AESTHETIC (2 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: analyze issues in philosophical aesthetics perceptively and evaluate them critically; analyze the historical achievements in aesthetics, current major issues in philosophical aesthetics raised by the art-works, processes, and directions in aesthetics; demonstrate an understanding of the common elements and vocabulary of philosophical aesthetics and of the interaction of these elements, and be able to employ this knowledge in analysis; exhibit their work and contribute in critiques and discussions of their work and the work of others.

Topics:

Introduction, Everyday Aesthetics: From Space, Place, to Non-place, Non-Western Cultures, and the Aesthetic Experience, Making Meaning Through Music, The Creative Economy: Between Aesthetics and Commercialization, Fashion and Identity, The Cyborg: Towards a Posthuman Aesthetics, Aesthetics at its Margins: Representations of Pain in Art, Geometries: Mathematical Paradigms in Aesthetic Object.

Prerequisite(s): None