SAKS003: Cultural Perspectives on the Colonization of North America

This course offers an overview of the critical historical events that define the history of European colonization of North America beginning at the end of the 15th century. Selected texts and original documents are used.

An important aim of the course is to identify and outline the basic problem areas that are important for the study of history, literature and art. Students should be able to define the basic concepts accompanying a certain period context and to link issues of the historical development with issues related to art and literature.

Another objective is to outline the basic issues of the relationships between America’s indigenous peoples and the majority populations of Canada, Mexico and the United States.


FJ0B762 Le fantastique dans la littérature canadienne française et québécoise

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FJ0B773 České překlady z quebecké literatury

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AJL28042 Film v Kanadě: Instituce, žánry, autoři, kritika

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This course aims at familiarizing participants with the Canadian feature film production from the late Nineteen-Sixties to the present. Using a body of critically acclaimed films, the course is designed to enhance students’ interpretive skills and to provide them with relevant knowledge concerning the production, distribution, consumption and reception of Canadian feature films in Canada.

The successful participants will become aware of the variety and quality of Canadian feature film production and gain relevant insights into the development of the Canadian film industry, criticism and film scholarship. In addition to studying representative works by major Canadian filmmakers, students will be invited to consider a variety of wider contextual issues. In other words the course provides not only opportunity for close textual analysis, but also for assessment of a variety of social, political, and cultural circumstances that the films result from and reflect.

 

 

SAKS001/ROM0B139: Indentity and Alterity in Literature and Culture: Theory, Methodology, Analysis


The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the main theoretical concepts for the analysis of identity formation as well as the formation of alterity. Presenting the main critical terms, methods of analysis will be developed, which will be in turn applied on a variety of case studies. The course aims at enabing students to gain thorough knowledge of the relevant aspects of the formation of human identity and alterity and their functioning across the North American space (and not only there).

The successful particiants of this course will:
- become familiar with the main theoretical concepts for the analysis of identity formation as well as the formation of alterity;
- will aquire basic methods of analysing these processes;
- will become familiar with a variety of case studies illustrative of the topic;
- will understand the role problems of identity and alterity formation played in the North American space, past and present.

Assessment:
1) An oral exam of two parts; examined by two course teachers - 50 %,
2) In-class tests and active participation - 50%

AJL28042 Film v Kanadě: Instituce, žánry, autoři, kritika kopie 1

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Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

 

This course aims at familiarizing participants with the Canadian feature film production from the late Nineteen-Sixties to the present. Using a body of critically acclaimed films, the course is designed to enhance students’ interpretive skills and to provide them with relevant knowledge concerning the production, distribution, consumption and reception of Canadian feature films in Canada.

The successful participants will become aware of the variety and quality of Canadian feature film production and gain relevant insights into the development of the Canadian film industry, criticism and film scholarship. In addition to studying representative works by major Canadian filmmakers, students will be invited to consider a variety of wider contextual issues. In other words the course provides not only opportunity for close textual analysis, but also for assessment of a variety of social, political, and cultural circumstances that the films result from and reflect.