The main objective of this one-semestre course is to provide exchange students studying in Prague with an oportunity to get more intimate with the historical and cultural heritage of the city. The course would take a form of a series of guided walks, including visits to various exhibitions, museums and other places of interest, such as Letná plain, Vítkov Memorial, and examples of socialist urbanism at the outskirts of the historical centre.

Requirements : dutiful attendance

Plan of the semester:

8/3 Alfons Mucha: The Slav Epic; Veletržní Palace (Jíra Janáč)

15/3 Field trip: Vestiges of Industry (Jíra Janáč)

22/3 Prague Etnography Museum (Markéta Křížová)

29/3 Field trip: Prague Squares OR Prague City Museum, exhibition Vinohrady and Žižkov: New Cities Behind Eastern Walls of Prague (Jíra Janáč)

5/4 Vítkov Memorial (Martina Power)

12/4 Field trip: Residential Segregation in Post-Socialist Prague (to be determined)

19/4 Prague as a UNESCO Heritage Site (Linda Kovářová)

26/4 Green Spaces (to be determined)

2/5 Ďáblice - Socialist Urbanism (Ondřej Vojtěchovský) / subject to change /

10/5 Letná Plain (Cathleen Giustino) / subject to change /

17/5 Prague subcultures (Ondřej Daniel)