Aesthetics (HUM320) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
Aesthetics	HUM320	General Elective	3	0	0	3	4

Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A

Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective Courses
Course Level	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery	Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)	Staff
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	The course aims at introducing the concept of aesthetics to students, reading and discussing some of the most outstanding philosophers’ works (as a whole or as selections) on Aesthetics and tracing the changes and improvement in the idea of aesthetics in history.
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Learning the relationship and the difference between the concepts of aethetics and beauty Learning the relationship and the difference between the concepts of aethetics and ethics Becoming familiar with different views on the cognitivity of aethetics Becoming familiar with different views on the cognitivity of taste Developing skills for discussing the concepts of taste and poor taste Developing skills to form and present their personal opinions or opinions based on the views of the philosophers discussed Grasping the relationship between and among fine arts, aesthetics and ethics
Course Content	Defining art, aesthetics, the beautiful and the ugly, and ethics; scrutinizing their contents; examining the place of aethetics in art and nature; discussing and comparing the views of the philosophers studied.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	Introduction to Aesthetics	Recommended throughout the course
2	Aristote: Poetika(Poetics)
3	Aristote: Poetika(Poetics)
4	Plato: Şölen (Symposium)
5	Plato: Şölen (Symposium)
6	David Hume, Zevkin Ölçütüne Dair (Of the Standard of Taste)
7	David Hume, Zevkin Ölçütüne Dair (Of the Standard of Taste)
8	Kant, Immanuel, Yargı Yetisinin Eleştirisi (Critique of Judgment)
9	Kant, Immanuel, Yargı Yetisinin Eleştirisi (Critique of Judgment)
10	Kant, Immanuel, Yargı Yetisinin Eleştirisi
11	Nietzsche, Friedrick, Putların Alacakaranlığı (Twilight of the Idols) (Selection)
12	Nietzsche, Friedrick, Putların Alacakaranlığı (Selection)
13	Nietzsche, Friedrick, Tragedyanın Doğuşu (Birth of Tragedy) (Selections)
14	Nietzsche, Friedrick, Tragedyanın Doğuşu (Selections)
15	Review
16	Exam Week

Sources

Course Book	1. Aristoteles, Poetika, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1987.
	2. Platon, Şölen, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, 2016.
	3. David Hume, Zevkin Ölçütüne Dair, Elibron Classics, Boston, 2007.
	4. Kant, Immanuel, Yargı Yetisinin Eleştirisi, İdea Yayınavi, İstanbul, 2006.
	5. Nietzsche, Friedrick, Putların Alacakaranlığı, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul,2010.
	6. Nietzsche, Friedrick, Tragedyanın Doğuşu, Can sanat Yayınları, İstanbul, 2013.

Evaluation System

Requirements	Number	Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation	-	-
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	-	-
Homework Assignments	5	20
Presentation	2	10
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	1	30
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	40
Toplam	9	100

Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work	100
Total	100

Course Category

Core Courses	X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	Level of Contribution
#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	1	2	3	4	5
1	Has the ability to apply scientific knowledge gained in the undergraduate education and to expand and extend knowledge in the same or in a different area
2	Can apply gained knowledge and problem solving abilities in inter-disciplinary research
3	Has the ability to work independently within research area, to state the problem, to develop solution techniques, to solve the problem, to evaluate the obtained results and to apply them when necessary
4	Takes responsibility individually and as a team member to improve systematic approaches to produce solutions in unexpected complicated situations related to the area of study
5	Can develop strategies, implement plans and principles on the area of study and can evaluate obtained results within the framework
6	Can develop and extend the knowledge in the area and to use them with scientific, social and ethical responsibility
7	Has the ability to follow recent developments within the area of research, to support research with scientific arguments and data, to communicate the information on the area of expertise in a systematically by means of written report and oral/visual presentation
8	To have an oral and written communication ability in at least one of the common foreign languages ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B2)
9	Has software and hardware knowledge in the area of expertise, and has proficient information and communication technology knowledge
10	Follows scientific, cultural, and ethical criteria in collecting, interpreting and announcing data in the research area and has the ability to teach.
11	Has professional ethical consciousness and responsibility which takes into account the universal and social dimensions in the process of data collection, interpretation, implementation and declaration of results in mathematics and its applications.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments	5	3	15
Quizzes/Studio Critics	1	10	10
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	10	10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	15	15
Total Workload			98