Dec 10 2008

Ever dreamed of flying?

I will do this one day.


Dec 8 2008

Courses in Czech Republic

So, my semes­ter is finally over (all the hard stuff any­ways). It was ridicu­lous. Remem­ber my post about doing too much at once? I was def­i­nitely right, I did way too much, but I’ll save that topic for another blog post.

One semes­ter is over, and a new one is finally about to start. We reg­is­tered for our courses in Charles, and they are the following:

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Lit­er­a­ture: Czech Short Stories

wed 10.00–13.00

Descrip­tion:
This short course will famil­iar­ize stu­dents with a broad range of Czech 19th and 20th Cen­tury short sto­ries by both male and female authors. All classes will be con­ducted in English.

Psy­chol­ogy of Part­ner­ship in the Time of Transition

thu 09.00–12.00

Descrip­tion:
The aim of the course will be focused on rules which gov­ern part­ner­ship inter­ac­tions in two ways a) in gen­eral and b) with regards to specifics of Cen­tral Europe from more points of view.
Typol­ogy of part­ner inter­ac­tions. Unspo­ken rules of mutual manip­u­la­tions.
Devel­op­ment of part­ner­ship with a prob­lem­atic part­ner (from courtship to break up or death). Var­i­ous sort of asym­me­try in part­ner­ship. (dom­i­nance – sub­mis­sion, guilt dis­tri­b­u­tion, depen­dency, etc.)
Gen­der dif­fer­ences in approach to the same sub­jects, e.g. jeal­ousy. Con­flict­ing part­ner as an ambiva­lent object and defen­sive reac­tion against him/her.
Men­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of a part­ner in mind and intrapsy­chi­cal al inter­ac­tion with this rep­re­sen­ta­tion (intro­ject, imag­i­nal oth­ers). Intrap­er­sonal vs. dyadic (inter­per­sonal) home­osta­sis in part­ner­ship. Some approaches to mar­i­tal ther­apy and diag­no­sis of part­ner­ship inter­ac­tions. Nomotetic and idio­graphic meth­ods in research of part­ner­ship.
Specifics of part­ner­ship in Czech repub­lic and com­mu­nis­tic pop­u­la­tion pol­i­tics – divorse rate and its rela­tion to reli­gion and other moral val­ues Approach to mar­riage, dat­ing, sex­ual life before mar­riage. Typ­i­cal roles of a man and a woman – inter­fer­ence of old and new ideas in our cul­tural space. Influ­ence of com­mu­nist ide­ol­ogy on fam­ily morale and val­ues.
Adop­tion and fos­ter care in Czech repub­lic in last 50 years.

Czech Lan­guage for Every­day Use level I

tue 09.00–10.30

thu 14.00–15.30

Descrip­tion: Not pro­vided, but look­ing at the name of the course, its obvious.

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Now, if you look at the sched­ule of each class, you’ll notice some­thing amaz­ing. There are no classes on Mon­day and Fri­day. That means four day week­ends. That means trips to Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and all those crazy places.