Course: Introduction to Slavic Studies 2

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Course title Introduction to Slavic Studies 2
Course code KSU/7ZS2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech, Ukrainian
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cholodová Uljana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The frame plan for the lectures: 1. Palatalization of velar sounds. 2. Palatalizatin of consonants before jot sounds. 3. Old Slavonic methathesis of vowels. Process of depalatalization. 4. The Old Slavonic graphemes and their phonetic features. The origin of Old Slavonic sounds. 5. New sound in Old Slavonic. 6. Intonation and accent in Old Slavonic. 7. The common features of the three branches of Slavic languages. 8. Old Slavonic and Great Moravia. 9. The origin of Old Slavonic alphabet. 10. Written monuments in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet. 11. Variants of Old Slavonic. Old Church Slavonic. 12. The outline of Slavonic languages and alphabets. 13. Credit session.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
Students will further develop their knowledge of Slavic studies. In these lectures we shall talk about the characteristics of Old Slavonic phonology, morphology and lexicology. Students will be presented with the oldest Slavonic alphabets: the Glagolitc alphabet and Cyrilic script. The lectures are focused on explaining the phonological, grammatical and lexical specific features of the oldest written Slavonic language, the Old Slavonic, in comparison with the present-day national Slavonic languages, esp. with Czech.
Students will be presented with the oldest written Slavonic language ? the Old Slavonic. They will learn how to read simple Old Slavonic texts, translate and analyse them.
Prerequisites
Completing the course Introduction to Slavic Studies 1.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Written exam

Preparedness for each lesson, preparing a presentation on a given topic, understanding the flexion of Old Slavonic nominative parts of speech, submitting an essay (translation and analysis of Old Slavonic text), passing the colloquium.
Recommended literature
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  • A. Erhart. (1982). Indoevropské jazyky. . Praha .
  • A. Lamprecht. (1987). Praslovanština. . Brno.
  • Beliv, L., Beliv, O. (2001). Staroslov´jans´ko-ukrajins´kyj slovnyk. . L´viv.
  • Bilec´ka-Svystovyč, L., Rybak, N. (2000). Cerkovno-slov´jans´ka mova. Pidručnyk zi slovnykom. . Kyjiv.
  • H. Bauerová. (1992). Texty ke studiu staroslověnštiny se slovníčkem. . Olomouc.
  • K. Horálek. (1962). Úvod do studia slovanských jazyků. . Praha .
  • M. Štec. (1994). Úvod do staroslovienčiny a cirkevnej slovančiny. . Prešov.
  • R. Večerka. (1984). Staroslověnština. . Praha.
  • R. Večerka. (1977). Základy slovanské filologie a staroslověnštiny. . Praha .
  • Suprun, A,E. (1989). Vvedenije v slavjanskuju filolohiju. . Minsk .


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