FF:Va4 An. tut. on the Cult. of Viet. - Course Information

Va4 Analytical tutorial on the Culture of Vietnam

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Srba, Ph.D.

Timetable

Tue 12:00–13:40 J.212, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.

Prerequisites

"Vs4 Culture of Vietnam" should be enrolled simultaneously (or finished earlier)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The course goal is reading of various books on the topic of the course, their analysis and critical review. The course Analytical tutorial on the Culture of Vietnam is a profile core course of the study programme Vietnamese Studies. Content of this course and acquired knowledge will be also a part of the Final State Examination. The course is open for students of other study programmes.

Learning outcomes

After completion of the seminar students will have a deeper insight into selected topics of the Vietnamese culture (for issues see Syllabus of this course or course Vs4). Students will also know about basic literature dealing with corresponding issues. Students will be inspired to narrow their own research interest and approach their own field work. Students will be led to think over the actualizations of the Vietnamese traditions in the modern society, as well as continuity and transformations of the Vietnamese cultural tradition within Vietnamese communities abroad.

Syllabus

• We will focus on issues, which are currently frequently discussed in the western Vietnamese studies. Students will have an opportunity to focus also on topics according their own interest (through reading of sources and literature or basic field work).
• Examples of possible topics connected with religion:
• - a question of Vietnamese religion or Vietnamese religions in the Western scientific literature since the 18th century;
• - the modern Vietnamese Buddhism and its reinterpretations of the premodern Vietnamese Buddhist tradition;
• - Vietnamese tradition and European cultural impact in the first half of the 20th century;
• - various forms of the Christianity in Vietnam;
• - modern syncretic religions in Vietnam;
• - religions of ethnic minorities.

Literature

recommended literature
• Sources of the Vietnamese tradition. 2012. Edited by George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner and John K. Whitmore. New York: Columbia University Press.

not specified
• Marr, David G. 1981. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial 1920-1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• Cuong Tu Nguyen. 1998. Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of Thien Uyen Tap Anh. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
• Taylor, Philip. 2004. Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• ADRIANO DI ST. THECLA. Small treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese. Edited by Mariya Berezovska - Olga Dror - Lionel M. Jensen. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002, 239 s
• Cadière, Léopold. 1944-1955-1957. Croyances et pratiques religieuses des Viêtnamiens. 3 vol. Saïgon: École française d'Extrême-Orient (1955-1958, réimpr. 1992).

Teaching methods

seminar (complementary lectures, reading and examining sources, reports of selected scholarly works read by students, discussion)

Assessment methods

active participation, self-study, draft with main points of selected publication and its presentation, then writing the final paper with the results of discussion

Náhradní absolvování

no

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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