Course syllabus

Estetik II
Aesthetics II

AFON35, 9 credits, A (Second Cycle)

Valid for: 2018/19
Decided by: PLED A
Date of Decision: 2018-04-04

General Information

Compulsory for: MD4
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish

Aim

The course aims to enlarge individual students’ abilities to reflect critically about questions of aesthetics, including their own design projects, principally by exercising them in dealing in practice with a design task while they read about, write on and discuss questions to do with aesthetics in a constructive way and in full awareness of theoretical considerations. The aim is that they shall acquire a better command of the conceptual means of actively taking a critical part in contemporary debates and discussions about aesthetics. They shall also individually be exercised in independently expressing opinions about aesthetical matters, while the course aims at providing them with a general introduction to aesthetics.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents

The course builds further in Aesthetics I and includes a fundamental survey of concepts and traditions in aesthetics that are of central importance to difference processes of designing, as well as discussions of products and their contexts. It includes education in the use of sketching and presentation techniques. It introduces the general subject of aesthetics and its history, principally from various aspects of design and practical exercises.

Examination details

Grading scale: UG - (U,G) - (Fail, Pass)
Assessment: The individual student can either Pass or Fail. To achieve a Pass, he or she must have submitted material that is approved and shall in addition have at least an eighty per cent active attendance at seminars and lectures.

The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.

Admission

Admission requirements:

The number of participants is limited to: No

Reading list

Contact and other information

Course coordinator: Marit Lindberg, marit.lindberg@arkitektur.lth.se