "end of history"