Annotation
This one-semester course is offered mainly to foreign students in the framework of TEMA program, ERASMUS students and to MA students of the Seminar of General and Comparative history. The course will focus on places and institutions in Prague, which have rich history and high symbolical meaning.
In each class we will visit one of the memorials or institutions and discuss their importance for construction of Czech national identity and history. Through visits of Prague monuments, museums, galleries, etc. and discussion not only of their past, but also how they influence the present situation and reflection of Czech history, it will be explained the role, which these symbolical places and institutions have played and still play not only in Czech but also in European culture.