ESF:MPV_VRRK General V.+Dev. of Com. Skills - Course Information

MPV_VRRK General View and Development of Communicative Skills

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Sophie Lefévre (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Šárka Starobová (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. Mgr. Jiří Špalek, Ph.D.
Department of Public Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Šárka Starobová
Supplier department: Department of Public Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Timetable of Seminar Groups

MPV_VRRK/01: Wed 13:45–15:20 S402, S. Lefévre

Prerequisites (in Czech)

! PVVRRK General V.+Dev. of Com. Skills

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Public Economics and Administration (programme ESF, N-HPS)
• Public Administration (programme ESF, N-HPS)

Course objectives

The content of the course focuses on two principal topics. The first one tries to deepen students’ skills to express their attitudes and defend them by using suitable arguments. The attention is also paid to practicing selected stylistic and rhetoric procedures. The other topic focuses on presenting a synthetic study of the 20th century period that includes such fields of human knowledge as literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, technical development, politics, design, fashion, etc. Special attention is paid to art styles and individuals that shaped today’s society. Both the topics meet in the practical part that confronts students with concrete art and philosophical pieces of work. In a discussion, they are encouraged to disclose many layers of the work and to call values through which the work affects human sensibility and ratio. The course is carried out in the French language.
The objective of the subject is: - to help students to acquaint themselves with values and pitfalls of today’s material and immaterial world,
- to inspire them to look for valuable artifacts of our civilization. - to improve students skills of conducting a dialogue through discussions carried out in class,
- to build up coherent arguments and to be able to capture their feedback in a form of an essay written in a suitable stylistic form.

Syllabus

• Topics of lectures
• 1 Language and communication
• 2 Analysis of a journalistic essay and its summary
• 3 Functional methods of stylistics and rhetoric
• 4 Rhetoric exercises and their analysis through recordings
• 5 World literature in perspective
• 6 Poem analysis and discussion on features of modern and postmodern literature
• 7 Visual art and its development since the discovery of photography
• Discussions over visual art renderings of time relevant authors
• 8 Music in 19th and 20th centuries
• Language of music in a classical piece of art – listening and discussion
• Contemporary musical scene – listening and discussion
• 9 Architecture, fashion, design
• 10 Development of political systems
• 11 Individual and society in 20th century
• 12 History of 20th century in brief
• 13 Outline of 20th century philosophy and discussion over one of its significant pieces of work

Literature

• FOUCAULT, Michel. Slová a veci : archeológia humanitných vied. Translated by Miroslav Marcelli - Mária Marcelliová. 3. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2004, 396 s. ISBN 8071496642. info
• LINHARTOVÁ, Věra. Mluvím, mluvíš, mluvíme. (I speak, you speak, we speak.). Univerzitní noviny, List Masarykovy univerzity a Nadace Universitas Masarykiana. Brno: Nadace MU, 1997, vol. 4, No 10, p. 34-35. ISSN 1211-6866. info

Teaching methods

lectures, methods supported development of critical thinking, ERR learning model (evocation, realiazion, reflection). Group teaching i.e. brainstorming,discussion. Training of written as well as oral skills

Assessment methods

After passing the course, students are given a credit, provided that the following requirements have been equally fulfilled:
- active participation in discussions conducted in seminars,
- writing up a final essay on a topic that a student chooses from three possibilities.
This means that 50% of the assessment will depend on the extent of students’ participation in discussions and practical exercises. The remaining 50% will depend on the assessment of the final essay quality.
If students commit a prohibited act, such as using various forbidden tools, cribbing, taking out any part of the exam or any other cheating, the teacher is allowed to interrupt an exam and to grade a student with F, FF or FFF according to the seriousness of the offence. The mentioned procedure relates to all the activities that are included in the final evaluation of the course (seminar work, essays, tests etc.).

Language of instruction

French

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Část výuky probíhá ve francouzštině. Nezapisují si studenti, kteří absolvovali předmět PVVRRK.

Information about innovation of course.

This course has been innovated under the project "Inovace studia ekonomických disciplín v souladu s požadavky znalostní ekonomiky (CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0227)" which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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