CET Programme

Central European Studies and Jewish Studies courses provided in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities partner CET Academic Programs

Courses of the academic year 2022/2023

Please note, it is subject to change. For detailed information on designing your LA, you may consult How to choose courses section.

Spring Semester

YBAC051 Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest: A Political and Cultural History, 1848-1939 (Spring)

YBAC007 Central European Film (Fall + spring)

YBAC29 Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations: Case Study – Central and Eastern Europe (Fall + spring)

YBAC012 Cross-Cultural Psychology (Fall + spring)

YBAC008 Czech Art and Architecture: from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century (Fall + spring)

YBAC25 Entrepreneurship in Europe, Case Study: the Czech Republic (Fall + spring)

YBAC048 Franz Kafka and Central European Literature (Fall + spring)

YBAC47 From Propaganda to Post-Truth: A History of Fake News (Fall + spring)

YBAC24 International Marketing (Fall + spring)

YBAC045 Jewish Life in Contemporary Europe (Spring)

YBAC04 Nationalism, Minorities and Migrations in Europe (Fall + spring)

YBAC032 Political and Cultural History of East Central Europe in the 20th Century (Fall + spring)

YBAC009 Resistance and Dissent: Punk and Alternative Culture from Nazism to Communism in the Czech Lands (Fall + spring)

YBAC025 Social Psychology (Fall + spring)

YBAC050 Socialist Consumer Culture (Spring)

YBAC052 World Economy, Finance and Technology (Spring)

Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest: A Political and Cultural History, 1848-1939 Code: YBAC051 Lecturer: Vassogne,G. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.This course discusses the emergence of major modernist movements and ideas in the three Central European cities: Prague, Vienna, and Budapest.

Central European Film Code: YBAC007 Lecturer: Dominková,P. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.This course examines the most important trends and movements in the history of Czech and Central European cinematography. It also puts films within their historical (political and cultural) context.Chronology of the Czech film history is combined with thematic and stylistic analysis. During class sessions, students engage in discussions on specific themes and watch films or clips from films that represent these themes.

Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations: Case Study – Central and Eastern Europe Code: YBAC29 Lecturer: Evanová,J. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.The course starts with a brief overview of the main theories of international relations to summarize and build on students’ previous knowledge and understanding of potential and limitations of the theories in the study of international politics. The first couple of lessons cover the most influential IR theories – realism, liberalism, behaviorism, English school, and constructivism. All of them focus on explaining two phenomena in international relations: conflict and cooperation. The main focus of the course is on concrete examples of cooperation and conflict in international politics mostly in Central and Eastern Europe to acquire better understanding of the region in the light of IR theories. The topics include the Cold War with a number of selected events during its course (such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and invasion to Czechoslovakia in 1968), European integration and enlargement, dissolution of former Yugoslavia, contemporary Russia, EU election observation missions, Visegrád Group and Czech diplomacy in the Balkans, among others.

Cross-Cultural Psychology Code: YBAC012 Lecturer: Weissenberger,S. + Lukešová,L. + Skladanová,N. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.Cross-cultural psychology examines how cultural differences in developmental, social and educational areas affect individual behavior and critically compares psychological research from specific countries. Cross-cultural psychology explores a wide range of topics, so students who have an interest in psychology in general, or in specifics psychology topics, may choose this course. Theoretical sections to be combined with the practical sections designed to develop critical thinking and intercultural competence through discussions, role play and self-experience techniques.

Czech Art and Architecture: from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century Code: YBAC008 Lecturer: Krummholz,M. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.The course examines key developments in Czech visual art and architecture from the early Medieval to the contemporary period within the European context. Slide-based lectures are supplemented with visits to representative monuments, museums, and art collections in Prague.

Entrepreneurship in Europe, Case Study: the Czech Republic Code: YBAC25 Lecturer: Klvaňa,T. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.This course will apprehend the political, social, economic and cultural history of communist Central and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1989 as described in popular jokes.

Franz Kafka and Central European Literature Code: YBAC048 Lecturer: Pospíšil,J. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.The course focuses on Franz Kafka’s short stories and two of his unfinished novels within the context of Prague German literature. Kafka is examined within the framework of the modernist culture of the fin de siecle and early 20th century Vienna, and in relation to contemporary Czech authors and the expressionist and other Avant-garde movements. Using the methodologies of both literary and intellectual historians, the course provides background in the dominant and thought giving voices on the literature on Kafka - from his contemporaries up to the present day - approaching Kafka’s work as a path towards the understanding of our time, and as a possible "passage into modernity".

From Propaganda to Post-Truth: A History of Fake News Code: YBAC47 Lecturer: Krátká Špalková,V. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.What is news? What is fake news? And what can these concepts tell us about the societies that employ them? In this course, students will explore the varied social actors and media forms that have historically been linked with the dissemination of “the truth.” The class will consider when, and to what ends, different media have been utilized to confer a veneer of truth upon information its authors knew to be false.

International Marketing Code: YBAC24 Lecturer: Shallow,C. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.

Jewish Life in Contemporary Europe Code: YBAC045 Lecturer: Fingerland,J. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8

Nationalism, Minorities and Migrations in Europe Code: YBAC04 Lecturer: Murad,S. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.Since the French revolution, nationalism has become one of the leading forces in European politics and culture. It has progressively transformed all European states and societies into nation states and national societies. The core of the nationalist project lies at the intersection of two claims - the claim to self-government of a people and the claim to its distinct national identity. This course explores these two claims and delves deeper into historical conditions and the transformation of current European multiculturalism.

Political and Cultural History of East Central Europe in the 20th Century Code: YBAC032 Lecturer: Bouška,T. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course is organized by the partner institution CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); comprehensive information is available at http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.

Resistance and Dissent: Punk and Alternative Culture from Nazism to Communism in the Czech Lands Code: YBAC009 Lecturer: Jonssonová,P. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.This course provides critical insights into the Czech expressions of resistance: underground, dissident and postmodern/contemporary bohemian.

Social Psychology Code: YBAC025 Lecturer: Filippová,E. + Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Fall + spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.

Socialist Consumer Culture Code: YBAC050 Lecturer: Gagyiova,A. + Lukešová,L. + Skladanová,N. Semester: Spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This is one of the courses of the CET Academic Programs (Central European Studies and Jewish Studies); the comprehensive information is available at: http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-350.html#8.The course explores the history of Jews in the multi-ethnic setting of the Bohemian (or Czech) Lands.

World Economy, Finance and Technology Code: YBAC052 Lecturer: Skladanová,N. + Lukešová,L. Semester: Spring Language: English ECTS credits: 6 This course introduces the basic principles of the global economic system. The primary focus is on thestates as principal actors of the contemporary world economy and macroeconomic policies of the states.Although the course takes predominantly the global perspective, regional (EU) and local (Czech) specificsare introduced in the selected parts of the course, primarily through field visits. The policies discussed inthe first part of the course are put into historical context to explain the origins and empirical experience withthe policies concerned. Most attention is given to policies affecting finance and technologies in theeconomy.The second part of the course introduces the growing interdependence of states, i.e., globalization. For thispurpose, a gentle introduction to international economics is provided to allow for discussion of theglobalization effects. The other world economy actors, such as multinational corporations and regionaleconomic integrations, are discussed with particular focus on the European perspective. Specific attentionis given to the Czech economy after the transition.The last part of the course is dedicated to current issues of the major centers of the present worldeconomy, i.e., the USA, the EU, and developed Asia, to discuss the risks related to policies run in theregions concerned.

Last update: 14 Mar 2023