SKANSI_07 Introduction Course to the Scandinavian Studies

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miluše Juříčková, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Agneta Ch. Alarka Kempe (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Eliška Straková (lecturer)
JUDr. Jaroslav Knot, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Agneta Ch. Alarka Kempe
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:50–12:25 K33
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
Course objectives
This course gives a basic information about history and contemporary life and culture in Scandinavia. The students get the elementary methods, instrumentary and skills for the studium and professionality. The aim of the course ist to understand and analyse the interaction of all Scandinavian sountries each other between, and in the perspective of European cooperation and integration.
Syllabus
  • - Scandinavia on the map of the world and Europe
  • - Geography and its specifics
  • - the most important periods of the Scandinavian history
  • - society, politics and economics in the recent period
  • - culture and the artist personalitisies
  • - Scandinavian area relations to the Czech history and culture
Literature
  • JUŘÍČKOVÁ, Miluše, Jiří MUNZAR and Jaroslav KOVÁŘ. Skandinávie včera a dnes : cyklus přednášek k Úvodu do skandinávských studií. Edited by Barbora Hašková. 1. vyd. Brno: Ústav germanistiky, nordistiky a nederlandistiky FF MU, 2007, 36 s. ISBN 9788021043879. info
  • Skandinávie : Dánsko, Norsko, Švédsko = Skandinavien = Skandinavia. Ostfildern: Falk Verlag, 2004, 1 l. ISBN 8086169197. info
  • BRØNDSTED, Johannes. Vikingové : sága tří staletí. Translated by Jana Hendrychová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Orbis, 1967, 248 s. URL info
Teaching methods
seminar, homework, student presentations
Assessment methods
final written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2016, recent)
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