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Ancient mythology and modernity

ВК 2.2.5 (П2)

Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП

First

2021/2022

7 Semester

3

PLO15. To demonstrate the basic skills of creative and critical thinking in research and professional communication PLO 22. To demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in new situations, in working with new objects and in uncertain conditions. PLO 23. To show skills of independent work, demonstrate critical, creative, self-critical thinking.

Full-time form

To know main terms and concepts, peculiarities and specific features of primitive and ancient art. To be able to characterize main stages of historical and cultural development of the ancient world. To possess skills of source criticism, historical analyzes, setting the cause-and-effect relationship.

The course “Mythology in the art of European communities” reveals the specific features of religion and mythology of the Ancient Europe as well as the influence of such beliefs on arts of Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. Using written sources, objects of visual arts, archaeology and epigraphy, students examine mythology of ancient ethnic and cultural communities, including the earliest European rural population, Early Indo-Europeans, Ancient Greeks and Italians, Scythians, Thracians, Celts, Germans, Early Slavs. Special attention is paid to the artifacts of ancient art that reflect mindset and beliefs of Ancient Europeans as well as reception of the ancient religious culture in the visual arts of modernity.

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Lectures, seminars, student’s individual work

Oral presentation, test, essay

Ukrainian