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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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WEEK 1 Introduction into the course: schedule, topics, venues. Topic: The Mystery of Central Europe. Who cares? Reading: Kundera, M. "The Tragedy of Central Europe in: The New York Review of Books (pre1986), Vol. 31, No. 007 (Apr. 26, 1984). ProQuest Central. (pp. 33-38) Declaration of independence of the Czechoslovak nation: by its provisional government. 1918. See: https://archive.org/details/declarationofind00czec/page/n7 T.G. Masaryk - Speech delivered on the 10th Anniversary of Czechoslovak Independence, October 28, 1928 WEEK 2 Topics: Asylum and the Czechs in the Communism Era, and Asylum and the Czechs in the age of freedom, democracy and prosperity. Migration and a New Role of Central Europe in Enlarged European Union. Obligatory Reading: Pehe, J. 'Refugees in Modern Czech History' in: UNHCR, Flight and Exile in Art. Prague, 2002. (pp. 22-24) Murad, S. Migration and the New Role of Central Europe in Enlarged European Union. Available on: http://www.forcedmigration.org/pdf/events/prague2004/murad-paper.pdf/view Murad, Salim: Questioning Migration in the Czech Republic Before the 2009 Economic Crisis, in: Walton-Roberts, Margaret, Hennebry, Jenna (eds): Territoriality and migration in the E.U. neighbourhood. Spilling over the wall: Springer Netherlands, 2014, International perspectives on migration, pp. 209-223, ISBN: 978-94-007-6745-4 See: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789400767447 WEEK 3 Guest speaker: Valery Senichev /Educamp.cz, Centrum pro integraci cizinců, o.p.s., Forum European Diversity Management (FEDM)/ Topic: Personal branding at work and in entrepreneurship for Foreigners: Factors that make personal brand Best practices from the Czech Republic, and abroad. Tools and instruments for effective brand building WEEK 4 Topic: Roma, the issue of exclusion: Roma, the most foreign of foreigners in Czech lands. Obligatory reading: Hate Crime Laws: A Practical Guide. Warsaw: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, 2009. ISBN 978-92-9234-757-4 (p. 53) Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Czech Republic: Information on skinheads and other extremist groups, 1 January 1998, CZE28659.E. Available on: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6ad092c.html [accessed 2 January 2010] WEEK 5 Topics: Sociology of media - Representation of Minorities in Czech, European Media Obligatory Reading: Sturken, M., Cartwright, L. Practices of looking and introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (pp. 10 - 43) Hall, Stuart. 2002. "The Spectacle of the Other." in Hall, Stuart (ed.): Representations. Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage. (pp. 225-279) WEEK 6 Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic -Cosmopolitan České Budějoivce Obligatory reading: Kocourek, J. 'A brief history of Czech-Vietnamese relations and activities of the Vietnamese in the Czech Republic' in: Kroupová, A., Urban, D. (eds.) Tolerance in Multicultural Society of Central Europe, Vol. 21. Prague: EIS-SVLP UK, 2006. (pp. 82-89) Svobodová, A.; Janská, E.: 'Chapter 7. Identity Development Among Youth of Vietnamese Descent in the Czech Republic'. In: M.L. Seeberg and E.M. Goździak (eds.), Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy, IMISCOE Research Series. (pp. 121 - 137) WEEK 7 (Visit of the Vietnamese market place Sapa in Prague) WEEK 9 Field trip to Mauthausen Memorial https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/en And Ars Electronica Center in Linz https://ars.electronica.art/news/en/
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Activating (simulations, games, drama), Excursion, Exposition with interpretation, Group work, Flipped classroom
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Learning outcomes
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Module description The aim of the course is to introduce students to migration and the phenomenon of nationalism - the origin of stereotypes and the functioning of the the game "Us" and "Them" in everyday society and relations within through receiving information via media, commercial culture, policy-making and historical understanding. The Czech Republic can serve students as a "laboratory" for these studies as it is situated in the middle of Europe and is thus an intersection of cultures of the West and the East and the power struggle between them. The participants of this course will take part in a task of identifying changes in Czech society through discussions about history and stories that took place in Czech lands. The Czech lands used to be one of the most heterogeneous places in Europe, but due to tragic events in the past it changed into one of the most homogeneous country. In recent years the Czech Republic is becoming a diverse country again.
Learning outcomes Students will learn: to apply learned theories from the study of migration area, visual sociology and politics to understand the importance of stereotypes in the past and the present, to understand what new methods are used to create stereotypes, to understand the new divisions between "us" and "the other" to learn historical background, facts about ethnical, language diversity of Czech lands to understand the position of the Czech Republic in today's Europe from the course point of view to understand visual dimensions of identity construction and stereotyping to design and conduct image based research to apply visual methods for collecting data on migration and sameness/ otherness issue to cultivate sociological imagination through the application of visual methods to present research findings in multimedia forms
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Prerequisites
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Completed first year of the MA in European Master in Migration and Intercuoltural Communication Attendance and participation Students are required to attend all the obligatory meetings, including lectures and reading sessions, and are also expected to attend at least 30% of complementary activities (conferences, guest lectures, field trips etc.).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Questionnaire, Interim evaluation
Forms of learning and teaching Lectures, reading sessions, guest lectures, tutorials, workshops, seminars, field trips. Assignments Paper Final paper is the most important part of the students´ work during the module. The topic will be chosen from the list of topic from the syllabus. While writing the final paper, students should benefit from obligatory and suggested readings, lectures and their own experience. The minimal length of the text is 2000 words. Students are asked to deliver the paper by 31st December 2020. Attendance and participation Students are required to attend all the obligatory meetings, including lectures and reading sessions, and are also expected to attend at least 30% of complementary activities (conferences, guest lectures, field trips etc.). Grading Students are graded according to EMMIR study and exam regulations (EMMIR grading grid and grading scale). 50% Attendance and active participation 50% Final paper
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Recommended literature
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Murad, Salim. Questioning Migration in the Czech Republic Before the 2009 Economic Crisis, in: Walton-Roberts, Margaret, Hennebry, Jenna (eds): Territoriality and migration in the E.U. neighbourhood. Spilling over the wall: Springer Netherlands, 2014, International perspectives on migration, pp. 209?223, ISBN: 978-94-007-6745-4. 2014.
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Pehe. Refugees in Modern Czech History. Praha. 2002.
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