| Course title | Collective Memory Studies |
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| Course code | KSA/CMS |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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Course outline 1. What is "Collective Memory"? 2. Collective Memory: Principles of Remembering and Forgetting 3. Transmitting Social Memories 4. National Memory and Collective Identity 5. Collective Amnesia (construction of silence, denial and forgetting) 6. Diasporic Memories and Heritage Tourism 7. Diasporic Memories and Hybrid Identities 8. Family Memories 9. Traumatic Memory and Postmemory 10. Artistic Representation of Postmemory 11. Historic Monumets and museums as a Site of Memory 12. Public Memorials of Traumatic Events 13. Concept of Nostalgia in memory studies
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The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the issues of collective memory, providing them with a theoretical and methodological framework to analyse collective memory and tools for critically understanding how social memory is constructed, transmitted or silenced (construction of silence, denial and forgetting) During the course students will study both: the theoretical approach to understand what collective memory is and what it means to remember for nations, genders, cultures and ethnic groups. Also, students will explore the meaning and the role of politics of memory and the role of political agents in the process. The second part of the course will present concrete historical examples that will be used to highlight some of the theories and concepts. The main attention will be paid to the countries of the CEE region region.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Regular active participation in the seminar during semester, reading of the literature |
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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): Sociology (2024) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Sociology (2019) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Sociology (2019) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Sociology (2019) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Sociology (2019) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Sociology (2024) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter |