(pl) Poland and Poles - from the Beginnings of the State to the Present

general courses

The lecture is a series of meetings whose guiding principle is an attempt to present and interpret the most important phenomena in the cultural history of the Polish nation, related to the present day. It is a proposal for reflection on the Polish specificity and repeatability of collective behavior and national mentality. He treats facts and places on the cultural map of Poland. It is an attempt to look for historical references to Polish modernity in the sphere of social and spiritual life. This proposal corresponds to an interdisciplinary series of lectures presenting knowledge about Poland and Poles.

The lecture is designed to present the most important phenomena in the cultural history of the Polish nation, but related to the present day. It is a proposition of a joint search for Polish separateness, specificity or even national mentality, manifested through a series of recurrent choices and social arrangements in subsequent generations. It presents Polish aesthetic and humanistic preferences and location on the cultural map of Europe. Attention is paid to aspects of multiculturalism and multiethnicity of Polish history. He settles Polishness in the context of the history of other Slavic nations. This is a presentation from the Slavic lineage to the idea of Pan-Slavism. It presents the specificity of Polish religiousness and church institutions in our country. He treats centralization and decentralization of power and the attitude of Poles towards her. It is a review of the changing social and ethnic structure in the history. Particularly the structure of the nobility. It presents outstanding personalities of Polish culture, art, science and social life both in the country and abroad. It is also an attempt to look at the Polish Diaspora, the reasons and stages of its formation. Part of the discussion is devoted to lingwakulturowe searching for Polish linguistic and civilization identity. Here the issues concern onomastic and phraseological issues (etymology and typology of personal names - personal and local). We are looking at Poland through the prism of our own and neighborly stereotypes, habits, complexes and phobias.

* due to the COVID-19 regulations of the UW administration, the syllabi could have been accordingly adjusted. The lecturers provided you with the information via the USOSmail.

• Charakter narodowy Polaków i innych, E. Lewandowski, Warszawa 2008.

• Kultura polska. Silva rerum, red. R. Cudak, J. Tambor, Katowice 2001.

• Świat języka polskiego oczami cudzoziemców, P. Garncarek, Warszawa 1997.

• Bogactwo kultur i cywilizacji europejskiej na lektoracie języka obcego, red. R. Kuźmińska, Wrocław 2004.

• Kultura w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego, red. W. Miodunka, Kraków 2004.

• Przestrzeń kulturowa w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego, P. Garncarek, Warszawa 2006.

• Obraz Polski i Polaków w Europie, red. L. Kolarska-Bobińska, Warszawa 2003.

• Wartości w kulturze polskiej, red. L. Dyczewski, Lublin 1993.

• Dzieje kultury polskiej, M. Bogucka, Wrocław 1987.

• Kategoria narodu w kulturach słowiańskich, red. T. Dąbek-Wirgowa, A. Makowiecki, Warszawa 1993.

• Dzieje obyczajów w dawnej Polsce, St. Bystroń, Warszawa

1994.

The result of the course should be the acquisition of cultural and historical competence by foreign listeners regarding the widely understood concept of Polish culture. Expansion and systematisation of knowledge about the history of the Polish nation, its peculiarities and cultural characteristics, related to both history and the present.

- presence at the lecture

- final essay (in Polish, possibly English or Russian)