lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
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lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The objective of the course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of the terminology and issues of contemporary discourse in aesthetics, to develop skills for working individually with texts on aesthetics, to provide experience in analysing certain phenomena of aesthetics individually, to prepare students for listening to more specific lectures on aesthetics and also for participation in the seminars, which address specific aspects of aesthetics studies, to provide primary prerequisites for effective performance on the labour market.
Brief description of the course
Aesthetics as a science. Aesthetics and ethics. Main categories of aesthetics. The issues of beauty and art in the Bible: creator - creating - creation. Aesthetic thinking in ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, The Classical period and the Enlightenment. The aesthetic thinking of romanticism. The aesthetics of positivism. Marxist aesthetics. The aesthetic thinking of the twentieth century. Modernism, post-modernism and aesthetics. The essence and boundaries of art and the issue of the end of art. The creative process. Possibilities for aesthetic analyses.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the history of the aesthetics and the most relevant theories;
- has the knowledge of the basic aesthetical categories;
- is able to see and understand the interdisciplinary and interdiscursive relations of the aesthetics;
- obtains the skills of working in pairs and groups;
- represents his/her analytical observations in an argued way in the correct language, both in oral and written form;
- understands the need for further studies and his/her professional development.