Title: History of Culture and Arts for Tourism I (DKCR1)

Updating: 25. 2. 1999

Objective of the subject:

Chronological overview of European culture development and its presentment in arts, reflection of period thinking in art demonstration of a European art centre in transformation of historical development

 

Subject´s content:

1.     From primeval ages up to first civilisations

2.     Most ancient peoples and states – Mesopotamia

3.     Ancient Egypt

4.     Aegean area in a pre-Hellenic period

5.     Culture of classical Greece – Hellenism

6.     Ancient Rome

7.     Christian antiquity – Byzantium

8.     From Caroline renaissance up to the Romanesque style

9.     Middle Ages – arts, intelligence, culture

10. Gothic Europe

11. Renaissance – Humanism – the Reformation

12. Centres of renaissance art – personalities

 

Subject´s termination:

Credit (test)

 

Recommended literature:

Gombrich, E.H.: Příběh umění, 1990, 1998.

Jůzl, M.: Dějiny umělecké kultury I.-II., 1990, 1995.

Mráz, B.: Dějiny výtvarné kultury I.-II., 1990, 1997.

Rusková, D; Štyrský, J.: Geografie CR a dějiny kultury pro CR, 1997.

Pijoan J.: Dějiny umění 1.-10.


Title: History of Culture and Arts for Tourism II (DKCR2)

Updating: 25. 2. 1999

Objective of the subject:

Continuation in the overview of the development of European arts and culture in the modern period up to the 20th century – main European galleries and art centres

 

Subject´s content:

1.     Mannerism as a bridge between the Renaissance and the Baroque

2.     Baroque culture in Europe

3.     Culture up to the French Revolution of 1789 – rococo art manifestation

4.     Classicism – Empire

5.     19th century – Romanticism in culture and arts

6.     Industrial revolution and architecture

7.     Beginnings of modern art – Paris

8.     From Symbolism to Art Nouveau

9.     Centres of Art Nouveau architecture – Vienna, Barcelona

10. Bauhaus – Functionalism

11. New tendencies in arts in the first half of the 20th century

12. European galleries, museums and art centres

 

Subject´s termination:

Exam

 

Recommended literature:

Continuation from the part I of the subject, monographs of important personalities in the field of arts.

Special journals: Architekt, Ateliér aj.

 


Title: Ethics and psychology in tourism (EPVCR)

Updating: 25. 2. 1999

Objective of the subject:

Characterization of ethical principles in the field of business activities in consideration of specific features of tourism industry – relations between morality and law – relation between ethics and etiquette – etiquette principles in a social contact in our country and differences in these principles in foreign cultures – psychology in tourism, points of view, motivation, risks, adaptation and stress – solving crucial situations.

 

Subject´s content:

1.Ethics in general and the applied one

Ø     Origins of ethics, ethics as a part of philosophy, basic terms in general ethics

Ø     Applied ethics, professional ethics

Ø     Relation between ethics and law

Ø     Principles of entrepreneurial ethics

Ø     Importance and function of ethic codes

Ø     Impairment of norms of entrepreneurial ethics

Ø     Ethics in tourism and its specifics

2.Etiquette

Ø     Equity, politeness, tact

Ø     Self-control

Ø     Subjective factors – social accidents

Ø     Communication: greeting, introduction, using titles, correspondence, communication by telephone

Ø     Etiquette in public: culture, eating

Ø     Social events

Ø     Diplomatic protocol

Ø     Etiquette in different cultures, national mentality

3.Psychology

Ø     Reasons for psychological approach

Ø     Points of view of a tourist activity

Ø     Genius loci

Ø     Home phenomenon

Ø     Motivation in tourism

Ø     Space phenomenon in tourism

Ø     Time phenomenon in tourism

Ø     Problems and risks in tourism

Ø     Problem of reconstruction (way of life in the past, etc.)

Ø     Other dimension of travelling

Ø     Stress in tourism

Ø     Adaptation to location change

Ø     Knowledge extent of tourism managers

Ø     Questions about work with a tourist group

Ø     Some crucial situations solved by tourism managers

 

Subject´s termination:

Credit

 

Recommended literature:

Bayer,A.; Šroněk, I.: Společenský styk a diplomatický protokol

Brázdová, D.: Zásady společenského chování

Guth-Jarkovský, J.S.: Společenský katechismus

Lewis,D.: Tajná řeč těla

Semrádová,I.: Úvod do etiky pro bakaláře FŘIT

Šroněk,I.: Etiketa a etika v podnikání

Vaněk, J.: Základy sociální a ekonomické etiky

Šípek, J.: Úvod do psychologie v turismu


Title: Seminar from Czech culture history (SDCK)

Updating: 25. 2. 1999

Objective of the subject:

To add contribution of Czech culture to the overview of European arts and culture, emphasise the period of cultural prosperity, importance of personalities in Czech culture

 

Subject´s content:

1.     Middle ages in Czech culture – period before the Přemyslid dynasty

2.     Czech peak Gothic of the 14th century

3.     Prague under Rudolph II

4.     Czech baroque sculpture, architecture and painting

5.     Enlightenment, period of Joseph II – 18th century in the Czech lands

6.     Historism in architecture of the 19th century – biedermaier

7.     Czech Art Nouveau works – personalities

8.     Czech culture at the beginning of the 20th century

9.     Culture of the 1st Republic, Judaic culture in Prague

10. Czech culture abroad – exile

11. Cultural monuments and tourism

 

Subject´s termination:

Credit

 

Recommended literature:

Hořejš, P.: Toulky českou minulostí 1.-7.

Dvořák, F.: Dějiny umění Československa, 1990.

Mráz, B.: Dějiny výtvarné kultury I.-II., 1997.


Title: Psychology and sociology of arts (SPU)

Updating: 25. 2. 1999

Objective of the subject:

To observe the influence of art and create one´s own judgements and attitudes. To notice differences in attitudes to art in chosen groups (analysis of inquiries and questionnaires). To gain experience for perceptive attitude to clients, to adopt tolerance in contact with different types of receptors of arts within the sector of tourism.

 

Subject´s content:

1.     Work of art from psychology´s point of view, methods of psychology of art

2.     Perceptive and interpretive artistic activity

3.     Perception of the work of art – typology of a receptor

4.     Means of expressing in art – communication in art, reality and abstraction

5.     Art as a historical and social fact

6.     Art as a commodity – mass culture – consumer

7.     Role of art in everyday life, lifestyle

8.     A tourist, souvenir, fake

9.     Utile art, graphics, publicity

10. Artistic experience and travelling, aesthetical response

 

Subject´s termination:

Credit (excursion, exhibition)

 

Recommended literature:

Kulka, J.: Psychologie umění, 1992.

Kulka, T.: Umění a kýč, 1994.

Zkoř, I.: Proměny soudobého výtvarného umění, 1993.


Title: Theory and sociology of culture (TSOCK)

Updating: 25. 2. 1999

Objective of the subject:

Defining of relations resulting in tradition of European culture for a lifestyle and personal culture of an individual. Reflection of social changes in culture, benefits and losses resulting in contemporary cultures inosculation – national cultures, identity, characteristics.

 

Subject´s content:

1.     Term of culture in sociology – culture and cultures

2.     Language and faith – role of language, written word, religion

3.     Nations and patriotism – national identity – world culture

4.     Ethnics and their culture – xenophobia and racism

5.     Family and family connections – traditions, generations

6.     Women in society and culture – ritual of feminism

7.     Culture and lifestyle – group lifestyles – personal culture

8.     European culture – roots: antiquity – Judaism – Christianity

9.     Our neighbours cultures – central Europe

10. Italy and Greece – legacy of antique culture

11. The British and the French – eternal rivals

12. Spain and Portugal – past and present days

13. Countries of Benelux – minorities problems

14. What are the Americans like?

 

Subject´s termination:

Exam

 

Recommended literature:

Berger, L.P.: Pozvání do sociologie, 1990.

Sociologické pojmosloví: sociální a kulturní antropologie, 1990.

Kraus, W.: Kultura a moc, 1993.

Arendtová, H.: Krize kultury, 1994.

Štampach, O.: Malý přehled náboženství, 1991.

Černý, V.: O povaze naší kultury, 1991.

Encyklopedie a řady:

Velká geografická encyklopedie světa

Xenofobův národnostní průvodce


Title: Introduction to aesthetics (UDE)

Updating: 25. 2. 1999

Objective of the subject:

To obtain an idea of aesthetical thinking in philosophy in historical over-view – transformations in aesthetical perception in the flow of one´s life – cultivating of aesthetical feeling as a principle of cultivation of a personality and his/her taste.

 

Subject´s content:

1.     Specifics of aesthetical approach to the world

2.     Ideas of antique philosophers on beauty and art

3.     Concept of beauty in the Middle ages

4.     Uomo Universale in renaissance thoughts and art

5.     Aesthetical ideas in Europe of the 17th and 18th centuries

6.     German classical aesthetics at the turn of the 18th and 19th century

7.     Personalities of the Czech aesthetical thinking

8.     Art versus engineering at the turn of the 19th and 20th century

9.     Non-artistic aesthetics

10. Art and fake

11. Transformations of one´s taste – subject and object in art

12. Transformations of contemporary art

 

Subject´s termination:

Exam

 

Recommended literature:

Jůzl-Prokop: Úvod do estetiky, 1990.

Sourian Etienne: Encyklopedie estetiky, 1994.

Pospíšil, Z.: O vkusu, 1992.

Welsch, W.: Estetické myslenie, 1993.

Zuvka, V.: Estetika 20. století, 1995.

Vágner, I.: Svět postmoderních ber, 1995.