FF:UZCJX003 Master' s State Exam - Course Information

UZCJX003 Master' s State Exam

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Jana Pleskalová, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jana Pleskalová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites

To take the exam students are required to possess the desired number of credits and to have their diploma work accepted.

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

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)

Course objectives

The Final State Examination is to demonstrate : 1) The student’s ability - to handle assigned scholarly problems in a cultivated manner, to respond in discussion and display a capacity for matter-of-fact reasoning, to utilize their knowledge of literature and of other sources in expert debate . 2) The students’ knowledge - of relevant facts and factual material, of basic as well as advanced methodology in the particular field, of scholarly literature. 3) The students’ skills - to formulate theses and assertions and the ability to support them, to compose a clearly structured overview and interpretation of a given problem, to approach scholarly sources critically. The aim of the linguistic part of the State exam is to check good knowledge of present-day Czech at all levels, as dealt with in the particular linguistic disciplines (phonetics, phonology, morphology, word-formation, syntax, lexicology, stylistics). Other expected skills are knowledge of the particular terminology, orientation in linguistic methodology. The part of the final exam which involves literary science comprises following topics: 1. Propaedeutics of literary science. 2. Literary theory. 3. Old Czech literature. 4. Czech literature of the 19th Century. 5. Czech literature of the first half of the 20th Century. 6. Czech literature of the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st Century. Advanced knowledge of the problems concerning literary history and literary theory, thorough acquaintance with relevant works in the field as well as the ability to analyse literary text are presupposed. Examination in didactics forms part of the final exam.

Syllabus

• The state exam has three parts: 1. The defence of the Diploma Thesis. 2. Exam by an examination board. 3. Exam in didactics of Czech (this part includes pedagogy, general didactics, psychology for teachers, didactics of Czech language and literature). The final mark also includes the mark from the didactics of Czech. Questions for the final state examination are are available on the websites www.phil.muni.cz/wucj and www.phil.muni.cz/wucl.

Literature

• viz studijní literatura k dílčím disciplínám

Teaching methods

The defence and the exam have an oral form.

Assessment methods

The defence of thesis and the exam are held by board of examiners consisting of three members. The result of this exam is one mark for both sections.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught each semester.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Vždy ve zkouškovém období (po jarním semestru v červnu a v září, po podzimním semestru v lednu).
General note: Informace o prerekvizitách jsou zveřejněny na vývěskách Ústavu českého jazyka a Ústavu české literatury.

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