711-0303/24 – Political Science (Polit)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
| Subject guarantor | Mgr. Tomáš Zemčík, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Tomáš Zemčík, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2007/2008 | Year of cancellation | 2022/2023 |
| Intended for the faculties | FS | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student demonstrates basic knowledge in the area of internal and international politics. He can prove orientation in politics, based on the ability of independent judgment and is able, on the basis of knowledge of political science to understand the political situation in the Czech Republic, international politics and the European Union.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
The purpose of this course is to give basic information about political
science, its development, traditions, key terms, methods and theories. The
course dwells on the problems of ideologies, state, democracy, political
systems, political parties, political culture, human rights, international
relationships, political aspects of the european integration processes. Course
should give students basic knowledge abouot politics as well as the ability of
orientation in other particular courses.
Compulsory literature:
HEYWOOD, Andrew. Political Ideologies. 2012 5th edition. Palgrave Macmillan
Recommended literature:
JUDT, Tony. Postwar : a history of Europe since 1948-1990. 2010 London
JUDT,Tony, SNYDER, Timothy. Thinking the Twentieth Century. 2013 Palgrave MacMilan
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
The research of study papers and their presentation on seminar.
E-learning
Other requirements
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Politics and political science
2. The rise and development of political science
3. The definition of democracy, history and theory of democracy, representative democracy
4. The state, state forms over time. The state in modern political thought
5. Political system as set of institutions, political organizations, interest groups and the relationships between those institutions.
6. Political party, Nonpartisan, Single-party, two-party, and multi-party governments
7. The Voting system, aspects of voting systems, proportional and major voting system
8. The ideology as organized collection of ideas, history of the concept of ideology. Political ideology: liberalism, conservatism and socialism
9. Political culture of the nations, states, and other groups
10. Civil society and democracy
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction