AJ0309 Moderní americká historie

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2017
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Michael George, M.A. (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin
AJ0309/01: St 13:55–15:35 učebna 54, M. George
Předpoklady
! AJPV_MAH Moderní americká historie
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
1. To demonstrate to students that history is an ongoing process with links across all disciplines and ages, and not "isolated, irrelevant and dead"
2. To focus students learning on critical thinking, giving them a variety of points of view on historical issues.
3. To encourage students to question stereotypes and accepted opinion.
4. To help students identify with actors in the past and therefore personalize history and relate it to their own culture and everyday experiences. At the end of the course students should be able to analyze modern American political and social behavior, evaluating and explaining events according to past examples.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction: Background, Outline and Course Requirements
  • 2. The Foundations of Modern America 1: The Death of Slavery and the Birth of Jim Crow
  • 3. The Foundations of Modern America 2: Industrialism, Immigration and Imperialism
  • 4. Henry Ford, the "Roaring 20's and the American Dream
  • 5. The Great Depression, the Great Change
  • 6. WWII and the Cold War
  • 7. Vietnam and the War at Home
  • 8. The Fight for Civil Rights
  • 9. Civil Rights Expanded - People of Color, Women and Multiculturalism
  • 10. 21st Century America: Post "9/11"
  • 11. Student Research Reports 1
  • 12. Student Research Reports 2
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • GORN, Elliot. Constructing the American Past. Harper-Collins, 1995. info
  • MCADAM, Doug. Freedom summer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, x, 333. ISBN 0195064720. info
  • DAVIS, Allen a Harold WOODMAN. Conflict and Consensus. D.C. Heath, 1980. info
    doporučená literatura
  • Race and Membership in American History: Eugenics Movement. Massachusetts: Facing History and Ourselves Foundation, Inc., 2002. ISBN 0-9615841-9-K
  • MARCUS, Robert a David BRUNER. America Firsthand. St. Martin's Press, 1989. info
Výukové metody
This class meets in "round table" seminar discussions weekly, where we look in depth one particular issue of modern America and ask "why?". These are classic, interactive seminars - in which each student comes to the class having read the assigned texts and shares his/her opinions on the subject. Careful reading is especially important because each set of seminar readings usually represents differing points of view on the subject of the day. In these seminars there are no correct or incorrect answers, the aim is to "think out loud", offering your thoughts to your colleagues in the circle. If everyone does this, the seminar provides insight into the question - but because we are talking about real life history, there is never any ultimate answer.
Metody hodnocení
1. ATTENDENCE - no more than 2 absences.
2. PREPARATION - read (i.e. print and note) ALL texts and come to each seminar prepared to analyze them.
3. VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION - free offering of ideas in conversation at EACH seminar meeting.
4. RESEARCH PROJECT - Select any topic (dealing with modern America) that interests you, research it from sources in the collection in my office, the library, the Internet, or other sources at your disposal, and become the “expert” on that subject within the class. That means that we will turn to you for additional information whenever the discussion touches your chosen subject. The point is for every one in the class to benefit from each student's research. In addition, there will be time set aside for short (15 minute) presentations.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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