Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

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Charles University

| native_name = Fakulta humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy

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| latin_name = Facultas Humanitatum, Universitas Carolina Pragensis

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| affiliation = Charles University

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| dean = Marie Pětová

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| students = 3249{{cite web |title=Studenti|url=https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHS-1140.html|publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University|language=cs|access-date=2022-11-17}}

| undergrad = 2033

| postgrad = 840

| doctoral = 279

| other = 97

| city = Prague

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| country = Czech Republic

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| campus = Libeň

| former_names = Institute for Liberal Education ({{langx|cs|Institut základů vzdělanosti}})

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The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University ({{langx|cs|Fakulta humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy}}) is a faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Located in Libeň, Prague 8, the faculty has about 220 internal employers{{cite web |title=Zaměstnanci|url=https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHS-1032.html|publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University|language=cs|access-date=2022-11-17}} and 3250 students.

It is a member of the European Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web |title=ECOLAS Partners {{!}} ECOLAS |url=https://www.ecolas.eu/eng/?page_id=19 |access-date=2020-08-24 |language=en-US |archive-date=2020-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929003647/https://www.ecolas.eu/eng/?page_id=19 |url-status=dead }}

History

The Faculty of Humanities is the youngest faculty of Charles University. Founded as the Institute for Liberal Education ({{langx|cs|Institut základů vzdělanosti}}) in 1994, the faculty gained full academic autonomy in 2000.

The first dean of the faculty was the former Minister of Education Jan Sokol. Sokol ran for President of the Czech Republic in the 2003 election but lost to Václav Klaus.{{Cite web|last=|title=Philosopher Jan Sokol dies – DER SPIEGEL|url=https://www.de24.news/en/2021/02/philosopher-jan-sokol-dies-der-spiegel.html|access-date=2021-02-17}} He was replaced in 2007 by Ladislav Benyovszky. The current acting dean is Marie Pětová.{{cite web |title=About the Faculty |url=https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-311.html |publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University|access-date=24 October 2022}}

In 2013, Czech President Miloš Zeman refused to approve the professorship of anthropologist Martin C. Putna at the faculty for Putna's involvement in Prague Gay Pride in 2011.{{cite news |title = Důvod Zemanovy nechuti k Putnovi? Účast na pochodu gayů|newspaper=lidovky.cz|language=cs|date=19 May 2013|url=http://www.lidovky.cz/duvod-zemanovy-nechuti-k-putnovi-ucast-na-pochodu-gayu-pg8-/zpravy-domov.aspx?c=A130518_220058_ln_domov_vs|access-date=19 May 2013}}{{cite news|title=Zemanovi vadí Putnova účast na Prague Pride. Chce to řešit s rektorem Univerzity Karlovy|newspaper=iHNed.cz|language=cs|date=19 May 2013|url=http://zpravy.ihned.cz/politika/c1-59903270-zemanovi-vadi-putnova-ucast-na-prague-pride|access-date=19 May 2013|archive-date=7 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607235749/http://zpravy.ihned.cz/politika/c1-59903270-zemanovi-vadi-putnova-ucast-na-prague-pride}} After numerous protests from academic and broader circles, Zeman capitulated. Putna was appointed by the Minister of Education Petr Fiala in June 2013.{{cite web |title=Putna se dočkal profesorského dekretu, místo Zemana mu ho předal Fiala|url=https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/putna-dostane-profesorsky-dekret.A130624_155219_domaci_jj|publisher=iDNES|language=cs|date=25 June 2013|access-date=17 November 2022}}

Academics

The faculty's main research and academic focus is the humanities and social and cultural anthropology, including ethnomusicology,{{cite journal |last1=Ghosh |first1=Yasar Abu |last2=Himl |first2=Pavel |last3=Stöckelová |first3=Tereza |last4=Storchová |first4=Lucie |title=Multidisciplinarity as a necessity and challenge: the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (FHS UK) |journal=Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences |date=2014 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=86–89 |jstor=24717990 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24717990 |issn=1755-2273}}{{cite news |title=Fakulta humanitních studií UK zve na antropologickou konferenci - Novinky |url=https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/veda-skoly-vzdelavani-fakulta-humanitnich-studii-uk-zve-na-antropologickou-konferenci-40211663 |access-date=28 October 2022 |work=novinky.cz |language=cs}}Kovalcsik, Katalin. "The music of the Roma in Hungary." In Romani Music at the Turn of the Millennium. Proceedings of the Ethnomusicological Conference. Praha: Studio Production 'Saga'& Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, pp. 85-98. 2003.Otčenášek, Jaroslav. "Rumyana Greorgieva, Bulhaři v Čechách, imigrační proces a společenská integrace v současné době. FHS UK, Praha 2011, 177 s.-." Český lid: Etnologický časopis 100, no. 4 (2013): 500-501. continental philosophy,{{Cite web |title=Erasmus Master Mundus |url=http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-1008.html |access-date=2022-11-08 |publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University |archive-date=2023-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207085751/https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-1008.html |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=Master EuroPhilosophie – Master Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie: Enjeux contemporains |url=https://europhilomem.hypotheses.org/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Master EuroPhilosophie |language=fr}} gender studies,{{Cite web |title=Gender Studies |url=http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-707.html |access-date=2022-11-08 |publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University}} contemporary history, intellectual history and oral history.{{Cite web |title=Oral History and Contemporary History |url=http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-710.html |access-date=2022-11-08 |publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University}}Morávková, Naděžda. "VANĚK, Miroslav-HOUDA, Přemysl-MÜCKE, Pavel (eds.). Deset let na cestě. Orální historie na Sovinci 2002-2011. Praha: Fakulta humanitních studií. Univerzity Karlovy, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87398-12-8." (2012).

= BA =

For undergraduates, the faculty offers a BA program in Liberal Arts and Humanities (Studium humanitní vzdělanosti). This program corresponds to the concept of liberal education. The student must achieve 60 ECTS credits in each year; they can freely choose lectures, seminars, etc. from the offer of the FHS and other faculties of Charles University. In addition, during the course of study, each student must pass three comprehensive exams in philosophy, history, and social sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics), translate a professional text from the chosen foreign language (English, German, or French) and defend a bachelor's thesis.{{Cite web |title=Bachelor's Program |url=http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-524.html |access-date=2022-11-16 |publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University}}

= MA =

For master's students, the faculty offers MA programs in Anthropology, Deutsche und Französische Philosophie (taught in German),{{Cite web |title=Deutsche und französische Philosophie |url=https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-708.html|access-date=2022-11-17|publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University}} History of Modern European Culture, Semiotics, Gender Studies, Historical Sociology, Master Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie (taught in German and French, joint degree with Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Coimbra, Université catholique de Louvain, Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès, University of Memphis, Universidade Fédérale de Sao Carlos, and Bergische Universität Wuppertal),{{Cite web |title=Root |url=http://europhilo.fhs.cuni.cz/NFFR-1.html |access-date=2022-11-16 |publisher=Philosophies allemande et française, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University}}{{Cite web |title=Universités / Universitäten |url=https://europhilomem.hypotheses.org/universites-universitaten |access-date=2022-11-16 |publisher=Master EuroPhilosophie |language=fr}} Oral History - Contemporary History, Social and Cultural Ecology, etc.{{Cite web |title=Navazující magisterské studium |url=http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHS-1980.html |access-date=2022-11-16 |publisher=Faculty of Humanities, Charles University|language=cs}}

= PhD =

For doctoral students, the faculty offers three- or four-year PhD programs in Applied Ethics, Historical Sociology, German and French Philosophy (taught in German and French), General Anthropology, Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication, Social Ecology, Europäische Kulturzeitgeschichte (taught in German), Civic Society Studies, etc.{{Cite web |title=Studijní programy |url=http://phd.fhs.cuni.cz/FHSDS-28.html |access-date=2022-11-16 |website=Doktorské studium na Fakultě humanitních studií UK |language=cs}}

Facilities

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The IZV was located in the building of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Legerová street. At the same time as the faculty was founded in 2000, it moved to the new building of the Charles University in U Kříže 8, Jinonice, Prague 5, with two separate facilities, one in Hůrka district, Prague 13, and another at Máchova street 7, Prague 2. The faculty moved to a new building in Libeň, Prague 8 in 2020.{{cite news |last1=Zemenová |first1=Anežka |title=Fakulta humanitních studií UK sídlí v novém: Takhle vypadá jedna z nejmodernějších univerzitních budov Česka |url=https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/domaci-fakulta-humanitnich-studii-uk-sidli-v-novem-takhle-vypada-jedna-z-nejmodernejsich-univerzitnich-budov-ceska-40380673 |access-date=24 October 2022 |agency=Novinky}}{{cite news |title=Místo tří adres je jediná budova. Univerzita Karlova otevřela nové sídlo Fakulty humanitních studií |url=https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/3185499-misto-tri-adres-je-jedina-budova-univerzita-karlova-otevrela-nove-sidlo-fakulty |access-date=28 October 2022 |work=ČT24|publisher=Czech Television|language=cs}} The new building won a national architecture award in 2021.{{cite news |title=Národní cenu za architekturu vyhrálo sídlo Fakulty humanitních studií, oceněná byla i radnice Prahy 7 |url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-tag/fhs-uk |access-date=24 October 2022 |publisher=Czech Radio}}

Two research and educational institutions are operating within the Faculty of Humanities: the Research Center for Personality Development and Ethnicity, the Rehabilitation Institute for the Visually Impaired, and the Cabinet for Civic Democratic Education. Its three-floor library is located beneath the university building on Jan Palach Square by Staroměstská metro station.{{cite web |title=New library completed at Charles University's humanities faculty |date=6 February 2010 |url=https://english.radio.cz/new-library-completed-charles-universitys-humanities-faculty-8403704 |publisher=Czech Radio|access-date=24 October 2022}}