honoriartist

Now I am looking at different syllabi for courses in aesthetics.

Georgia Tech's Optics and Aesthetics by Ron Broglio
· How to read and think critically about images, texts, and physical space 
· How to write engaging, thoughtful essays incorporating literary theory
· How to construct digital landscapes that reflect the concerns of the course by 
  using Dreamweaver and Photoshop 
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~broglio/optics/syllabus.html


Aesthetics and History of New Media by Katrien Jacobs at Emerson College
http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/Katrien_Jacobs/teaching/s_aesthist.html

Aesthetics Richard Field's syllabus with lots of readings in one source: Melvin Rader, A Modern Book of Esthetics, 5th ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979).
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/~rfield/475syl.htm

Suzanne Carbonneau Aesthetic Awareness Instructor watching for aesthetic paradigm shifting. she starts with some provocative quotations from Duchamp, Nabokov & John Cage.
http://www.avt.gmu.edu/Sylabbi/AVT307section001-Carbonneau.pdf
...examining a broad range of contemporary art and culture to engage an expansive,
amplified, and subversive experience of the aesthetic....the current cultural wars being waged over the forms, content, and aims of contemporary art will be examined for their suggestions of a shift in the governing aesthetic paradigms.