All DVS Courses | Department of Visual Studies

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Art History Courses (FAH) | FAH200s | FAH300s | FAH400s

Studio Art Courses (FAS) | FAS200s | FAS300s | FAS400s

Cinema Studies Courses (CIN) | CIN200s | CIN300s | CIN400s

Visual Culture and Communication Courses (VCC) | VCC200s | VCC300s | VCC400s

Visual Studies Courses (VST)

NB: The Full Course Calendar shows all the courses on the books in the Department of Visual Studies. A selection of these courses are offered each year. To see the courses being offered this year, visit Current Course Offerings.

Art History Courses (FAH)

FAH101H5 • Introduction to Art History

An overview of the art and architecture of the past and present, as well as an introduction to the discipline of art history and its methodologies. Emphasis on representative monuments and key approaches to interpretation.

Exclusions: FAH101H1 or FAH102H1 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5 or VPHA46
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH205H5 • Art in Antiquity

This course offers a survey of the arts of antiquity. Emphasis is placed on major works of sculpture, painting, and architecture. Decorative arts are also treated.

Exclusions: FAH207H1 or VPHB52
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH215H5 • Early Medieval Art and Architecture

An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of Western Europe and the Mediterranean World from the third until the eleventh century.

Exclusions: (FAH102Y5 or FAH261H1 or FAH267H5 or FAH271H5) or VPHB53
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH216H5 • Later Medieval Art and Architecture

An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of Western Europe and the Mediterranean World from the eleventh through the fifteenth century.

Exclusions: FAH102Y5 or FAH261H1 or FAH267H5 or FAH271H5 or VPHB53
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH274H5 • Renaissance Art and Architecture

A selective survey of the major art centres, types of artistic production, personalities, and trends in Italy and the North, from the early fifteenth century to the mid-sixteenth. The creation and diffusion of art are addressed through an understanding of historical techniques (media), cultural determinants such as patronage, and significant works of art.

Exclusions: FAH230H1 or VPHB74H3
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH275H5 • Introduction to Indigenous Art in Canada

This survey course will introduce students to the advanced technological and innovative material contributions of Indigenous cultural knowledge towards the reshaping of Canadian Culture, Identity and Art today; beginning with the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations. Specificity of place, nation, geographical territory, the intervention of colonial government policy, and social movements will be reviewed as they relate to the creation and collection of Indigenous art and established art markets. Object and image making, new technologies, performance art, ceremony, land, hunting, activism, social engagement, and community arts will be covered, as will fashion, dance, song, and storytelling.

Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH279H5 • Baroque Art and Architecture

An introduction to art and society in Europe, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800 CE. Tensions between the Catholic Church and Protestantism; the rise of powerful, competing courts; the growth of increasingly complex urban centres; and the entry of the "wider public" into the art market all create new roles for representation in Europe. Developments in painting, prints, sculpture, architecture, urban planning, and festivals are considered.

Exclusions: FAH231H1 or VPHB64
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH281H5 • An Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture

This course surveys art and architecture of the Islamic worlds, beginning with the emergence of Islam in the seventh century. It examines works of art ranging from the monumental (palaces, mosques, shrines) to the portable (textiles, jewelry, books), spanning the Islamic world from Spain to Central and East Asia. A range of materials and artistic techniques will be considered, as will several religious and secular contexts and different patterns in patronage and workshop production.

Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5 or FAH202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH282H5 • Gardens, Homes, and Palaces in the Muslim World

How did Muslims live in the pre-modern world, and, how did they interact with their surrounding environment? This course introduces examples of homes, palaces, and gardens dating from the 8th to the 18th centuries. The course includes examples from the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, and South Asia.

Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH285H5 • Art and Religion

An introduction to the art of the major world religions (examples will mostly be taken from Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam but may also extend to Judaism, Buddhism, and religions of indigenous peoples), examining debates within these traditions around the status of the image as well as the relationship of religious images with the secular notion of 'art.'

Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH287H5 • European Art of the Nineteenth Century

Surveys major developments in European art and architecture from the late eighteenth through the end of the nineteenth century, including Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Orientalism, Realism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism. Artistic responses to political change, urbanisation, capitalism, colonialism, the Academy, and the Salon will be explored as well as changing constructions of gender, race, class, and national identities through visual media.

Note: As part of this course, students may have the option of participating in an international learning experience that will have an additional cost and application process.

Exclusions: FAH208H1 or FAH282H1 or FAH245H1
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5
International Component: International - Optional
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH288H5 • European and North American Art of the Earlier Twentieth Century

Surveys principal developments in modern art and architecture from the late 19th century through 1945. Topics covered include key movements, such as Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, de Stijl, Dada, and Surrealism, and key concepts, such as the avant-garde, abstraction, the readymade, the unconscious, and the primitive. Readings include manifestos and other writings by artists as well as art historical texts.

Exclusions: FAH246H1 or VPHB58
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH289H5 • Art Since 1945

Examines many divergent international art movements and controversies in painting, sculpture, video, installation art, performance, and other new forms, from 1945 to the present.

Exclusions: FAH246H1 or VPHB58
Recommended Preparation: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and FAH288H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH290H5 • Topics in Modern Art and Architecture

An examination of a topic in modern art and or architecture. Topics vary from year to year; the content in any given year depends upon the instructor.

Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH291H5 • History of Photography

Examines the history of photography in Euro-American visual culture and explores how this medium of mass communication has transformed our perceptions and conceptions of art, society, and culture over the past two centuries. Reviews key imagemakers and areas of production concluding with the impact of digital imaging.

Exclusions: FAH252H5 or FAH391H5
Recommended Preparation: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH292H5 • Canadian Art

This course examines the history of art produced in Canada, from the pre-contact period to today. Diverse visual traditions and their intersections will be studied, as will the changing roles of art in Canadian society.

Exclusions: FAH248H5: Canadian Painting 1665-1960 (formerly FAH286H1) or VPHB60H3: Canadian Visual Art
Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH295H5 • Topics in Art History

An examination of a topic in art history. Topics vary from year to year; the content in any given year depends upon the instructor.

Recommended Preparation: FAH101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH299Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

This course provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work on the research project of a professor in return for 299Y course credit.Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods, and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge.Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH301H5 • History and Practices of Visual Resource Collecting

This course investigates the theoretical and philosophical bases and practical realities of digitizing the visual arts in the context of scholarly research, collection development, publishing, information studies and education in the global environment. Students will examine the historical development and impact of digitization on image collecting as well as current practices and issues facing professionals. A practical, hands-on approach will be an essential part of the course.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and 1.0 credits in FAH/VCC at the 200 level or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH310H5 • Curating Matters: Contexts and Issues in Contemporary Curatorial Practice

This course will introduce students to the major critical texts, theories, and debates circulating in the burgeoning international field of contemporary curatorial studies. The course will include lectures, case studies, practice-related assignments, encounters with artists and art professionals, and student presentations that are intended to raise issues and engage debate about contemporary exhibition practices and account for theoretical perspectives and historical context. One objective of this course is to trouble preconceptions of the role of the curator in order to observe the complexity of curatorial models across and beyond art institutions. The class will address the implications of shifting cultural, social, and political contexts for artistic and curatorial practice and their sites.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and FAH289H5 and 0.5 additional credit in FAH/VCC
Exclusions: VPSB73 or VIS320H1
Recommended Preparation: FAH288H5 and FAH289H5 and FAH388H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH315H5 • Photomontage: History, Theory, and Practice

This course investigates the history, theory, and practice of photomontage from its roots in combination printing in the mid-19th century to its key role in the modernist "isms of art"
in Europe and North America including Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus to the rise of digital photomontage in the current Photoshop era. It explores a range of practices and applications of photomontage in avant-garde art, commercial advertising, mass media, humorous satire, propaganda, and political activism.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or VCC101H5) and FAH291H5.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH317H5 • Spirit Photography

From the haunted images of William Mumler in the 1860’s to contemporary manifestations of digital ghost hunting, the search for elusive and invisible spirits by means of the camera lens has been an ongoing preoccupation in the history of photography for over 150 years. Starting with the emergence of phantasmagoric visual entertainments (ca. 1800), this course reviews this rich and fascinating history in Europe and North America but also with a few non-Western cultural examples (e.g., Japan, Philippines) focusing on key case studies in spirit photographic practice. The course considers various reasons why people have wanted to believe in the veracity of these phenomena (e.g., followers of the religious movement of Spiritualism) as well as why others have wanted to debunk spirit photography as a hoax or fraud (e.g., Harry Houdini and P.T. Barnum). Exploring theories derived from deconstruction and psychoanalysis, we seek to understand the philosophical and psychological significance of spirit photography introducing constructs such as hauntology, spectrality, the uncanny, and the work of mourning. The course also reviews how contemporary artists (e.g., Oursler, Beloff) have incorporated motifs and themes related to spirit photography in their works.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or VCC101H5) and FAH291H5
Exclusions: FAH492H5 (Fall 2017)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH329H5 • Early Christian Art and Architecture

Examines art and architecture during the emergence of Christianity in the West until ca. 600, focusing primarily on Italy. Assesses the connections between polytheistic, imperial Roman art and new Christian traditions in a variety of media, including mosaics, metalwork, wall painting, and sculpture. Also considers the role of primary texts in the interpretation of Early Christian art.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH215H5 or FAH216H5) or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH332H5 • Studies in Baroque Painting

Thematically organized treatment of major figures (Caravaggio, Carracci, Poussin) in the context of art theory and viewer response.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH274H5 or FAH279H5)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH337H5 • Court Art and Patronage in the Middle Ages

Art and architecture of royal and imperial families from ca. 800 to 1400 in western Europe, including Norman, Capetian, Plantagenet, and Hohenstaufen dynasties. Topics include the role of courts in the development and diffusion of new styles, and monuments as expressions of piety, chivalry, and political propaganda. May be taken for credit for the Specialist/Major programs in Architecture (St. George).

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH216H5 or FAH217H5)
Exclusions: FAH316H1 or FAH327H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH338H5 • Multicultural Middle Ages

This course examines medieval works of art and architecture that challenge long-held ideas about the European Middle Ages as monocultural and exclusively Christian. It considers the mobility of people, objects, and ideas through migration, trade, diplomacy, conquest, and pilgrimage, and focuses on particular places where multiculturalism flourished, including Spain, Sicily, and Venice. It also evaluates multiculturalism from different eras, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world, to better understand its different meanings and manifestations, as well as its impact on art history.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH215H5 or FAH216H5)
Recommended Preparation: At least 1.0 credits at the 200 level in FAH
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH343H5 • Pilgrimage

Examines the experience of pilgrimage from an interdisciplinary perspective, with focus on major Christian and Islamic shrines in the Middle Ages. Considers monuments associated with sites such as Santiago, Jerusalem, and Mecca, as well as objects collected by pilgrims. May be taken for credit for the Specialist/Major programs in Religion (U of T Mississauga), Christianity & Culture (St. George), and Architecture (St. George).

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and FAH216H5
Exclusions: FAH316H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH351H5 • Gothic Architecture

Study of origins, architecture and decoration of the Gothic Cathedral in the Ile-de-France, treating function and symbolism, intellectual and social contexts, and initial diffusion of the style to other countries. Considers post-medieval Gothic as well.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH216H5 or FAH217H5)
Exclusions: FAH328H1 or VPHC42
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH353H5 • The sculptor-architect GianLorenzo Bernini

Topics in the sculpture, architecture, methods and biographical legacy of the principal 17th-century artist of the Roman baroque, GianLorenzo Bernini. Focus of the course changes from year to year. May be taken for credit for the Specialist/Major programs in Religion (U of T Mississauga), Christianity & Culture (St. George), and Architecture (St. George).

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH274H5 or FAH279H5).
Exclusions: FAH352H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH356H5 • Colonial Latin American Art and Architecture

This lecture course will examine processes of cultural transfer and transformation in the planning of cities, churches, and viceregal palaces from the early days of contact through the Baroque in the Viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru and in Brasil. The persistence of indigenous beliefs and forms will be tracked in painting, sculpture, and architecture alongside the emergence of unique genres (i.e., castas, feather paintings), building types, and forms based on the particular makeup of a colonial society.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) or permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: FAH274H5 and FAH279H5 and HIS290H5 and LAS200Y1 and HIS291Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH360H5 • Art and Visual Culture of the Eighteenth Century

This course examines European painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, print culture, decorative arts, exhibition strategies, and art criticism of the eighteenth century. Key artists and writers to be studied from the age of enlightenment and revolution include Blake, Burke, David, Diderot, Fragonard, Girodet, Goya, Hogarth, Reynolds, Vigée-Lebrun, Watteau, Winckelmann, Boullée, Ledoux and Wright of Derby.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and at least 1.5 credits in FAH at the 200-level
Recommended Preparation: FAH279H5 and FAH287H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH362H5 • Modern Craft

This course examines ideas, practices, and politics of craft that have emerged in the modern period in response to the industrial and digital revolutions, and other significant social and political changes. Topics covered include the place of craft in modern and contemporary art; gendered, classed, and raced understandings of craft; craft’s relationship to the environment; and Indigenous perspectives and practices.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH287H5 or FAH288H5)
Exclusions: FAH392H5 (Craft - 20209)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH375H5 • All Our Relations: Indigenous Land Stewardship and Art

This class embraces land- and earth-based skills as tools in the production and maintenance of revitalization efforts in Indigenous culture and knowledge. Throughout the course students will lead the development, production and maintenance of a Community Medicine Garden initiative to be located in the heart of the UTM campus. Topics include environmental liberation, food sovereignty, kinship, gardening as resistance, matriarchy, land stewardship, landscaping with regional indigenous plants, Indigenous feminisms, place-based knowledge and knowledge sharing. Activities will include: film screenings, community feasts, public readings, drumming circles, and guests speakers with Traditional Indigenous knowledge carriers, artists, environmental activists, and local grassroots community-based partners.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and FAH275H5
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH380H5 • New Genres in Contemporary Art

A study of artistic genres in contemporary art, including: video, performance, installation, site-specificity and digital media. Such new genres will be studied as alternative modes of artistic practice collaborative, ephemeral, institutionally critical, and discursive, and as a means to address questions and issues such as public space, community, networks of information, and global capitalism and activism.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH288H5 or FAH289H5)
Recommended Preparation: FAH289H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH382H5 • Artists and Craftsmen from the Muslim World

What do we know about the pre-modern artists of the Muslim world? This course explores the lives or artist from the Muslim world and what we know about their education, status, styles, techniques and influences. The course includes examples of a calligrapher, a painter, a metalworker, a ceramicist, and an architect.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and FAH281H5 or FAH282H5
Exclusions: FAH395H5 - Topics course: Artists and Craftsmen from the Muslim World
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH383H5 • Cities in the Early modern Muslim World: Istanbul, Isfahan, and Delhi

This course explores the three major cities of the pre-modern Muslim empires: Istanbul under the Ottomans, Isfahan under the Safavids, and Delhi under the Mughals. The course addresses the urban formation, architectural style, and visual symbolism of these cities.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH281H5 or FAH282H5)
Exclusions: FAH395H5 Topics course: Cities in the Early modern Muslim World: Istanbul, Isfahan, and Delhi
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH385H5 • Modern and Contemporary Art of India

This course traces a chronology of South Asian art from its genealogies in late colonial image-making traditions from the 1850s to the present, situating modernist 'high' art in terms of its conversation with the broader field of cultural practice in modern India: cinema, vernacular bazaar prints, rural and tribal craft traditions, practices of popular devotion, and 'classical' artistic traditions. It investigates the theoretical and political concerns animating South Asian cultural practices and their criticism (nationalism, Marxism, secularism, anti-fundamentalism, Islam, feminism, postcolonialism, issues of diaspora and globalization), and addresses the key question of how to approach practices of modernism and postmodernism in the postcolony.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and VCC201H5 and (FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) or permission of instructor
Exclusions: FAH364H1 or FAH365H1 or FAH392H5 - Topic: Contemporary South Asian Art
Recommended Preparation: VCC302H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH388H5 • Theory in Art History

Investigates the historical development of the Western discipline of art history through the theories that have shaped it; topics covered include formalism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, the social history of art, feminism, post-colonialism, queer studies and deconstruction.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and at least 1.0 credits in FAH/VCC
Exclusions: FAH351H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH390H5 • Topics in Modern Art and Architecture

An examination of a topic in modern art and or architecture. Topics vary from year to year; the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. This will be a lecture course for approximately 30 students.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and FAH287H5 or (FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH392H5 • Topics in Modern Art/Architecture

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH287 or FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH393H5 • Topics in Ancient Greco-Roman Art

An examination of a topic in the art and architecture of classical antiquity. Topics vary from year to year; the area of study and content in any given year depends upon the instructor. This will be a lecture course for approximately 30 students.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH203H5 or FAH204H5 or FAH205H5) or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH394H5 • Topics in Early Modern Art and Architecture

An in-depth examination of a topic in early modern (Renaissance and/or Baroque) art and/or architecture. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. A seminar course limited to approx. 30 students.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH287 or FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH395H5 • Topics in Islamic Art and Architecture

An examination of a topic in Islamic art and or architecture. Topics vary from year to year; the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. This will be a lecture course for approximately 30 students.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH287 or FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH396H5 • Topics in Medieval Art and Architecture

An examination of a topic in medieval art and or architecture. Topics vary from year to year; the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. This will be a lecture course for approximately 30 students.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH215H5 or FAH216H5) or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH399Y5 • Research Opportunity Program (ROP)

This course provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their third year or beyond to work on the research project of a professor in art history/theory in return for 399Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, enhance their research skills, and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter session on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Exclusions: FAH299Y5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH415H5 • Theory and Criticism of Photography

Introduces a variety of approaches for interpreting, criticizing, evaluating, and theorizing photographs and photography in general. Examines how the thinking of photography is revisioned via major theoretical models.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH291H5 or FAH391H5) and a minimum of 0.5 at the 300/400 level in FAH
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH423H5 • Topics in the Art of the Medieval Mediterranean

Examines the art and architecture of the Mediterranean basin, including Western Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, and Jewish art, from the first century through the fifteenth. Considers their points of convergence as well as their distinct differences and priorities. Organized around key works of scholarship that have defined the emerging field of Mediterranean studies, along with primary sources. Considers works in all media, from monumental arts to textiles, metalwork, manuscripts, and ceramics. Also makes use of local museum holdings.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and FAH216H5 and at least 1.0 credit in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level.
Recommended Preparation: FAH105H5 and FAH267H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH424H5 • Medieval Collecting and Display

This course examines collections of medieval art assembled during the Middle Ages and today. It considers the formation of collections within religious and secular institutions of the Middle Ages (treasuries), and the ways in which objects entered such collections through diplomacy, war, dowries, wills, and new commissions. It examines how the collections expressed historical memory, family ties, religious ideas, and political ideologies, and how the objects were displayed. The course also examines collections of medieval art in the GTA, including those at the Aga Khan Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, and University of Toronto Art Centre. A variety of methodologies will be explored, including Digital Humanities.

Prerequisites: FAH215H5 or FAH216H5 and at least 1.0 credit in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH434H5 • Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome

This seminar examines the art and architecture of Rome from the first century CE through the fourteenth. It focuses on the city's art and image in the wake of Christianization and its often ambivalent attitudes toward its classical past. Works in all media, from large-scale churches, wall paintings, and icons will be considered, along with liturgical arts and manuscripts. Medieval texts will figure prominently as well.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH216H5 or FAH217H5 or FAH205H5) and 0.5 at the 300/400 level in Medieval Art or permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: FAH267H5 or FAH343H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH435H5 • Women and Art in the Middle Ages

An interdisciplinary study, including feminist analysis, of the roles of women in the Middle Ages, their representation in medieval art, and their impact on varying aspects of the art as subject, object, patron or artist.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH216H5 or FAH217H5) and at least 0.5 FAH at the 300/400 level.
Exclusions: FAH425H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH451H5 • Curating Now: Turning Concepts into Curatorial Projects

Students will research and develop a curatorial project proposal in the form of an exhibition, a public installation, a public event, a performance, a website, etc., as the culminating assignment for the course. The emphasis of the course will be on the application of knowledge gained in FAH310H5 and consideration of the multi-level preparatory stages entailed in the mounting of a curatorial project, placing particular emphasis on conceptualization and methodology, and on the premise that curatorial practice is an intellectual endeavour that manifests its ideas in form. Students will learn how to turn a concept into a project proposal and become equipped to develop innovative solutions to future challenges in curatorial practice.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and FAH310H5
Exclusions: FAH480H5 or VIS320H5
Enrolment Limits: Intended for advanced students with high standing in the Art History or Art & Art History Program.
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH453H5 • The Archive and the Formless

This course is a study of twentieth-century and contemporary art history that draws upon philosophies of the archive (as the formalization of knowledge in terms of origins and ends) and the formless (as a deconstructive force of these very same knowledge formations). Through close readings of key texts by Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben, an understanding of the complex interrelations between the archive and the formless, and their bearing upon twentieth-century and contemporary art history is developed.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) and 1.0 credit in FAH/VCC at the 300-400 level or permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: FAH388H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH454H5 • Contemporary Jewish Art

This course examines the significance of the visual arts for the study of contemporary Jewish culture, for the construction of Jewish identities, and as an example of Jewish secularization. It does so through a survey of contemporary Jewish artistic production and visual expression with numerous and comparative examples drawn from producers in North America, Europe, and Israel. In addition, the course is attuned to the social and political dimensions and implications of contemporary Jewish art making. It will be organized thematically and cover a range of topics from the challenges faced by visual artists grappling with the Second Commandment and its prohibition of images to the continuing impact of the idea of diaspora on contemporary Jewish artists. The course will also situate its subject matter in relation to larger debates about the emergence of postmodern subjectivities and the place (or displacement) of religion and religious themes in contemporary art in general.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and FAH288H5 and FAH289H5, and at least 1.0 credit in FAH or VCC at the 300/400 level.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH455H5 • Photography and Humour

What makes a photograph funny? What are the ways in which photography as a visual and narrative medium induces laughter and provides amusement? This course explores such questions by focusing on major photographic genres and humorists (e.g., Weegee, Parr, Heartfield, Fontcuberta) and by analyzing key historical and contemporary images that mock conventional assumptions about the nature of photography and its claims to truth, identity, and reference. The course will be structured as a seminar featuring directed discussion and class presentations.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or VCC101H5) and (FAH291H5 or FAH391H5) and 1.0 credit in FAH or VCC at the 300/400 level or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH457H5 • Exile and Modern Art

Investigates the role of exile, expatriation, and alienation in art of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Considering the idea of psychological and/or physical displacement as key to the condition of modernity and the formation of artistic modernisms, the course analyzes artistic strategies of representing, coping with, and/or enacting displacement and alienation (of the artist, the viewer, the object) in the work of Gauguin, Dada artists, Pollock, Morimura, Hatoum, Wodiczko, Whiteread, and others.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH287H5 or FAH288H5) and 0.5 credit in FAH/VCC at the 300-level or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH460H5 • Art and Animation

This seminar examines the age-old dream of creating animate art, from lifelike paintings and moving statues to automata and androids. In addition to tracing historical shifts in the way Western culture has imagined its artificial counterparts through works of literature, fine arts, and film, a major focus of the course will be the effect these creations have on conceptions of the human. Readings include Castle, Dick, Freud, Hawthorne, Hoffman, Shelley, Stafford, Ovid, and Villiers de I'lsle-Adam.

Prerequisites: Must be a third- or fourth-year student currently enrolled in one of the following programs: Art History, Art & Art History, Visual Culture and Communication, or literature studies (English, French, Italian, German). Preference will be given to students in Art History, Art & Art History, and Visual Culture and Communication.
Recommended Preparation: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH287H5 or FAH288H5)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH462H5 • Islamic Art and the Museum

This course explores how museum displays construct cultural narratives for the consumption of the viewer. It focuses on Islamic art. By examining recent (21st-century) Islamic art museums and gallery installations in North America and Europe, the course addresses the topics of art collecting, orientalism, the colonial gaze, Islamophobia, and the current visual narratives of Islam and Muslims through the arts. In the first part of the course students are introduced to Islamic art through the collections of some of the main international museums including the British Museum (BM) in the UK, the Louvre in France, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Canada, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York. Students will explore the ways in which Islamic art galleries and exhibitions have evolved to reflect academic approaches including post-colonial and object studies. Students will then use the skills acquired in the course and on-line museum collections to develop and propose an Islamic art exhibition thus experiencing the process of developing an object-based narrative, writing it, presenting it, as well as responding to peer review.

Prerequisites: [FAH101H5 and (FAH281H5 or FAH282H5) and at least 1.0 credit in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level] or permission of instructor.
Exclusions: FAH486H1 (20201) or FAH495H5 (20189) or FAH495H5 (20201) or FAH495H5 (20211).
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH465H5 • Icon, Artwork, Fetish

This seminar explores the conceptual categories of icon, artwork and fetish in order to think about the frames of value, desire and power within which images circulate, and the ongoing relationships between art, religion, and commerce. Readings drawn from critical theory, art history, anthropology, religious studies, film studies and psychoanalysis will prepare students to research case studies on the transcultural and transdisciplinary careers of particular objects/images of their choosing.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) and 1.0 credit in FAH or VCC at the 300/400 level or permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: (VCC302H5 or VCC304H5) and FAH388H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH470H5 • The History of Art History

An introduction for advanced students in art history to the historiography and institutional history of the discipline of art history. This reading-intensive course will focus on major figures and key texts from the 19th century to the present, including Burckhardt, Wölfflin, Riegl, Warburg, Panofsky, Hauser, Baxandall, Schapiro, Alpers, Clarke, Nochlin, and others.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and 1.5 in FAH at the 200-level and at least 1.0 in FAH/VCC at the 300 level or permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: FAH388H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH472H5 • Early Modern Mobile Objects

This course concerns the global circulation of objects or things in the early modern world (ca. 1500-1700) when new trade routes brought about an unprecedented mobilization of artifacts of visual culture, foodstuffs and other goods. We will be concerned with the manifold appearances of uprooted objects, new arrangements, and the invisible layers of skill, materials, and manufacture that resulted from heightened exchange. Objects of study will range broadly: porcelain, tableware and foodstuffs, screens and silver, naturalia and their elaborate mounts, miniatures, prints and books, paintings (Dutch Still Life, Las Meninas) which put the world of things on display.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 and FAH274H5) or FAH279H5 and 1.0 credit in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH473H5 • The Nature of Landscape

This seminar takes a historical and comparative view of"landscape" as the representation of land, situating it within European ideas about "nature" and its relationship to ideas about who we are as humans. It compares Western landscape painting traditions with visual forms from other traditions that could be seen as "landscapes," but might be based on very different ideas. These include Indigenous art from Canada, as well as East and South Asian forms.Understanding these multiple traditions equips students fora more globally oriented, historically informed, and critical approach to modern and contemporary art concerned with the environment and our existence in the geological age lately dubbed the Anthropocene. The seminar readings provide the basis for final research papers pertaining to the broad theme of landscape or eco-aesthetics in modern or contemporary art, as well as in other image practices across a range of global traditions.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH287H5 or FAH288H5)and 1.0 credit in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH475H5 • Topics in Contemporary Indigenous Art

A senior research and creation seminar exploring topics that advance conversations in Contemporary Indigenous art. This course will look at a selection of influential Canadian and International Indigenous Art projects by living artists as case studies. Topic will vary with faculty research interests; the course may cover such matters as environmental justice, accountability in accomplice-building between Indigenous and non-indigenous artists, and the influence of social movements in shaping local and international conversations on Indigenous Art and culture from Alcatraz and Idle No More to Standing Rock. May include a practical workshop component. May include a research, curatorial or art project.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and FAH275H5 and FAH375H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH479H5 • Studies in Curatorial Practice

Students who have demonstrated unusual ability in earlier years will be encouraged to undertake, under the supervision of one or more staff members, special research projects culminating in a major research paper. Not more than two half-courses in Independent Studies may be taken in a single year. Students must have written consent of their faculty supervisor(s) and the undergraduate counsellor before registering.

Prerequisites: Six FAH credits including FAH310H and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH480H5 • Studies in Ancient Art

Students who have demonstrated unusual ability in earlier years will be encouraged to undertake, under the supervision of one or more staff members, special research projects culminating in a major research paper. Students must have written consent of their faculty supervisor(s) and the undergraduate counsellor before registering.

Note: Not more than two half-credit courses in Independent Studies may be taken in a single year.

Prerequisites: (FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and 3.0 credits of FAH including 0.5 credit at the 300+ level and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH481H5 • Studies in Ancient Art

Students who have demonstrated unusual ability in earlier years will be encouraged to undertake, under the supervision of one or more staff members, special research projects culminating in a major research paper. Students must have written consent of their faculty supervisor(s) and the undergraduate counsellor before registering.

Note: Not more than two half-credit courses in Independent Studies may be taken in a single year.

Prerequisites: 3.0 credits in FAH including 0.5 credit at the 300 or 400-level and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH482H5 • Studies in Medieval Art

Prerequisites: Six FAH courses including a 300+ level half course and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH483H5 • Studies in Medieval Art

Prerequisites: 3.0 credits in FAH including 0.5 at the 300 or 400-level and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH484H5 • Studies in Renaissance Art

Prerequisites: Six FAH courses including a 300+ level half course and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH485H5 • Studies in Renaissance Art

Students who have demonstrated unusual ability in earlier years will be encouraged to undertake, under the supervision of one or more staff members, special research projects culminating in a major research paper. Students must have written consent of their faculty supervisor(s) and the undergraduate counsellor before registering.

Note: Not more than two half-credit courses in Independent Studies may be taken in a single year.

Prerequisites: 3.0 credits in FAH including 0.5 at the 300 or 400-level and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH486H5 • Studies in Baroque Art

Students who have demonstrated unusual ability in earlier years will be encouraged to undertake, under the supervision of one or more staff members, special research projects culminating in a major research paper. Students must have written consent of their faculty supervisor(s) and the undergraduate counsellor before registering.

Note: Not more than two half-credit courses in Independent Studies may be taken in a single year.

Prerequisites: 3.0 credits in FAH including 0.5 credit at the 300 or 400-level and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH487H5 • Studies in Baroque Art

Prerequisites: Six FAH courses including a 300+ level half course and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH488H5 • Studies in Modern Art

Students who have demonstrated unusual ability in earlier years will be encouraged to undertake, under the supervision of one or more staff members, special research projects culminating in a major research paper. Students must have written consent of their faculty supervisor(s) and the undergraduate counsellor before registering.

Note: Not more than two half-credit courses in Independent Studies may be taken in a single year.

Prerequisites: 3.0 credits in FAH including 0.5 credit at the 300 or 400-level and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH489H5 • Studies in Modern Art

Prerequisites: Six FAH courses including a 300+ level half course and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH490H5 • Topics in Ancient Art and Architecture

An in-depth examination of a topic in ancient art and/or architecture. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. A seminar course limited to 20 students.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH203H5 or FAH204H5 or FAH205H5) and 1.0 credits in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH491H5 • Topics in Medieval Art and Architecture

An in-depth examination of a topic in Medieval art and or architecture. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. A seminar course limited to 20 students.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and (FAH215H5 or FAH216H5) and 1.0 credit in FAH or VCC at the 300 or 400 level
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH492H5 • Topics in Modern Art and Architecture

An in-depth examination of a topic in modern art and/or architecture. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. A seminar course limited to 20 students.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH287H5 or FAH288H5) and at least 1.0 in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level, or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH493H5 • Topics in Early Modern Art and Architecture

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH274H5 or FAH279H5) and 1.0 credits in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH494H5 • Topics in Contemporary Art and Theory

An in-depth examination of a topic in contemporary art and/or theory. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. A seminar course limited to 20 students.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH288H5 or FAH289H5) and 1.0 credits in FAH or VCC at the 300/400 level
Recommended Preparation: FAH288H5 and FAH289H5 and FAH388H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH495H5 • Topics in Islamic Art and Architecture

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH202H5) and (FAH287H5 or FAH288H5) and at least 1.0 in FAH/VCC at the 300/400 level, or permission of instructor
Exclusions: FAH486H1 Case Studies at the Royal Ontario Museum: Exhibiting Islamic Art and Material Culture
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAH496H5 • Topics in Modern Art and Architecture

FAH498H5 • Topics in Curatorial Studies

An in-depth examination of a topic in Curatorial Studies. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. A seminar course limited to 20 students. FAH498H5 may be counted toward the Curatorial Studies Certificate.

Prerequisites: (FAH101H5 or FAH105H5 or FAH202H5) and FAH289H5 and FAH310H5 and 0.5 additional credit in FAH/VCC
Recommended Preparation: FAH288H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VST410H5 • Internship in Visual Studies

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VST410Y5 • Internship in Visual Studies

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Studio Art Courses (FAS)

FAS143H5 • Drawing I

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore the use of drawing to investigate contemporary approaches to the production of artwork. Students experiment with a variety of traditional and unconventional materials to investigate figurative drawing, observational drawing, conceptual drawing, and methods of rendering illusionistic space.

Exclusions: VIS205H1 or VPSA70
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS145H5 • Painting I

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore techniques and subject matter of 20th-century painting in relation to contemporary painting practices. Students apply both observational and conceptual approaches through experimentation with painting's formal elements, traditional and non-traditional painting materials, collage, and abstraction.

Exclusions: FAS230Y1 or VIS201H1 or VPSA61
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS147H5 • Photography I

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students build skills using a manual-operation camera, processing B&W film, creating silver-based photographic prints in the darkroom, and in acquiring basic digital processing and printing techniques in colour photography. Students apply their use of photography as a tool for artistic expression and as a medium for communication through discussion, analysis and interpretation.

Exclusions: VIS217H1 or VIS218H or VPSB67
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS232H5 • Print Media I

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students learn relief and intaglio processes by exploring and experimenting with the materials and techniques demonstrated in class, and integrating them with formal and contextual concerns.

Exclusions: VIS203H1 or VIS303H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS234H5 • Print Media II

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore the basics of screen printing using hand-drawn and cut stencil imagery. Students are encouraged to link ideas with screen printing methods most suited to their goals. Students integrate digital and photo-based imagery using software, digital photos, and scans. Focus is placed upon individual development through exploration and production.

Corequisites: FAS232H5 or permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS206H1 or VIS207H1 or VIS309H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS236H5 • Design I

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students develop an awareness of applied design thinking and theories. Students use design techniques and tools to address a range of design issues through a variety of approaches and media. Students broaden their conception of design and its application in other design and art-related disciplines through creative experimentation. The fundamental principles of design and concept development are explored by students through projects involving typography, images, colour, layout and design software for print and the Web.

Exclusions: FAS146H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS243H5 • Drawing II

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore the use of drawing to investigate contemporary approaches to the production of artwork. Students experiment with a variety of traditional and experimental materials to investigate figurative drawing, zines, and independent studio research.

Prerequisites: FAS143H5 or permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS205H1 or VIS211H1 or VIS305H1 or VPSB74
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS245H5 • Painting II

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students complete problem-based paintings, each over a three-week period, in response to illustrated discussion/lectures on Canadian and international contemporary painting practices. Students write visiting artist reviews and are introduced to in-depth peer critiques, a range of painting media and techniques, and portfolio documentation.

Prerequisites: FAS145H5 or permission of instructor
Exclusions: FAS230Y1 or VIS201H1 or VIS301H1 or VPSB62
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS246H5 • Design II

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students continue to develop their investigation of design thinking, theories, techniques and tools. Students study different design strategies and problem solving with practical assignments. Diverse assignments encourage students to articulate a critical awareness of the values associated with their choice of imagery, formal elements and methods of construction.

Prerequisites: FAS146H5 or FAS236H5 or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS247H5 • Photography II

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore historical and contemporary uses of the medium that emphasize technical, aesthetic and conceptual considerations. Students utilize a variety of printing methods, including fibre-based printing, sequencing and other techniques that further develop the creative aspects of the medium. Use of the video camera and basic video editing are also introduced.

Prerequisites: FAS147H5 or permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS318H1 or VPSB75
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS248H5 • Sculpture I

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students delve into basic sculptural processes such as casting, mold-making and construction in both traditional and non-traditional materials. Students explore formal and conceptual concerns relative to contemporary sculpture practices that include considerations of representation, abstraction, form and space, scale and installation.

Exclusions: VIS204H1 or VIS306H1 or VPSA71
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS258H5 • Sculpture II

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students create a strong individualized methodology for developing ideas from initial research, sketches and models, through material and process exploration to a final artwork. Students begin by building an armature and modelling from life with clay in order to develop their powers of observation and hand-skills. Using mold making and woodworking techniques, students apply the sculptural aspects of space and time at the scale of the human body.

Prerequisites: FAS248H5
Exclusions: VIS204H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS330Y5 • Experimentation in Past and Present Techniques

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course is a practical investigation of techniques in art that have both historical precedents and contemporary applications. Media covered may include some of the following: mosaic, bas-relief in wood, encaustic, metalpoint drawing, and fresco. Students collaborate to create a mural for a public site.

Prerequisites: Any FAS200 level course and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS334Y5 • Print Media III

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students use lithography, digital printing, screen printing, relief printing and etching to establish a personalized approach to print media. Students conduct independent research and technical explorations leading to sophisticated and resolved work. Students present a biographical overview of contemporary and historical print makers to further contextualize their own work, and to become aware of how the medium of print is evolving.

Prerequisites: FAS234H5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS309H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS343Y5 • Drawing III

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore the use of drawing to investigate contemporary approaches to the production of artwork. Students work with a variety of traditional and unconventional drawing materials and processes to develop a portfolio of artworks.

Prerequisites: FAS243H5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS305H1 or VPSC55
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS345Y5 • Painting III

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students develop independent research habits to support self-directed projects in painting that are discussed in a peer critique setting. Students compose an artist statement of their intentions and procedures, write gallery and visiting artist reviews, prepare a contemporary Canadian or international artist presentation, and document their artwork.

Prerequisites: FAS245H5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS305H1 or VPSC54
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS346Y5 • Design III

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students develop the skills necessary to create real-world art and design-related projects. Students create full or partial design mockups, work in teams, and submit proposals to design competitions within or outside the school. Students explore contemporary art and design via simulated workplace assignments, visual presentation, field trips, guest critics, discussion and critique.

Prerequisites: FAS246H5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS347Y5 • Photography III

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students develop a critically informed photography practice by integrating the history and theory of photography with their production of original work in either an analogue or digital format. Students work with digital imaging technologies, production of digital prints, video, as well as the use of strobe lighting.

Prerequisites: FAS247H5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS318H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS348Y5 • Sculpture III

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students develop independent research habits to support self-directed projects in sculpture that are discussed in a peer critique setting. Students compose an artist statement of their intentions and procedures, write visiting artist reviews and responses to assigned readings, prepare a contemporary Canadian or international artist presentation, and document their artwork.

Prerequisites: FAS258H5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS306H or VPSB63
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS349Y5 • Video, Sound and Performance

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This studio-based course investigates issues of identity, gender, activism, and the body within public and private space. Fieldwork will be emphasized: the locus of the classroom becomes part of a critical inquiry of everyday life or specific public events. Assignments take into consideration the temporal nature of performance, video, sound, and interactivity. Students are exposed to a range of interdisciplinary and trans-media approaches such as digital video production and projection, multi-track sound editing, installations and interventions, and online interactivity. Through readings, presentations, discussions, workshops, topical assignments, and critiques, students develop a body of work that investigates experimental time-based processes.

Prerequisites: FAS143H5 and FAS145H5 and FAS147H5 and FAS232H5 and FAS236H5 and FAS248H5, and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC/VST and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS359Y5 • Video and Sound

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore the use of sound and video to investigate contemporary approaches to the production of time-based artwork. Students work with analogue and digital editing processes, live sound performance, site-specific soundworks, single-channel video, video installation, and will develop a professional portfolio website.

Prerequisites: FAS143H5 and FAS145H5 and FAS147H5 and FAS232H5 and FAS236H5 and FAS248H5, and an additional 0.5 credit in FAS at the 200-level and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC/VST and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS302H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS369Y5 • Performance-Based Art

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students integrate history, theory and production to develop critically informed performance practices with documentation in video and still photography.

Prerequisites: FAS143H5 and FAS145H5 and FAS147H5 and FAS232H5 and FAS236H5 and FAS248H5, and an additional 0.5 credit in FAS at the 200-level, and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC/VST and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS303H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS434Y5 • Individual Investigations in Print Media

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students conduct independent research and develop a body of work using print medium(s) of their choice. Students present information on their educational and professional goals after graduation, write an artist's statement about their work, review and discuss articles and videos, and mount a group exhibition of their work.

Prerequisites: FAS334Y5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS311H1 or VIS401H1 or VIS402H1 or VIS403H1 or VIS404H1
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS443Y5 • Individual Investigations in Drawing

Campus: Sheridan

Prerequisites: (FAS343Y5 or FAS349Y5 or FAS359Y5 or FAS369Y5) and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS305H1
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS445Y5 • Individual Investigations in Painting

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students develop independent research habits to support self-directed projects in painting that are discussed in a peer critique setting. Students write an artist statement of their intentions and procedures, prepare a Canadian and international MFA program presentation, and document their artwork.

Prerequisites: FAS345Y5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS401H1 or VIS402H1 or VIS403H1 or VIS404H1
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS446Y5 • Individual Investigations in Design

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students learn to integrate professional art and design strategies, and to research, coordinate and fully realize their own long-term projects. Students work collaboratively on large projects as well as work on mandatory and optional assignments from a range of possible assignments.

Prerequisites: FAS346Y5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS447Y5 • Individual Investigations in Photography

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students develop a critically informed photography practice by integrating the history and theory of photography with their production of original work in either an analogue or digital format. Students prepare a presentation comparing two Canadian and/or international MFA programs, in addition to preparing responses to readings and technical assignments.

Prerequisites: (FAS347Y5 or FAS349Y5 or FAS359Y5 or FAS369Y5) and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS401H1 or VIS402H1 or VIS403H1 or VIS404H1
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS448Y5 • Individual Investigations in Sculpture

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students produce a coherent body of self-directed artwork based on independent research and written proposals. In-progress and completed artworks are discussed in a peer critique setting. Students write an artist statement of their intentions and procedures, prepare a Canadian and international MFA program presentation, and document their artwork.

Prerequisites: FAS348Y5 or FAS349Y5 or FAS359Y5 or FAS369Y5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of instructor
Exclusions: VIS401H1 or VIS402H1 or VIS403H1 or VIS404H1
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS450Y5 • Advanced Project

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) In this directed study, students undertake two semesters of independent research under the mentorship of a full-time Art and Art History studio faculty member. Students develop and present a body of artwork and a written and illustrated thesis for discussion, evaluation and critique. Advanced Project students must have a B+ standing in a completed fourth-year studio. A written proposal must be submitted to, and approved by, the department before registration.

Prerequisites: 1.0 FAS 400-level course and FAS451H5 and FAS452H5 and 1.5 credits in FAH/VCC and permission of the Department.
Exclusions: VIS311H1 or VIS401H1 or VIS402H1 or VIS403H1 or VIS404H1
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 144P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS451H5 • Advanced Project

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) In this directed study, students undertake a semester-long period of independent research under the mentorship of a full-time Art and Art History studio faculty member. Students develop and present a body of artwork and a written and illustrated thesis for discussion, evaluation and critique. Advanced Project students must have a B+ standing in a completed fourth-year studio. A written proposal must be submitted to, and approved by, the department before registration.

Corequisites: 1.0 FAS 400-level credits and Permission of the Department
Exclusions: VIS311H1 or VIS401H1 or VIS402H1 or VIS403H1 or VIS404H1
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 72P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS452H5 • Advanced Project

Campus: Sheridan

FAS453H5 • Art Education Practice

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students investigate the principles of educational theory and practice for teaching the visual arts to learners including children, adolescents and adults, within a variety of educational settings.

Prerequisites: For Art and Art History majors/specialists: 4.0 FAS credits and 1.5 FAH/VCC credits, Permission of the Department. For Art History majors/specialists: 1.0 credits in FAH at the 300/400 level and Permission of the Department.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 12P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

FAS454H5 • Professional Practice

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Students explore the requirements of establishing a career as a practicing visual artist. Topics covered include portfolio development, finding and securing artist residency and exhibition opportunities, ways to support yourself as an artist, grant writing, photo documentation, peer group support, marketing and bookkeeping.

Prerequisites: For Art and Art History Majors/Specialists: 4.0 FAS credits and 1.5 FAH/VCC credits and permission of the department. For Art History Majors/Specialists: 1.0 credits in FAH at the 300/400 level and permission of the department.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 12P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

Cinema Studies Courses (CIN)

CIN101H5 • An Introduction to Cinema Studies

Introduction to film analysis, concepts of film style and narrative. Topics include documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and representation.

Exclusions: INI115Y1 or NEW115Y1 or VIC115Y1 or ERI201H5 or ERI202H5 or CIN202H5 or CIN205Y5 or CIN105H1 or ENGB70H3
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN102H5 • Modernity and the Moving Image

Looking at a few periods of intense technological change—for example, with the invention of photography, and the introduction of sound, of colour, of television—we will consider the ways in which artists, filmmakers, studios, and media conglomerates have responded to such changes and to accompanying ideas about the role that moving technology plays in our conception of history and the future.

Prerequisites: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN203H5 • The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

The establishment of film as a serious art form is coincident with the earliest critical writing on Alfred Hitchcock that emerged in the 1950s. Since then, Hitchcock has remained one of the most important filmmakers of all time, spawning not only a massive body of critical scholarship but also legions of imitators. This course will serve as an introduction to both the films (such as Psycho and North by Northwest) and related issues: questions of suspense, authorship, morality, and spectatorship.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5 or CIN202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN204H5 • The Films of Martin Scorsese

This course will examine the films of Martin Scorsese, one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. Scorsese's films will be understood in relation to questions about imitation and originality, genre, violence, male hysteria, and also as meditations on the history of film itself.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5 or CIN202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN205H5 • Canadian Auteurs

This course will offer a comparative study of a selection of major contemporary Canadian filmmakers, including Denys Arcand, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, Sara Polley, Denis Villeneuve, Ruba Nadda, Denis Côté, Guy Maddin, Michael Snow, and Joyce Wieland.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5 or CIN202H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN206H5 • Auteurs

This course will look closely at the work of a single director. Emphasis will be given to the aesthetic, historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts that inform the director's work. We will also tend closely to the style and central preoccupations of the director under examination.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN207H5 • East Asian Cinema

This course is an introduction to East Asian cinema from the 1960s to the present, including films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, and Korea. With an emphasis on formal aesthetic analysis of short and feature-length films, we will examine film waves, genres, film festivals, and interconnected film industries. Throughout the course, we will consider not only the production, exhibition, and reception spaces of East Asian cinema but also critically examine its definitions and borders.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN208H5 • The Films of Abbas Kiarostami: Being and Movement

This course will survey the work of the Iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami, and will do so with an especial interest in the way that Kiarostami’s films raise important questions about tradition, judgment, and the fluidity of self and world.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN210H5 • Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas

This course is an introduction to contemporary Southeast Asian cinemas from the 2000s to the present. Since the turn of the millennium, the cinematic innovation of Southeast Asia has been aided by an increase in productive interaction and transnational modes of collaborations and co-productions. These waves of cinema augur new possibilities for considering cross-cultural, cross-boundary ways of being, seeing and knowing that can challenge formulaic and essentialist understandings of the region. Through formal aesthetic analysis of short and feature-length films, and the study of Asia-based and international institutions of cinema, we will examine the multifarious potential of contemporary Southeast Asian in spurring the rethinking of the histories, concepts, and borders of the region.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN215H5 • Bollywood in Context

India has arguably the most popular and prolific film industry in the world. This course contextualizes the relatively recent 'Bollywood' phenomenon within the history of Indian commercial cinema and key aspects of modern Indian culture, emphasizing the popular cinema's role in constructing historically changing ideas of national and gendered identity. It also challenges the assumptions of film theories developed in relation to Hollywood or European cinema by introducing film theory concepts that address South Asian image-cultures (such as darshan, frontality, melodrama, and interruption).

Exclusions: VCC390H5 - Topic: Bollywood, CIN302H5
Recommended Preparation: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5) and (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN250H5 • Introduction to the Fundamentals of Cinematic Language

This hands-on studio-based course will examine fundamentals of cinematic language and production. Students will work individually and in teams to create a series of works that focus on aesthetics and skill development. 24L, 12T, 24P

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN290H5 • Topics in Cinema Studies

The course may have a historical, genre, theoretical, auteur, or other focus. See the Department of Visual Studies website at www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs for the current topic.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN301H5 • Topics in Cinema Studies

The course may have a historical, genre, theoretical, auteur, or other focus. Students should contact the program director for the current topic.

Recommended Preparation: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5) or at least 1.0 credits in courses that count toward Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN302H5 • Topics in Cinema Studies

The course may have a historical, genre, theoretical, auteur, or other focus. Students should contact the program director for the current topic.

Recommended Preparation: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5) or at least 1.0 credits in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN303H5 • Global Auteurs

This course is devoted to three major international filmmakers: Michael Haneke (Austria), Olivier Assayas (France), and Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan). While different in many important respects, these filmmakers are nevertheless linked by their tendency to make international films that are themselves meditations on national identity in an increasingly globalized world. Screenings will include Caché, Code Unknown, Carlos, Demonlover, The Flight of the Red Balloon, and Goodbye South, Goodbye, to name just a few.

Recommended Preparation: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5) or (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN304H5 • The Violent Image

It is commonly believed that violent images produce violent, or desensitized people. In this class, we will examine the multiple forms of violence in film, television, and videogames as well as the variety of discourses about violence and images. Rather than confirming the moral logic of condemnation of the violent image, we will ask instead what good a violent image might do.

Recommended Preparation: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5 or CIN205Y5) or at least 1.0 credit in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN305H5 • Taiwan New Wave in Our Time

The film In Our Time (1982), which combined short works by four directors (Edward Yang, Jim Tao, Ke Yizheng, and Zhang Yi), is regarded as the beginning of Taiwan New Cinema, generally considered to have ended in the late 1980s. Figures such as Hou Hsiao Hsien, Wang Tung, Chu Tien-wen, Wu Nien-Jen, Hung Hung, Hsiao Yeh, Tsai Chin, and Sylvia Chang played key roles, as directors, screenwriters, producers, and/or actors. From examining films within the era to their impact on contemporary global cinema, this course asks: how may a film be transnationally and transgenerationally re-animated for shifting eras and constellations of viewers? This course speculates that the time of the Taiwan New Wave is still beckoning, even from beyond the contested shores of Taiwan. 24L, 24P

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5 or at least 1.0 credit in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN306H5 • The Comedic Image

Comedies routinely depend on the performance of the unthinkable in the ordinary. Our laughter follows from the saying or doing of the unsayable and the undoable. Comedy is in this way both a form of bad manners and also a uniquely philosophical genre, insofar as saying the unsayable means that we are able to recognize more than what we see or typically say. This course will survey the history of comedy and its relation to thought, perception, and social values.

Recommended Preparation: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5) or at least 1.0 credits in courses that count toward the Cinema Studies minor.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN307H5 • Movement

Since the advent of cinema, filmmakers and film theorists have repeatedly attempted to define film as a unique art form on the basis of its most defining characteristic: movement. Painters can represent movement, but film is movement itself. Not surprisingly, many filmmakers who are recognized as significant artists are most easily identified by the distinctive style of their camera movement. This class will be devoted to a consideration of the nature, meaning, and styles of movement in film.

Recommended Preparation: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5) or (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN308H5 • East and Southeast Asian Cinemas of Migration

Migration, voluntary and involuntary, has intensified in an unprecedented manner in recent history. More than ever, it is critical to examine forms of proximity, hospitality, and regionality. Including films by migrants, films about the migrant experience, and the migratory routes of cinema itself, this course addresses the ethics, politics, and praxis of mobility and displacement. How, through East and Southeast Asian cinemas, could we envision counter-bodies and counter-strategies with which we may collectively imagine and inhabit the world? 24L, 24P

CIN309H5 • Colour and the Moving image

Considering philosophical, scientific, and historical discourses about colour, this course explores a variety of ways of analyzing colour style in film and video art. As we begin to come to terms with the perceptual instability of colour as a positive phenomenon, we will consider how and why dominant histories of film style have been written, especially as the taming of colour has been central to an ongoing categorical distinction between narrative cinema and the avant-garde, morality and hedonism.

Exclusions: CIN401H5 (Winter 2021)
Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5 and at least 1.0 credit in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN310H5 • Melodrama

Film and Televisual melodramas regularly enact a conflict between personal desire and social expectation. This course will cover a range of films and television melodramas and consider the social contexts in which these works emerge, and often as critiques of the very cultures to which they belong or reject. 24L, 36P

Exclusions: CIN301H5 Topics course Melodrama.
Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5 and at least 1.0 credit in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN315H5 • From Script to Screen

This is a screenwriting course where students will be introduced to key narrative tools, scriptwriting conventions and components so they can develop an understanding and appreciation of the process from script to screen. From a comparative analysis of screenplays and completed short and feature films with varying budgets in the global cinema landscape, students will learn to use freely available specialized software to craft their own short film materials, including logline, synopsis, treatment, and screenplay.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN317H5 • Production: Independent Cinema

What can the title cards and credits of a film tell us about its journey to the screen? Outside of the studio system model adopted in various countries, there are established pathways and structures for the development, financing, production, sales, distribution and exhibition of independent cinema. This class asks how, from idea to completion, an independent film is able to find funding and reach an international audience. Focusing on the transnational ecosystems that sustain the passage of independent cinema around the world, we will examine case studies of films from Asia, Europe and North America.

Recommended Preparation: CIN101H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN399Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

This course provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their third year or beyond to work on the research project of a professor in Cinema Studies in return for 399Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, enhance their research skills, and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter session on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN400H5 • Topics in Cinema Studies

The course may have a historical, genre, theoretical, auteur, or other focus. Students should contact the Department for the current topic.

Prerequisites: CIN101H5 or at least 2.0 credits in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 36P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN401H5 • Topics in Cinema Studies

The course may have a historical, genre, theoretical, auteur, or other focus. Students should contact the Department for the current topic.

CIN402H5 • Avant-Garde Film and Video

This course will look at alternative forms of filmmaking and television production. If there is a defining feature of avant-garde film and video, it is a general resistance to the thematic and stylistic norms of mainstream production and popular culture as way of seeing for all. Thus, in this course, we will be looking at both highly personal and sometimes autobiographical works of art.

Prerequisites: (CIN101H5 or CIN202H5) and 1.0 credits at the 300 level in CIN or permission of instructor
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 36P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN403H5 • Queerscapes, Screenscapes, Escapes: Gender and Sexuality Across East and Southeast Asian Cinemas

"Queerness is not yet here." José Esteban Muñoz begins Cruising Utopia with the provocation that queerness is a mode of desire that allows for an escape from the conditions of the present. How does queer studies contribute to the building of and the continued hope for a more just world? Through cinema, theory, and philosophy, this course makes the claim that investigating queerness in the world marks a critical move away from restrictive modes of identification and holds open life's horizons of possibility. Course texts emphasize queer cinemas of Asia and their transnational connections. 24S, 24P

CIN404H5 • Film Noir and the Problem of Style

By way of an introduction to some of the key instances of film noir, this course is concerned with what we will call the paradox of style; namely, that style can indicate both what is specific and also what is general, what is unique and what is repeatable. We will look at the way in which this paradox is amplified by issues of gender, genre, fashion, and power that seem to concern so many films in this tradition. 24S, 30P

Prerequisites: CIN101H5 or at least 2.0 credits in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Exclusions: CIN401H5 topics course "Film Noir and the Problem of Style".
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 30P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN405H5 • Cinema and Emotion

This interdisciplinary course looks at such difficult emotions as shame, jealousy, forgiveness, and love, and how film complicates our understanding of them. 24S, 30P

Prerequisites: CIN101H5 or at least 2.0 credits in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Exclusions: CIN401H5 topic: Difficult Emotions, Moving Images
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 30P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN408H5 • Potential Cinema: Theories, Visions, and Practices of Decoloniality from East and Southeast Asia

Inspired by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, this course investigates films from East and Southeast Asia and considers the ways in which we might recognize theories, visions, and practices that might constitute "cinemas of decoloniality." In this course, we will look to filmmakers' aesthetic engagement with archival and imagined time and the collision of pasts, presents, and futures in order to consider how contentious histories of memory and forgetting can have effects on the politics of the present. How, through and with cinema, could there be space not only to retell and reframe histories of coloniality and decolonization but also to experience and practice the potential decolonization of ways of being, seeing, and thinking?

Prerequisites: CIN101H5 or a minimum 2.0 credits in courses that count towards Cinema Studies programs.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 36P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN410H5 • Creating Mobile Cinemas

This class will introduce students to low-budget aesthetic approaches to cinema across fiction and documentary genres. The class will involve a hybrid of cinema research and creation. During the first half of the semester, we will study a selection of feature-length works and shorts. The second half of the semester will be dedicated towards students creating 10-15 minute pieces of their own inspired by what they have studied.

Prerequisites: CIN101H5 and 1.0 at the 300/400-level in CIN
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CIN430H5 • Making a Short Film

This is a production course that introduces students to the four stages of filmmaking: development, production, post production, and release. Through learning the practical aspects of filmmaking such as scriptwriting, budgeting, key crew positions, basic technical proficiency of equipment, and understanding the film festival circuit and online platform, students will make a 5-10 minute fiction short film. Equipment and funds will not be provided but students will be able to complete the assignments on a smartphone with recommendation of free video editing software.

Prerequisites: CIN101H5 and 1.0 credit at the 300/400-level in CIN
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VST410H5 • Internship in Visual Studies

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VST410Y5 • Internship in Visual Studies

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Visual Culture and Communication Courses (VCC)

VCC101H5 • Introduction to Visual Culture

(Formerly CCT201H5/VCC201H5) Introduces the ways in which we use and understand images across the realms of art, advertising, mass media, and science, with examples drawn from painting, photography, film, television, and new media. Presents a diverse range of recent approaches to visual analysis and key theories of visual culture.

Exclusions: FAH201H5 or CCT201H5 or VCC201H5
Recommended Preparation: CCT109H5 or (FAH101H5 or FAH202H5)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC205H5 • Monsters

This course examines monster movies and television shows alongside readings from monster literature, comics, and critical essays. It considers the social significance of the monster in order to learn something about how the threat of the monster relates to historical anxieties concerning mass-media technologies, social deviance, and the hybrid forms of visual media culture that we typically associate with the era of 21st-century convergence culture but define the genre of monster media from its ancient beginnings.

Exclusions: VCC340H5
Recommended Preparation: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC207H5 • Urban Sites and Sounds

Introduces students to histories and theories of urban spaces emphasizing the modern city. Drawing from history, architecture, geography, and media studies, the course explores how urban change is evident in the spaces, forms, and sounds of the modern city. Case studies of specific urban environments depending on instructor's research emphasis.

Recommended Preparation: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC236H5 • North American Consumer Culture: 1890-Present

Examines the history and theoretical treatments of mass consumerism in North American society. We will look at the relationship between the market and cultural politics, cultural production, and mass consumption. Specific topics include: the shift from mass production to mass consumption; the growth of department stores; the rise of advertising; the relationship of race, class, and gender to consumer capitalism; the development of product brands; and the emergence of global marketing.

Exclusions: HIS336H5 or VCC336H5
Recommended Preparation: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC290H5 • Topics in Visual Culture and Communication

An examination of a topic in Visual Culture. Topics vary from year to year; the content in any given year depends on the instructor. This will be a lecture course.

Recommended Preparation: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC292H5 • Topics in Visual Culture and Communication

An in-depth examination of topics in visual and media culture, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor.

Recommended Preparation: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC304H5 • Visual Culture and the Politics of Identity

Examines the ways in which social-cultural identities are constructed by, and at times disrupt, various visual technologies, logics, and representational strategies. Issues and problems to be addressed include nationality, stereotyping, invisibility, and surveillance. Course materials will be drawn from modern and contemporary art and visual culture, and will also include readings from the fields of feminism, race studies, queer theory, and performance studies.

Prerequisites: CCT200H5 or VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC306H5 • Visual Culture and Colonialism

Many of our most popular and influential image technologies, visual forms, and ways of thinking about images first developed in the second half of the 19th century: the heyday of European colonialism. This course re-examines the visual culture of modernity in the light of this deeply colonial genealogy, through forms such as photography, colour printing, film, exhibitions, postcards, maps, scientific illustrations, and the body as image.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Exclusions: VCC302H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC308H5 • Activism in Visual and Media Culture

This course will examine political and social activism in visual and media culture focusing on the role that visual representation has played in social movements and how artists/activists have employed visual media to achieve specific ends that challenge and resist dominant visual representations and political formations.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC309H5 • Society and Spectacle

Spectacles have been vehicles of social and political power at varying historical moments and locations. Since Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle was published in 1967 the term has been deployed as a critical concept for thinking about visual culture. This course takes up a number of historical case studies in order to locate and situate phenomena associated with spectacle and spectacular visual entertainments. Topics may include the role of images in mediating contemporary social relations and the connection between spectacle and violence.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Exclusions: VCC209H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC334H5 • Media Realities

This course examines the relationship between mass media technologies and the idea of "reality" with an emphasis on the electronic and digital forms that dominate the discourse of "reality" in contemporary media culture, television, and the Internet. It will explore such questions as: How do shifting aesthetic conventions of realism, "reality" programming, and documentary inflect both theoretical and historical understandings of what constitutes reality? And how do our ideas of media technology inform these conventions and the understandings they produce?

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC338H5 • Picturing the Suburbs

This course considers how images of suburbia circulate between two interrelated but often counter-posed realms of visual culture: the popular genres of film, television, and new media entertainment and the iconography of "high" art practices such as painting, photography, and avant-garde film. In the process it addresses such fundamental issues as the relation between art and mass production, the aesthetics of private and public space, and the role that visual media play in constructing the socio-political space of the built environment.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC360H5 • South Asian Visual Culture

Popular imagery from the Indian subcontinent is now increasingly visible in the global arena, particularly via the West's discovery of 'Bollywood.' But what have these images meant to South Asians themselves, what are their histories, what traditions and practices do they draw on? This course introduces key concepts for understanding South Asian visual culture and its multifaceted postcolonial modernity. Images examined include popular prints, film, photography, comic books, urban environments, advertisements, crafts, art, propaganda, rituals, television, and the internet.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC390H5 • Topics in Visual Culture and Communication

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC392H5 • Topics in Visual Culture and Communication

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC394H5 - Comics and Visual Culture

Examines comics and graphic novels and their histories in print and digital media, including production, dissemination, and reception. Develops a foundational understanding of the visual grammar of comics and addresses theories of narrative.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5
Exclusions: CCT336H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC397H5 History of Communication Design

This course examines the historical development of communication design from the industrial revolution to the present. Focuses on the emergence of design theory in changing economic, technological, and social contexts.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5
Exclusions: CCT352H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC399Y5 • Research Opportunity Program (ROP)

This course provides a richly rewarding opportunity for third or higher year students who have developed some knowledge of visual culture and communication to work on the research project of a professor in return for 399Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, enhance their research skills, and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter session on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and a minimum of 10.0 credits.
Exclusions: CCT299Y5 or CCT399Y5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC400H5 • Advanced Project

This course is designed to serve as a capstone course for VCC specialists. Students engage with advanced readings in the field and refine skills in critical analysis of selected topics in VCC. A major focus is the design and implementation of an advanced research project selected in consultation with an instructor.

Prerequisites: (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and completion of 13.0 credits. Open only to VCC specialists.
Exclusions: CCT400H5 or HSC400H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC405H5 • Individual Project

A research project carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. Students will carry out a research project on a selected topic related to VCC. Students must obtain signed permission from the faculty member they would like to have as their supervisor.

Prerequisites: Completion of 13.0 credits including VCC400H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC406H5 • Post-Colonialism and the Image

How has the legacy of modern colonialism across the globe impacted how we see images, how we think about them, and how we make them? And how do images perpetuate or overturn the legacy of colonial power relations? This course introduces students to the key concepts and debates in post-colonial theory as they relate to visual studies.

Prerequisites: (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and VCC306H5
Recommended Preparation: VCC304H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC407H5 • Architectures of Vision

Based upon Michel Foucault's work on modern architectures of surveillance, control, and discipline, this course examines such modern and contemporary architectural-visual formations as the museum, domestic interior, cinema, and the residential and commercial skyscraper. Ways in which these sites have come to define notions of citizenship, privacy and publicity, and community will be of particular focus and concern.

Prerequisites: 13.0 credits including a minimum of 1.0 VCCcredit and (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5)
Recommended Preparation: FAH289H5 and VCC304H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC409H5 • Capital, Spectacle, War

This course investigates the conjunction of contemporary global capitalism, spectacle, and militarized neo-liberal governmentality in order to develop a critical understanding of the inter-related forces that constitute the most current and politically and ethically pressing events in the world today. These may include the war on terror, the disaster film genre, technologies of surveillance, politics of humiliation and scandal, and theological and financial speculation and visions of the future. Readings will draw upon both historical and in many cases the latest work in political theory, cinema and new media studies, critical philosophy, and religious studies.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 and VCC309H5 and an additional 1.0 credit in VCC
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC410H5 • The Collective Afterlife of Things

This fourth-year interdisciplinary seminar provides students with an opportunity to examine theories of art and artistic practice in the context of contemporary visual culture, environmental devastation, global warming, climate injustice, and species extinction. Readings are drawn from eco-criticism and philosophy, visual studies and political theory, accompanied by contemporary art, film, literature in order to critically examine the concepts of “collective,” “afterlife,” and “things.”

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 and a minimum of 1.0 credit in VCC at the 300//400 level.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC411H5 • Real Space to Cyberspace

This course examines the re-conception of traditional understandings of architecture and space -- public and private -- brought about by digital technologies. Notions of space affect our conceptions of political, social and inner life; this course investigates the impact of hyperspace and virtual reality on real and imagined space in a global context.

Prerequisites: FAH101H5 and VCC101H5 and an additional 1.0 credit in VCC
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC415H5 • Theory and Criticism of New Media

Introduces a variety of approaches for interpreting, criticizing, evaluating, and theorizing digital media with a particular emphasis on visual cultural phenomena including augmented reality and virtual reality. Examines how the thinking of new media is conditioned and altered via major theoretical models.

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 and a minimum of 1.0 credit in VCC at 300/400 level
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC419H5 • Animals in Visual Culture

In 1977 the influential critic John Berger wrote an essay called “Why Look at Animals?” which framed humans’ relationship with animals as a matter of vision or, as we now say, of visual culture. More recently the humanities have been described as taking an “animal turn,” influenced by posthumanist thought and the idea that we are living in a period of unprecedented human impact on the planet, commonly (yet controversially) known as the Anthropocene. How has visual culture studies developed on or challenged Berger’s insights since he wrote that essay? Building on critiques of the category of “nature” as something that somehow pre-exists “culture” and is outside of it, which in turn challenges the terms of our distinctions between humans and animals, how does recent scholarship approach the place of images and vision in human-animal relations, and indeed the very idea of the animal itself? This seminar investigates these questions through texts that discuss key theoretical questions and examine representations of animals across a variety of media, species, historical or geographical contexts, and disciplinary approaches.

Prerequisites: (VCC101H5 or FAH101H5) and a minimum of 1.0 VCC credit.
Exclusions: VCC490H5 - Animals in Visual Culture Fall 2018
Recommended Preparation: FAH275H5 or FAH375H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC420H5 • The Visual Culture of Automobility

Cars are the quintessential mass-produced commodities, and as such are central to the spread of capitalism and to the forms, spaces, affects, and imaginaries of modernity, postmodernity and beyond. Drawing on anthropology, geography, architectural theory and cinema studies as well as visual studies, art history and critical theory, this seminar examines the visual cultures of automobility over a range of historical periods and cultural contexts.

Prerequisites: 13.0 credits including (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and a minimum of 1.0 VCC credit at the 300/400 level
Exclusions: VCC490H5 topics course - The Visual Culture of Automobility.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC425H5 • Art and Media Culture

Explores intersections of art, pop culture and mass media in Europe and North America between World War II and 1970. Reviews how the definition of art moved into an expanded field of media culture.

Prerequisites: 13.0 credits including (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and a minimum of 1.0 VCC credit
Recommended Preparation: FAH289H5 and VCC308H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC427H5 • Participatory Media

In order to explore the complex social and political issues surrounding the discourse of democratic participation in today's "new media" culture, this course provides a historical and theoretical survey of "old" media technologies that embrace the aesthetics of participation, running from popular theatre forms (including vaudeville and Chautauqua) to call-in radio shows, avant-garde and novelty films, activist video art, and the audience-based talk and game shows of fifties television that most directly prefigure the participatory genres of contemporary media programming.

Prerequisites: (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and at least 1.0 credit in VCC
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24P/24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC490H5 • Topics in Visual Culture and Communication

Prerequisites: 13.0 credits including (VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and a minimum of 1.0 VCC credit.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VCC492H5 • Topics in Visual Culture and Communication

Prerequisites: VCC101H5 or VCC201H5
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

VST410H5 • Internship in Visual Studies

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VST410Y5 • Internship in Visual Studies

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Visual Studies Courses (VST)

VST410H5 Internship in Visual Studies (HUM, EXP)

This internship course provides an opportunity for students to gain practical experience at an institution or business closely related to the arts and to visual studies. This is especially tailored for mature and self-disciplined students in their final year of study, who are ready to apply knowledge acquired in previous courses and are planning a career in the arts and cultural sector. Students registered in any DVS program are eligible to apply. Students work closely with the DVS internship coordinator to establish suitability. Regular updates and a final report and presentation will be required. The final grade for the course will be based on these, along with the assessment of the employer. [24S]

Prerequisite: Minimum completion of 5.5 credits in DVS Programs and 8.0 additional credits and minimum CGPA 2.5 and and permission of internship coordinator.

VST410Y5 • Internship in Visual Studies (HUM, EXP)

Prerequisites: Minimum of 5.5 credits in DVS program courses and 8.0 additional credits and minimum CGPA 2.5 and permission of internship coordinator.

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