| Course title | German Philology - Literary Seminar |
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| Course code | KGN/LS10 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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The literature seminars - like the literature lectures - focus either on individual time periods/epochs in German literature, or they may be defined as an overview of the works by a single writer, several related writers, or as a developmental exploration of a specific genre, one or several motifs and themes, or types of figures of speech etc. However, the seminars - unlike lectures - emphasize mainly practical work with primary and reference texts and students' creative work. The current list of offered seminars including the list of reference literature and study materials is published at the beginning of each term in the syllabi of the German Department. Some of the seminars have the form of "workshops", i.e. without a specified educational horizon, canon of texts and course structure, which is defined "in the process" during students' discussions with the course tutor. Examples of the topics of individual seminars: - Theory of the novel in practice: polyphony, dialogism, intertextuality - Kunstmaerchen - Legend as a genre; modern legends - Grotesque: ugliness as an aesthetic category - Letters, essays: "other literary means" - Romanticism and Jews - Heinrich von Kleist - Prague German literature texts - Generation problems in literature after 1945 - Modern German lyrics: song lyrics - Greek mythology as a source of motifs and themes in German literature - Old and New Testament as a source of motifs and themes in German literature Examples of courses that have been presented as "workshops": - contemporary German and Austrian literature, "Neuerscheinungen": discussions on contemporary literature and its reviews - experiment of Central Europe: searching, archiving and commenting texts (of Czech as well as German origin) concerning the topic of Mitteleuropa - manuscripts in archives of Moravian libraries: reading and interpretation - texts of Moravian German literature for Czech Radio Olomouc broadcasting, exhibition "Rambles around German literary Olomouc" etc.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
| Learning outcomes |
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Interpretation of texts of a specific period, genre, writer, or on a particular subject or topic.
Students will gain insight into literature and literary criticism in selected periods as well as knowledge on topics dealt with in German language literature. A special emphasis is laid on the knowledge of the historical and cultural-historical context. The resulting competence also consists in an independent interpretation of a literary text and its examination in the literary historical as well as general historical, aesthetical, sociological context and in a comparative relation to the literature of the student's mother tongue/or the second subject. |
| Prerequisites |
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The seminar is intended for all students of the Palacký University. Students of other than German programmes who sign up for this "course" can choose any actual course from the modular selection of the Department for German studies that belongs to the "Literature" modulus, whether it is a lecture to particular periods of German literature from the Middle Ages to modern literature, or seminars to particular authors, works, problems or exercises in translation of fiction. Actual selection of all literary courses including the timetable details is to be found before the beginning of each term on the departmental web pages www.germanistika.cz.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Didactic Test, Seminar Work
Requirements for completion of the seminars will be specified by the individual tutors at the beginning of the course. The number of the credits awarded depends on the amount of work done during the seminar. It generally applies: 1 credit - reasonable participation, 2 credits - participation including contributions to discussion, 3 credits - successful oral presentation, 4 credits - successful oral presentation + written seminar paper. Credit requirements are subject to modification by the tutors. Active participation and completing the tasks are necessary to obtain the credits. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019_24) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2022) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |