COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHY OF ART

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 2002 PHILOSOPHY OF ART COMPULSORY 4 0 0 8

Offered By

Philosophy

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN BAL

Offered to

Philosophy

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to carry out a study on aesthetics and philosophy of art. The fundamental concepts and theories of aesthetics and philosophy of art will be investigated.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students learn the fundamental concepts and theories of aesthetics and philosophy of art.
2   The students improve a special skill in terms of how a discussion on aesthetics and philosophy of art can be conducted.
3   The students learn the difference between artisanship and art.
4   The students develop a critical understanding that help them beautify and enhance their judgment of taste.
5   The students are introduced to the new means of thought for the investigation of movements and theories of art.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 A short history of aesthetics and philosophy of art
2 Plato's theory of art. The mimetic theory of art
3 Aristotle, art and Greek tragedy
4 Plotinus and art as the contact of ideal (real) world and phenomenal (living) world.
5 Modern philosophy and art. Origins of the ideas of the "beautiful" and the "sublime". Burke and the exploration of the judgment of taste
6 Kant and emancipation of the faculty of imagination from reason and understanding.
7 Popularisation of art: Romanticist philosophy, Novalis and Hölderlin
8 Midterm Exam
9 Hegel's philosophy of fine arts.
10 Nietzsche's idea of "the world as a work of art."
11 Art as unconscious activity.
12 Heidegger and origin of the work of art.
13 Social and political art: Lukacs.
14 Socially and politically committed art: Sartre and Brecht.
15 Adorno and his aesthetic theory
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Hegel, G. W. F. (1975). Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, translated by T.M. Knox, Vol. I. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.

Burke, Edmund (1757). A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R. and J. Dodsley.

Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg (1992). Essays on Aristotle's Poetics. Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Crowther, Paul (1996). Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Osborne, Harold (1970). Aesthetics and Art Theory, An Historical Introduction. New York: E.P. Dutton.

Stolniz, Jerome (1965). Aesthetics. London: The Macmillan Company.

Ackerman, James S. (2001). Origins, Imitations, Conventions, Representation in the Visual Arts. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Philosophy of art is a course that is carried out theoretically.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Regular class attendance and doing homework assignments properly and taking responsibility for doing them correctly and handing it in on time will affect the success of the students positively.

Assessment Criteria

The students are responsible for regular class attendance and doing homework assignments. They will receive points for both of them which are figured into the class grade.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The students are expected to read sequentially the materials in the course file that includes archive of the subjects discussed in the course.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül University, Tinaztepe Campus, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy,
Room no: 328, Postal Code: 35260, Buca, Izmir / TURKEY.

Office Hours

Monday: 11-12.
Tuesday: 11-12
Thursday: 11-12

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 13 4 52
Case study 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 17 17
Preparation for quiz etc. 0 0 0
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 12 12
Field study 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

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.143
LO.2343
LO.345
LO.44
LO.533

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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