Course Details
Course Information Package
| Course Unit Title | SPECIAL STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN SCIENCES | ||||||||
| Course Unit Code | BACULT12 | ||||||||
| Course Unit Details | BA Architecture (Architecture, City, Civilisation) - | ||||||||
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 3 | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
| Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
| Course Contents | Introduction: The social-historical construction of the terms “modernity” and “tradition”. The decoding of terms as an [introductory] analytic strategy. The historical context/roots: Enlightenment and the French Revolution The cultural dynamics of modernity: Culture: from romanticism to realism – social and aesthetic transformations. The age of the machine : its impact on society, knowledge, politics, everyday life. The blending of rationality and progress. Discussion of architecture, theatre and/or painting. The cultural revolution of modernism: Modernist movements: painting, writing, cinema, theatre. Modernism and politics: social revolution and art in the first half of the 20th century. Discussion of architecture. The shift to post modernity: From the crisis of meaning of the 50’s to the “underground” and the “revolution of everyday life” in the 60’s and 70’s.The politics of difference. The changing conception/definition of art. Decentering the subject, the crisis of master-narratives, and the rise of relativism. Theoretical debates on the post modern: The theoretical debate since the early 1980’s: Jameson, Lyotard, Habermas – Foucault. The implications of the post modernity debates on art and architecture. | ||||||||
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | This course is delivered to the students by means of lectures and discussions. | ||||||||
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| Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
| Work placement(s) | NO | ||||||||
