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