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課程名稱

藝術觀看與詮釋的機遇
Serendipities in Our Engagements with the Arts

開課學期

104-2

授課對象

文學院外國語文學系

授課教師

簡瑞碧

課號

FL2165

課程識別碼

102 24370

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

必修

上課時間

星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10)

上課地點

博雅404

備註

中英文雙語授課
限學士班二年級以上
總人數上限：20人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1042serendipities

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課程概述

This course aims to explore the merits and drawbacks of play in human societies. It draws on current cognitive psychology and neuroaesthetics so as to engage well aspects of play: (1) the origin of language and emotion; (2) the growth of skills, knowledge and happiness among children and animals; (3) artistic uses and abuses of play among the adults. On top of the basic framework, this course adopts the evidential semiotic approach which encourages us not only to engage with oddities or deviant forms found in art, nature and culture, but to gain happiness and creative ideas from such dealings. Students are welcome to engage with any intriguing games or types of art as their term projects. All in all, this course enlarges our own invention of links, approaches and strategies as the main task for our appreciation of the arts in the wake of neuroaesthetics.

課程目標

This course aims to shed light on certain aspects of art: (1) how we can make good use of the changing, non-adaptive and non-exclusive features of syntagmatic combinations so as to lead a creative life; (2) how these features serve in giving rise to certain illusions from which we would gain pride and joy; (3) how we can conceive our emotions as a wide range of varieties that we seek to justify and integrate while working out various sorts of play scenarios.

課程要求

Students are required to (1) preview contents for each week; (2) participate rigorously in discussions; (3) write essays after discussions; (4) present briefings of midterm and final projects; (5) submit final papers.

預期每週課後學習時數

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另約時間

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參考書目

評量方式
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No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Attendance and participation	20%	Unexcused absences: deduction of final scores
2.	Midterm briefing	10%	With PPTs
3.	Preview Questions & Take-Home Essays	30%	Typed on Word file
4.	Final briefing	20%	With PPTs
5.	Final paper	20%	12 pages minimum; 1.5 spacing; pictures compiled as an appendix

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	2/25	Introduction (Lego: to play well; to let [imagination] go)
第2週	3/03	[I] Types of play and illusion. Homo ludens et aestheticus (Huizinga)
第3週	3/10	Homo ludens et aestheticus (Dissanayake)
第4週	3/17	Conditions of illusion (Gombrich)
第5週	3/24	Conditions of illusion
第6週	3/31	[II] Chances of gaining from playing on illusions. Detectives' hypothetical reasoning and information seeking (Holmes); Essay 1 due
第7週	4/07	Detectives' hypothetical reasoning and information seeking (Holmes); Guest lecture
第8週	4/14	Artists' approaches to play (Picasso; Duchamp)
第9週	4/21	Artists' approaches to play (Kandinsky; Pollock)
第10週	4/28	Briefings on midterm projects (What is your approach to playing on illusions, myths, mysteries or hearsay?) (Tsai: Self and others in a Japanese film; Lin: Artist Wu and his play on his own works; Chang Ying: Interplay between words and images in E. E. Cummings; Yang: Con artists in Leverage; Yeh: Imagination and children's books; Chang: Landscape and ways of capturing nature); Essay 2 due
第11週	5/05	[III] Oddities and deviant forms found in art, nature and culture. Scams and cheats as a kind of art and play (Caillois); waiting and greater satisfaction (the marshmallow test); The Best Offer
第12週	5/12	Edgy buildings in modern architecture(Bouleau)
第13週	5/19	The ideal city and city planning (Bouleau)
第14週	5/26	Camouflage (Rothenberg)
第15週	6/02	Odd yet creative designs; Essay 3 due
第16週	6/09	Break
第17週	6/16	Briefings on final projects (How would you boost the value and merits of gazing at your ugly duckling?)
第18週	6/23	Paper writing