LEISS, Ingo, STADLER, Herrmann. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Band 8. Wege in die Moderne 1890–1918. München: DTV, 1999.

BORRIES, Erika von et al. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Band 9. Die Weimarer Republik 1918–1933. München: DTV, 2003.

RIEGEL, Paul, Rinsum, Wofgang van. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Band 10. Drittes Reich und Exil 1933–1945. München: DTV, 2000.

Selected literary texts for seminars on individual lecture topics will be made available for copying and study in the departmental library.

The course deepens knowledge of German literature of the first half of the 20th century through analysis and interpretation of selected key works in the final years of the German Empire, Weimar Republic and the exile. Emphasis is placed on critical analysis skills.

Active class participation, presentation on assigned texts, in the examination period written test. The student must achieve a minimum of 60% success in all components of the assessment.

The exact date and topics of the midterm evaluation will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Violation of academic ethics will result in the cancellation of the points earned in the respective assessment item.

Grading scale: 100% – 91% - A, 90% – 81% - B, 80% – 73% - C, 72% – 66% - D, 65%– 60% - E, 59% and below - FX (student has not met the credit requirements)

The lecturer will accept a maximum of 2 absences with documented evidence.

In justified cases (serious health problems, representation abroad, or other unforeseen circumstances), it is necessary to agree with the teacher on the possible assignment of alternative work and the subsequent recognition of the absence.

German

1. Literary decadence (Thomas Mann: Tonio Kröger).

2. Literary expressionism (Kurt Pinthus: Menschheitsdämmerung).

3. Literature and psychoanalysis (Hermann Hesse: Demian).

4. Anti-war literature (Erich Maria Remarque: Im Westen nichts Neues).

5. Anti-fascist literature (Thomas Mann: Mario und der Zauberer).

6. Epic theatre (Bertolt Brecht: Die Maßnahme).

7. Literature of the so called New Objectivity (Alfred Döblin: Die zwie Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord).

8. The metropolitan novel (Irmgard Keun: Das kunstseidene Mädchen).

10. Big city lyrics (Bertolt Brecht: Lesebuch für Städtebewohner).

11. Exil lyrics (Bertolt Brecht: An die Nachgeborenen).

12. Exil prose (Anna Seghers: Ausflug der toten Mädchen).

Scale of assessment (preliminary/final): 40 / 60

Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to critically analyse selected literary works of German literature in the context of changing cultural, social and political life of the first half of the 20th century.

BEUTIN, Wolfgang et al. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013.

FORSTER, Heinz. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Band 11. Die Nachkriegszeitt 1945–1968. München: DTV, 1999.

FORSTER, Heinz, RIEGEL, Paul. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Band 12. Die Gegenwart 1968–1990. München: DTV, 2004.

The course deepens knowledge of German literature of the second half of the 20th century through analysis and interpretation of selected key works in the post-war, divided and reunified Germany. Emphasis is placed on critical analysis skills.

Active class participation, papers on assigned texts, final essay. The student must achieve a minimum 60% pass rate in all components.

The exact date and topics of the midterm evaluation will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Violation of academic ethics will result in the cancellation of the points earned in the respective assessment item.

Grading scale: 100% – 91% - A, 90% – 81% - B, 80% – 73% - C, 72% – 66% - D, 65%– 60% - E, 59% and below - FX (student has not met the credit requirements)

The lecturer will accept a maximum of 2 absences with documented evidence.

In justified cases (serious health problems, representation abroad, or other unforeseen circumstances), it is necessary to agree with the teacher on the possible assignment of alternative work and the subsequent recognition of the absence.

German

1. Post-war prose (Heinrich Böll: Wo warst du, Adam?).

2. Post-war drama (Wolfgang Borchert: Draußen vor der Tür).

3. Post-war lyric (Johannes Bobrowski: Sarmatische Zeit).

4. Post-war novel (Günter Grass: Die Blechtrommel).

5. Literature of the 1960s in Germany (Heinrich Böll: Ansichten eines Clowns).

6. Literature of the 1960s in the GDR (Christa Wolf: Der geteilte Himmel).

7. Literature of the 1970s in the GDR (Christa Wolf: Kein Ort, Nirgens).

8. Literature of the 1970s in the FRG (Heinrich Böll: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum).

9. Literature of the “Wende” (Ingo Schulze: Simple Storys).

10. Literature in United Germany (Theresia Mora: Der Fall Ophelia).

11. Literature in United Germany (Judith Hermann: Sommerhaus, später).

12. Contemporary literature (Daniel Kehlmann: Ruhm).

Scale of assessment (preliminary/final): 40 / 60

Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to critically analyse selected literary works of German literature in the context of changing cultural, social and political life of the second half of the 20th century.

JAHRAUS , O. et al. (eds.): Kafka-Handbuch. Leben - Werk - Wirkung. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2008. ISBN 978-3-525-20852-6

LARCATI, A. et al. (eds.) Stefan-Zweig-Handbuch. New York, Berlin: De Gruyter 2018. ISBN: 978-3110303889

ZEYRINGER, K.: Österreichische Literatur seit 1945 Überblicke, Einschnitte, Wegmarken. Innsbruck: Haymonn 2001, ISBN 3-85218-379-0

Active participation in class, reading of the assigned text, completion of a written homework assignment or paper (30 points) and a final test (70 points). Students must achieve at least 60% of the total points to pass the course. Violations of academic ethics will result in an Fx grade and disciplinary action in accordance with the FFCU Code of Ethics.

100-91%: A

90-82%: B

81-74%: C

73-66%: D

65-60%: E

59-0%: FX

The lecturer accepts a maximum of 2 absences.

The exact dates and topics for the mid-term and final examinations will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Exam dates will be announced via AIS no later than the last week of classes.

German

The course will cover works by the following authors:

H. v. Hofmannsthal

A. Schnitzler

G. Trakl

F. Kafka

E. E. Kisch

S. Zweig

R. Musil

A list of specific works by the authors listed above will be given to the course participants at the first meeting.

Interim/final evaluation ratio: 30/70

After completing the course, the student will be familiar with representative authors and works of Austrian literature of the first half of the 20th century. The student learns the basic literary terminology used to periodize and aesthetically characterize a work. Possesses developed skills in describing and interpreting selected literary works, and has a working knowledge of searching modern secondary literature in digital databases.

ALBRECHT, M. (ed.): Bachmann-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler 2012, ISBN: 978-3476025135

MAY, M. et al. (ed.): Celan-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler 2012, ISBN: 978-3476024411

ZEYRINGER, K.: Österreichische Literatur seit 1945 Überblicke, Einschnitte, Wegmarken. Innsbruck: Haymonn 2001, ISBN 3-85218-379-0

Active participation in class, reading of the assigned text, completion of a written homework assignment or paper (30 points) and a final test (70 points). Students must achieve at least 60% of the total points to pass the course. Violations of academic ethics will result in an Fx grade and disciplinary action in accordance with the FFCU Code of Ethics.

100-91%: A

90-82%: B

81-74%: C

73-66%: D

65-60%: E

59-0%: FX

The lecturer accepts a maximum of 2 absences.

The exact dates and topics for the mid-term and final examinations will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Exam dates will be announced via AIS no later than the last week of classes.

German

The course will cover works by the following authors

P. Celan

I. Bachmann

H v. Doderer

Th. Bernhard

E. Jelinek

K. M. Gauss

M. Pollack

A list of specific works by the authors listed above will be given to the course participants at the first meeting each time.

interim/final evaluation ratio: 30/70

After completing the course, the student will be familiar with representative authors and works of Austrian literature of the second half of the 20th century. The student learns the basic literary terminology used to periodize and aesthetically characterize a work. Has developed skills in describing and interpreting selected literary works, as well as practical skills in searching modern secondary literature in digital databases. Has experience of presentation techniques and the ability to moderate discussion.

Active participation in the seminar, presentation of the paper and its subsequent written elaboration. The student must achieve at least 60% success rate.

Slovak, German

The seminar focuses on the activities of Germans in Spiš, Hauerland or Bratislava in the fields of education, literature, architecture, social life and politics in the context of Hungarian, Czechoslovak and Slovak history. It will focus on one selected epoch, which will be examined from the perspective of linguistics, literary history and cultural and social realities. Theoretically, the graduates of the course will learn about the processes of the formation of ethnic identity in the past and in the present, using the phenomenon of regional traditions and historical awareness as an example.

interim/final evaluation: 30/70

The seminar has the character of a research seminar, emphasizing the students' own research work. It deepens and applies the knowledge from the lecture German Language and Culture in Slovakia in the research work. Students will learn about the history of German language and culture in one of the selected dialect islands in Slovakia They will gain a deeper knowledge of the dialectal varieties of German in the region and get to know important local cultural personalities. They will learn how to work with historical written sources (transcribe and edit manuscripts) and prepare a scholarly text on a given topic for publication and prepare archival or field research. The final output of the seminar will be either a jointly prepared publication, subsequently published either in a professional periodical or on the department's website, or group field research (oral history, dialect recordings, etc.)

FAUSER, Markus: Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft, Darmstadt 2003; BENTHIEN, Claudia (ed.): Germanistik als Kulturwissenschaft. Eine Einführung in neue Theoriekonzepte, Reinbek 2002.

Active class participation, papers on assigned texts, final essay. The student must achieve a minimum of 60% success in all components of the assessment.

The exact date and topics of the midterm evaluation will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Violation of academic ethics will result in the cancellation of the points earned in the respective assessment item.

Grading scale: 100% – 91% - A, 90% – 81% - B, 80% – 73% - C, 72% – 66% - D, 65%– 60% - E, 59% and below - FX (student has not met the credit requirements)

The lecturer will accept a maximum of 2 absences with documented evidence.

In justified cases (serious health problems, representation abroad, or other unforeseen circumstances), it is necessary to agree with the teacher on the possible assignment of alternative work and the subsequent recognition of the absence.

Slovak

Historical anthropology and history of mentalities, imagology and image theory, gender studies, interculturalism and postcolonial studies, theories of memory and collective identities, intertextuality and new philology.

The graduate will gain an interdisciplinary overview of the subject of German studies in the context of the so-called cultural sciences on the example of specific literary works.

Soňa Gabrzdilová – Milan Olejník: Karpatskí Nemci na Slovensku od druhej svetovej vojny do roku 1953. Bratislava: SAV et al. 2004.

Karl-Markus Gauß: Die versprengten Deutschen. Unterwegs in Litauen, durch die Zips und am Schwarzen Meer. Wien: Zsolnay 2005.

Viera Glosíková: Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Schrifsteller aus dem Gebiet der Slowakei -17 -20 Jahrhundert. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1995.

Wynfrid Kriegleder - Andrea Seidler - Jozef Tancer (eds.) : Deutsche Sprache und Kultur im Raum Pressburg. Bremen: edition lumiěre 2002.

Wynfrid Kriegleder - Andrea Seidler - Jozef Tancer (eds.): Deutsche Sprache und Kultur in der Zips. - Bremen: edition lumiěre, 2007

Jozef Tancer – Elena Mannová: Od uhorského patriotizmu k menšinovému nacionalizmu. Zmeny povedomia Nemcov na Slovensku v 18. a 20. storočí. In: G. Kiliánová, E. Kowalská, E. Krekovičová (eds.): My a tí druhí v modernej spoločnosti : konštrukcie a transformácie kolektívnych identít. - Bratislava: Veda, 2009, s. 351-371.

Juraj Valiska: Die zipserdeutsche Mundart von Chmeľnica (Hopgarten). Bratislava: Slov. pedag. nakl. 1967.

Juraj Valiska: Nemecké nárečie Dobšinej: príspevok k výskumu zanikania nárečí enkláv. Gemerská vlastivedná spoločnosť 1980.

Juraj Valiska: Nemecké nárečia Horného Spiša. Príspevok k výskumu reliktných nárečí v pokročilom štádiu ich vývoja. Stará Ľubovňa : Okresné vlastivedné múzeum1982

Active participation in classes, detailed knowledge of the prescribed texts for each class, preparation of a report and its written elaboration in the form of a seminar paper of 8 to 10 pages. At least 60% of the total score is required for successful completion of the course.

German

Who are the so-called Carpathian Germans?

Settlement of Upper Hungary by German settlers

From Hungarian patriotism to minority awareness

Carpathian Germans and the 1st Czechoslovak Republic

Carpathian Germans between 1939 and 1948

German cultural and literary life in Bratislava

German cultural and literary life in Spiš

German dialects and dialect literature

German minority in Slovakia today

iterim/final evaluation: 0/100

The lecture focuses on the history of German language and culture in Slovakia from the Middle Ages to the present. It presents the settlement of Upper Hungary by German immigrants in three waves from the end of the 11th to the 18th century. The main focus is on their cultural and social activities in the towns (church, education, science, literature, art). Separate attention is paid to the characteristics of relict German dialects in Slovakia. in the areas of Bratislava, Hauerland and Spiš. Through audiovisual recordings, documentary films and memoirs, the course reflects on the position of the German language and culture in the different stages of the 20th century and reflects on the question of responsibility and the historical traumas of the German minority in Slovakia.

Peter Auer – Li Wei (eds.): Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication. De Gruyter 2007.

Brigitta Busch: Das sprachliche Repertoire oder Niemand ist einsprachig. Klagenfurt: Drava 2012.

Brigitta Busch: Mehrsprachigkeit. Wien: Böhlau 2013

Adam Jaworski, Crispin Thurlow (ed.): Semiotic Landscapes. Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum 2010.

István Lanstyák – Gabriela Múcsková – Jozef Tancer (eds.): Jazyky a jazykové ideológie v kontexte viacjazyčnosti na Slovensku. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského 2017.

Jozef Tancer: Rozviazané jazyky. Ako sme hovorili v starej Bratislave. Bratislava: slovart 2016.

The prerequisites for successful completion of the course are active participation in seminars (15%), preparation of partial homework assignments (15%), presentation of own research assignment at the end of the seminar and its written completion in the form of a seminar paper (40%). During the seminar, students will keep a language journal (30%), which they will hand in at the end of the seminar together with the seminar paper.

Grading scale: A: 100-91%, B: 90-81%, C: 80-73%, D: 72-66%, E: 65-60%, Fx: 59-0%

Slovak, German, English - reading competence

Theoretical concepts of multilingualism

Social multilingualism

Individual multilingualism

Biographical approaches to multilingualism

Language biographies

Language portrait

Language diary

Language ideologies

Language Landscape

interim/final evaluation: 30/70

The aim of the course is to introduce the theoretical concepts of multilingualism as well as the multilingual situation and its research in German-speaking countries. Students will acquire the basic skills necessary to prepare research and carry out their own research assignment, focusing on the use of the German language in Slovakia in the context of multilingual communication. At the same time, they will reflect on their own sources of multilingualism and their own linguistic repertoire in the context of biographically oriented multilingualism research practices.

ADAMCOVÁ, L.: Praktische Phonetik des Deutschen. SAP, Bratislava, 1996.

HOLIČ, Š.: Rétorika. Enigma, Nitra, 2004.

Continuously assessed seminar with regular preparation and the need for active participation in teaching. The student is obliged to attend the seminar, a maximum of 2 absences are allowed. Selected tasks will be assigned for home preparation and specially evaluated, the evaluation will take place continuously during the semester at 100%. The condition is participation in exercises, presentation of one's own opinion and critical thinking.

Classification scale:

100-95%: A

94-86%: B

85-78%: C

77-69%: D

68-60%: E

Violation of rules of academic ethics will result in nullification of acquired points of assessment.

German

Basics of rhetoric, introduction to theoretical knowledge. Partial rhetorical exercises for articulation, accent, intonation, nonverbal expression (facial expressions, gestures). Confrontational exercises and comparison of speaking performance in German and Slovak as a working language of an interpreter. Rhetorical tasks during simple interpreting exercises, persuasive procedures. Psychology of rhetoric.

100% during the semester

The student masters the basic theoretical knowledge in the field of rhetoric, is able to apply correct pronunciation, accent, intonation in the articulatory base of the German language with emphasis on proper logical-semantic processing and mediation of speech and contained message in connection with the preparation for the interpreting profession.

- Koppensteiner, Jürgen: Österreich. Ein landeskundliches Lesebuch. (Niveaustufen B2 bis C2). 6., überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage. Wien: Praesens, 2018.

- Krumm, Thomas: Das politische System der Schweiz. Ein internationaler Vergleich. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013.

- Recker, Marie-Luise: Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 3., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. München: Beck 2009. (C.H. Beck Wissen)

- Reinhardt, Volker: Geschichte der Schweiz. 6., aktualisierte Auflage. München: Beck 2019. (C.H. Beck Wissen)

- Schmidt, Manfred G.: Das politische System Deutschlands. Institutionen, Willensbildung und Politikfelder. 4., aktualisierte Auflage. München: Beck, 2021.

- Vocelka, Karl: Österreichische Geschichte. 5., aktualisierte Auflage. München: Beck 2019. (C.H. Beck Wissen)

Active participation(continuous knowledge verification), short independent works and final exam. The student must achieve at least 60% in all parts of the assessment.

The exact date and topics of the midterm evaluation will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Violation of academic ethics will result in the cancellation of the points earned in the respective assessment item.

Grading scale: 100% – 91% - A, 90% – 81% - B, 80% – 73% - C, 72% – 66% - D, 65%– 60% - E, 59% and below - FX (student has not met the credit requirements)

The lecturer will accept a maximum of 4 absences with documented evidence.

In justified cases (serious health problems, representation abroad, or other unforeseen circumstances), it is necessary to agree with the teacher on the possible assignment of alternative work and the subsequent recognition of the absence.

German

The course focuses on the political landscape of German-speaking countries, reflecting current political and media debates in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the so-called D-A-CH countries). We analyze German-language media, discuss them, and acquire the relevant context necessary to properly assess and understand them (historical development, political system, specificities of the three countries, etc. ). Main topics of the course:

1) Space and demography: internal and mutual heterogeneity of the D-A-CH countries, demographic trends, D-A-CH as an immigration destination in the 20th century, and current (Gastarbeiter, migration and labour market policies).

2) Economy: economic developments and policies in the context of globalization, the most important industries and sectors in D-A-CH and their current direction

3) Society: historical antecedents and traumas, problematic issues (inequalities, unemployment, marginalisation) and the welfare state

4) State and nation: contrasting view of national consciousness and identity issues, defining tendencies versus emphasising commonalities, EU membership or non-membership

5) Politics: specificities of countries and their political systems, political environment, ideological background, issues of political culture, constitutions and foreign policy; federalism, specificities of countries, implications of federalism

6) Mass media: the press in D-A-CH, global developments and national specificities, the state and the media (affairs and debates in recent years in Germany and Austria), social media and democracy,

7) Church and state: religions in D-A-CH, state-church relationship, differences in Germany and Austria, current discourse and developments (teaching ethics, scandals and their reflection, influence of churches).

8) Colonial history of Germany and Austria: history, reflection, influences

Scale of assessment (preliminary/final): 100/ 0

The student knows the methods of text analysis and has the linguistic competences necessary to actively understand newspaper articles, professional texts and statistics of professional literature and to be able to extract relevant information from them. Using his/her knowledge of facts, he/she is able to engage in debate on current social issues in German-speaking countries and to place these in a political, historical, social and cultural context.

MILOŠOVIČOVÁ, Petra. Interkultúrny manažment: úspešná navigácia v globálnom svete. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra germanistiky, nederlandistiky a škandinavistiky; Vydavateľstvo UK, 2024. 200 s. ISBN 978-80-223-5946-7

MILOŠOVIČOVÁ, Petra. Zdroje synergických efektov v interkultúrnom manažmente. Praha : Wolters Kluwer ČR, a. s. 2019. ISBN 978-80-7598-663-4

MILOŠOVIČOVÁ, Petra. Interkulturelles Management. Praha : Wolters Kluwer ČR, a. s. 2019. ISBN 978-80-7598-365-7

RAKŠÁNYIOVÁ, Jana. Preklad ako interkultúrna komunikácia. Bratislava 2005. ISBN 8089137091.

EISMANN, V.: Erfolgreich in der interkulturellen Kommunikation. Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-06-020266-9.

SONDERMANN, M.: Lokales Denken, globales Handeln. Interkulturelle Zusammenarbeit und globales Management. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 2011. ISBN 9783423508070.

Current internet sources Students will be introduced to additional literature during the course.

(a) during the teaching part (continuously) active work in lessons (30 points) (b) In the examination period: presentation on a selected topic e.g.: taboos, conflicts in work an communication, a presentation of a selected company, a presentation of the company culture of a chosen area or country (70 marks). A minimum of 10 points in the intermediate assessment is required for admission to the examination. Violation of academic ethics will result in the cancellation of the points obtained in the relevant item In the case of a particular grade. Grading scale: 100-90: A 89-80: B 79-72: C 71-66: D 65-60: E 59-0: FX The instructor will accept a maximum of 2 absences with documentation. The dates of the exams will be published via AIS no later than the last week of the teaching period.

1. Introduction – intercultural management, intercultural competence and intercultural communication

2. Hofstede´s dimensions in intercultural management

3. Clash of different cultures, corporate culture, cultural transfer strategies in intercultural management

4. Soft skills in intercultural management - cultural differences in communication (norms, conventions, stereotypes, prejudices, clichés)

5. Verbal communication: workplace etiquette, euphemisms

6. Non-verbal communication and body language

7. Communication in the workplace, global teams

8. Workplace misunderstandings related to multiculturalism and language barriers

9. Taboos and possible forms of conflict in the workplace and in communication

10. Solving case studies, practicing model situations

11. Processes of cultural adaptation, intercultural training, intercultural competence model 

12. The path to successful intercultural communication

Chapters from the textbook *Intercultural Management* can be presented by company professionals during classes in the form of guest lectures or company visits

30/70

Successful completion of this course will provide students with a basic overview of the fundamental principles of intercultural management. They will understand the dimensions of culture according to Geert Hofstede. By completing the course, students will gain a basic overview of intercultural differences between countries, learn about different forms of verbal and non-verbal communication, and should acquire appropriate communication skills in a multicultural environment. Based on intercultural training and rehearsal of model situations, they are able to resolve conflicts in a multicultural team using appropriate communication skills and other soft skills.

NOVÁKOVÁ, Taida. Simultánne tlmočenie. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 1993. ISBN 80-223-0650-9.

BEST, Joanna, KALINA, Sylvia. Übersetzen und Dolmetschen eine Orientierungshilfe. Tübingen: Francke, 2002. ISBN 3-7720-2985-X

JONES, Roderick. Conferecne interpreting explained. London: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-1-900650-57-1

ŠVEDA, Pavol. Vybrané kapitoly z didaktiky simultánneho tlmočenia. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2016. ISBN 978-80-223-4069-4

DJOVČOŠ, Martin, ŠVEDA Pavol. Didaktika prekladu a tlmočenia na Slovensku. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2018. ISBN 978-80-223-4469-2

The content of our seminar is to be a presentation of Simultaneous Interpreting from several perspectives. Interpreting testing and training. Discussion with a representative or representatives of professional interpreters.

Assessment: The subject of the assessment will be cabin interpretation from a letter from German into Slovak and the creation of a glossary on a professional topic, which was either the subject of the lectured text or cabin interpretation from a sheet. In both cases, the student prepares a glossary in the range of at least 1NS / standard page /

Assessment method: continuous

The precise date a topic of continous assessment will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Other conditions for obtaining evaluation resp. credits:

Active participation in the discussion of social and political events at the beginning of each seminar.

Everyone will prepare at least 1 paper. Papers will be in either German or Slovak.

What is the contribution: Speech lasting 10-25 minutes on a professional topic or by agreement / in the virtual space "i-nest" approx. 10 minutes on a professional topic or by agreement.

The speech must be delivered freely and not read with the knowledge that it will be reproduced by someone. Or cabin interpretation text from a sheet of at least 1.5 A4 pages.

Attendance: two absences are tolerated by the others with apology. The language we will speak is SVK + DE. Any long-term absence of a student must be approved by the department management.

Classification scale: 0-59%-FX, 60-67%-E, 68-75%-D, 76-83%-C, 84-91%-B, 92-100%-A

Violation of academic ethics results in the cancellation of the obtained points in the relevant evaluation item.

slovak, german C1

Introduction to interpreting techniques.

Theoretical introduction to simultaneous interpreting processes and activities.

Training of preparatory techniques for simultaneous interpretation.

Interpreting simple texts with social and undemanding political topics

Interpretation of simple texts with economic topics.

100% continuous assessment

Students will master the introduction to simultaneous interpreting techniques, interpreting simple texts, especially into Slovak, mastering the interpretation technique.

NOVÁKOVÁ, Taida. Simultánne tlmočenie. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 1993. ISBN 80-223-0650-9.

BEST, Joanna, KALINA, Sylvia. Übersetzen und Dolmetschen eine Orientierungshilfe. Tübingen: Francke, 2002. ISBN 3-7720-2985-X

JONES, Roderick. Conferecne interpreting explained. London: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-1-900650-57-1

ŠVEDA, Pavol. Vybrané kapitoly z didaktiky simultánneho tlmočenia. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2016. ISBN 978-80-223-4069-4

DJOVČOŠ, Martin, ŠVEDA Pavol. Didaktika prekladu a tlmočenia na Slovensku. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2018. ISBN 978-80-223-4469-2

The content of the seminar will be the continuation of learning and consolidation of skills in Simultaneous Interpretation acquired during the winter semester at the seminar Simultaneous Interpreting 1. Testing and training of interpreting. Depending on the situation, a discussion with the representative or representatives of professional interpreters.

Other conditions for obtaining evaluation resp. credits:

The precise date a topic of continous assessment will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Active participation in the discussion of social and political events at the beginning of each seminar is part of the evaluation.

Everyone will prepare at least 1 paper. Papers will be in either German or Slovak.

What is the post: Speech / presentation lasting 20-30 minutes / in the virtual space "i-nest" approx. 10 minutes on a professional topic or by agreement.

The speech must be delivered, recorded as an audio file, not read freely, with the knowledge that it will be reproduced by someone. Or cabin interpretation text from a sheet of at least 1.5 A4 pages.

Attendance: two absences are tolerated by the others with apology. The language we will speak is SVK + DE. Any long-term absence of a student must be approved by the department management.

Classification scale: 0-59%-FX, 60-67%-E, 68-75%-D, 76-83%-C, 84-91%-B, 92-100%-A

Violation of academic ethics results in the cancellation of the obtained points in the relevant evaluation item.

slovak, german C1

Deepening of simultaneous interpreting techniques from German into Slovak, using the possibility of text condensation and interpreting compression.

Introduction to interpreting techniques from Slovak to German.

Extension of thematic scope, EU, economy, culture, etc.

100% continuous assessment

Students will master the techniques of simultaneous interpretation from German into Slovak and an introduction to interpretation from Slovak into German, with the thematic scope of politics, economics, European Union.

Type of activities: seminar

Number of hours:

per week: 2 per level/semester: 28

Form of the course: on-site learning

Akker, Robbin van der; Gibbons, Allison; Vermeulen, Timotheus (eds.): Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. (The relevant excerpts will be provided by the course teacher)

Tally Jr., Robert: Spatiality. London: Routledge, 2012. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uniba-ebooks/reader.action?docID=1075186&query=spatiality&ppg=7

Callender, Craig: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. (available in University Library)

Final Essay Written in Class During the Credit Week.

Grading Scale: A: 100% – 93%, B: 92% – 85%, C: 84% – 77%, D: 76% – 69%, E: 68% – 60%, FX: 59% – 0%.

Weight of Continuous / Final Assessment: 50% (class participation) / 50% (final in-class essay).

Participation:

The student demonstrates understanding of the subject matter by actively engaging in class discussions, responding to questions, and formulating their own.

Final In-Class Essay:

During the credit week, the student will write an essay-style reflection in person, based on one of the thematic areas covered in the course. The minimum required length is one standard page (1 standard page = 1,800 characters).

The course will be conducted in Slovak or English, depending on the needs of the students.

Metamodernism as a response to postmodernism and its value-depleted space; metamodernism as oscillation between ironic skepticism and sincerity; metamodernism as a reading of the structure of feeling of the contemporary subject; new affect as a desire to restore sincerity, emotionality, and existential engagement—while maintaining critical awareness of their historical mediation and problematic nature; relational subjectivity as an attempt at meaning-oriented self-experience in time, space, and embodied being; conceptions of time and space in the history of modern philosophy and literary theory; Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, the architectonics of the event, and the chronotope; phenomenology of time in classical phenomenological philosophy; temporality in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics; the postmodern turn to space (Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard); rhizomatic space (Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari); postmodern experience of space and capitalism (Fredric Jameson, David Harvey); Henri Lefebvre and his influence on the spatial turn in the humanities; spatiality in the thought of Doreen Massey; cultural critique and the phenomenology of speed in the work of Paul Virilio.

1. Introduction: Metamodernism as a reading of the contemporary subject and their structure of feeling

2. Metamodernism, relational subjectivity, and current modes of self-experience in time and space

3. Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin and his architectonics of the event

4. Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin and his chronotopic thought

5. Toward a phenomenology of time (Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty)

6. Hans-Georg Gadamer’s “empty” and “fulfilled” time

7. The postmodern turn to space I: Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard

8. The postmodern turn to space II: The rhizomatic model (Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari)

9. Postmodern space as a symptom of capitalism (Fredric Jameson, David Harvey)

10. The spatial turn in the humanities I: Henri Lefebvre and the social production of space

11. The spatial turn in the humanities II: Doreen Massey and space as a dynamic network of relations

12. Paul Virilio and his phenomenology of speed

13. How to experience oneself in contemporary time and space? Analysis of contemporary autofiction

14. Final in-class essay

50% class participation) /50% final in-class essay

Students will become acquainted, in an accessible manner, with metamodernism as a way of understanding the emotionality of the contemporary subject. This will enable them to engage with contemporary literature in a more layered and reflective way and to better understand the experience of the contemporary reader in its specific characteristics: in connection with their new affect, their striving for a new sincerity, and their search for a new depth (the value of being) through affective and self-affirming experience of the self within time, space, and corporeal being.

At the same time, students will become familiar with autofiction as one of the most popular literary genres of the present—one that blurs the boundary between narrator and author and embodies new (metamodern) forms of experiencing time and space.

Concurrently, they will acquire philologically relevant conceptual tools for thinking about time and space in the 20th and 21st centuries. This knowledge will enable them to reflect in a nuanced way on current metamodern tendencies, drawing from the dialogical philosophy of Mikhail M. Bakhtin, classical phenomenology, the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, postmodern philosophy, the spatial turn in the humanities, and Paul Virilio’s phenomenology of speed.

In this way, students will gain a panoramic overview of how time and space are understood in modern and contemporary humanities, develop sensitivity to time and space as both existential and literary categories, and acquire an interpretive-methodological foundation for a mode of their reading that is both critical and meaning-oriented—that is, metamodern—in literary as well as non-literary contexts.