SPN 274: Aesthetics as Critique: From the Critique of Aesthetics to A Decolonial Perspective

← 2024-25 2025-26

Units: 4

Hours: Seminar, 3 hours; research, 3 hours

Catalog page 425

Prerequisites: graduate standing; or consent of instructor

Description: Introduction to modern aesthetics in dialogue with decolonial perspectives on aesthetics and art. Emphasis will be given to how aesthetics is always an already political realm where a re-distribution of sense is in dispute. Moves from aesthetics understood as critique to a decolonial critique of aesthetics. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 8 units.

Derived Information — The following is not part of the official catalog but is computed from catalog data.
Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Year F W S Su Total
2025-26 11/15 11/15
2024-25 4/15  4/15