20th Century Polish History and Culture

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Course ID:	WH-KON-20thCentHisCu
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	20th Century Polish History and Culture
Name in Polish:	20th Century Polish History and Culture
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Humanities
Course groups:	Courses at UKSW
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	enter learning outcome code/codes
Short description:	(in Polish) During lectures students will have a chance to familiarise with the Polish history and culture in the 20th century, its international and national contexts. Students will gain knowledge about the major historical events and figures, as well as important works of literature, film and music. Classes will also include reading and analysing various literary texts by contemporary writes. At the end of the course students will have an understanding of cultural and historical process in Poland and the region in the 20th century, will be able to identify key dates, figures and movements and will be able to analyse modern Polish literature with references to the past achievements.
Full description:	(in Polish) During lectures students will have a chance to familiarise with the Polish history and culture in the 20th century, its international and national contexts. Students will gain knowledge about the major historical events and figures, as well as important works of literature, film and music. Classes will also include reading and analysing various literary texts by contemporary writes. At the end of the course students will have an understanding of cultural and historical process in Poland and the region in the 20th century, will be able to identify key dates, figures and movements and will be able to analyse modern Polish literature with references to the past achievements. 1.Poland 1900 – Historical and Political Contexts 2.The Young Poland – Decadence, Modernism, Symbolism 3-4. Polish Pre-War Cinema (2 lectures) 5. Literature in 1920s and 1930s 6-7. Polish Nobel Prize Winners in Literature – history and text analysis (2 lectures) 8. Poland After 1945 – Brief Overview 9. Censorship, Polish Underground Publishing, Jerzy Giedroyc and Kultura 10. Post-War Cinema 11. Famous Polish Documentaries and Documentary Film Directors 12. Visit to the National Museum in Warsaw 13. Polish Pop Music 13. Popular literature after 1989: crime and romance 14. Final exam – discussion on various topics related to and inspired by the problems discussed in class
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki,A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories), Cambridge, 2006 Czeslaw Milosz, The History of Polish Literature, (Updated edition 2nd ed. Edition), University of California Press, 1983
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	(in Polish) Attendance, active participation in class discussions

This course is not currently offered.

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