This is a syllabus for a graduate (M.A.) seminar on modernism and sound studies. It involves both traditional academic assignments and a few experimental/creative ones. Feel free to email me (jepstein pdx.edu) if you have questions.

An anthology of essays written by Arnold Berleant on urban aesthetics. Includes citation, abstract, and DOI for each title.

It is important to complement the empirical studies that supply specific data for environmental design by articulating the aesthetic ideas that underlie empirical research and practical decision making. These empirical studies share with philosophical aesthetics a foundation in sense experience. How this experience is to be understood and used…[Read more]