CCOG for PHL 222 Spring 2024
- Course Number:
- PHL 222
- Course Title:
- The Philosophy of Art and Beauty
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Articulate key philosophical arguments in the field of aesthetics.
- Identify the influence of culturally based perspectives, values and beliefs to examine how diverse philosophical perspectives affect human experience.
- Construct arguments on issues dealing with aesthetics using critical reasoning to identify and investigate philosophical theses and evaluate information and its sources.
- Respond to arguments on issues dealing with aesthetics using critical reasoning to identify and investigate philosophical theses and evaluate information and its sources.
Integrative Learning
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.
General education philosophy statement
Philosophy courses ask students to use critical thinking and reasoning skills in multiple ways: to identify the content, structure, and influence of beliefs, to examine how diverse philosophical perspectives affect human experience, and to construct and respond to arguments on a variety of philosophical issues. They encourage students to both create and understand their and others’ frameworks of meaning, and to use this new understanding in their own lived experience.
Course Activities and Design
The course will be conducted in both the standard classroom and distance learning settings. It will involve lectures, discussions, and other assignments such as exams and papers.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assessment strategies will include some of the following:
- Essays in the form of in-class exams, short papers, or term papers
- Short-answer exams
- Reading and field trip journals
- Attendance and participation in class discussions and student presentations
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Course Content
Themes, Concepts, Issues
The course will focus on some or all of the following themes:
- The nature of art, works of art, and aesthetic contemplation
- Art as an archetypal response to human experience
- Habitat, geography, and culture as determiners of artistic media
- The functions art has fulfilled in human culture for millennia: Art for Intervention, Art for Affiliation, Art for Documentation, Art for Aesthetic Contemplation
- Major theories in Western Aesthetics: Mimetic, Pragmatic, Emotionalist, and Formalist
- Standards of taste, interpretation, and the arts.
- The role of the critic, consumer, and gallery in shaping aesthetic experience
- The social and political context of art
Competencies and Skills:
Students will learn to:
- Read, analyze, and discuss philosophical writings on aesthetics
- Critique and challenge philosophpical and cultural perspectives in aesthetic judgment
- Write in a style which is original, coherent, and convincing about works of art and issues in aesthetic theory