Course detail

Philosophy and Culture

FEKT-MFIKAcad. year: 2010/2011

The course of studies stresses the significance of cultural background for modern man, as an essential ethic and intellectual foundation giving birth to incentives taken from the philosophical and religious conceptions about the creation and the functioning of the world, the nature, society and the civilization.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The knowledge acquired will increase the general level of education of the students, and will contribute to the cultivation of mind, will provide for the education to tolerance and will be positive to the creation of own conscious and harmonic image of the world.

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

To make the students familiar, besides the main cultural and philosophical streams of the past and the present, also with some mindless and heretic branches delineating the process of seeking and the development.

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

E.Rádl: Dějiny filosofie
J.G.Frazer: Zlatá ratolest
L.Jutang: Můj národ a má vlast
Světová mytologie
T.Parsons: Společnosti

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

Syllabus

Nature and the substance of the culture
Basic types of the society
Mythology and religion