COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AESTHETICS AND ART THEORIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 7053 AESTHETICS AND ART THEORIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN BAL

Offered to

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Course Objective

The course objective is to develop advanced skills and competency in the understanding of the basic teories of aesthetics and philosophy of art and to investigate process of the development of these theories in the history of philosophy.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   By the end of this course students will be able to comprehend philosophically the foundations of aesthetics and art.
2   Understand the differences between the theories developed about aesthetics and art.
3   Analyse the points on which theories of aesthetics and art criticize each others ideas.
4   Lead an effective discussion on the resources and the results that could be reached recently in the field of aesthetics and philosophy of art.
5   Apprehend the means and methods of leading a theorical investigation about aesthetics and philosophy of art.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the philosophy of art
2 Platos theory of art
3 Aristotle's theory of art
4 Plotin and the concept of beauty
5 Edmund Burke and judgment of taste
6 Kant's aesthetics
7 Schiller and social role of aesthetics
8 Mid-term exam
9 Romanticizm: Holderlin and Novalis
10 Schelling and philosophy of art
11 Hegel s aesthetics
12 Marxist aesthetics
13 Existentialist aesthetics
14 Franfurt school and aesthetics

Recomended or Required Reading

Aristoteles (2005) Poietika (Şiir Sanatı Üzerine) Yunanca/Türkçe, çev. Nazile Kalaycı, Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları.
Benjamin, Walter (2010) Sanatta ve Edebiyatta Eleştiri, Alman Romantizminde Sanat Eleştirisi Kavramı, Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik, çev. Elçin Gen - Mustafa Tüzel, Istanbul: Iletişim Yayınları.
Burke, Edmund (2008) Yüce ve Güzel Kavramlarımızın Kaynağı Hakkında Felsefi Bir Soruşturma, çev. Barış Gümüşbaş, Ankara: BilgeSu
Platon: Ion (Şiir Üstüne), Çev. Tacettin Ünlü, ss. 263-275. Içinde: Platon (1993) Diyaloglar, Istanbul: Remzi Kitabevi.
Farago, France (2006) Sanat, Çev. Özcan Doğan, Ankara: Doğu Batı.
Fischer, Ernst (2012) Sanatın Gerekliliği, John Berger'in önsözüyle, çev. Cevat Çapan, Istanbul: Sözcükler Yayınları.
Hegel G. W. F. (1975) Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art , tr. by T.M.Knox, Vol.I, Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
Heidegger, Martin (1993) Basic Writings, Ed. by David Farrell Krell, New York: Harper and Row Publishers.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

See "Assessment Methods" and "ECTS Table"

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3 will be evaluated by his/her presentation
LO 4-5 will be evaluated by the assignment of the student and by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. %70 attendance is required.
2. The participation in midterm and final exams will be considered in grading.
3. The participation in presentation activity will be considered in grading.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Metin Bal, Dokuz Eylul Uni. Tinaztepe Kampusu, ogretim uyeleri binasi, 3. kat, Felsefe Bolumu, oda no: 328, PK: 35260, Buca, Izmir, TURKEY.
tel: ++90 (232) 412 89 03, internal extention: 19411, Fax: ++90 (232) 453 90 93.
tel : ++90 (232) 301 94 11, mobile ++ 90 506 536 00 30.
metin.bal@deu.edu.tr, balmetin@gmail.com
http://www.metinbal.net

Office Hours

Tuesday: 8:30-9:15, Thursday: 8:30-9:15.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 8 3 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 7 84
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 159

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.155
LO.254
LO.34554
LO.454
LO.555