Cultural symbols and historical myths of Central Europe.

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Course ID:	3620-1-SKMH-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.9 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0229) Humanities (except languages), not elsewhere classified The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Cultural symbols and historical myths of Central Europe.
Name in Polish:	Symbole kulturowe i mity historyczne narodów Europy Środkowej.
Organizational unit:	Studies in Eastern Europe
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty ogólnouniwersyteckie Studium Europy Wschodniej General university courses General university courses in the social sciences
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Short description:	Subjects and realization of the course: - special role of Romanticism in the shaping of culture and creating myths in this region of Europe (lecture); - comment on the thesis about the weak impact of Enlightenment rationalism and universalism on Central Europe (lecture+seminar); - imagination as a subject of study in cultural anthropology, sociology and psychology in the XX Century and the contribution to this domain of research of philosophers like Cassirer, Gadamer, Heidegger, Bachelard, Ricoeur (lecture); - evolution of contemporary views on myth as a constitutive element of collective consciousness; mythisation and mystification (lecture+seminar); - examples of myths and symbols present in the cultural environment of Central Europe: the myth of the origins, the myth of the hero, the myth of the golden age, messianic myths, the myth of the stranger etc. (seminar).
Full description:	Subjects and realization of the course: - special role of Romanticism in the shaping of culture and creating myths in this region of Europe (lecture); - comment on the thesis about the weak impact of Enlightenment rationalism and universalism on Central Europe (lecture+seminar); - imagination as a subject of study in cultural anthropology, sociology and psychology in the XX Century and the contribution to this domain of research of philosophers like Cassirer, Gadamer, Heidegger, Bachelard, Ricoeur (lecture); - evolution of contemporary views on myth as a constitutive element of collective consciousness; mythisation and mystification (lecture+seminar); - examples of myths and symbols present in the cultural environment of Central Europe: the myth of the origins, the myth of the hero, the myth of the golden age, messianic myths, the myth of the stranger etc. (seminar).
Bibliography:	Bibliography of sources: - Miłosz Czesław, Rodzinna Europa, various editions. - Patočka Jan, Kim są Czesi, Kraków, 1997. - Szücs Jenö, Trzy Europy, Lublin, 1995. Elaborations: - Bobrownicka Maria (ed.), Mity narodowe w literaturach słowiańskich, Kraków, 1992. - Boia Lucian, Rumuni. Świadomość, mity, historia, Kraków, 2003. - Janion Maria, Do Europy. Tak, ale razem z naszymi umarłymi, Warszawa, 2000. - Janion Maria, Niesamowita słowiańszczyzna, 2006.
Learning outcomes:	(in Polish) Student potrafi zdefiniować naukowe kategorie mitu i mityzacji oraz określić związki tych kategorii z fenomenem tożsamości narodowej. Zna najważniejsze mitologemy obszaru środkowoeuropejskiego oraz rozumie zmienny i ewolucyjny charakter ich perpcepcji społecznej. Ma własny pogląd na symbolikę i mity współczesnie funkcjonujące w Europie Środkowej, zna ich genezę , potrafi uzasadnić własną opinię (pozytywną bądź krytyczną) dotyczącą ich dzisiejszej roli i znaczenia.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Form and terms of course completion: - a written work /an essay/ - confirmed knowledge of at least 4 positions of the reading list - continuous assessment of the student during the seminar sessions

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