Aesthetics

Course: Cultural Studies

Structural unit: Faculty of Philosophy

Title
Aesthetics
Code
ОК 9
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
2. Analyze, comment, summarize, scientific and analytical texts of cultural nature. 4. To know and understand theoretical approaches to the definition of culture, its manifestations and forms of existence. 6. Identify, verify and summarize information about various contexts of cultural practice, determine the degree of their relevance using relevant sources, information, communication tools and visual technologies. 7. Understand the factors of cultural dynamics, the principles of periodization of cultural processes, their specific features and characteristics. 8. Interpret cultural sources (material, printed, visual, artistic) using special literature and certain methods, reasonably present conclusions about their content.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1.Before studying this course, students must know the basic stages and characteristics of the historical and cultural process; basic historical and philosophical theories, including methods of philosophy of culture, theory and history of culture; basic philosophical concepts and categories ; 2. Students must be able to collect and interpret information on cultural phenomena and phenomena, cultural processes and events; apply the basic terms, categories and classifications of philosophical knowledge in the analysis of socio-cultural phenomena and processes; identify current trends in art culture, predict the prospects for their development, taking into account the peculiarities of cultural processes in the context of globalization; 3. Students must have basic skills in research and information management; critical attitude and forecasting in relation to political, cultural and artistic events and phenomena; use of foreign professional philosophical information sources.
Course content
Part 1. Aesthetic. Its essence and basic forms. Aesthetic consciousness and its structure. Nature and development of aesthetic categories The process of artistic creativity. The structure of the creative process. Aesthetic perception of a work of art Specificity of art Aesthetic culture and aesthetic education. Part 2. Historical dynamics of aesthetic theory and artistic practice. Aesthetics of the Ancient East. Symbolic art form. Ancient aesthetics. Classical art form. The ideal principle of the spectacle. Mimesis as a basic concept of ancient aesthetics. General characteristics of the aesthetics of the Middle Ages. Aesthetics of the Renaissance and the time of the "picture of the world". Expression as a basic concept of modern aesthetics. General characteristics of the aesthetics of the Enlightenment. Romantic art form. Aesthetic theory of Kant. Sign as a basic concept of aesthetic theory of modernism. Aesthetic theories and practices of postmodernism.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Alun Munslow The Aesthetics of History. Routledge, 2020. – 204 р. Lydia L Moland Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism. Oxford University Press, 2019. – 353 р. Lopes, Dominic McIver. “Beyond the Pleasure Principle: A Kantian Aesthetics of Autonomy”. Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 58, no. 1 (2021): 1–18.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, self-study
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Oral presentation, additions and participation in discussions at seminars: - 45/75 points 2. Self-study test in writing: - 15 /25 балів. Final assessment in the form of an exam. Examination assessment is in writing. The ticket consists of 2 questions, each of which is evaluated on a scale of 20 whites, which gives a total of 40 points for the exam. A student is not allowed to take the exam if he / she scored less than 20 points during the semester. To obtain an overall positive grade in the discipline, the grade for the exam can not be less than 24 points.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Iryna Viktorivna Zhyvohliadova
Department of Ethics, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Philosophy
Valentyna Ivanivna Panchenko
Department of Ethics, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Philosophy