University of Galway

Course Module Information

Course Modules

Semester 2 | Credits: 10

This module aims to provide students with an insightful understanding and critical grasp of environmental issues in relation to aesthetics values
(Language of instruction: English)

Learning Outcomes
  1. Demonstrate insightful understanding of environmental issues in relation to aesthetic values
  2. Identify critical environmental issues within the context of the contemporary world
  3. Display a sound understanding of how philosophical reflection can contribute to addresssing issues concerning aesthetic experience and the environment.
  4. Explain rigourously and accurately existing works in the field
  5. Develop critical thinking and creative ideas
  6. Research and write a coherent essay with citations on an agreed relevant topic in the field of environmental aesthetics
  7. Actively take part in constructive and critical dialogues
Assessments
  • Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
Reading List
  1. "Chinese Environmental Aesthetics" by Wangheng Chen
  2. "A Japanese View of Nature—The World of Living Things" by Kinji Imanishi
  3. "Physics (4th c. BCE)" by Aristotle
  4. "Critique of Judgment" by Immanuel Kant,
  5. "A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" by Edmond Burke
  6. "The Search for the Picturesque" by Malcolm Andrews
  7. "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau
  8. "Essential Muir" by John Muir
  9. "Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics" by Allen Carlson, 2008
  10. "Living in the Landscape: Toward an Aesthetics of Environment" by Arnold Berleant, 1997
  11. "The Aesthetics of Human Environments" by Arnold Berleant, 2007
  12. "Everyday Aesthetics" by Yuriko Saito, 2010
  13. "Thinking through Landscape" by Augustin Berque, 2013
The above information outlines module PI6108: "Environmental Aesthetics" and is valid from 2015 onwards.
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.