Aesthetic & Interpretive Analysis

Aesthetic and Interpretive Analysis

Description

Transcending time, language and background, literary and artistic works allow you to step into another’s experience and as a result, broaden your awareness to their realities, struggles and accomplishments. The ability to analyze and comprehend an artistic work is fundamental to lifelong learning. It fosters aesthetic discovery, creative insights, and the ability to explore connections between different ideas and issues.

Learning Outcomes

These are the learning outcomes that are expected of students after completing a course.

	Interpret and critique literary and artistic expression.
	Analyze literary and artistic works in various contexts, social, political, historical, philosophical, et cetera, and with regard to style, period, and the circumstances of composition.
	Explain how aesthetic expression enhances human experience.

Questions for Students

These are the types of questions you should be able to answer after completing a course.

	What is the particular value of aesthetic experience and how does it generate meanings, responses, and acts of reflection?
	What makes an artistic work different from other forms of expression?
	How does creative attention to an aesthetic object reveal new ideas, articulate values, and reflect or enact art’s functions in the world?

Recurring Capacities

Every focus capacity course includes the following activities:

	Writing, totaling at least 10 pages in length or the intellectual equivalent
	Presenting material to the class, smaller groups, or the public through oral presentations, webpages, or other means
	Collaborating in pairs or groups to learn, design, solve, create, build, or research