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EDAR414 Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 4

10 cp
Pre or Co-requisite EDAR417 Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 2 and EDAR418 Visual Arts Curriculum and Teaching 3

This unit focuses on the nature of aesthetic experience. Students are introduced to different perspectives of aesthetics: historical, philosophical, social and cultural. Studies of cognition and research on knowing in art are considered in relation to recent research in conceptual development in art and frameworks of understanding in the aesthetic domain. The unit examines the place of aesthetic education in the visual arts curriculum.

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