Central European Comparative Studies (CECS) - full-time study programme

The two-year master’s programme in Central European Comparative Studies (CECS) concentrates on the areas of Germany, Austria and the Visegrad Countries (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) with an overlap onto neighbouring regions and offers a thorough comparative and multidisciplinary understanding of the issues involved. The programme is offered either in the form of normal everyday study or as combined study (which is geared for working people and entails attendance on every Friday afternoon of the semester).

The programme focuses on comparative analysis in the following areas: political systems in the 20^th century, political development since 1990, the economy, European integration, culture, and the history of society in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. In addition to academic subjects, the programme offers intensive schooling in at least two languages (such as Czech, Polish, and Russian). Passing some subjects in German is obligatory.

Academic Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Ota Konrád, Ph.D.

Academic Coordinator: PhDr. Tomáš Nigrin, Ph.D. Mail

Course Structure

Compulsory Courses	66 ECTS
Languages (Czech + Language of the Region B)	36 ECTS
Optional Courses	minimum 6, maximum 18 ECTS
Electives	minimum 0, maximum 12 ECTS

Compulsory Courses J#13516

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JMMZ105	Master´s Thesis Seminar I.	Nigrin	WS/SS	0/2	macc	3
JMMZ106	Master´s Thesis Seminar II.	Nigrin	WS/SS	0/2	macc	3
JMMZ107	Academic Writing Seminar	Cotte	SS	1/1	macc	3
JMMZ108	Political Geography	Bauer Kozák	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ109	Comparison of Central European Political Systems	Kubát	WS	2/0	Examination	6
JMMZ111	Modern Central European History Compared	Šmidrkal	WS	2/2	Examination	9
JMMZ113	Central European Culture History I.	Emler	WS	2/0	Examination	6
JMMZ114	Central European Culture History II.	Emler	SS	2/0	Examination	6
JMMZ115	Konversatorium	Balla	SS	0/2	macc	6
JMMZ116	Constitutional Transformation of the Central and East European Countries	Šlosarčík	SS	2/0	Examination	6
JMM422	Ethnic Issues and Territories in Eastern, East Central and Southeastern Europe	Vykoukal	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM550	History, Politics and Culture of Central European Jewry	Kubátová	SS	1/1	Examination	7

Prerequisities, corequisities, alternative and incompatible courses

Code	Course title	Pre-requisite	Co-requisite	Interchangeability	Incompatibility
JMM422	Ethnic Issues and Territories in Eastern, East Central and Southeastern Europe			JMMZ110

Laguages

A. Czech Language J#013615

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JLB100	Czech as a Foreign Language I	Frantesová Pellarová Mazúrková	WS/SS	0/6	Examination	6
JLB101	Czech as a Foreign Language II	Frantesová Pellarová Mazúrková	WS/SS	0/6	Examination	6
JLB102	Czech as a Foreign Language III	Frantesová Pellarová Mazúrková	WS/SS	0/6	Examination	6
JLB103	Czech as a Foreign Language IV	Frantesová Pellarová Mazúrková	WS/SS	0/6	Examination	6

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B. Regional Language J#14115

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JMMZ136	Language of the Region B I.	Nigrin	WS	0/2	Examination	6
JMMZ140	Language of the Region B II.	Nigrin	SS	0/2	Examination	6

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Optional Courses - Electives J#13716

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JMMZ023	Economic Integration of the European Union	Dědek Vykoukal	WS	2/2	Examination	6
JMMZ042	Cohesion Policy of the EU in Central and East European Countries.	Hauser	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ044	Ethnic Conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe.	Klípa	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ082	Concepts and Interpretations of Central European History	Vykoukal	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ121	Konversatorium II.	Nigrin	SS	0/2	macc	6
JMMZ193	Metropolis: History of Berlin	Klautke	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ196	Empires, Nationalism and Communism.	Gordy	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ204	Imperial Nations and Subject Peoples: Czech nation in the Austrian Empire and After (17th – 21st centuries)	Robbins Janíčková Vykoukal	WS/SS	2/2	Examination	6
JMMZ229	Theorizing Memory: Social and Cultural Remembering	Asavei	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ270	Society, culture and politics in Hungary, 1945-2010.	Talaber	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ272	Federal republic of Germany in the European Integration, 1949-1990	Thiemeyer	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ301	Who Controls the Past, Controls the Future?	Emler	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMMZ308	Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. Idea, rule and aftermath	Lorenz	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JMM121	Central European Cinema	Dan Mircea	WS	0/4	Examination	6
JMM143	Economy and Politics in the 20th Century Eastern Europe	Svoboda	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JMM188	Economic Transformations in the Post-Soviet Area	Svoboda	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JMM189	Economic transformation in East Central and Southeastern Europe	Trejbal	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JMM358	The Transformation of the Communist Successor Parties in Central Europe and Influence of the West European Leftists	Handl Mejstřík	SS	2/0	Examination	6
JSM437	Civil Society in Europe	Frič	SS	2/0	Examination	8

Minimum 6, maximum 18 ECTS

Prerequisities, corequisities, alternative and incompatible courses

Code	Course title	Pre-requisite	Co-requisite	Interchangeability	Incompatibility
JMMZ023	Economic Integration of the European Union				JEM015 JPM313
JMMZ301	Who Controls the Past, Controls the Future?				JMM642

Gastdozenten: (J#03017)

Kód	Název předmětu	Garant předmětu	Semestr	Rozsah výuky	Kontrola studia	Kredity
JMBZ199	Migration in Europe after 1945	Barth	ZS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ272	Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der europäischen Integration 1949-1990	Thiemeyer	ZS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ273	Der Zweite Weltkrieg	Barth	LS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ274	Geschichte des Rassismus	Barth	ZS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ275	Jüdische Lebenswelten in Europa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert	Barth	LS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ276	Deutsche und Tschechen – nahe und ferne Nachbarn (von der Habsburgermonarchie bis zur europäischen Union)	Zimmermann	ZS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ279	Demokratie in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert	Barth	ZS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ309	Geschichte der Bundesrepublik seit der Wiedervereinigung	Barth	ZS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ310	Wirtschaftskrisen im Vergleich (1929, die große Depression und 2008)	Barth	LS	1/1	Zk	6
JMMZ311	Der Nationalsozialismus	Barth	LS	1/1	Zk	6
JMM106	Flüchtlinge, Migranten, Gastarbeiter. Migration in Europa in Geschichte und Gegenwart	Lorenz	LS	1/1	Zk	6
JMM472	Sozialstruktur Deutschlands	Hartmann	LS	1/1	Zk	6

Kód plánu:

J17CECS929