AJPV_MAH Moderní americká historie

Pedagogická fakulta
jaro 2011
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.

Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 25 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/25, pouze zareg.: 0/25
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The main topic of the course is Race and Membership in American History - membership not only as a sense of belonging to a group, but also as freedom and right to belong and to participate so as to live a full and decent life. In our course we are going to see how millions of Americans were fighting for this dream.
Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
1. To support students in a process of personalizing history and relating it to their own cultures and everyday experiences.
2. To focus students learning on a variety of perspectives on historical issues and to critically explore differing points of view on these issues.
3. To provoke students into questioning stereotypes and challenging racist attitudes.
4. To support students in their development of affirmative understanding of ethnic and cultural groups.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction: Historical Perception starts nowadays
  • 2. American History Learning: Race and Democracy
  • 3. Slavery and the South and North of the United States
  • 4. The Period of Reconstruction: Segregation
  • 5. Scientific Justification of Racism
  • 6. Nation of Immigrants
  • 7. Scientific Justification: From Darwin to Eugenics
  • 8. Scientific Justification: Eugenics and the Power of Testing
  • 9. Science and the State Policy: "Eugenics Laws"
  • 10.American 'Imperialism': The "White Man's Burden"
  • 11. American Fight for Freedom and Civil Rights
  • 12. Case studies solving: "Becoming American"- the experience of  Chinese Americans
Literatura
  • Race and Membership in American History: Eugenics Movement. Massachusetts: Facing History and Ourselves Foundation, Inc., 2002. ISBN 0-9615841-9-K
  • GORN, Elliot. Constructing the American Past. Harper-Collins, 1995. info
  • MARCUS, Robert a David BRUNER. America Firsthand. St. Martin's Press, 1989. 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
Výukové metody
class discussion, written assignments (homeworks), on-line quizzes
Metody hodnocení
on-line written assignments,case studies from American History
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Výuka probíhá každý týden.
historický seminář.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2012, podzim 2012, podzim 2013, podzim 2014, podzim 2015, podzim 2016.