Sociology of art and culture

Sociologija umetnosti in kulture

Course credits:

6.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

izr. prof. dr. Franc Trček

Lecturers:

• Assoc. Prof. Natalija Majsova

Type:

Required

Language:

English

Semester:

Second semester

Study degree

1. level

Course execution:

• Undergraduate Programme of Sociology

Prerequisits:

Students are allowed to participate in the course provided that they have completed the enrolment procedure.

Objectives and competences

To give students an understanding of the processes of artistic and cultural practices in all their perplexity. Student obtains competence of understanding, analysis and synthesis and (slef)critical use of the knowledge of the globalization processes, which allows him research skils and (political) decision-making in the globalized world. Student will obtain competencies of understanding, knowledge, analysis and synthesis, critical and self-critical application of knowledge of the artistic and cultural practices, which will enable him/her through research to cope with them.

Content (Syllabus outline)

Homo sapines sapines does not have a specific natural habitat. Due to the neoteny his "nature" is culture, which concretized on vertical and horizontal space-time as a series of cultural and artistic practices. And the art(s) is the field of action, which creates a new alternative worlds and reflect the new railing of the world. This class will introduce students to the analysis of artistic and cultural practices. In doing so, however, it stems from the realization that the "logic of late capitalism" is cultural and that we live in the infotainment era of technoculture.

Intended learning outcomes:

The student defines and interprets the artistic and cultural practices and by the arguments applied his/her knowledge to concrete case studies.

Learning and teaching methods:

lectures, seminars, individual or group work with professors, field work, role playing

Assessment

50 % coursework, 50% group research project

Obligatory literature

Additional literature