COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
	Fall/Spring

Prerequisites	None
Course Language
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	-
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	-
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; will be able to understand and use the basic concepts constituting the sociology of the arts. will be able to evaluate the central approaches contructed in the sociological examination of aesthetic experience. will be able to contrast the salient differences between the production and the consumption of art; and establish connections between these two fields. will be able to reflect critically on the criteria of judgments of taste by analyzing the relation between works of art and their social context: are there universal standards of taste? will be able to assess the roles and the status of the artist—and the numerous networks that enmesh him/her—in modern societies. will be able to evaluate works of art in terms of their political function: what makes art emancipatory or repressive, progressive or conservative? will be able to discuss critically the distinction between high and low, classical and pop art.
Course Description

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Managment Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Required Materials
1	Presentation and overview of the course; viewing of and discussion on Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
2	What is art? What is aesthetic experience?	Zolberg, pp. 1 29
3	How does one go from “This is beautiful” to a sociology of the arts (and back again)?	Zolberg, pp. 53 79; Eagleton, pp. 1 16
4	The work of art as social process. Reflection approaches and shaping approaches.	Zolberg, pp. 79 107; Alexander, pp. 21 37 & 41 55
5	Reception approaches and audience studies.	Zolberg, pp. 136 162; Alexander, pp. 181 222
6	Art and social boundaries.	Alexander, pp. 225 244
7	MIDTERM
8	Aesthetic experience and its vicissitudes (1): how to evaluate the evaluations of art.	Bourdieu, RA, pp. 214 274
9	Aesthetic experience and its vicissitudes (2): the social uses of art.	Bourdieu, DJT, pp. 257 318
10	“A strange sensation: controversies in art.”	Alexander, pp. 278 305
11	The function of the artist.	Zolberg, pp. 107 136; Alexander, pp. 131 152
12	Ways of seeing (1): the social space of perception.	Alexander, pp. 251 278; Sontag, OP, pp. 3 85
13	Wk 12 cont’d.	Sontag, pp. 85 183; Berger, WS, pp. 1 34
14	Ways of seeing (2): the political space of perception.	Ranciere, DPA, pp. 115 205
15	Research Paper Submission and Review of the course.	Research paper submission deadline.
16	Final	Final

Course Notes/Textbooks

Zolberg, Vera L., Constructing a Sociology of the Arts, Cambridge University Press (1990); Alexander, Victoria D., Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms, WileyBlackwell (2003); Eagleton, Terry, Literary Theory: An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press (2008); Sontag, Susan, On Photography, Picador (2001) Bourdieu, Pierre, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Harvard University Press (1987), The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, Stanford University Press (1996) John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Penguin (1990)

Suggested Readings/Materials

Lectures will incorporate audio and visual material which will serve as starting points for class discussions

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	1	10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques	-	-
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	4	20
Presentation / Jury	1	20
Project	1	25
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm	1	25
Final Exam	-	-
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade		75
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade		25
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16
Study Hours Out of Class	16	4
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	4	1
Presentation / Jury
Project	1	9
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms	1	10
Final Exams	-	10
		Total	135

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to scientifically examine concepts and ideas in the field of sociology; to be able to interpret and evaluate data.			X
2	To be able to define classical and contemporary theories in sociology; to be able to identify the differences and similarities among those theories and to be able to evaluate them.				X
3	To be able to critically use the knowledge acquired in the field of sociology			X
4	To be able to plan and conduct, individually or as a member of a team, an entire sociological research process with the knowledge of methodological requirements of the field.	X
5	To be able to identify and evaluate local, regional and global issues and problems.
6	To be able to share their ideas and solutions supplemented by qualitative and quantitative data in written and oral forms.		X
7	To be able to make use of other disciplines related to sociology and to have core knowledge related to those disciplines.			X
8	To be able to follow developments in sociology and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale,” Level B1)			X
9	To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advancedlevel computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level)		X
10	To be able to use a second foreign language at the intermediate level.
11	To have social and scholarly values and ethical principles during the collection and interpretation of data for implementation, publication, dissemination, and maintenance		X
12	To acquire life long learning abilities that will enable the socially responsible application of knowledge based on their field of study to their professional and everyday lives.			X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest