Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code AHH38001 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 芸術哲学
Subject Name
(Katakana)
ゲイジュツテツガク
Subject Name in
English
Philosophy of Art
Instructor SEKIMURA MAKOTO
Instructor
(Katakana)
セキムラ マコト
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  First Semester,  2Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (2T) Fri5-8:IAS K110
Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
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Lecture 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction J : Japanese
Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 01 : Philosophy
Eligible Students Lecture
Keywords Sensibility, Beauty, Realism, Abstract, Recognition of the World, Mask, Animism, Fudo 
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Integrated Arts and Sciences
(Knowledge and Understanding)
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.
・The knowledge and understanding  to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines. 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
The purpose of this lecture is to understand philosophical issues related to beauty, art, and human sensitivity, and to develop ways of thinking about them. It examines basic problems of beauty and art through an overview of some of the basic items of aesthetics and art philosophy from ancient Greece. 
Class Schedule 1. Introduction
2. Sensibility
3. Realism and Abstraction (1) Artistic Expression and View of the World
4. Realism and Abstraction (2) Immanent Beauty and Abstraction
5. Reality and Impression (1) Color and Light
6. Reality and Impression (2) Reality and Illusion
7. Creation and Mind (1) Desire for Beauty and Enthusiasm
8. Creation and Mind (2) Recognition of the World and Creative Activity
9. Mask and Face (1) Mask and Persona
10. Mask and Face (2) Self-existence and Self-portrait
11. Life and Animism (1) Nature and Life
12. Life and Animism (2) Animism and Technology
13. Japanese Fudo and Greek Art (1) Tetsuro Watsuji and Greek Sculpture
14. Japanese Fudo and Greek Art (2) Seeing and Feeling
15. Conclusion

Students are required to hand in a paper in the final class. 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
There is no required textbook. Reference books will be introduced during every lecture. 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
 
(More Details) Handout・Picture(PC) 
Learning techniques to be incorporated  
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
Students are expected to read and consider handouts. 
Requirements None 
Grading Method Report (70%), Attitude toward the class (30%) 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message Bring a laptop to class. 
Other   
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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