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Lecturer(s)
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Fonfárová Vladimíra, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Your Best Self: Social Status as a Means of Terror (Black Mirror: Nosedive) Crime And Punishment In Ultramodern Society (Black Mirror: White Bear) True enemy: The Making of Perfect Warriors (Black Mirror: Men against Fire) Dating in Ultramodern Society (Black Mirror: Hang the DJ) When Death No Longer Matters: The Road To Perdition? (Black Mirror: Be Right Back) A Perfect Hierarchy: In The Name Of Effectivity And Productivity (Aldous Huxley - Brave New World) The Big Brother Sees All: A Bleak Vision Of A Totalitarian Society (George Orwell - Nineteen-Eighty-Four) How to Root out Evil: A Functional Model of Bettering Society? (Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange) Walking wombs: Fundamentalists at Power (Margaret Atwood - Handmaid´s Tale)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic), Analysis of a work of art
- Home preparation for classes
- 30 hours per semester
- Preparation for course credit
- 20 hours per semester
- Term paper
- 20 hours per semester
- Participation in classes
- 20 hours per semester
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| Student has advanced knowledge of the genre of dystopia, both in literary and audiovisual form and can interconnect his/her knowledge with contemporary problems in Anglo-American culture and Western society. |
| Student has advanced knowledge of the genre of dystopia, both in literary and audiovisual form and can interconnect his/her knowledge with contemporary problems in Anglo-American culture and Western society. |
| teaching methods |
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| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Analysis of a work of art |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Analysis of a work of art |
| Projection (static, dynamic) |
| Projection (static, dynamic) |
| assessment methods |
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| Analysis of a presentation given by the student |
| Analysis of a presentation given by the student |
| Essay |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Essay |
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Recommended literature
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Atwood, Margaret. Handmaid´s Tale. 1985.
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Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. 1962.
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Cirucci, Angela. Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory. 2018. ISBN 9781498573535.
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Claeys, Gregory. Dystopia: A Natural History. Oxford, 2017.
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Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 1932.
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Orwell, George. 1984. 1949.
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