Applied Aesthetics

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Course ID:	3800-ESTS21-S-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0223) Philosophy and ethics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Applied Aesthetics
Name in Polish:	Estetyka stosowana
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Philosophy
Course groups:	General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective seminars general courses
Short description:	The aim of the seminar will be to apply the tools of philosophical aesthetics to such issues as business, creativity, ecology, everyday life, design, health, law, mass culture, politics, sports. Even if aesthetics is usually associated with philosophy of arts and such categories as beauty or contemplation, it has gone well beyond this traditional paradigm and as a result it offers important insights into certain aspects of the contemporary world.
Full description:	The aim of the seminar will be to apply the tools of philosophical aesthetics to such issues as business, creativity, ecology, everyday life, design, health, law, mass culture, politics, sports. Even if aesthetics is usually associated with philosophy of arts and such categories as beauty or contemplation, it has gone well beyond this traditional paradigm and as a result it offers important insights into certain aspects of the contemporary world.
Bibliography:	Selected bibliography A. Carlson, Nature and Landscape, New York: Columbia University Press 2009 D. Dutton, Instynkt sztuki: piękno, zachwyt i ewolucja człowieka, przeł. J. Luty, E. Staniek, Kraków: Copernicus Center Press 2020 J. Forsey, The Aesthetics of Design, Oxford: OUP 2016 J. Halberstam, Przedziwna sztuka porażki, przeł. M. Denderski, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej 2018 J. Holt, Kinetic Beauty: the Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport, New York: Routledge 2020 D. Koczanowicz, Pozycja smaku: jedzenie w granicach sztuki, Warszawa: IBL 2018 L. Lessig, Remiks. Aby sztuka i biznes rozkwitały w hybrydowej gospodarce, przeł. R. Próchniak, Warszawa: WAiP 2009. J. Petri, Somatyka miejskich dyscyplin performatywnych. Skateboarding, freerunning, parkour, Kraków: WUJ 2020 A. Reckwitz, Odkrycie kreatywności: o procesie społecznej estetyzacji, przeł. K. Kończak, Z. Sucharska, Warszawa: NCK 2017 Y. Saito, Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making, Oxford: OUP 2019 W. Kazimierska-Jerzyk, Kamp, glamour, vintage : współczesne kategorie estetyczne, Łódź: WUŁ 2018 C. Sartwell, Political Aesthetics, Ithaca: CUP 2010 K. Zeidler, Aesthetics of Law, Gdańsk: WUG 2018
Learning outcomes:	Acquired knowledge: - deep knowledge of research methods and argumentative strategies used in the philosophical approaches discussed during the course - deep knowledge of methods of interpretation of philosophical texts - deep knowledge od the philosophical Polish terminology - deep knowledge of the relations between philosophical ideas and changes in culture and societies Acquired skills: - ability to interpret philosophical texts, creatively and innovatively comment on them and cofront different theses - ability to offer simple philosophical argumentation, identifying logical relations between theses - ability to define one’s philosophical viewpoint Acquired social skills: - initiating and having discussions - identifying one’s knowledge and skills - identifying lacunae in one’s knowledge and skills and searching for possibilities to eliminate them
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	- active participation - writing resumes of the texts included in the reading list - presentation or written assessment at the end of the course

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