History of ancient art

obligatory courses

The course discusses the history of ancient Greek and Roman architecture and arts in conjunction with general history and the history of aesthetics and literature.

methodologies of disciplines dealing with cultural studies;

the links between humanities disciplines and the unique relations between different disciplines connected with cultural studies; they will acquire the basics of an interdisciplinary approach in cultural studies;

issues related to the reception of antiquity;

the most important creators of European culture;

classical philosophy authors and their ideas;

contemporary directions of cultural studies;

the basic methods of interpreting a work of visual art, including iconographic and stylistic analysis;

the relationships between cultural development and social change

Skills: students completing the course will be able to

retrieve and interpret information using different sources, including Latin and Neo-Latin sources, literary and historical texts, anthropological sources;

write and present a study on the reception of a work of ancient culture in later periods;

interpret a work of visual art, also in the context of other sources from a given period;

acquire research skills enabling them to formulate and resolve research problems of cultural studies; to this aim, they will be able to perform basic analyses with the help of interdisciplinary research methods and tools;

take part in discussions on cultural studies topics, including presenting logical argumentation and drawing critical conclusions;

present the results of their own analysis of a simple research problem in written and oral form;

autonomously identify the main theses of an oral presentation / written text in Polish and in a selected language of the Mediterranean area;

produce a written and oral presentation taking into account the different needs of their prospective audience, using basic digital tools and internet resources useful for this purpose;

Social competences: students completing the course will be ready to

carry out the work plan of their contribution to a class, according to the teacher’s guidelines;

be aware of the importance of ancient heritage in European culture

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