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Lecturer(s)
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Königová Veronika, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Kucíková Monika, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Victorian Britain The End of the Empire The Roaring Twenties in the USA Great Britain and the USA in the 20th and 21st centuries British and American values and identity Social Structure and the Class System The Role of Religion in Great Britain and the USA x secularism Media in Great Britain and the USA
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Textual studies
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| speak English at B2+ CEFR level |
| explain the current cultural events of the Anglophone countries |
| explain key literary trends and currents |
| explicate basic cultural styles and directions |
| define basic data relating to the cultural development of the Anglophone countries |
| explain the key facts from the history of English-speaking countries |
| Skills |
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| speak English at B2+ CEFR level |
| respond appropriately to texts relating to the cultural events of the Anglophone countries |
| explain their opinions on current cultural events in Great Britain and the USA |
| take part in interviews and the pair/group discussions on given topics |
| understand the main ideas of authentic expert texts |
| recapitulate and interpret the mainideas of the text |
| create comprehensible written texts |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| speak English at C1 CEFR level |
| characterize the British Empire in a wider cultural context |
| explain important cultural and historical periods of English-speaking countries to the 18th century with respect to Great Britain (e.g. the transformation of English society as a result of the Norman occupation, the English Renaissance, the Elizabethan period, the English society of the 17th century, the cultural flourishing during the House of Stuart, the Restoration in the Stuart Period, the Enlightenment, etc.) |
| characterize leading figures of British and American art, music and culture |
| describe important cultural and historical epochs of Anglophone countries in the 19th century with respect to Great Britain (e.g. Romanticism x Industrial Revolution, Victorian Britain, etc.) and 20th and 21st centuries |
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| speak English at C1 CEFR level |
| reproduce an authentic expert text |
| use terms and complex grammatical phenomena in the context of the specialized language of the field |
| collect the necessary data from the original English sources on the basis of acquired knowledge, analyze them adequately and interpret them in written or oral form |
| explain and defend their opinions on a given topic |
| answer the selected questions from the given areas |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Textual studies |
| Samostudium literatury Samostatná práce studentů Samostudium studentů Individuální konzultace Skupinová konzultace Diskuze |
| assessment methods |
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| Oral exam |
| Ústní zkouška. |
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Recommended literature
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Černík, Jiří. Střípky z amerických dějin. Praha: Libri, 223 s., 2017. ISBN 978-80-7277-565-1.
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Ferguson, N. How Britain Made the Modern World. London, 2004.
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Kynaston, David. Family Britain 1951-57. Tales of the New Jerusalem. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
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Morgan, Kenneth O. Dějiny Británie. Praha : Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1999. ISBN 80-7106-347-9.
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Pugh, Martin. "We danced all night" : a social history of Britain between the wars. London : Bodley Head, 2008. ISBN 978-0-224-07698-2.
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Sandbrook, Dominic. Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain 1974-1979. Londeo: Allen Lane, 2012.
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