AEB_54 Prehistoric art of Europe II - Special Issues

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Ludmila Kaňáková Hladíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
AEB_53 Prehistoric Art in Europe
succesful pass of basic course "Prehistoric Art of Europe" AEB_53
interest on subject in wider context of social and natural sciences
ability to work in fully e-learning course
motivation to self-learning and to interdisciplinary studyies
motivation to academic discussion development
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 goal of a course is to develop important themas of academic discussion to prehistoric art. Six basic themas are dedicated to questiones with significant interpretative potential in sphere of interdisciplinary point of view.
The goal of a course is to permit to students individually develop their ability of question laying, answers finding, critical work with data, analogy, and comparation.
At the end of course student would be able to better identification of bad hypothese, superficial analogy or groundless interpretation. Students would be able to critically evaluate proceedings of colleagues and built firm arguments for own interpretations.
Syllabus
  • Course includes six bloque-lessions dedicated to controversial themas in frame of prehistoric art discussion.
  • Order of lessions is not firm.
  • Chamanismus pros and cons
  • using and symbolic aspects of pigments
  • gender in prehistoric art
  • so called "decoration" of material culture
  • dynamic antropomorphic figurines
  • symbolic zoomorphs depiction
Literature
  • literatura přímo v kurzu/further reading directly in course
Teaching methods
full e-learning
accent to discussions, further reading reviews, individual information sources finding especially in scientific sources of related sciences
learning texts and further reading are in balance with individual work on prefered subject
the goal of discussion parts is cultivat students ability to discuss in academic level of communication (well based arguments, adequate deduction and analogies, comparatistic)
Assessment methods
feedback test in every lesson
obligatory proceedings in discussions
individual work on one prefered thema (essay, 1 recherche, 2 review)
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 taught: every week.
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=16
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014.
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