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Lecturer(s)
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Havel René, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Halva Jan, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Main topics: 1. Changes in settlement and cultural landscapes of the 19-20th centuries - the possibilities of archaeological study. 2. Archaeology of the modern village environment; excursion - cultural landscape and Czech villages vanished after 1945 as an archaeological topic. 3. Industrial archaeology in the European context and the options of industrial archaeology in the Czech lands. 4. Urban archaeology of modernity. 5. Archaeology of modern burial areas. 6. Garbology. 7. Archaeology of modern conflicts in the European context. 8. Archaeology of modern conflicts in the Czech Republic. 9. The possibilities of archaeological study of leisure time in the modern period; the research on this topic in the Czech Republic using the example of tramping. 10. "Campscape archaeology" - archaeological study of Europe as "landscape of camps" from the period of 20th century totalitarian regimes. 11. Archaeology of the Cold War and Communism; archaeological movable artefacts of the 19-20th centuries; introduction to the study.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 15 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 50 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past |
| To characterize individual periods from the Middle Ages to the modern period |
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| To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
| To read and to understand a scientific text in Czech |
| To use adequate terminology in Czech |
| To use electronic information sources |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarize the issue of archaeological and (partially) other resources and their importance for knowledge and reconstruction of life in Bohemia in 19-20th century |
| To create an overview of preserved immovable monuments of the monitored period |
| To outline social development and changes in the monitored period |
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| To assign the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods chronologically |
| To interpret the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods functionally |
| To identify different movable and immovable artefacts of the 19th-20th century |
| To evaluate available information on monitored issues critically |
| teaching methods |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
| Practicum |
| Self-study of literature |
| assessment methods |
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| Combined exam |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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Graves-Brown, P., Harrison, R., Piccini, A. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford, 2013. ISBN 9780199602001.
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Graves-Brown, P. Matter, materiality, and modern culture. London : Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0-415-16705-1.
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Harrison Rodney and Schofield John. After Modernity. Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past.. Oxford: Oxford University Press., 2010.
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Krajíc, Rudolf; Měřínský, Zdeněk,; Vařeka, Pavel. Archaeology of the 16th-20th century in the Czech Republic. Archaeologia historica ISSN 0231-5823 Vol. 42, no. 2017.
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Schofield, J. Aftermath: Readings in the Archaeology of Recent Conflict. New York, 2009.
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Schofield, J. Combat Archaeology. Material Culture and Modern Conflict.. London: Duckworth, 2005.
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Symonds, J. - Vařeka, P. Cowboys and Bohemians: Recreation, Resistance, and the Tramping Movement in West Bohemia.. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1.1, 165-93, 2014.
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VAŘEKA, P. (ed.). Archeologie 19. a 20. století. Přístupy - metody - témata.. Plzeň: ZČU, 2013.
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