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Lecturer(s)
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Zahrádka Pavel, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Aesthetic exploration of beauty: etymology and semantics of the word "beautiful" 2. History of thinking about beauty 3. Overview of the variability of the human ideal of beauty in European art 4. Projection of the movie of Erika Hníková Ženy pro měny 5. Naomi Wolf and the feminist critique of the beauty myth 6. The myth of beauty and labor discrimination: the debate on anti-discrimination law 7. The myth of beauty in culture 8. How are images of beauty abuse against women? Feminist critique of pornography 9. Biological examination of beauty: a book reading and discussion Nancy Etcoff Why Beauty reigns in the world 10. Sociological study of beauty: beauty as a social power
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The subject is the problem of human beauty in the current interdisciplinary debate that raged between sociology, aesthetics, biology, cultural anthropologists and representatives of cultural studies.
Students will acquire skills of the course according to sylabus.
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Prerequisites
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ability to work with specialized texts
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Seminar Work
Active participation on seminars, cooperation on collectively realised research, final report writting, final knowledge test.
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Recommended literature
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Berger, John. Ways of Seeing, Penguin: London, 1972..
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ELLIS, Bret Easton. Glamorama. Praha: Mladá Fronta, 2004.
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GUGGENBERGER, Bernd. Einfach schön: Schönheit als soziale Macht. Hamburg: Rotbuch Verlag, 1995.
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KIMMEL, Michael. Men Confront Pornography. New York: Crown, 1990.
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ZAHRÁDKA, Pavel. "Mýtus o mýtu krásy" in: M. Foret, M. Lapčík, P. Orság (eds.), Média dnes: reflexe mediality, médií a mediálních obsahů. Olomouc: UP Olomouc, 2008, s. 161-176.
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