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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Opening discussion, "national" features and stereotypes 2. German settlement in the Czech countries in the Middle Age and Early Modern era; Czech state relation to the Holy Roman Empire 3. Land and language conception of the nation, so called "Spring of Nations" 4. Czech National Revival; goals of the German national movement and the attitude of the Austria-Hungary 5. Czech-German rivalry during the 2nd half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century 6. Czechoslovakia formation, the idea of czechoslovakism, attitude of Germans towards the new state, so called Gentlemen's coalition 7. Escalation during the economic crisis, formation and success of the Sudeten German Party, way to the Munich Agreement 8. Life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Sudeten district; collaboration, resistance and the "silent majority" 9. Expulsion of German inhabitants, so called Beneš decrees, most famous excesses, exceptions from the expulsion 10. Sudeten Germans integration within both German states; their organization and program 11. New settlement of the frontier area, reemigration, attitude towards the (remaining) German minority 12. Czech-German declaration after the fall of communism and the unification of Germany, Czech Republic joining the EU, Sudeten German "card" in the presidential elections of 2013, role of citizens' initiatives, Czech(Sudeten)German relations on the local level 13. Credit test, the best essays presentation, final discussion
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Multimedia supported teaching, Textual studies, Seminar
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 10 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to explain the causes of conflicting Czech-German cohabitation |
| to include individual persons, events and phenomena in the temporal and local historical context |
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| to analyse and to critically interpret time-based ideas and documents |
| to create and to discuss an own stance towards Czech-German coexistence in the Czech lands (including the issue of post-war expulsion) |
| to distinguish and to analyse interpretations of the past events |
| to identify and to translate German equivalents of significant Czech cities, towns, mountain ranges and waters |
| Competences |
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| - rozvíjet schopnost uvažovat v etických souvislostech |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Field trip |
| Individual study |
| Skills |
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| Textual studies |
| Discussion |
| Field trip |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Test |
| Continuous assessment |
| Skills |
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| Seminar work |
| Continuous assessment |
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Recommended literature
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Adrian von ARBURG; Tomáš STANĚK. Vysídlení Němců a proměny českého pohraničí 1945?1951. Dokumenty z českých archivů. Díl I, Češi a Němci do roku 1945. Díl II/1, Duben ? srpen/září 1945: "Divoký odsun" a počátky osídlování. Díl II/3, Akty hromadného násilí v roce 1945 a jejich vyšetřování.. Středokluky, 2010. ISBN 978-80-86057-67-5.
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Andreas KOSSERT. Chladná vlast. Historie odsunutých Němců po roce 1945. Brno, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7294-414-9.
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Andreas WIEDEMANN. "Komm mit uns das Grenzland aufbauen!". Ansiedlung und neue Strukturen in den ehemaligen Sudetengebieten 1945-1952. Essen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-89861-734-5.
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Čapka, František; Slezák, Lubomír,; Vaculík, Jaroslav. Nové osídlení pohraničí českých zemí po druhé světové válce. Vyd. 1. Brno : CERM, 2005. ISBN 80-7204-419-2.
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Jan KŘEN. Konfliktní společenství. Češi a Němci 1780-1918. Praha, 2013. ISBN 978-80-246-2177-7.
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Piotr Maciej MAJEWSKI. Sudetští Němci 1848-1948. Dějiny jednoho nacionalismu. Brno, 2014. ISBN 978-80-905323-2-8.
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Staněk, Tomáš. Odsun Němců z Československa 1945-1947. 1. vyd. Praha : Academia, 1991. ISBN 80-200-0328-2.
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Volker ZIMMERMANN. Sudetští Němci v nacistickém státě. Politika a nálada obyvatelstva v říšské župě Sudety (1938-1945). Praha, 2001. ISBN 80-7203-390-5.
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Walter KOSCHMAL; Marek NEKULA, Joachim ROGALL (edd.). Češi a Němci. Dějiny - kultura ? politika. Praha/Litomyšl, 2002. ISBN 80-7185-482-4.
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