Dance Scholarship Seminar B 1

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Lucie DERCSÉNYIOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to expand the abilities of students to apply their acquired history and theory knowledge in independent work on a topic range according to the course intentions.

Mode of study:

Discussion, text analyses, research activity, essays.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Presumed completion of bachelor's study in Dance research or similar study or orientation in dance issues, contemporary dance events.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

The course syllabus originates in the course content. This is a critique course. Students, independently, work on assigned partial tasks and write a course paper. In their work they are to demonstrate an ability to search for source material, classify it, criticize and analyse in detail and develop the results in written form. Their manner of work and conclusions are compared in mutual discussion and in a comparison of results. Part of the course content is the tudy of assigned literature and its analysis. In the Critique course attention is focused on the creation of various journalistic texts and their critique and as well the students are introduced to the development of artistic and special dance critque with the theory bases and vantage points of art critique, important figures of dance review and periodicals.

Recommended or required reading:

Petrov, Oleg Aleksejevič: Russkaja baletnaja kritika konca XVIII. - pervoj poloviny XIX. veka, Moskva 1982.

Wellek, René: A history of modern criticism, I-IV, london 1970.

Šalda, F: X.: Boje o zítřek, Praha 2000.

Kopecký, Jan: O divadelní kritice, Praha 1945.

Hájek, Jiří: Teorie umělecké kritiky, Praha 1986.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

class participation

completion of the course assignments or essay

participation in research activities

During the semester independent reading and the study of other relevant materials and resources, participation in events in class, joining into research activity are required. These activities create the content for the award of credit.

Course web page:

Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Obor Taneční věda (Mg) (compulsory optional subject)