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Aesthetics

Bachelor's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.

The programme can be studied as a single subject or in combination with another programme.

What will you learn?

Study of Aesthetics offers to students a way of understanding of various forms of art at present, in history, in its social or philosophical contexts. Unlike other art sciences Aesthetics introduces art as social or philosophical phenomenon naturally connected with actual or local circumstances but expresses timeless values at the same time. That is why study of Aesthetics is set culturally and historically on the one hand and analytically on the other in courses of history of Aesthetics, terminology, methodology or European culture. Students are gradually able to collect pieces of branch information, evaluate them, to use proper methods in the search, to interpret critically, to discuss to the point, to discipline ourselves, to work with foreign language, to see European culture in context. The graduates are habilitated to work in galleries, cultural and social institutions, as publicists or teachers at elementary or secondary schools too.

“Art speaks to us with its own language.”

Practical training

As an obligatory part of the programme is an individual practical training by supervision to an extent of 80 hours of training and 10 ours of supervision.

Further information

http://www.phil.muni.cz/estetika/index.htm

Career opportunities

The graduate is got ready to work at a wide range of cultural, social or artistic institutions, at boards of cultural or artistic journals, as a teacher. In all mentioned places he/she can aply acquired knowledge about art or culture in contexts but also practical skills in identifying, describing, analyzing and proposing how to solve problems in art or everyday practice at artistic institutions.

Admission requirements

Data from the previous admission procedure (1 Nov 2024 – 28 Feb 2025)

This programme is taught in Czech.

The criteria for admission for studies are the results of the written Field of Study Examination. Applicants may also be admitted based on other criteria, see Admission without the Entrance Examination. The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University disregards the results of SCIO National Comparative Examinations.

You can file your e-applications for studies from 1 November to 28 February.
Field of study examinations will be held from 22 April to 27 April.
The date and time of the examination will be stated in the electronic invitation for the examination, which will be uploaded to your e-application. The faculty will not be sending paper invitations. Applicants applying for the major study plan and minor study plan in a combined study must comply with the conditions for admission into both plans.

Learning Potential Test (TSP)

For admission for studies in this degree programme, you do not need to take the TSP.

Field of Study Examination

This examination is only in Czech. It is intended to check the applicants’ knowledge of the given field of study. It is done in the form of a written test.

Basic description of the Field of Study Examination:
A written test of knowledge of the content of the book Alena Odehnalová: Vybrané kapitoly z dějin kultury XX. století. The test consists of closed questions only.

Sample Field of Study Test

Admission without the entrance examination

You may be exempt from the entrance examination based on participation in a national round of Students’ Professional Activities (SOČ) in the field of Theory of Culture, Arts, and Artistic Creation.
Please upload the officially certified documents directly to your e-application in the section Application for the Exemption from the Entrance Examination no later than 28 February.

Criteria for evaluation

  • Total number of points in the Field of Study Examination: 100
  • Limit for successfully passing the Field of Study Examination: 50
Points are not deducted for incorrect answers.

Recommended literature

  • Alena Odehnalová: Vybrané kapitoly z dějin kultury XX. století

Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years

Study options

Single-subject studies

Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.

Combined studies

In this type of studies, the students focus on the main degree programme (120 credits) supplemented with another, minor, programme (60 credits). The student enrols in the degree programme in which he/she majors. Both the programmes are stated in the university diploma. You will find possible combinations on the websites of individual degree programmes.​ An exception is programmes preparing students for teaching professions, where both fields of study are equal and the thesis may be written in any of them.

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration

  • Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
    + Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
    + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
    + Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics

  • Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
    + Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies

Aesthetics as a minor degree programme

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • Economic Policy (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + Aesthetics (minor)
  • Economics (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + Aesthetics (minor)
  • Public Economics and Administration (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + Aesthetics (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
  • Informatics (major) – Faculty of Informatics, full-time studies
    + Aesthetics (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies

Courses – curriculum examples

An example of your study plan:

Single-subject studies

Combined studies

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts

Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Ancient History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Art History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Baltic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Chinese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Classical archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Combined Art Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Computational Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Czech Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + English Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Ethnology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Latin language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Information studies and librarianship (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Japanese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Museology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Musicology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Pedagogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Philosophy (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Social Education and Counselling (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Spanish Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Theory of interactive media (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Catalan language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + French Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + General Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + German language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Classical Greek language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Italian Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Modern Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Polish Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Portuguese Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Russian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Study of Religions (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Ukrainian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration

Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics

Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies

Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Contemporary History (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Media Studies and Journalism (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies

Bold – required courses
Normal – selective courses

Detailed information about courses in the study plan Aesthetics
Detailed information about courses in the study plan Media Studies and Journalism
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Political Science (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Sociology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Environmental Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + European Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Human resource development and employment (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + International Relations (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Security and Strategic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Social Anthropology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Aesthetics (major), full-time studies
 + Social Work (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies

Follow-up studies

After completion of the Bachelor's studies, student can continue further studies in any similar Master's degree programme (after satisfying the admission).

Study information

Provided by Faculty of Arts
Type of studies Bachelor's
Mode full-time Yes
combined No
distance No
Study options single-subject studies Yes
single-subject studies with specialization No
major/minor studies Yes
Standard length of studies 3 years
Language of instruction Czech

Do you have any questions?
Send us an e-mail

doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.

Consultant

e‑mail:

Mgr. Hana Řehulková, Ph.D.

Consultant

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