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 Aesthetics Seminar 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
108SE2 Z 3 1/T Czech summer
Subject guarantor:
Roman DYKAST
Name of lecturer(s):
Roman DYKAST
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to demonstrate abilities in the independent critical essays on aesthetics topics through a course paper and joining in discussions during classes which should lead to the development of critical thought and argumentation skills.

Mode of study:

Discussions and coursework evaluation

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Concurrent registration in Aesthetics 2 and credit from Aesthetics 1 are required.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

Class work: Brief characteristics of the proposed topic. In the second part, students complete a course paper on a selected aesthetics topic.

This course continues the lectures from the Introduction to Aesthetics in the Aesthetics course. The aim of the course is for the students to demonstrate, in the course paper, independently discuss aesthetics topics. In the course introductory lecture, the instructor establishes the basic rules for completing the course paper: topic selection, its precise content limits, its possible narrowing, search for relevant literature or sources, rules for citation and paraphrasing. The students present the course paper in class. Part of the paper evaluation is the subsequent discussion over the manner of development and verification of knowledge of the selected topic in the response to questions, which arise in discussion. The student's overall evaluation also includes participation in class and ability and desire to discuss the debated topics of the course papers.

Student select a topic from these:

Characteristics of aesthetics through the thoughts of one writer:

Asethetics, Pythagoras, Platon, Aristotle, Plotinus, Pseudo-Longino, Vitruvius, St. Augustine, Boethia, Thomas Aquinas, Francesco Petrarka, Dante Alighieri Marsilia Ficin, Pietro Bembo, Rene Descartes, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Francis Hutchenson, Edmund Burky, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Immanuel Kant, George W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, Jan Mukařovský, Umberto Eco

Basic aesthetics categories:

Catharsis, Grace, Harmony, Proportion, Sympathy, Imagination (fantasy)

Period ideas of space and time and the influence of those ideas of artistic manners of treatment.

Rhetoric and issues of ornamentation in an artistic work

Artistically creative types theory

Artistic poetry

Aesthetics theory of expression in the arts

Art and feeling/emotion/effects

Artistic genius theory

Borders of art - issues of kitsch

Form vs Content

Various period aesthetics conflicts (ex: questions of two styles / ancient and Asian, Ancient and modern art, numerous quarrels - conflicts in France, etc.)

Questions of artistic inspiration

Aesthetics and issues of the interpretation of an artistic work

Concept of taste (in various periods)

Modern vs Post-modern aesthetics

Aesthetics and mass media.

Recommended or required reading:

Recommended instructions for selection of topic, critically working with literature and writing technique (proper citation, paraphrasing techniques for foreign texts, notations, etc.):

Eco, Umberto: Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Votobia, Olomouc 1997.

Šimek, Dušan - Kubátová, Helena: Od abstraktu do závěrečné práce. Jak psát (a možní i napsat) závěrečnou práci ve společenskovědních oborech. Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc 2002.

Tvůrčí psaní - klíčová kompetence na vysoké škole (ed. Z. FIŠER). Doplněk, Brno 2005.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

To receive credit, the student must fulfill 100% of the required criteria which are proportionally divided into:

Course work: 50%

Class participation, ability and desire to discuss: 25%

Class attendance: 25% (attendance much exceed half of the classes).

Course web page:
http://www.hamu.cz/katedry/katedra-teorie-a-dejin-hudby/studijni-texty
Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
místnost 2017
Učebna KTDH 2017

(Lichenštejnský palác)
DYKAST R.
15:00–15:45
(paralelka 1)
místnost 2017
Učebna KTDH 2017

(Lichenštejnský palác)
DYKAST R.
15:45–16:30
(paralelka 2)
místnost 2017
Učebna KTDH 2017

(Lichenštejnský palác)
DYKAST R.
16:30–17:15
(paralelka 3)
místnost 2017
Učebna KTDH 2017

(Lichenštejnský palác)
DYKAST R.
17:15–18:00
(paralelka 4)
místnost 2017
Učebna KTDH 2017

(Lichenštejnský palác)
DYKAST R.
18:00–18:45
(paralelka 5)
místnost 2017
Učebna KTDH 2017

(Lichenštejnský palác)
DYKAST R.
18:45–19:30
(paralelka 6)
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Thu 15:00–15:45 DYKAST R. Učebna KTDH 2017
Lichenštejnský palác
paralelka 1
Thu 15:45–16:30 DYKAST R. Učebna KTDH 2017
Lichenštejnský palác
paralelka 2
Thu 16:30–17:15 DYKAST R. Učebna KTDH 2017
Lichenštejnský palác
paralelka 3
Thu 17:15–18:00 DYKAST R. Učebna KTDH 2017
Lichenštejnský palác
paralelka 4
Thu 18:00–18:45 DYKAST R. Učebna KTDH 2017
Lichenštejnský palác
paralelka 5
Thu 18:45–19:30 DYKAST R. Učebna KTDH 2017
Lichenštejnský palác
paralelka 6
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