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Cultural Topography of Prague 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
311CTP2 Z 1 25/S English summer
Subject guarantor:
Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ
Name of lecturer(s):
Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Within one semester (two in total if students attend Fall + Spring term courses) students may try to read the city and its structure, to get the historical and social background of it as well as discover important artists/galleries.

Mode of study:

Outside of school seminars.

Be aware of a certain amount of walking!

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

Students with the teacher´s guidance reveal the essence of the famous city and the culture that had formed it and still forms. They leave the beaten daily paths to explore the urban jungle textbook of modern times in Central Europe. Prague Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Prague, which knocked down walls to give rise to new settlements and finally Prague so remote that its inhabitants hold a trip to see Charles Bridge.

From the structure of the city we move to its particularities - houses, parks, events, suburbs as well as galleries and exhibitions.

Recommended or required reading:

If needed students get on-line sources guidance.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

The course is carried out as on timely manner announced half day walk or visit

More details on each class to be found on Google Calendar of each study program.

Meeting point and time as well as rough excursion plan described ibidem.

From three to five exursions per semester.

Assessment methods and criteria:

The assignment is as follows:

2-3 pages reflection on selected tour. Please use on-line sources but do not misuse or exploit them, pay attention to quoting them properly and please emphasize your point of view and try to introduce it in a compact essay-like way.

The final essay to be sent to jitka.hejtmanova@famu.cz till May 25, 2015

Course web page:
Note:

Dates and Times:

Friday, February 13 (9:00) in Room 2 - introductory class

Friday, February 27 (9:30) at Museum of the City of Prague (50.0899258N, 14.4383139E)

Friday, March 13 (9:30) at Hradčanská metro station (on the street level) - „Water cleaning plant and beautiful suburb“

Friday, March 27 (9:50) at Na Knížecí bus station (50.0686789N, 14.4046750E) - „Villages in Prague“

Friday, Apri 4 (9:30) at Křižíkova metro station (street level) - „Prague industrial“

Friday, April 24 (9:30) at Muzeum, C vestibul - „Edge of Prague“

Friday, May 5 (9:30) either tour according to the students wish or a) exploring provisional shelters in various Prague districts (where there are still people living) or b) allotment gardens and summer cottages near Prague.

Please not the class can be cancelled/moved due to bad weather.

All tours are walking tours, please get ready.

Students are asked to follow closly their Google Calendar for any changes. Registered students will receive an instructions in email on timely manner.

Tour examples:

Edge of the Prague

Students visit large district of blocks of flats at the south edge of the city with the sculptor and theoretician Pavel Kalous (project Aleins and herons, http://www.vetrelciavolavky.cz/en/about-project) and explore forgotten art in the public space done by the best Czechoslovakian artist during the so called „normalization“. Never acclaimed and today even forgotten sometimes funny but mostly valuable pieces of art in the middle of concrete jungle.

Prague industrial

Karlín and Libeň once were a beating heart of industrial Prague. The traces are still there but the new development wipes everything off. Let´s see it before it vanishes. With its chimneys, allotment gardens, makeshift houses (still standing and inhabited).

Villages in Prague

Steep serpentines in the local train, bushes and rocks, brownfields. This is how the „village“ tour begins. Students visit intact villages of a small scape with the skyscrapers on horizon, small nature reserves of few square metres, little graveyard and deep and calm forest valley. The end of the journey is as surprising as the beginning ? staged like walls of 80´s housing projects interrupts the fairytale.

Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
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HEJTMANOVÁ J.
09:30–13:30
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Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Fri 09:30–13:30 HEJTMANOVÁ J.
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