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School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Now offering two distinct diplomas: Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering

Art and Technology

1. COURSE INFORMATION:

School Environmental Engineering
Course Level Undergraduate
Course ID SSCI 301 Semester 5th
Course Category Elective
Course Modules Instruction Hours per Week ECTS
Lectures 3
Th=3, E=0, L=0
4
Course Type General Knowledge
Prerequisites  
Instruction/Exam Language Greek
The course is offered to Erasmus students No
Course URL https://www.eclass.tuc.gr/courses/MPD279/ (in Greek)

 

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, students will be able to:

  • Understand the relationships between Technology and Art, Technology and Culture.
  • Understand the historical conditions in which the separation of Art and Technology has taken place.
  • Understand the impact of new technologies in the field of art and culture in the context of the current socio-economic formation.
General Competencies/Skills
  • Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
  • Exercise of criticism and self-criticism

3. COURSE SYLLABUS

  • Historical-sociological approach to the relationships between Technology and Art, Technology and Culture. In particular, the historical conditions in which the separation of Art and Technology took place are examined. Reflections are being made on the current possibilities of unification or harmonious cooperation.
  • The development of new technologies in the context of the current socio-economic formation, its impact on the art and culture sector, the needs in the know-how to better control (new) technologies are being explored.
  • Technology and art as types of creative activity in the structure and development of society. Technology as: objectification, context of human action in nature and relations between people, anticipating conception-knowledge and instrument of action in nature.
  • The aesthetic as form of consciousness and specialized occupation in the division of labor (art). Basic aesthetic categories. Social functions of art.
  • Art and technology in the history of culture. The non-existence of metaphysical contradictory emotion and logic.
  • "Apollon" and "Dionysian".
  • The synthetic dimension of creativity.

4. INSTRUCTION and LEARNING METHODS - ASSESSMENT

Lecture Method Direct (face to face)

Use of Information and Communication Technology

 
Instruction Organisation Activity Workload per Semester
(hours)
- Lectures 39
- Autonomous study 61
Course Total 100

Assessment Method

Written final examination (100%)

5. RECOMMENDED READING

  • Book in Eudoxus [3185]: Τεχνολογία Κοινωνία Πολιτισμός, Βακαλιός, Θανάσης
  • Book in Eudoxus [16603]: Φιλοσοφία και Τεχνολογία - Δοκίμιο οριακής οντολογίας, Τσιαντής Γιώργος Ι.

6. INSTRUCTORS

Course Instructor: Associate Professor D. Patelis (Faculty - PEM)
Lectures: Associate Professor D. Patelis (Faculty - PEM)
Tutorial exercises:  
Laboratory Exercises: