FF:CJQ035 A Comprehensive Exam in Czech - Course Information

CJQ035 A Comprehensive Examination in Czech

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

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

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jana Pleskalová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Zuzana Muchová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites

CJQ006 Qualifying Exam
In order to be admitted to the B. A. exam (the comprehensive exam in Czech language and literature), a student must obtain the prescribed number of credits in his subject, must successfully complete the courses compulsory for all students of the Faculty of Arts. He must also submit the B.A. Diploma Thesis or submit the B.A. Final Thesis.

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

• Czech Language for Foreigners (programme FF, B-FI)

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. Basic knowledge relating to the development of Czech is also required. The part of the final exam which involves literary science comprises topics dealt with in first six semesters: 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. The knowledge of relevant methodology and the most important works in the field, as well as the ability to analyse literary text are presupposed.

Syllabus

• The state exam has two parts: 1. The defence of the Diploma B.A. Thesis (in case that students have chosen this as diploma form of study) 2. The second part is composed by these thematic areas - Czech language: 1. Czech phonetics and phonology; phonetics, its contents and aims; phonological aspect of investigating communication processes; vocals and consonants and their allophones; sound segmentation of utterances; orthoepy, orthophony 2. morphology and word formation; parts of speech – their character and classification; verbal and nominal grammatical categories; main tendencies in Modern Czech declension and conjugation; semantic and formal changes during the process of word-formation; categories and types in word formation; present-day tendencies in word formation, morphemics 3. syntax: valence; sentence elements, expressional and functional characterization of sentence proposition hierarchization; syntactic relationships, ways and means of their realizations; classification of complex and compound sentences; functional sentence perspective; negation; nominal group 4. lexicology: delimitation of lexical units; naming processes in Czech; semasiology and onomasiology; lexical meaning; semantic relationships among lexical units (synonymy, oppositeness, hyperonymy hyponymy, polysemy); vocabulary, its layers, changes and development; present day Czech lexicography, typology of dictionaries 5. stylistics: classification of styles – various ways and criteria, functional styles, stylistic factors, elementary stylistic techniques, stylistic characterization of means of expression. 6. Slavonic languages; Old Church Slavonic; 7. general theoretical topics: linguistics and its stratification, theory of signs; model of communication; basic language functions; classification of languages; language community; usage, norm, codification; structural and non-structural varieties of Czech; a survey of Czech dialects 8. significant personalities in the development of Czech linguistics 9. relevant scholarly sources (including significant periodicals). The content of the literary science part is the knowledge of Czech literature from its beginnings to the present, of Literary theory, of Introduction into Literature and the ability to analyze a literary text. All in the extent of topics covered in 1. – 6. term. The accent is on knowledge supported by self-reading.

Literature

• Literárněvědné okruhy: viz literatura k příslušným dílčím disciplinám.
• Jazykovědné okruhy: viz literatura k příslušným dílčím disciplinám.

Teaching methods

The defence and the exam have an oral form.

Assessment methods

The exam is 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 only once.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: červen a září.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2017, recent)
  
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