Cultural Topography of Prague 2

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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

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.

This course takes place approx. five times per semester.

Recommended or required reading:

If needed students get on-line sources guidance.

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 June 1.

Course web page:

Note:

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 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

	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
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri	místnost () HEJTMANOVÁ J. 09:30–13:30 (paralelka 1)

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	09:30–13:30	Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ			paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans: