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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Following topics will be discussed: 1. The oldest accounts on climet of the Czech lands 2. Basic characteristics of climate in CZ 3. Historic climatology itself - definition 4. Data base of the historic climatology 5. Methods of the historic climatological research 6. Paradigm of the climate of the last millenium 7. Changes in climate in CZ during the last millenium 8. Historic climatology and hydrometeorological extremes 9. Historic climatology and impact studies 10. Historic climatology and the global warming
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 25 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarise the importance of archaeology for understanding the past |
| To classify individual prehistoric, medieval and modern periods chronologically |
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| To understand a scientific text in English/German |
| To use adequate terminology in Czech |
| To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
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| N/A |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarize the importance of historic climatology for understanding the past |
| To state examples of individual events and phenomena, and to describe options of their documentation and interpretation |
| To summarize archaeological methodology and its study application at climatic influence on nature |
| To summarize the opinions on global climatic changes, and to take their own opinion |
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| To evaluate and analyse historical and climatic data |
| To explain the issue of variability and climate changes in the past, and their consequences for eventual development of Earth's landscape sphere including a critical view on positives and negatives of data basis |
| To apply the field's methodology within the study of climate impacts on nature, humanity and human society |
| To use acquired theoretical knowledge in their archaeological practice, e.g. within the overall evaluation of specific areal research |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
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Recommended literature
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Brázdil, R. - Kotyza, O. Kolísání klimatu v Českých zemích v první polovině našeho tisíciletí, Archeologické rozhledy 49, 663-699.. 1997.
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Brázdil, Rudolf. Historické a současné povodně v České republice. 1. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005. ISBN 80-210-3864-0.
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Brázdil, Rudolf; Kotyza, Oldřich. History of weather and climate in the Czech lands : daily weather records in the Czech lands in the sixteenth century II. Brno : Masaryk University, 1999. ISBN 80-210-2095-4.
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Pfister, Ch. - Brázdil, R. - Glaser, R. (eds.) 1999. Climatic Variability in Sixteenth - Century Europe and its Social Dimensions. Dordrecht - Boston - London.
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