Graduation Theses Project 1

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to help students select a topic, assemble a schedule for completion, advise on how to procede in the bibliography and practical research, how to manage the acquired materials and how to arrange and lay it out. Then in individual and group consultations, the instructors of the given master's specialization assist in achieving the established research aims.

Mode of study:

Instruction is through a group class in which individual topics of dissertation research and practice tasks are discussed and student mutually inspire each other with shared questions and issues. Aside from this the classes are based on individual consultations focused on resolving particular issues of individual dissertations.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

It is recommended that the student, according to their topic, actively search for a nd participate in lectures at other higher education institutes, professional seminars, ex. professional organizations or conferences related to the given issues.

Course contents:

This course covers individual research and practice tasks for the thesis paper and students mutually inspire one another with the sharing of questions and issues. Aside from this the classes are based on individual consultations focused on resolving particular problems of individual papers.

Recommended or required reading:

Eco, U.: Jak napsat diplomovou práci

Theatre producing:

ADORNO, Theodor W.: Schéma masové kultury, OIKOYMENH, Praha, 2009

ADORNO, Theodor W., HORKHEIMER Max: Dialektika osvícenství, OIKOYMENH, Praha, 2009

ARENDTOVÁ Hannah: Krize kultury, Mladá fronta, Praha, 1994

BENJAMIN, Walter: Umělecké dílo ve věku své technické reprodukovatelnosti, in Výbor z díla I, Literárněvědné studie, OIKOYMENH, Praha, 2009

HABERMAS, Jürgen: Strukturální přeměna veřejnosti, Filosofia, Praha, 2000

NÜNNING, Ansgar (ed.): Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury, Host, Brno, 2008

Arts management and arts marketing:

BYRNES, William J., Management and the Arts, 3. vyd., Focal Press, 2003,ISBN: 0-240-80537-2

KOTLER, Philip, SCHEFF, Joanne, Standing room only, Harvard Bussiness school press 1997, ISBN: 0-87584-737-4

KAISER, Michael M., Strategické plánování v umění: Praktický průvodce, Institut umění - Divadelní ústav, 2009, ISBN 978-80-7008-236-2

+ relevant resorces for assigned topics according to the course instructors recommendations.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Discussion class, individual consultation

Assessment methods and criteria:

To successfully complete the course the following is necessary:

On-going consultations on work with a specific instructor and participation in the group classes.

After the first semester is an obligatory oral presentation before a departmental instructor committee and Master's study students at the Dept of Production with the following criteria:

- In the oral presentation the student must submit written evidence proving the level of development and the understanding of the selected topic (the scope is not established, the date is given one week prior to the established date of the oral presentations);

- the length of the presentation is 10 to 15 minutes;

- the content: a report on the course of the work, a presentation of the collected sources, partial results, further procedure plans;

- use of presentation techniques is desired but not required;

- level of the demonstrated presentation skills will not, in the January date (as opposed to the summer) a part of the grading.

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Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Arts Management in English (M.A.) (main subject)