Course code

EKK6045.HT

old course code

EKK6045

Course title in Estonian

Esteetika

Course title in English

Aesthetics

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Margus Vihalem (language of instruction:Estonian)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn 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.

Teacher

Margus Vihalem

Study programmes containing that course

Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/24.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/23.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/22.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/21.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/20.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/19.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/18.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/17.FK)
Integrated Arts, Music and Multimedia (KUMMB/16.FK)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/15.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/15.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/15.HT)
English Language and Culture (GRIB/15.HT)
History (AIAJB/15.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/15.HT)
Art Education (KUKUB/15.FK)
Psychology (PSPSB/15.LT)
Finnish Philology (EKSOB/15.HT)
German Language and Culture (GRSB/15.HT)
Handicraft Technology and Design (HKKDR/15.HK)
Asian Studies (HILAB/15.HT)
Film Arts (BFFVB/14.FK)
Asian Studies (HILAB/14.HT)
English Language and Culture (GRIB/14.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/14.HT)
Finnish Philology (EKSOB/14.HT)
Handicraft Technology and Design (HKKDR/14.HK)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/14.HT)
Psychology (PSPSB/14.LT)
Art Education (KUKUB/14.FK)
History (AIAJB/14.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/14.HT)
German Language and Culture (GRSB/14.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/14.HT)
English Language and Culture (GRIB/13.HT)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/13.HT)
Handicraft Technology and Design (HKKDR/13.HK)
History (AIAJB/13.HT)
Art Education (KUKUB/13.FK)
Finnish Philology (EKSOB/13.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/13.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/13.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/13.HT)
German Language and Culture (GRSB/13.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/13.HT)
Psychology (PSPSB/13.LT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/12.HT)
Finnish Philology (EKSOB/12.HT)
German Language and Culture (GRSB/12.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/12.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/12.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/12.HT)
Film Arts (BFFVB/12.FK)
History (AIAJB/12.HT)
Art Education (KUKUB/12.FK)
English Language and Culture (GRIB/12.HT)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/12.HT)
Handicraft Technology and Design (HKKDR/12.HK)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/00.HT)
History (AIAJB/11.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/11.HT)
Finnish Philology (EKSOB/11.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/11.HT)
Public Relations (KOSKB/11.FK)
Humanities (KKHB/11_1.HT)
Choreography (KUKOB/11.FK)
English Language and Culture (GRIB/11.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/11.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/11.HT)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/11.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/11.HT)
Arts Therapies (KUKTB/11.LT)
Audiovisual media (BFMB/11.FK)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/11.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/11.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/11.HT)
Art Education (KUKUB/11.FK)
German Language and Culture (GRSB/11.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/11_2.HT)
Environmental Management (MLKSB/11.LT)
Humanities (KKHB/11.HT)
Handicraft Technology and Design (HKKDR/11.HK)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/10.HT)
Estonian as a Second Language and Estonian Culture (EKEVB/10.HT)
English Language and Culture (GRIB/10.HT)
German Language and Culture (GRSB/10.HT)
Finnish Philology (EKSOB/10.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/10.HT)
Reviewer-Editor (EKRTB/10.HT)
History (AIAJB/10.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/10.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/10.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/10.HT)
Arts Therapies (KUKTB/10.LT)
Humanities (KKHB/10_1.HT)
Handicraft Technology and Design (HKKDR/10.HK)
Art Education (KUKUB/10.FK)
Film Arts (BFFVB/10.FK)
Choreography (KUKOB/10.FK)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/10E.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10_2.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10E.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10.HT)
Arts Therapies (KUKTB/09.LT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/09.HT)
History (AIAJB/09.HT)
Arts Therapies (KUKTB/08.LT)
History (AIAJB/08.HT)
Arts Therapies (KUKTB/07.LT)
Art Education (KUKUB/07.FK)
History (AIAJB/07.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/06.HT)
History (AIAJB/06.HT)
History (AIAJB/05.HT)
History (AIAJB/04.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/00.HT)
History (AIAJB/00.HT)
Finnish Philology (EKSOB/00.HT)
Arts Therapies (KUKTB/00.LT)
English Language and Culture (GRIB/00.HT)