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PHIL 202

Introduction to the Philosophy of the Arts

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelLower Division
Average gradeC+
Standard

Overview

Description

Varieties of artistic representation and expression, the relationship of artworks to their embodiments, and the nature of interpretation and aesthetic response.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall

Terms

fall

Core

CO7

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • show their familiarity with art-historical developments in the 20th century, primarily in the visual arts.
  • analyze some fundamental issues and problems in philosophical aesthetics at a basic level.
  • distinguish better and worse reasons and arguments (in texts concerned with topics in aesthetics).
  • show how philosophical concerns are relevant to an understanding of the arts.