Italian Renaissance: Artists and Philosophers

General data

Course ID:	WH-KON-ItaRen
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Italian Renaissance: Artists and Philosophers
Name in Polish:	Italian Renaissance: artists and philosophers
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Humanities
Course groups:	Courses at UKSW
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	F2_W08 F2_ U12 F2_ U13 F2_ K01
Short description:	The course aims to give an image of the period called "Renaissance" from the fifteenth century until the end of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of what is called "Baroque". The historical and political assumptions of the Renaissance will be briefly highlighted. Then a description will be made of the new aspects related to medieval culture. The main aspects highlighted will be: the new sense of history (Lorenzo Valla and Guicciardini), the rediscovery of ancient Latin and Greek texts, rediscovered or discovered a new sense of space (Leon Battista Alberti etc.), the new vision of power and politics (Machiavelli), of the courtly label (Baldassare Castiglione) etc. The influence of this new model on foreign culture and also on Polish culture will be taken into consideration.

This course is not currently offered.

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