ZUR401 Introduction to the study of culture

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc. (lecturer)
PhDr. Mgr. Zdeněk Havlíček (assistant)
Mgr. Leo Nitče (assistant)
Václav Štefela (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Drahomíra Soldánová
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 AVC
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 continues the lectures on The Introduction to Cultural Studies‘. It clarifies the basic principles and procedures that help understand better some cultural differences between cultural regions and individual cultures. The main aim of the course is to make the students acquainted with the most wide-spread concepts, theories, and methods used in social sciences and humanities for analyses and interpretations of the human culture products. The knowledge is applied in the area of analysis and interpretation of specific cultural texts. At the end of the course, the students will be able to master the communication-pragmatic approach to culture that makes the main theoretical and methodological base of cultural and media studies. They will understand culture as a changeable dynamic continuum that is – at the same time – a product, space, and presupposition for human communication.
Syllabus
  • 1st session: Cultural and social anthropology. 2nd session: Cardinal concepts, approaches and problems of scientific methodology. 3rd session: Selected theoretical cultural concepts and methodological orientation of humanities and social sciences. 4th session: Communication and pragmatic turn in humanities and social sciences. 5th session: Human communicative behaviour. 6th session: Cardinal semiotic categories (signs, sign systems and codes). 7th session: Cardinal narratological categories. 8th session: Discourses and communication contexts. 9th session: Interpretation as a form of human communication. 10th session: Interpretation of literary work. 11th session: Interpretation of a work of fine art (caricature). 12th session: Communication strategies and manipulative media procedures. 13th session: Final evaluation of the course.
Literature
  • Fay, Brian (2002): Současná filosofie sociálních věd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství.
  • Pavelka, Jiří (2004): Kultura, média a literatura. Brno: Středoevropské vydavatelství a nakladatelství Regiony.
  • Pavelka, Jiří (1998): Předpoklady literárního dorozumívání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
Assessment methods
lectures, three papers, writtten test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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