93999 - Art, Science and Knowledge

Learning outcomes

1. Knowledge and ability to understand. Students must achieve a good knowledge of the most recent theories of aesthetic experience and of the underpinning neural mechanisms.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Students must be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge.

3. Autonomy of judgment. Students will have to develop critical and reflective skills on methodological problems and on the relationships between specific theoretical positions and recent empirical results.

4. Communication skills. Students should acquire the ability to critically discuss aesthetic experience and its neurobiological correlates.

5. Learning skills. Students will be able to apply the learned methods to the analysis of the various cognitive, neurobiological and behavioral aspects characterizing the aesthetic responses to art.

Course contents

1.the aesthetic experience

2.the underpinning neural mechanisms

3.pain and suffering, the neural basis of empathy.

4.the mirror neurons

The integrated course Ars Medica includes also the following arguments 

MEDICINE AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

1. Medicine and scientific enterprise.

2. Diagnostic method and scientific discoveries

3. Resources and needs: responsibility in management

4. Craft, technique and technology

THE DIMENSION OF HEALTH CARE

1. Treatment as an aid to caregiving

2. Quest for health, quest for salvation

3. The diseased person and the disease

4. The surprising birth of the hospitals and the new challenges

Calendar

25.02.21 16-19 Aula Murri

26.02.21 8-13; 14-19 Aula Murri;

02.03.21 16-19 Aula Bigari, Clinica Odontoiatrica Via S.Vitale 59

04.03.21, 16-19 Aula Bigari, Clinica Odontoiatrica Via S.Vitale 59

09.03.21, 16-19 Aula Bigari, Clinica Odontoiatrica Via S.Vitale 59

11.03.21, 17-19 Aula Bigari, Clinica Odontoiatrica Via S.Vitale 59

Readings/Bibliography

The Lancet, Volume 371, Issue 9606 [http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/vol371no9606/PIIS0140-6736(08)X6002-7], Page 14, 5 January 2008

The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9740 [http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/vol376no9740/PIIS0140-6736(10)X6142-6], Page 500, 14 August 2010

Teaching methods

Lectures with slides. At the end of each lecture a pdf with the powerpoint presentation will be distributed to students. Pdfs with the powerpoint presentations of the lectures will be the material to be reviewed for the written exam at the end of the course.

Attendance to learning activities is mandatory; the minimum attendance requirement to be admitted to the final exam is 66% of lessons. For Integrated Courses (IC), the 66% attendance requirement refers to the total amount of I.C. lessons. Students who fail to meet the minimum attendance requirement will not be admitted to the final exam of the course, and will have to attend relevant classes again during the next academic year.

Absences may be authorized upon receipt of proper justifying documentation, in case of illness or serious reasons. Excused absences do not count against a student’s attendance record to determine their minimum attendance requirement

Assessment methods

Written examination, consisting of:

-open questions on some of the paintings showed during the course

-multiple choices quiz

The final score will be computed by attributing a maximum score of 10 to each of the 3 questions, for a maximum final score of 50/30.
The evaluation of open questions is based on the following criteria:
1) Content skills or how detailed the candidate addresses the topic;
2) Exposing skills, i.e., how precise is the language used by the candidate to expose the concepts;
3) Argumentative skills, that is, how consistent and logical is the concatenation of the concepts presented.

Teaching tools

Frontal lectures with audio-visual material.

Links to further information

https://forms.gle/oXAHP9hcXqp3SHTV9

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Bisulli