Literary history pro-seminar is aimed at the assumption of basic competences necessary to literary historical interpretation of the work. It tries to make acquaintance of the basic reference books of the branch, of different genres of professional literature, it teaches to work with the sources.
At the same time it is oriented to the individual points of view of literary history interpretation, it is interested in its methodological hinterland, indicates the spectrum of basic researcher´s problems, goes trough its "exemplary" solutions drown from the existing professional literature and teaches the students to apply the acquired findings on the definite literary historical material, relative especially to the history of the Czech literature of 19th century.