Experiencing and Understanding Art
(Fully Online Elective)

This fully online elective course provides you with a rigorous knowledge of the processes and the perspectives of different disciplines involved in experiencing, contextualising and contemplating artworks. You will be introduced to several relevant issues in the fields of art history, art theory and the history of the aesthetics to provide you with foundations for critical reflection.

Students will study various strategies involved in observing art from different perspectives such as the feminist, psychological and post-colonial. You will have the opportunity to then apply this knowledge within the online forum through discussion about art critique and its relationship with art practice and art history.

The lectures and forums of this elective online course also include discussion of issues crucial to art history and theory relevant to your chosen specialised field of study, and to your selection of visual material for critique at the beginning of the course. You will also be encouraged to pursue extensive reading in the field of the history of aesthetics.

This course will enable you to observe, understand and explain artworks from the perspectives of the three interconnected disciplines - art critique, art history, and art theory.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.