COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN ARTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 7044 PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN ARTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

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

To make a study of putting forth and analysing the problems presented by major philosophers of philosophy of art in the understanding of the works of art.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to approach to the works of art from a philosophical point of view.
2   Being able to analyse philosophical problems generated from the works of art.
3   Being able to discuss thoroughly solution suggestions and to convey them.
4   Being able to put forward new questions of philosophy in consequence of analysis of artworks with philosophical concepts.
5   Being able to base the ideas related to the philosophical problems presented about the works of art.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Philosophical analysis of the source of the concepts of beauty and sublime
2 Judgment of taste and its criteria
3 Imagination and its boundaries
4 Relation between beauty and good
5 Judgment of taste and social dimension of aesthetics
6 The work of art and truth
7 Aesthetic and historical perspective
8 Mid-term Exam
9 The World as the work of art
10 Could we attribute a social role to art
11 The end of Realist art
12 The work of art and form
13 Origin of the work of art
14 Nonrepresentational art
15 General assessment
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Aristoteles (2005) Poietika (Şiir Sanatı Üzerine) Yunanca/Türkçe, çev. Nazile Kalaycı, Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları.
Hegel, F. Georg Wilhelm (1994) Estetetik, Güzel Sanatlar Üzerine Dersler, çev. Taylan Altuğ-Hakkı Hünler, Cilt I, Istanbul: Payel Yayınevi.
Shiner, Larry (2004) Sanatın Icadı, Bir Kültür Tarihi, (The Invention of Art: A Cultural History) Çev. Ismail Türkmen, Istanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları.
Burke, Edmund (2008) Yüce ve Güzel Kavramlarımızın Kaynağı Hakkında Felsefi Bir Soruşturma, Çev. Barış Gümüşbaş, Ankara: BilgeSu.
Eagleton, Terry (2012) Marksizm ve Edebiyat Eleştirisi, çev. Utku Özmakas, Istanbul: Iletişim Yayınları.
Sartre (2008) Edebiyat Nedir , çev. Bertan Onaran, Istanbul: Can Yayınları.
Oskay, Ünsal (1985) Estetik ve Politika, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukasc, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson, der. Ünsal Oskay, Istanbul: Eleştiri Yayınları.
Benjamin, Walter (1992) Pasajlar, Çev. Ahmet Cemal, Istanbul: YKY.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Seminar, presentation, discussion.

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


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 and by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exams.

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)

0232 301 94 11
metin.bal@deu.edu.tr
http://www.metinbal.net

Office Hours

To be announced.

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
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 130

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.154
LO.2455
LO.355
LO.45
LO.5555

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