Spring 2025 - EDUC 848 G001

Ideas and Issues in Aesthetic Education (5)

Class Number: 4007

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Tue, 4:30–9:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

This course relates critical ideas in aesthetics to questions concerning the nature, purpose, and provision of the arts (visual art, music, drama, dance, literature) in education.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course critically explores the areas of aesthetics and aesthetic education and living aesthetically in the context of arts education and everyday aesthetics. The course will address the key questions: What is aesthetics? What are its key concepts, purposes and methods? How might aesthetics contribute to arts and aesthetic education? How might a philosophical understanding of aesthetics guide both inquiry and a teaching practice? What are the relationships between culture, urban environments, ecology, and identity and public art? How might contemporary socio-cultural issues critically connect to and shape one’s creative and professional practices as an artist and educator? Students will be encouraged to develop and articulate their own philosophy of aesthetics as it relates to their teaching and artistic practice. Particular emphasis will be on how contemporary research, movements, and social/cultural/educational issues reflect and impact practices in aesthetics and aesthetic education

Grading

  • Participation 10%
  • Seminar Leadership 30%
  • Proposition and artful inquiry with presentation 20%
  • Final Essay on "A personal philosophy of aesthetics" 40%

REQUIREMENTS:

All assignments, reading and active participation are required. Your voice, insight and presence in the class are important and will also be evaluated.

Attendance is a must, along with active engagement in groups along with classroom conversations. Participation marks are not simply allocated to those students who talk the most. Quality of input and demonstrated listening and collaboration skills are also important methods of engagement.

 

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Readings will be provided in class and is available via SFU library.


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.