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If it's a thing, it's not a big one, and it's not really known as virtue aesthetics.
That said, thanks to your description, I can kinda highlight some stuff that you may be interested in. If you haven't read them yet, I would recommend the following:
Those works set the conversation for art, its function in society, and considerations of how aspects of the artwork interact with aspects of the ethical and political in the person and society. Plato takes the line that all but moral artwork should be banned from the just polis (but then ends his political work with the myth of Er). Aristotle seems to be okay with tragedy and poetry, if it's a technically sound as an artwork, because it can play a kathartic role. Now, you can problematize these positions with close readings of either text, but these are the established traditions.
Along contemporary lines, there's a lot of work on "ethics and art," which I think should be your next avenue for research. Scholar Berys Gaut wrote a recent, technical (and somewhat dry) book about the topic called Art, Emotion, and Ethics. Jerrold Levinson also edited a volume on the topic, which would be another good place to check out.
Lastly, if you want to take a "virtue aesthetic" route, you'll want to get the basis of virtue ethics. But instead of evaluating art on the basis of anything else, you will want to criticize it on (a) how it affects our moral character, by training our emotions, drives, or reason in a good or bad way, to be attracted to or repulsed from the right/wrong things, and (b) how it affects our ability to flourish, which involves how we improve ourselves, relate meaningfully to others, and try to live in a characteristically human way.
Best of luck!
Based on the blurb, there's a lot of different topics you would be covering in ethics and aesthetics. It might be a good idea to email your professor and get a copy of the syllabus to get a better idea of what to read. Without more information, these SEP articles could be helpful: metaethics, aesthetic judgment, moral realism, moral anti-realism, moral relativism, moral particularism, moral epistemology, and the concept of the aesthetic.
Depending on how much you talk about the intersection between the two, Aesthetics and Ethics edited by Jerrold Levinson and Art, Emotion, and Ethics by Berys Gaut are two books you might want to look at. Also, here is a syllabus on art and ethics.