The Cultivation of Aesthetic Taste in General Education Classrooms: A Case Study of the Course of Classical Western Literary Theory
- DOI
- 10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.205How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- general education, aesthetic education, classical western literary theory, function of literature
- Abstract
To justify the place of the course in the curriculum for first-year college students in general education classrooms, two major aspects including general education and aesthetic education are considered. The target audience is the freshmen in East China University of Political Science and Law who haven’t started their professional education in a profound, systematic and comprehensive way. Firstly, the course can be viewed as an integral part of both general education and aesthetic education. It can contribute greatly to the formation of character, the realization of human potential in general. Secondly, it can enhance the aesthetic awareness and aesthetic judgment in specific. Self-cultivation, self-identification and self-realization can be the key factors which make the course an integral part of general education while aesthetic sensitivity, aesthetic taste and aesthetic judgment are the main aspects which the course is designed to improve and cultivate so as to achieve human liberty and morality from an aesthetic perspective. Therefore, the course is justified in the cultivation of aesthetic taste in general education classrooms.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yanqiu Li PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - The Cultivation of Aesthetic Taste in General Education Classrooms: A Case Study of the Course of Classical Western Literary Theory BT - Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 376 EP - 379 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.205 DO - 10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.205 ID - Li2019/08 ER -