Syllabus
Students are required to follow the instructions and requirements specified in the course sylabus available at https://upces.cerge-ei.cz/academic-life/upces-courses-a-z Scroll for the UPCES Course List and click on the particular course for course description and syllabus.
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.
The objective of this course is to help students understand Czech culture and society from 1918 to the present. Students will learn about history and culture of this era from the perspective of life and work od Václav Havel (1936-2011), Czechoslavak and Czech president (1989-2003). Using the extensive experience of J. Šulc, the course lecturer, as an editor of Václav Havel´s Collected Writings and also his personal contacts with him and with many important Czech writers and artists of modern era, the course is designed as a series of thirteen lectures on twentieth-century Czech culture and society, based on Václav Havel’s life and cultural and political activities, friends, family, and associates, and wide range of interests.