Courses
CTV 7300 Seminar on Great Works and Human Condition (3 units)
Art practitioners and scholars will be invited to conduct the course to share their insight on art and humanity. At the same time, they will discuss with students who share their reading, watching , listening experiences of and reflections on selected great works of humanity. The first few weeks would be conducted as lectures. The nature of great works and their insights on the human condition will be discussed. In the remaining weeks, students will make presentations; Epics, Dramas, Novels, Poetry, Non-fictions, Paintings, Calligraphies, Music, Architectures, Gardens, Cities, Cultural Artefacts, and other significant human creations may all be included. Issues of life's mystery, its origin, meaning and finality as well a cruelty of the plain fact of humanity and reality will be discussed.