THL1501
ASSIGNMENT 2 SEMESTER 1 2024
, ASSIGNMENT 02
(Written Assignment)
Due date: 16 April 2024 Unique number: 163577
This assignment counts for 25% of your final mark. You are thus strongly advised to complete
and submit it.
Reading: The Study Guide for THL1501 and Recommended readings.
Ensure that you acknowledge your sources, including the Study Guide, using quotation
conventions, in-text citations and referencing following the Harvard method (there are examples
in Additional Resources).
Students are encouraged to discuss, engage, theorise, and substantiate their claims by
referencing the Study Guide. Consequently, read, re-read the Study Guide, make your own notes
etc. No online sources will be accepted.
By submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understand
Unisa’s policy on plagiarism, and that you are adhering to its prescripts.
Answer all 3 questions.
QUESTION 1 [30]
Through close reference to Marcia Eaton’s book Basic Issues in Aesthetics (1998), cited in
the Study Guide, write an essay in length between 500-800 words in which you discuss the
nature of “beauty” and “aesthetics”, that is, consider the challenges of deciding on a definition
of “beauty” and “aesthetics”. Give examples from the given texts, and your own.