- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
(in Polish) Vilnius/Wilno. One City and many Histories 3620-VWOC-H-OG
Vilnius (in Lithuanian) and Wilno (in Polish), being one city, got different histories according to who, when and in what context is or was making an attempt to told its past and present. The divisions and differences in the histories of Vilnius/Wilno are due to many factors: national, social, religious, ideological and strictly personal. The aim of this course is to trace many histories of one City since the Early Modern Times up to the Present, 21st century. The analysis includes all aspects of City’s past: economy and population, self-governance, religious life, arts and crafts, politics education.
1. Giedyminas and Iron Wolf : Legendary beginnings
2. Early Mediaeval Past
3. Ruthenian or Lithuanian? Gothic age in the City
4. Early Modern Times : Ecclesiastical City
5. Under Russian rule : Accomodation and Revolt
6. Between the Wars : under Polish rule
7. II WW and its aftermath
8. Soviet Lithuania
9. Independent Lithuania
10. Jerusalem of the North
11. Belarusan Craddle
12. Polish Legend
13. Catholics and non-Catholics
14. Legacy of Orthodoxy
15. Modernization and Legacy of the Past
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
1. Student has an advanced knowledge about Vilnius/Wilno history and its different ways of telling according to who and when is talking/writing about
2. Student has a knowledge about City histories and City memories
Skills:
1. Student can recognize differences between histories of Vilnius/Wilno and is prepared to explain them
Competences:
1. Student is aware of the fact that along with ‘histories’ of the City of Vilnius/Wilno the portrait of the City is made of personal an collective memories
2. When histories and memories concerning Vilnius/Wilno are in conflict student is competent to solve it through analyze and debate
Assessment criteria
Evaluation of Student’s activity in class
Attendance, activity in class, oral exam
Bibliography
Tomas Venclova, Vilnius. Vilnius. R. Paknio leidykla, 2001
Tomas Venclova, Vilnius. A Personal History. The Sheep Meadow Press, 2009
David Frick, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors. Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno , Cornell University Press, 2013
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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