Czech-German Studies Preparatory Course

How to apply

Applications for the 2024/2025 academic year are currently open.

Admission to the course is possible only under the condition of the submission and payment of the application for the Area Studies programme (full-time or distance)!

For more information about the course, please contact Jiřina Tomečková at uchazeci.ims@fsv.cuni.cz.

Information for academic year 2024/2025

Course goal: The course is intended to revise and practice the knowledge required for the admission procedures for various study fields of the International Area Studies programme and it may also be beneficial to prepare for the admission procedure for other study programmes at faculties of humanities and social sciences. The main focus will be on German and Czech-German history in the 19th and 20th centuries and German and Czech-German cultural studies after 1990.

Course time subsidy: The course, with a time subsidy of a total of nine meetings, will run twice a week in the early evening hours of 17:00 - 18:30.

Room: the course will take place online on Zoom platform

Price of course: free

Course completion: Passing the test at the end of this course may replace the recruitment process. Participants in the course will be informed of the outcome of the course and any conditional admission to the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University (FSV UK) by the end of March so that they can devote themselves uninterrupted to completing their secondary studies. The course is based on regular attendance, with a maximum of two absences allowed. You must keep your camera on during the course.

PROGRAMME 2024/2025

28.1.

Zahájení kurzů + Německo ve druhé polovině 20. století (doc. PhDr. Tomáš Nigrin, Ph.D.)
30.1. Česko-německé vztahy po roce 1990 (JUDr. Vladimír Handl, CSc.)
4.2.

Sudetoněmecká otázka ve 20. století (PhDr. Petr Šafařík)
6.2.

Hospodářský a sociální vývoj v SRN po roce 1990 (Ing. Pavla Kačmárová)
11.2.

Německá kultura a literatura ve 20. století (PhDr. Alena Zelená, Ph.D.)
13.2.

Německo v první polovině 20. století (PhDr. Petr Šafařík)
18.2. Německý politický systém (PhDr. Miroslav Kunštát, Ph.D.)
20.2.

Německé sjednocení–příčiny a následky (PhDr. Václav Šmidrkal, Ph.D.)
25.2.

Aktuální situace a problémy Německa (PhDr. Zuzana Lizcová, Ph.D.)
25.3. Online test prostřednictvím platformy Moodle