Research Seminar Material Culture and Art of Southeast Asia

2025/2026

Academic Year

RUS

Instruction in Russian

4

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Minina, Yulia

Программа дисциплины

Аннотация

“Material culture and art of Southeast Asia” is a course that is taught to the third year students of the educational program "Languages and Literature of Southeast Asia". This course incorporates both the responsibilities of familiarizing students with the history and evolution of Southeast Asian peoples’ material culture and the introduction of methodologies of a typological approach in exploration of material culture. The goal of the discipline is to provide understanding of specificity of Southeast Asian material culture, its connection with spiritual world and social life of region’s population, as well as its place among other Oriental cultures. In addition, the course introduces information on visual arts of Southeast Asia (including architecture, religious art, fine art and crafts) with an emphasis on Vietnam. In general, it targets to provide students with skills to analyze and compare cultural phenomena and to evoke their interest to independent research of particular fragment from rich cultural diversity in material life of Southeast Asian peoples. The course is conducted entirely in English.

Цель освоения дисциплины

• Introduction to the distinctive features of the Southeast Asian material culture in relation of its synchronous fragments with diachronic analysis, broadening of students’ perspectives on traditions and cultural values of the countries of the studied languages. Formation of a notion about the specificity of the material and spiritual culture of Southeast Asia due to numerous and diverse cultural contacts and interactions. Introduction of students to the origins and development of material and artistic culture in Southeast Asia and Vietnam in connection with broader socio-historical processes (with periods of development, with the formation of crafts, with various trends, forms and genres of fine art). On the basis of acquired knowledge, training in independent analysis of artistic processes, the evolution of material culture, individual types, genres, works of art, as well as of certain artists’ creative work.

Планируемые результаты обучения

• Знание исторических периодов развития искусства в Юго-Восточной Азии и во Вьетнаме
• Знание основных трудов по истории искусства Юго-Восточной Азии и Вьетнама и существующих концепций развития культуры региона
• Знание основных характеристик видов и жанров искусства Юго-Восточной Азии и Вьетнама

Содержание учебной дисциплины

• Тема 1.
• Тема 2.
• Тема 3.
• Тема 4.
• Тема 5.
• Тема 6.

Элементы контроля

• Накоп
  Текущие задания.
• Экзамен
  Письменные и устные задания.
• Накоп
  Текущие задания.
• Экзамен
  Устные и письменные задания.

Промежуточная аттестация

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.25 * Накоп + 0.25 * Накоп + 0.5 * Экзамен
• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.25 * Накоп + 0.25 * Накоп + 0.5 * Экзамен

Список литературы

Рекомендуемая основная литература

• A history of the Vietnamese, Taylor, K. W., 2013
• The Cham of Vietnam : history, society and art, , 2011
• Vietnam : a history, Lepine, M., 2014

Авторы

• Минина Юлия Дмитриевна
• Самарина Ирина Владимировна
• Краевская Наталья Михайловна