master's full-time single-subject, language of instruction: Czech
Included in the programme: FF N-LMK_ Literature and Intercultural Communication
Parts of the final state examination and its content
The state examination has two parts: 1. Thesis defence.
2. The oral examination is to demonstrate the student's ability to discuss the assigned professional issue, to respond in discussion and to argue factually, to demonstrate knowledge of literature and other sources and the ability to use them in a professional argument, to have knowledge of facts, knowledge of basic and advanced methodologies in the field, theoretical literature. The student must be able to formulate theses and claims and support them with arguments, compose a clear and structured interpretation of the assigned topic, and work critically with the theoretical literature. The state final examination aims to verify a good knowledge of the material presented and practised in semesters 1 - 4. Knowledge of the methodology, the ability to interpret the phenomenon in historical and transnational contexts and knowledge of the basic literature of the field are assumed.
The thematic areas of the CSR are related to the primary and profile courses of the study programme.
Suggestion of theses topics and the topics of defended theses
Katarína Belejová: Meaning Making and Social Critique in Works Connecting Visual and Linguistic Components in Public Space, https://is.muni.cz/th/h80co/
Barbora Prudilová: English translations of Janáček's libretto Příhody lišky Bystoušky, https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/vtz3b/
Veronika Šašalová: Independent digital games through the lens of feminist theories, https://is.muni.cz/th/l7lsj/
Veronika Kubecová: Specifics of Young Adult Literature, https://is.muni.cz/th/xnnv4/?studium=15706;lang=en;id=307686
Tereza Winkler: Issues in Anthropocene Literature through the Perspective of Timothy Morton's Ecological Thought, https://is.muni.cz/th/c319j/?lang=cs;cop=3437685
Aleš Chromečka: The Poetic Work of Miroslav Huptych, https://is.muni.cz/th/e5e0k/?info
Eliška Hondlová: Self-narrative in selected prose works by Kazuo Ishiguro, https://is.muni.cz/th/i8pub/?lang=en2007;id=124281
Tereza Nahodilova: Specifics of works of climate fiction and their possible influence on the reader, https://is.muni.cz/th/t9dqd/?info
Ondřej Matyáš: Hauntology, https://is.muni.cz/th/wxupp/
Recommended progress through the study plan
Master's thesis
Compulsory courses
40 credits
| Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
| FF:LMKA_a01 | Modern Literature in European Culture and Media context I | zk | 5 | 1 | P |
| FF:LMKA_a02 | Modern Literature in European Culture and Media Context II | zk | 5 | 2 | P |
| FF:LMKA_a04 | Theory of Culture | zk | 5 | 1 | Z |
| FF:LMKA_a05 | Theory of Translation | zk | 5 | 1 | Z |
| FF:LMKA_a13 | An Introduction to the Study of Literature, Media and Culture | k | 5 | 1 | Z |
| FF:LMKA_a14 | Theories, analyses, interpretations I | k | 5 | 2 | Z |
| FF:LMKA_a15 | Theories, analyses, interpretations II | k | 5 | 3 | Z |
| FF:LMKA_a16 | Adaptation and intermedia Studies | zk | 5 | 2 | Z |
| 40 credits |
Selective courses
| Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
| FF:DU1903 | Debates and Topics in the Study of Modern and Contemporary Visual Cultures | z | 8 | - | - |
| FF:LMKB_a101 | Applied Linguistics | k | 4 | 2 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a102 | Academic Writing | k | 4 | 2 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a103 | Creative Writing | k | 4 | 2 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a204 | Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture | k | 4 | - | - |
| FF:LMKB_a213 | Modern and Postmodern Novel | k | 4 | 3 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a214 | Autobiography and Autofiction | k | 4 | 2 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a301 | Liter. translation in German | k | 4 | 3 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a303 | Specific Problems of Literary Translation from English into Czech | k | 4 | 3 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a308 | Stategies of Creative Translation | zk | 4 | - | - |
| FF:LMKB_a309 | Editorial Work | zk | 4 | - | - |
| FF:LMKB_a401 | Adaptation, Remediation, Transmediation: Literature on Screen | k | 4 | 1 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a406 | Ekphrasis as Intermedia Genre | k | 4 | 3 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a415 | Literature and Cult/Quality TV Series | k | 4 | 3 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a418 | To Look and to See: Tradition of Visual Arts | k | 4 | 1 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a435 | Literature and Music | z | 4 | - | - |
| FF:LMKB_a443 | Speculative fiction between media and cultures | k | 4 | 1 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a501 | Editorial praxis workshops | z | 4 | 3 | - |
| FF:LMKB_a503 | Translation Workshops | k | 4 | 3 | - |
| 80 credits |
Elective courses
| Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
| FF:CJLB101 | Gaps and Indeterminacy in Literary Work | k | 5 | - | - |
| FF:CJLB602 | Interpretation of Fantastic literature | z | 4 | - | - |
| FF:UCJL06 | Theory of Literature | k | 4 | - | - |
| 13 credits |