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Lecturer(s)
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Wilhelm Václav, Ph.D.
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Vo Marek
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Course content
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1. Introduction to the archaeology of modernity in Poland. 2. Urban areas, crafts, trade. 3. Rural areas, seats of nobility, villages. 4. Fortresses, chateaux, palaces, parks. 5. Churches and monasteries; graves of soldiers from rebellions and wars. 6. Industrial revolution and industrial archeology. 7. Military features from the First and Second World War. 8. Traces of the Nazi crimes - places of mass executions and graves, concentration camps. 9. Traces of the Communistic crimes - places of the mass executions and graves in the forms Soviet Union, graves of the victims and sentences of death from the People´s Republic of Poland.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 35 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 30 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| To name the most important milestones of modern history |
| To summarize the importance and difference of archaeology and history as scientific disciplines for understanding the past |
| Skills |
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| To understand a scientific text in English/German |
| To use adequate terminology in Czech |
| To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarize aims and methods of this archaeological specialization and its importance for understanding modern European society |
| To summarize basic questions of the discipline in Europe |
| To outline the discipline's perspective and the research options of modern society in the Czech Republic, to give examples of individual sites and their research aims |
| To outline ethical aspects of modern society surveys |
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| To collaborate with related disciplines progressively, esp. history, ethnology and social and cultural anthropology while researching modern European societies |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture |
| Seminar |
| assessment methods |
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| Combined exam |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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Baranowski, B. ? Bartys, J. ? Sobczak T. (eds.). Historia kultury materialnej Polski w zarysie. T. 6, Od 1870 do 1918 roku. Wrocław, 1979.
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Capella, E. C. ? Symonds, J. Industrial Archaeology. Future Directions. New York, 2005.
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Hall, M. ? Silliman, S. W. Historical Archaeology. Oxford, 2006.
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Harrison, R. ? Schofield, J. After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past. Oxford, 2010.
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Saunders, Nicholas J. Killing Time : archaeology and the First World War. Gloucestershire : History Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7524-5602-7.
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Schofield, J. Aftermath: Readings in the Archaeology of Recent Conflict. New York, 2009.
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Stefański, K. Architektura XIX wieku na ziemiach polskich. Łódź, 2005.
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Szafrańska, M. (ed.). Kro´lewskie ogrody w Polsce. Warszawa, 2001.
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