Syllabus (PDF) (Word)
 

Class notes, handouts, links, etc.:

Section 1.  The Search for a Definition:  What is Art?

Week 1

W  Jan. 19  Class introduction; no notes

F  Jan 21  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Opening Clarifications (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 2

M  Jan. 24  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Link to today's reading:  http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.11.x.html

W  Jan. 26  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Link to today's reading:  http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.html

F  Jan. 28  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 3

M  Jan. 31  Notes (PDF) (Word)

W  Feb. 2  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  Feb. 4  Notes  No new online notes
 

Week 4

M  Feb. 7  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Summary Handout (PDF) (Word)

W  Feb. 9  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Weitz Handout (PDF) (Word)

F  Feb. 11  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 
 

Week 5

M  Feb. 14  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Paper #1 Assignment (PDF) (Word)

W  Feb. 16  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Exam #1 Review Sheet (PDF) (Word)

F  Feb. 18  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 6

M  Feb. 21  Exam #1

Section 2.  Creating, Interpreting, and Evaluating Art

W  Feb. 23  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  Feb. 25  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 7

M  Feb. 28  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Paper #2 Assignment (PDF) (Word)
    *Paper #1 Due (Both for Undergraduates and Graduate Students)

W  March 2  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  March 4  No notes
    ***No class meeting, due to the large number of students who would be absent.
 

Week 8

M  March 7  Notes (PDF) (Word)

W  March 9  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  March 11  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Section 3.  Aesthetic Properties and Paradoxes of Fiction

Week 9

M  March 14  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Paper #2 Due (Undergraduates Only)

W  March 16  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  March 18  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 10

M  March 21^th - F March 25^th  NO CLASS   SPRING BREAK
 

Week 11

M  March 28  Notes (PDF) (Word)

W  March 30  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Exam #2 Review Sheet (PDF) (Word)

F  April 1  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Paper #3 Assignment (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 12

M  April 4  Exam #2

Section 4.  Art and Society

W  April 6  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  April 8  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 13

M  April 11  Notes (PDF) (Word)

Section 5.  Particular Arts

W  April 13  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  April 15  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 14

M  April 18  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Paper #3 Due (Undergraduates)/Longer Paper Due (Graduate Students)

W  April 20  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  April 22  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 15

M  April 25  Notes (PDF) (Word)

W  April 27  Notes (PDF) (Word)

F  April 29  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Final Exam Review Sheet (PDF) (Word)

Week 16

M  May 2  Notes (PDF) (Word)

W  May 4  No new online notes
 

FINAL EXAM:  Wednesday, May 11th, 10:00 a.m.  – 12:00 noon (regular classroom).