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What is aesthetics and life?
Aesthetics and life are general courses of humanistic quality education.

Aesthetics and Life course is the first large-scale open online course offered by Southwest University in China University on March 18, 2008. The teacher of this course is Kou Pengcheng. According to official website, a large-scale open online course of China University in March, 20021,the course has been started four times.

Aesthetics and Life is composed of eight modules, including from kind words to aesthetics, China's main aesthetic thoughts, the ways of exploring beauty in the west, the characteristics of beauty, aesthetic activities, aesthetic categories, art, appendices and so on.

The course of aesthetics and life is a general course of humanistic quality education. Aesthetics is closely related to life. Aesthetics is the most important part of outlook on life and values, and it is very important for people to establish a sound aesthetic view. The course combines philosophy, literature and art, psychology, ethics and other contents, which is historic and realistic.

The whole course is knowledgeable, practical, interesting, easy to understand, vivid and popular, and can benefit more people on the road of healthy, sound and bodybuilding life. It is of great significance to learn aesthetic knowledge, enhance aesthetic realm, enlighten aesthetic creation and cultivate people with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

Aesthetics and Life introduces various problems of aesthetics and life. Starting from the generation and significance of beauty, this paper discusses the main ways of beauty in China, Taoism, Zen and the West, namely, the transcendence, emotion, imagery, times, subjectivity and nationality of beauty.

The teaching goal and honor of aesthetics and life;

1. The teaching goal of this course is to spread basic aesthetic knowledge, answer aesthetic puzzles, enhance students' interest in beauty and their ability to distinguish beauty from ugliness, promote students' aesthetic appreciation and creation, gain pleasure and happiness in aesthetic activities, purify students' minds, cultivate students' aesthetic personality, cultivate their sentiments, purify their minds, broaden their horizons and enhance their humanistic quality, aesthetic ability and life realm.

2.20 17, this course was recognized as the first batch of "national excellent online open courses" by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC).