FSS:BSSb1111 Security forces - Course Information
BSSb1111 Internal security forces and intelligence services
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Dana Prudíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Bundzíková (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Pospíšilová
Supplier department: Division of Security and Strategic Studies – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Mon 10:00–11:40 P31 Posluchárna A. I. Bláhy
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! BSS111 Security forces && ! NOW ( BSS111 Security forces )
- 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
- Security and Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-BSS) (6)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-GK)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-HE) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-KS) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-PL) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-PS) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-SO) (2)
- Security & Strategic Studies (programme FSS, B-SP) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to describe and analyze the development and contemporary character of internal security agencies and intelligence services.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to identify and analyze an institutional and functional character of internal security agencies and intelligence services.
- Syllabus
- Introduction Conceptualizing of internal security agencies and intelligence services. Police Gendarmerie Border guards and similar agencies Custom agencies and similar agencies Prison guards and similar agencies Firefighting and rescues services Internal intelligence services External intelligence services Military inteligence services Specialized intelligence service Law and security corps
- Literature
- required literature
- TVRDÁ, Kateřina. Vnitřní bezpečnostní sbory a zpravodajské služby ve střední Evropě (Domestic Security Forces and Intelligence Services in Central Europe). 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, Masarykova univerzita, 2018, 273 pp. Politologická řada, sv. č. 70. ISBN 978-80-7325-465-0. info
- MICHÁLEK, Luděk, Ladislav POKORNÝ, Jozef STIERANKA and Michal MARKO. Zpravodajství a zpravodajské služby (Intelligence and Intelligence services). první. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2013, 303 pp. ISBN 978-80-7380-428-2. info
- recommended literature
- POKORNÝ, Ladislav. Zpravodajské služby (Intelligence Services). 1st ed. Praha: Auditorium, 2012, 150 pp. ISBN 978-80-87284-21-6. info
- MACEK, Pavel and Lubomír UHLÍŘ. Dějiny policie a četnictva. Vyd. 1. Praha: Police history, 2011, 291 s. ISBN 9788086477558. info
- ZETOCHA, Karel. Zpravodajské služby v nové demokracii: Česká republika (Intelligence Services in the New Democracy: Czech Republic). Brno: Fakulta sociálních studií MU, 2009, 246 pp. Vydání I. ISBN 978-80-210-5004-4. info
- MACEK, Pavel and Lubomír UHLÍŘ. Dějiny policie a četnictva. Vyd. 1. Praha: Police history, 2001, 230 s., 18. ISBN 80-86477-01-0. info
- MACEK, Pavel and Lubomír UHLÍŘ. Dějiny policie a četnictva. Vyd. 1. Praha: Police history, 1999, 230 s., [9. ISBN 80-902670-0-9. info
- MACEK, Pavel and Lubomír UHLÍŘ. Dějiny policie a četnictva. Vyd. 1. Praha: Themis, 1997, 178 s., [8. ISBN 80-85821-52-4. info
- not specified
- Extended valid list of literature is included in the folder Study materials
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and written homework
- Assessment methods
- The exam consists from evaluation of in-term written tests (max. 12 points), written homework (max. 12 points) and final written test (max. 36 points). Grading: Grading: 56-60: A 51-55: B 46-50: C 41-45: D 36-40: E 35-0: F.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2023, recent)
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