K3: Understand the theoretical and conceptual foundations of the main humanistic disciplines K4: To know the historical development of the main manifestations of universal culture, as well as their interrelations, in their various contexts K5: To learn about the main artistic, literary and creative movements and their influence on society, with special attention to their representation, preservation and digital dissemination S3: Analyze literary, philosophical, historical, and artistic texts from a critical and contextualized perspective S10: Formulate complex, well-founded and persuasive critical reasoning, and know how to defend it orally and in writing, on humanistic matters

I. Introduction to Aesthetics as Synthetic Philosophy -Synthesis and Analytic Thinking- II. The theory of the arts, epistemology and art history as the bases of aesthetics. III. Origins of Aesthetics (theories of art) and Plato's Athens. IV. From Alexander the Great to the Roman Empire. V. Christianity, aesthetics and art, theories that endure. VI. Renaissance and Baroque. VII. The Enlightenment or the Renaissance of Aesthetics. VIII. The Kantian Revolution and Idealism. IX. Romanticism and its heritage. X. From the romantic dissolution to the avant-garde and the present. XI. New Problems: Digital Art: Creating and Distributing Art on the Internet. Paradigm shifts. XII. Copying, cloning and digital restoration of works of art.