Syllabus
Students are required to follow the instructions and requirements specified in the course sylabus available at: https://upces.cerge-ei.cz/images/stories/syllabi/Central_Europe_and_its_Transitions_-_The_Czech_Lands.pdf
Reading materials: the coordinators of the UPCES programme will inform the enrolled students where to get them.
Annotation
This is one of the courses of the UPCES programme (the Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#2.
This course aims to introduce students to the historical, as well as the contemporary, issues of Czech Society and Culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Based on several ethnographic case studies, among other literary, academic and visual sources, we will make connections between memory and history, narrative and experiences, change and continuity, and past and present.By the end of the course students will be able to describe the characteristics of life under the Socialist system in former Czechoslovakia, and explain how this system has been transformed into its present-day form in relation to the process of Europeanization and Globalization and what kind of anthropological research these changes have stimulated(traditions, situation of minorities,consuming habits, food, family structure, the media, gender roles…).