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Week
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Topics
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Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques
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Study Materials
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1. Week
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Introduction: Lecture overview, Discussion on some questions: "What is art?"; "What is aesthetics?"; "What is beauty?"
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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2. Week
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Philosophy of art in Ancient Greek: Concept of "beauty" in Plato and Aristotle; "art" and society
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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3. Week
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Modern aesthetics and the theories of art: The arts as the forms of "Pleasure" and "Enjoyment": Hume's thoughts on standards of enjoyment
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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4. Week
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Modern aesthetics and the theories of art: Kant's theory of aesthetics, the analytics of beauty and supreme, and aesthetics judgements
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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5. Week
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Idealist and Romantic Aesthetics: Hegel and Schelling
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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6. Week
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Aesthetics, art and emotions: Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Freud, Mulvey and Kristeva
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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7. Week
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Mid-term exams
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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8. Week
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Aesthetics, art and emotions: Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Freud, Mulvey and Kristeva
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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9. Week
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Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer and Derrida
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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10. Week
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Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer and Derrida
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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11. Week
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Marxism and The Critical School: Mass art, artistic product as commodity: Marx, Lukacs, Benjamin and Adorno
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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12. Week
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Art and the impossibility of representation: Foucault
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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13. Week
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Hope aesthetics: Ernst Bloch, Frederic Jameson
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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14. Week
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The ethical dimension of aesthetics: Jacques Ranciere
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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15. Week
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Final exams
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Lecture; Discussion
Large Group Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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