Summer 2020 - HUM 382 D100
Selected Topics in Asian Cultures (4)
Class Number: 3945
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 11 – Aug 10, 2020: Tue, 5:30–9:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Aug 18, 2020
Tue, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
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Prerequisites:
45 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An in-depth study on a specific aspect of Asian cultures in the modern period, including art, film, media and/or literature.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course introduces students to a different worldview and ideas of art in relation to beauty, sense, body, environment in Chinese arts and culture. By reading and discussing theoretical texts on various key topics in Chinese aesthetics, such as “oneness between human and nature,” “great image,” and “living energy,” students will learn how to look at and talk about Chinese arts from a Chinese aesthetic tradition. Students will also be exposed to various Chinese arts including music, poetry, painting, calligraphy, architecture. They will have in-class discussion on them, conceiving the artworks not as just art objects, but a window to understand a Chinese worldview expressed through artistic mediums. The purpose of the theoretical discussion is not only to provide students with essential knowledge and research skills of Chinese arts, but also to offer inspiration and provoke thinking beyond Anglophone art discourses through open-ended dialogue between East and West.
Grading
- Weekly stimulant ungraded%
- Attendance and participation 15%
- Annotated case study 15%
- Annotated bibliography 15%
- Essay proposal 10%
- Peer review 5%
- Presentation 10%
- Essay 30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
* Somaesthetics and “身(Shen)”:a Chinese Understanding of “Body”
* “Performative Painting” or “Body Calligraphy”: beyond the Boundary of Art Mediums I
* “The Great Image Has No Form”: “意象(Yixiang)” in Chinese Aesthetics
* “Painting in Poetry, Poetry in Painting”: beyond the Boundary of Art Mediums II
* The Construction of “境(Jing)”: Artwork as an Experiential Space-Time Continuum
* Environmental Aesthetics: a Chinese perspective of Human-Nature Relationship
* The notion of “气(Qi)” and its embodiment in Artworks
* Taoism and the Idea of “Nothingness” in Chinese Aesthetics
Registrar Notes:
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TEACHING AT SFU IN SUMMER 2020
Please note that all teaching at SFU in summer term 2020 will be conducted through remote methods. Enrollment in this course acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes.Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as soon as possible to ensure that they are eligible and that approved accommodations and services are implemented in a timely fashion.