Art History and Interdisciplinary Modules at Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague
Academic Year 2024/2025
Department of History of Art
*In the case of courses that take place in both winter and summer semesters, incoming students can enrol for one semester during which they are in Prague. Teachers take this possibility into account and allow alternative (earlier) completion of the course if necessary.
Courses in English:
Seminar of Contemporary Art I: The World we Live in (Winter and Summer Semester)*: 5 credits
History of Art in Bohemia (Winter and Summer Semester)*: 6 credits
Courses in French and English:
Créations dépaysées: Artistes, écrivains et cinéastes d’Europe centrale… et la France (Summer Semester) (on-line course, collaboration with Sorbonne University Paris and University Warsaw) : 4 credits
The offer of courses in English, which is changing every year – this year offer:
Visual Literacy: Understanding Images across Europe. Past and Present* (Winter and Summer Semester; the course is held for the third time this year and the travel expanses of teachers and students are covered) (on-line course combined with one-week workshop in Warsaw, Milan and Prague, collaboration with University Milan and University Warsaw): 6 credits
Arts and Crafts Schools in Central Europe in the 19th Century until 1939 (Summer Semester) (on-line course combined with one-week workshop in Düsseldorf, collaboration with Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, University Amsterdam; the travel expanses of teachers and students are covered): 4 credits
Portraiture in the Age of Photography: Art beyond the “Recorded” Image in the Long 19th Century (Summer Semester) 6 credits
The offer of art history (and interdisciplinary) courses provided by other departments of Faculty of Arts (The number of credits for courses varies between 4 and 6 credits)
Department of History / Museology
Museums in international context (Summer Semester)
Conservation in museums (Summer Semester)
Department of Philosophy
What is an Image? Philosophical Reflections (Summer Semester)
ECES Programme
Czech Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture (Summer Semester)
Construction of Czech National Identity and its Symbols (Summer Semester)
Czech and Central European History (Summer Semester)
Edges of Photography (Summer Semester)
Humour, Resistance and Czech Culture (Summer Semester)
Department of Sinology
History of Chinese Art (Summer Semester)
Cartooning, Animation, and Comics Art in China (Summer Semester)
Department of Modern Languages
Visual Arts*(Winter and Summer Semester)
Graphic Novel, a user’s manual (Summer Semester)
Insights into Czech Literature, Language, Culture and Mentality* (Winter and Summer Semester)
Post-War British and American Art in Context (Summer Semester)
Department of Film Studies
Animation and Green Storytelling* (Winter and Summer Semester)
Department of Classical Archeology
Minoan and Mycenaean Art and Iconography (Summer Semester)
Department of Greek and Latin Studies
Integrative Humanities in Conflict and Resilience Studies (Winter Semester)
Medieval Manuscripts: From Digital to Material (Winter Semester)
Department of Egyptology
Introduction to the Ancient Egyptian Architecture (Winter Semester)
Art and Iconographie II (Summer Semester)
Department of Information and Library Studies
Authenticity and historical accuracy in video games (Summer Semester)
Media and Cultural Studies – Concepts, Traditions and Currents (Winter Semester)
Department of Musicology
Czech Music and National Identity: A Journey trough History, Ideology, and Interpretation (Summer Semester)
Department od Theatre Studies
Highlights of Czech Theatre (Summer Semester)
Department of History
Cultural histories of late state socialism and postsocialism (Summer Semester)
Czechoslovakia in Global History. Czechoslovakia and Central Europe’s Global Entanglements during the Cold War(Winter Semester)
Regionalism in Modern Europe: Culture, Space and Identities (Summer Semester)
Milestones of Older Czech History (until 19th Century) (Winter Semester)
Milestones of Modern Czech History (1848–1989) (Summer Semester)
The Czechs in the Austrian Monarchy 1848 – 1918 (Winter Semester)
Department of Aesthetics
How fashion became interesting for the modern aesthetics* (Winter and Summer Semester)