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Code:
YBLO011 |
Lecturer:
Říha,D. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
see SIS
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This course is designed for those students who have the interest in animation movies. The production process is realized in a software Moviestorm, that allows to produce original animation without prior knowledge of 3D animation softwares. |
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Code:
YBAJ063 |
Lecturer:
Krymláková,T. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 11:30 - 12:50, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Tento kurz je pro studenty, kteří chodili na kurzy Beginners a Pre-Intermediate nebo jsou na začátku úrovně A2. Používáme učebnici ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 a pracujeme s lekcemi 9-24 podle aktuální potřeby studentů. Kurz probíhá formou blended learningu - jednou týdně prezenčně a další úkoly plní studenti asynchronně. Kurz NENÍ určen pro studenty na úrovni B1, B2 a výše (např. studující na české vysoké škole v českém jazyce nebo ty, kteří již podobný kurz absolvovali jinde). Docházka na prezenční část je povinná (min. 75 %).Výuka bude probíhat prezenčně, pouze v případě nečekaných událostí přejde do online prostoru.AI může být využívána jako podpora při výuce jazyka (např. k procvičování slovní zásoby, vysvětlování gramatiky a porozumění textu), nesmí však být používána k psaní domácích úkolů.This course if for students who have taken the Beginner and Pre-Intermediate courses or are the start of A2 level. We use the ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 course book and work with units 9-24 depending on current needs of the students. The lesson take place once a week face-to-face and students work on other tasks in their own time (approx. 2 hours per week). Please do not register if you study at a Czech school in the Czech language or if your level is B1 or higher.Attendance in the face-to-face classes is mandatory (minimum 75%). The course will be taught face-to-face, it will only be held online if some unforeseen events occur.AI may be used to support language learning (e.g. for vocabulary practice, grammar explanations, and reading comprehension), but it must not be used to write homework. |
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Code:
YBAJ056 |
Lecturer:
Krymláková,T. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
mon 10:00 - 11:20, room YT113 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň) / wed 10:00 - 11:20, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course is designed for the students of Faculty of Humanities.In the fall semester, this course is open primarily for the full degree students only.In the spring semester, both full degree students as well as the Erasmus students can attend. The aim of this course is to acquire basic language skills to deal with every-day life in the Czech Republic, including cultural awareness. We use the ČESKY KROK ZA KROKEM 1 course book (https://www.czechstepbystep.cz/detail-ucebnice/ckzk1).The course will be taught face-to-face, it will only be held online if some unforeseen events occur.AI may be used to support language learning (e.g. for vocabulary practice, grammar explanations, and reading comprehension), but it must not be used to write homework. |
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Code:
YBLO004 |
Lecturer:
Krymláková,T. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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This autonomous language course is a one-semester course for students learning a foreign language here at the faculty (including Czech as a foreign language for incoming students). Native speakers of two different languages work together to help each other learn the target language as well as to learn about the target culture and community. The tandem is expected to set goals, discuss the methods of learning/teaching each other. Both partners should benefit equally from the exchange. This parallel session is only for INTERNATIONAL students. If you are Czech, enroll in YBEC143. |
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Code:
YBLS011 |
Lecturer:
Jurková,Z. + Sindelar,M. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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This course will introduce students to recent debates on decolonizing museums by focusing on two core aspects: provenance research to understand the biographies of objects and their rightful owners or authors, and secondly, processes of restituting/repatriating objects. Students will be introduced to strategies of decolonization and actively engage with the social life of objects, their pasts, and their futures. The course centers around the call by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and economist Felwine Sarr on the restitution of material culture looted during colonial times and what restitution must entail to become effective. Students learn to assess current debates on restitution and provenance research also in light of earlier concerns articulated by art historians, anthropologists, and post-colonial scholars. As part of the seminar, students will be introduced to provenance research by exercises and case studies in which they will have to conduct research on objects themselves, as well as discuss current – and formulate new – strategies for decolonizing museums. The course will also feature an excursion to the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. |
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Code:
YBLO013 |
Lecturer:
Tomková,D. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The course focuses on examining and discussing current issues that influence the production and organization of exhibitions from the perspective of decolonial and feminist practices in the context of post-socialist Central Europe. The course asks why it is important to consider the decolonial project in the context of post-socialist Central Europe. Socialist international cooperation included exchanges of workers and students (from Vietnam, Cuba, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East) and political and economic alliances, representing a strong anti-colonial solidarity. What happened to migrants from the global South after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Are their stories part of the collective memory of Ostalgie? What were the experiences of already present internally racially discriminated neighbors, specifically the Roma? The course will focus on the history of museums, including cabinets of curiosities and freak shows. We will also look at institutional critique, feminist curating, and reflect on the concept of curatorial materialism. We will discuss how the care of objects in collections in contemporary curating is shifting towards broader social care and responsibility. The course will reflect on institutional whiteness and look at the cultural heritage of the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and will discuss the establishment of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno as a result of the emancipation of Romani intellectuals in the 1990s. The course will seek to answer and discuss the following questions: What happens to political projects when they are exhibited or even enclosed in normative spaces such as museums or exhibitions? How can curating be perceived as care and inclusion? How can we exhibit from a decolonial perspective? How can we creatively transform historical traumas through curatorial practices? The course takes the form of a seminar and is based on active participation and classroom discussions, including film screenings, excursions, and visits to galleries and museums. |
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Code:
YBLS028 |
Lecturer:
Pitoňák,M. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The course "Geographies of Sexualities: Queering Place and Space" aims to challenge traditional perceptions of space as a passive backdrop for social events and promote understanding of space as a dynamic dimension that co-constructs our subjectivity and everyday experiences. This course explores the mutually constitutive relationship between space and subjectivity within an intersectional framework, examines the concept of "queering" geography/space, and problematizes dominant discourses related to (cis)heteronormative and queer spaces.The course will delve into specific themes such as the urban-rural dichotomy in the geographies of sexualities, the experiences of lesbian women in space, the concept of home, commodification of space and pinkwashing, and queer geopolitics in the context of anti-gender movements. Through extensive reading, critical discussion, and practical application, students will develop a nuanced understanding of how identities influence spatial experiences and how feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches can be applied in geography and in their lives. |
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Code:
YBLS019 |
Lecturer:
Muhič Dizdarevič,S. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The main goal of the course is to present students with a history of the concept of human rights in Western intellectual history, with historical and current forms of institutions in place to promote and enforce human rights, and with current controversies related to the human rights agenda in the multi-cultural globalized world. |
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Code:
YBLO012 |
Lecturer:
Váša,O. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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What does Botticelli’s Venus have in common with the contemporary Instagram stars? How did the influential renaissance concept of “figura serpentinata” become a pornographic backbone of contemporary sexual imagery? How did Michelangelo’s infernal orgies survive into the present time, disguised as the images of destruction? What does the adjective "PORNOGRAPHIC" mean, after all? While addressing these questions, the course will provide a practical introduction to iconology as it has been defined and practiced by Aby M. Warburg and Ernst Cassirer in the 1920s and 1930s (and is still highly influential today). Concerning their mutually influenced methodology, the course will interpret the critical aspects of the “nameless science” by exposing and analyzing complicated genealogy of the specific spectrum of surprisingly interrelated (and no less surprisingly PORNOGRAPHIC) images like selfies, underwear advertising, cloud imagery, abstract painting, war atrocities or hygiene-related illustrations. |
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Code:
YBLS027 |
Lecturer:
Pfaus,J. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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This course is the first part of a two-course series. Its aim is to provide you with an introduction to the brain, how it works, and what its neural and neurochemical mechanisms are that underlie behavior. The emphasis on mechanisms, structures, and concepts is designed to prepare you for the next course in the series, called “Brain and Behavior” (offered in the Summer semester) that makes use of the concepts learned in this course and applies them to complex motivated behaviors. It is also necessary for any other neuroscience-related courses, like Psychofyziologie a neuropsychologie (by Lenka Martinec Nováková), and courses that may be offered in the future, such as Hormones and Behavior, Drugs and Behavior, etc. Although the highly interdisciplinary material is drawn primarily from the subdisciplines of neuroscience, including neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and neuroendocrinology, our ultimate interest is in behavior. How do we understand behavior on the basis of its biological mechanisms? The course is divided into three units with an equally-weighted examination at the end of each. In the first unit, we will examine the gross structure and function of the nervous system and neuron, with an emphasis on the mechanisms by which nerves send information over long distances. The second unit examines the electrochemical connections between nerve cells and the way that those connections convey information from one cell to another and across networks of nerve cells. You will be exposed to concepts developed in molecular biology, and the way that neurobiologists have applied those concepts to the neuron. The third unit will focus on neurochemical pathways in the brain, neuroendocrinology, and the organization of the autonomic nervous system. This section will conclude by exploring the way in which sensory information is transmitted in the brain using the chemical senses of taste and smell as examples. Students who know psychology solely as a social science will likely find the early part of this course challenging. This is to be expected in any course in which the terminology and concepts are entirely new. But by learning this “alien” terminology of neurobiology and building up your understanding of new concepts in a step-by-step manner, you will come to view psychology from a different, more biological perspective, and you will have acquired an overview of neuroscience in the process. There is no required textbook. The lectures will provide you with all the necessary material. However, if you would like a book, I can recommend the introductory neuroscience textbook by Bear, M.F., Conors, B.W., and Paradiso, M.A. (2015). Neuroscience: Exploring the brain (4th Ed), Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. I include the corresponding chapters to each lecture in the syllabus (called “BCP”; see below). It is very important that you do not fall behind in the lectures because cramming before the exams will tend to drive you crazy and really won't help you understand the information. I will do my best to help you understand what you have read and will be available for office hours by appointment. I encourage questions from the class during lectures. I tend to lecture quickly because there is quite a lot to cover. I would strongly suggest that you pair up with one or two other students and form a study group to go over the information. |
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Code:
YBLO003 |
Lecturer:
Holubenko,N. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 10:00 - 11:20, room YT131 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course on intralingual translation, which involves translating within the same language, such as rephrasing or rewriting texts, provides an overview of the theoretical approaches and debates concerning this type of translation within the field of translation studies. It will examine instances of intralingual reformulation and various types of rewritings, ranging from didactic materials to more ‘ideological’ translations, where the impact of language and translation on the construction of identity is considered. Throughout the course, students will analyze how some of the classics of British and American literature have been rewritten for specific audiences (children, learners of English as a foreign language, students, etc.) or how poems have been rewritten as novels. Additionally, the course investigates how elements of critical theory have been narrativized within literary texts.The Moodle link for this course is: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=17793 |
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Code:
YBLS032 |
Lecturer:
Helman,I. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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This course will introduce students to feminist and lesbian separatisms beginning with their birth in the early history of feminism and their subsequent association with radical feminist theories. Through primary and secondary texts, it will familiarize students with the goals, motivations, and reasonings behind the phenomena as well as their accomplishments, legacies, and current forms. It will pay special attention to the impact of these types of separatisms on publications/writing, music, and in feminist spirituality as well as their legacy of cultural feminism. Finally, the course will examine critiques of the movements as essentialist and trans-exclusionary from various perspectives and authors. |
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Code:
YBLS026 |
Lecturer:
Lehečka,M. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 10:00 - 12:50, room YT231 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň) - odd week
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The accelerating complexity and diversity of urban life has been a central concern of social and cultural anthropology since the early twentieth century. In the context of increasing global interconnectedness, contemporary urban research must address the process of urbanites’ dwelling: moving, knowing and skilling. This means, how urban dwellers navigate and respond to multiple, often distant socio-material phenomena that shape their everyday realities. This course introduces students to key perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches in urban anthropology. Through fieldwork trips and excursions across Prague, students will engage with various urban environments—such as multicultural neighborhoods, modernist districts, urban “non-places,” green corridors, and infrastructures—through the lens of ethnography. Emphasis will be placed on developing research practices, ethical awareness, and methodological sensitivity in studying the anthropology of the city. |
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Code:
YBLP012 |
Lecturer:
Bierhanzl,J. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
see Student Information System
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Karel Kosík´s Dialectics of the Concrete and the Ecological Crisis of CapitalismMy proposal is to build on Kosík’s still-living philosophical program of phenomenological or existentialist Marxism (according to which social reality is a being always already in the system, and at the same time the possibility of transcending the system), while revising the strongly anthropocentric and megalomaniac conceptions of work and time that are its content, towards such notions as the regeneration of the life of the world, the regeneration of work and the solidary mode of living. |
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Code:
YBLO016 |
Lecturer:
Doyle,C. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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This course is an introduction to a number of key concepts in Academic Writing. We will begin by considering how academic writing differs from other styles of English, and then move on to discuss how to structure an essay, some specifics of vocabulary and grammar, and how to use (and not misuse) secondary sources, citations and footnotes. We will also look at some of the software you can use to help and improve your writing and discuss writing and delivering academic presentations. The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to the principles of academic writing and to improve their reading, writing and critical thinking skills. |
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Code:
YBLS029 |
Lecturer:
Hanson,E. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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In this course, students will learn about the history, theory, and practice of social justice. The course aims to provide a critical understanding of social justice as both a domain for theoretical research and applied practice. In the theoretical portion of the course, we will discuss the relationship between social justice and concepts like power, identity, emotion, systems thinking, and intersectional solidarity. In the applied part of the course, students will learn about the practice of community organizing, including identifying goals, targets, and tactics, as well as ethical principles for organizing. The goal of the course is for students to be able to articulate diverse concepts of social justice and apply these perspectives to analyze and address real-life issues. |
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Code:
YBLO008 |
Lecturer:
Doyle,C. |
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Semester:
Winter and summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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Although Arthur was a legendary Romano British king or warlord, supposed to have repelled the earliest Anglo- Saxon invasions of Britain who was first mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin Historia regum brittaniae (History of the Kings of Britain), Arthur’s court was the prime locus of literary chivalry not just in medieval English literature, but more generally throughout Western Europe. Arthurian romances exist in French, English, Welsh, German, Icelandic and Czech. This course will primarily consider verse romances in Middle English, but with comparative analysis of traditions in other languages with the intention of demonstrating that the so called Matter of Britain, was in fact a common creative property of the entire Latinate Western European region. |
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Code:
YBLP009 |
Lecturer:
Kunca,T. |
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Semester:
Winter
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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Are the good, amiable qualities of man, virtues, or the bad, hateful ones, vices, the true foundation of human sociability, and consequent formation of society towards its civil and commercial stage? Dilemma or paradox (“Private vices, public benefits”) famously exposed by Mandeville and still acute not only due to his disturbing arguments which are quite frequently misunderstood. What Mandeville really said, what was the main set of arguments proposed by his antagonists, what is philosophical and even theological background of the debate? This kind of questions is discussed when reading a selection of primary sources, state-of-art interpretations and even confronting these with observations of present social sciences. |
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