Course: Seminar of Modernity 3

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Course title Seminar of Modernity 3
Course code KAR/SNM3
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Halva Jan, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Flora Petr, Ph.D.
  • Havel René, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
North American historical archaeology. Australian historical archaeology. Historical archaeology of South Africa. Archaeology of a modern city.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Seminar
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 42 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
To characterize and to classify individual modern periods chronologically
To summarize the importance of archaeology for understanding the past
To name the most important milestones of modern period
Skills
To discuss and to argument relevantly at a seminar
To understand and to reproduce a scientific text in Czech and English/German
To use an to understand scientific language
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To summarize methods and goals of North American historical archaeology
To summarize methods and goals of Australian historical archaeology
To summarize methods and goals of South African historical archaeology
To summarize options and goals of modern urban archaeology
Skills
To manage methodologically and theoretically-elaborated research of artefactual culture of the monitored period with emphasis on the 19th-20th century
To take an opinion towards different methodical approaches and theoretical paradigms
To present their own opinions and research results, to participate in a critical debate, and to defend their own statements through precise argumentation
teaching methods
Knowledge
Seminar
assessment methods
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • FUNARI, P. P. A. - HALL, M. - SIÂN, J. (eds.). Historical Archaeology. Back from the Edge. London, New York., 2003.
  • Lawrence, S. - Davies, P. An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788. New York, 2010.
  • Singleton. T.A. (ed.). : I, Too, Am America: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life. Charlottesville, 1999.


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