Course Details
Country:
Korea, South
Institution:
Yonsei University
Course Title:
Culture and Imagination
Course Number:
THE2016
Course Description:
The idea of imagination remains one of the most captivating and extensively discussed subjects throughout Western intellectual history and contemporary scholarship. It is an interdisciplinary topic interrogated in various disciplines such as phenomenology, politics, aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, theology, to name a few. The class will examine imagination in its diverse applications and interpretations in how human beings in various cultural contexts encounter, experience, and conceive the world. It will give attention to distinctive ways non-Western cultures employ imagination in meaning-making, understanding and interaction with the world. It will demonstrate imagination as a bedrock of cultural traditions, a resource for theological inquiries, social ethics, and transformations. The objectives are to:
-Explore the role of human imagination in the process of reality construction
-Interrogate how contextual understanding of ultimate reality shape imagination
-Gain in-depth knowledge about these debates on the theory of imagination in various disciplines
-Develop imaginative skills to analyze
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
RELI 100, RELI 330
Attachment Files:
THE2016 syllabus.pdf
