BA701 Baltic Finnic Epics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Bohumil Fořt, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 17:30–19:05 K32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is focused on textual recherches, the relevance of selection (in terms of context, genre, motive, topic etc.) and translation of Baltic Finnic epics. At the end of the course students should be able to work with folklore text corpora; and be more familiar with minority Baltic Finnic languages.
Syllabus
  • The course is intended as a seminar. The teacher introduces particular textual sources, representative texts, possible archetypes and variants, and auxiliary tools like folklore methodology, descriptive grammars and dictionaries. Subsequently the students under the teacher's supervision compile a set of text, selected according to a language, geographic, genre, thematic or motivic criteria, translate the texts and comment them.
Teaching methods
lecture, reading and translation, class discussion
Assessment methods
Active taking part in the seminar along with individual translation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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