| Course title | |||||
| 文学・芸術学 [Art and Literature] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 3～4 | Semester | Spring | |
| Course type | Spring | Course code | 020013 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 中村 美智太郎 [NAKAMURA Michitarou] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| This course provides students with the literary, aesthetical and philosophical foundation for thinking of some subjects of literatures and arts. Students will learn to recognize traditional ones through some artworks including music works, fine arts and movies. Students entering this course will be able to experience various cultures. |
| Expected Learning |
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Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to: (1) Understand diversity of Literature / Art / Kunstwissenschaft / Aesthetics, accept it, and improve own cultural level (2) Describe own thoughts of Literature / Art / Kunstwissenschaft / Aesthetics logically, using examples or theories |
| Course schedule |
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Week 1 Introduction to this course On Characters of this course: Literature, Science of art (Kunstwissenschaft) and Aesthetics Week 2 How can the "beautiful" be? On the conditions of modern Art Week 3 State needs Art? (1) On Plato's Philosopher king and Art Read: Chapter 1-1. Week 4 State needs Art? (2) On Schiller's Aesthetic education and Art Read: Chapter 4-1. Week 5 Pleasure and Happiness (1) On Aristotle's theory of Eudaemonia Read: Chapter 1-2. Week 6 Pleasure and Happiness (2) On Kant's theory of Freedom Read: Chapter 4-1. Week 7 Examination (1) Week 8 Explanation for examination(1) Week 9 "Oedipus the King" (1) On Freud's Psychoanalysis Read: Chapter 4-2. Week 10 "Oedipus the King" (2) On Sphinx and music Read: Chapter 3-2. Week 11 Music of Castrato On the relationship gender / sex and fine arts Read: Chapter 3-1. Week 12 " Metamorphoses" On Pygmalion mythology and Simulacre Read: Chapter 2-3. Week 13 What is the difference between the natural and the artificial? On "the ghost in the machine" Read: Chapter 1-3. Week 14 What is Art for human beings? Art, Machine and Human beings Week 15 Conclusion Examination (2) |
| Prerequisites |
| Students entering this class are assumed to take a positive attitude toward literatures and Aesthetics. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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"Kotoba to Bunka no Kyouen" Ed. Kazuyoshi TANAKA and Michitaro NAKAMURA. Kazama-shobo. 2014. ISBN-10: 4759920390 |
| References |
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"Seiyou Tetsugaku no Kiseki" Ed. Kazushi MISAKI and Kunihiko MIZUNO. Koyo-shobo. 2012. ISBN-10: 4771023417 Other reference publications will be given weekly. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Positive attitude weekly (20%)+Exam (1)(30%)+ Exam (2)(50%) Two Exams will be given. Logic and persuasiveness will be taken very seriously. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
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Students are expected to find out own problem of literatures and arts and deliberate on it, even if these works are not important for others. Homework assignments will be given weekly. Homework will constitute reading Textbook and Reference publications. |
| Course keywords |
| Aesthetics, Fine arts, Greek literature, German literature, Philosophy, Ethics |
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| Last update |
| 3/9/2017 11:27:51 AM |