Social Sciences and Architecture
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 105SVAI | Z,ZK | 5 | 4P+1C | Czech |
- Garant předmětu:
- Jana Hrbková, Josef Záruba Pfeffermann
- Lecturer:
- Jana Hrbková, Bořivoj Marek, Rudolf Pošva, Dana Římanová, Josef Záruba Pfeffermann
- Tutor:
- Jana Hrbková
- Supervisor:
- Department of Social Sciences
- Synopsis:
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The subject combines the teaching of several social sciences: economics and economic policies, political science, political philosophy and law, with an overview of the development of architecture. In the section devoted to economics, the basic categories of the market economy, the foundations of economic policy and the basic concepts of international economics are explained. Theoretical interpretation is effectively combined with practical examples from economic reality. In the lectures devoted to law, a brief overview of the development of Roman law and its institutions is supplemented by a well-founded interpretation of the constitution, human rights and the labor code. Great attention is paid to selected provisions of the Civil Code and the Construction Act. In the political science lectures, the political development in ancient times is described in an engaging way, the theory of the state, political systems, democracy and totalitarianism are clarified. The series of lectures on the history of architecture and construction provides a comprehensive interpretation of the history of architecture from antiquity to postmodernism and deconstruction.
- Requirements:
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Credit:
Participation in exercises (max. 2 absences). If there are more absences, it is possible to make up for these absences by working out a replacement task. Successful writing of the credit test in social sciences.
Exam:
Successful writing of the architecture development exam.
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1. Economy and construction. Ancient Greece.
2. Market structures. Construction companies and profit maximization. Ancient Rome.
3. Measuring the performance of the economy. Early Middle Ages and Byzantium.
4. State in a market economy. Romanesque period.
5. Public space and construction industry. The Czech Republic in the European Union. Gothic period.
6. Overview of the development of Roman law and its institutions. Renaissance.
7. The Constitution of the Czech Republic and its institutes. Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. Baroque and Rococo.
8. Selected provisions of Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code. Classicism and historicisms of the 19th century.
9. Selected provisions of Act No. 183/2006 Coll., on spatial planning and building regulations (Building Act). Engineering buildings, art nouveau, modern.
10. Selected provisions of Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labor Code. Cubo-Expressionism and Futurism.
11. Political thought in antiquity. Constructivism, purism, functionalism.
12. Theory of the state. The foundations of democracy. Neoclassicism, late modernism.
13. The essence of totalitarianism. Postmodern, high-tech, deconstruction
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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1. Information on the subject 105SVAI, structure, completion. Basic economic questions. Opportunity costs and sunk costs - examples, calculation of opportunity costs and sunk costs.
2. Company - goals, profit maximization conditions. Market structures. Cost and profit calculations.
3. Structure of the economy, branches, sectors, development. The place of construction in the economic structure. Legal forms of business.
4. Accounting and economic profit of the company, Expenses vs. costs, revenues vs. revenues. Profit vs. cash flow. Calculation of accounting and economic profit.
5. Money, function of money, multiplied expansion of bank deposits.
6. Money and capital market. The meaning of interest rate.
7. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply, Measuring the performance of the economy.
8. Inflation, causes, consequences. Nominal and real interest rate, nominal and real wages. Current problems - the development of inflation in the Czech Republic.
9. Czech National Bank. Monetary policy instruments of the CNB - development, changes, consequences for economic growth and inflation.
10. Basic terms of international economics. Foreign trade, balance of trade and payments, exchange rate.
11. CNB foreign exchange interventions. The Czech Republic and the European Union, current problems. Convergence criteria for joining the eurozone.
12. Current problems of the development of the European and world economy. EU, BRICS…
13. Repetition, preparation for the credit test.
- Study Objective:
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A basic sum of knowledge from three social sciences and humanities, the ability to think about social problems and understand them, an overview of the history of architecture from antiquity to postmodernism and deconstruction.
- Study materials:
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!HRBKOVÁ, J. a kol.: Společenské vědy pro techniky - 2., aktualizované a rozšířené vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-80-271-2876-1.
!DUDÁK, V. a kol.: Encyklopedie světové architektury 1. a 2. díl. Praha: Baset, 2002. ISBN 80-86223-90-6.
!GÖSSEL, P., LEUTHÄUSEROVÁ, G.: Architektura 20. století. Praha: Slovart, 2003. ISBN 978-80-7209-814-9.
?HRBKOVÁ, J. a kol.: Základy ekonomické teorie II. (Mikroekonomická teorie). Praha: ČVUT, 2000. ISBN 80-01-02186-6.
- Note:
- Time-table for winter semester 2023/2024:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri - Time-table for summer semester 2023/2024:
- Time-table is not available yet
- The course is a part of the following study plans:
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- Civil Engineering (compulsory course)
- Civil Engineering (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Pozemní stavby (compulsory course)
- Stavební inženýrství, specializace Vodní hospodářství a vodní stavby (compulsory course)