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Lecturer(s)
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Růžičková Jitka, doc. PhDr. CSc.
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Hautová Dana, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Qualitative research - history, formation, principles 2. Field work - principle of authority, questionnaire, interview, conversation, observation 3. Oral history 4. Archive - history, institutions, division of archives, archives 5. Methods in historical sciences - deductive method, direct and indirect method, diachronic and synchronic approach, etc.) 6. Fiction as a specific source, foundations of hermeneutics 7. Sources of visual character - photographs, cartoons, paintings 8. Ethical aspects of research 9. Personalities of field research in the field of Jewish and Islamic studies, archives of Jewish studies 10. Minority museology 11. Theory and methods in cultural and social anthropology, general approaches and principles of anthropology, specific problems in the study of BV 12. Changes in paradigms of anthropological thinking 13. Basic principles of sociological research - qualitative and quantitative research 14. Theory and methods of anthropological archaeology
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 57 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 8 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| - to characterize relevant branches of social sciences and humanities - to explain the difference of qualitative and quantitative research - to characterize nature of social and historical sciences, their aims, potential and limits - to know basic terminology - to define basic methods of qualitative and quantitative research - to describe the history of the Middle East and North Africa - to have solid knowledge about cultures of the studied region - to explain the basics of Islam, Judaism, Christianity |
| Skills |
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| - to work individually with academic literature - to gather information from contemporary information sources and interpret them critically - to write a scholarly text - to use effectively modern information technologies - to know available academic literature and to evaluate it critically - to use actively English written and spoken. |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| - to identify useful approaches of specific social sciences and humanities for different research questions related to the region of the Middle East and North Africa - to identify key methodological problems and limits - to identify and explain weak points in methodologies of analysed case studies - to explain methods and rules for qualitative and quantitative research - to list and explain necessities of field research |
| Skills |
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| - to model quantitative and qualitative research taking into account the essential theoretical and methodological aspects - to interpret the positives and negatives of different approaches of given disciplines - to propose research topics and procedures of their solutions - to realize eventually real fieldwork in the region in their own defined topic |
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| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Discussion |
| Students' portfolio |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Group discussion |
| Skills demonstration |
| Task-based study method |
| Individual study |
| Self-study of literature |
| Textual studies |
| Seminar |
| Lecture |
| Skills |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Seminar |
| Textual studies |
| Competences |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Discussion |
| Skills demonstration |
| Individual study |
| Students' portfolio |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Oral exam |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Skills |
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| Oral exam |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Competences |
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| Oral exam |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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Recommended literature
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Antalík, Dalibor. Jak srovnávat nesrovnatelné : strategie mezináboženské komparace. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2005. ISBN 80-7298-144-7.
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Bernard, H. Russell. Research methods in anthropology : qualitative and quantitative approaches. Lanham : Altamira Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7591-0869-1.
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Bernard, H. Russell; Ryan, Gery Wayne. Analyzing qualitative data : systematic approaches. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7619-2490-6.
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Bernard, H. Russell. Social research methods : qualitative and quantitative approaches. Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2000. ISBN 0-7619-1403-X.
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Disman, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost : příručka pro uživatele. Praha : Karolinum, 2000. ISBN 80-246-0139-7.
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Schutt, Russell K. Investigating the social world : the process and practice of research. Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7619-2928-2.
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