Course: Problems of Historical Science

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Course title Problems of Historical Science
Course code KHV/HVHN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
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)
  • Čančura Lukáš, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Fernand Braudel Immanuel Wallerstein Clifford Geertz Geoffrey Parker William McNeill Peter Watson Birth of historical sciences in the early twenty-first century

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 52 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe the basics of historical science
Skills
to interpret Czech professional text
to interpret English professional text
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to describe the basic stages of the development of historical science of the 20th century
to characterize the basic stages of the development of historical science of the 20th century
to characterize theoretical and methodological problems of contemporary historical science
to characterize the importance of oral history, microhistory, symbolic anthropology, and gender history for contemporary historical thinking
Skills
to independently analyze the theoretical and methodological problems of contemporary historical science
to interpret the causes of theoretical and methodological problems of historical science of the 20th century
to critically evaluate the contribution of new approaches and methods of historical research of the second half of the 20th century to contemporary historical thinking
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Skills
Self-study of literature
Competences
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Self-study of literature
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Skills
Test
Competences
Test
Recommended literature
  • Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II. vol. II. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-520-20330-5.
  • Budil, Ivo T. Mýtus, jazyk a kulturní antropologie. Vyd. 3. Praha : Triton, 1999. ISBN 80-7254-001-7.
  • Budil, Ivo T. Úsvit rasismu. Vyd. 1. Praha : Triton, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7387-630-2.
  • Darwin, J. After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1405. London, 2007.
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. The modern world. I, Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century : with a new prologue. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-520-26757-2.
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. The modern world. II, Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy; 1600 - 1750 : with a new prologue. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-520-26758-9.
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice. The modern world. III, The second era of great expansion of the capitalist world-economy : 1730 - 1840s / with a new prologue. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-520-26759-6.


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