Arts, Sciences, and Engineering					English
Course Section Listing	Course	Course Title					Term	Credits	Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-209279	ENGL 234-01	Aesthetics					Fall 2025	4.0	Open
Schedule:		Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date TR 450 PM 605 PM 08/25/2025 12/17/2025
Enrollment:		Enrolled      19	Capacity      40
Co-Located:		AHST 241-01, AHST 441-01, CLTR 280-01 (P), CLTR 480-01, ENGL 234-01, ENGL 434-01, FREN 265-01, FREN 465-01, PHIL 241-01, PHIL 441-01
Instructors:		Robert Doran
Delivery Mode:		In-Person
Description:		Studies the history of “aesthetic” thought—namely the philosophical reflection on the concepts of beauty, taste, and sublimity, on our affective response to art and nature, and on the role of art and the artist in society—from Plato to Nietzsche, with particular emphasis on how aesthetics relates to questions of epistemology, anthropology, ethics, ontology, and politics. The concepts of mimesis and the sublime will be given special attention. Authors studied include Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Boileau, Batteux, Burke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche. Conducted in English.
Offered:		Fall Spring