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Lecturer(s)
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Kocur Zdeněk, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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First week - students enter lectures about methodology and ethics of research project. Many lectures about middle Europe, regions, internatiol relations between single countries will follow. Second week - students will study more about each country of middle Europe. Third week - In this week students will be taken to The house of Commons or to the Senat of CZ. Another field trip will be to the czech medias and the last one to the nonprofit organizations such as Clovek v tisni, Tady a ted. Fourth week is about individual consultations about project and the final colloquium will take place where students will present their final project and will discuss on related themes.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Students' portfolio, Individual study, Textual studies, Field trip
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15)
- 15 hours per semester
- Attendance on a field trip (number of real hours - maximum 8h/day)
- 28 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 50 hours per semester
- Practical training (number of hours)
- 20 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| No particular prerequisites specified. |
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| Upon the conclusion of the course, students will be capable of describing and analyzing political and social development in Central European countries. Students will be capable to contextualise the issue of the establishment of political, economical and social events in Central European countries. Students will be able to define Central Europe as a region. Students will acquire theoretical knowledge in the field of international relations and will be capable to aplicate the theoretical framework on practical examples. |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Field trip |
| Textual studies |
| Individual study |
| Students' portfolio |
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| Combined exam |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Project |
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Recommended literature
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Dryzek, John ? Holmes, Leslie. Post-Communist Democratization: Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2002.
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Gallagher, Tom ? Pridham, Geoffrey. Experimenting with Democracy: Regime Change in the Balkans. Routlege: London and New York, 1999.
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Holmes, Leslie. Post-communism: An Introduction.. Polity Press: Cambridge, 1997.
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Kolodziej, Edward A. Security and international relations. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-00116-1.
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Lewis, Paul G. Political parties in post-communist Eastern Europe. London : Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0-415-20182-9.
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Pollack, Detlef. Political culture in post-communist Europe : attitudes in new democracies. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2003. ISBN 0-7546-1969-9.
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Reus-Smit, Christian. The politics of international law. 1st pub. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-54671-3.
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Sugar, Peter F. (ed.). Eastern European Nationalism in the Twentieth Century. The American University Press: Washington D. C., 1995.
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Wilkinson, Paul. International relations : a very short introduction. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-280157-9.
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Zakaria, Fareed. The future of freedom : illiberal democracy at home abroad. 1. ed. New York ; W.W. Norton& Company, 2003. ISBN 0-393-04764-4.
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Zielonka, Jan (ed.). Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe. Vol. 1. Institutional Engineering. Oxford University Press: New York, 2001.
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