IMPORTANT DATES
FACULTY OF LIBERAL STUDIES
Please be aware of your 'Degree/Diploma Requirements' found under the current Fall/Winter Course Calendar/Faculty of Liberal Studies.
First-Year Liberal Studies
LBST 1B03 Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Ideas [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
LBST 1B06 Introduction to Visual Studies II: Critical Frameworks [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument – Mechanics [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
LBST 1B12 The Essay and the Argument – ESL [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
LBST 1B13 The Essay and the Argument – Rhetoric [DURATION 5 CANCELLED effective 2009-05-01]
English
ENGL 2B01 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 2B03 Introduction to Literary Criticism
ENGL 2B30 Critical Writing for Artists and Designers [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
ENGL 3B01 The Artist in European and American Literature [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-30]
ENGL 3B06 Studies in Canadian Literature [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
ENGL 4B17 Advanced Creative Writing
Humanities
HUMN 2B01 Aesthetics [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
HUMN 3B01 Reading Popular Culture
HUMN 3B02 The Romantic Rebellion in Europe [TIME CHANGE effective 2009-04-02] [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-30]
HUMN 4B01 Modernism: Critical Perspectives [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-03-25]
Science, Technology, Mathematics
SCTM 2B03 Astronomy: An Exploration of Scales & Structure [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
SCTM 2B10 Introduction to Psychology [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
SCTM 2B22 Topics in the Science of Colour [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Social Sciences
SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and Cultural Landscape (also VISC 2B40) [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
SOSC 3B02 Material Culture and Consumer Society [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
SOSC 3B03 Sociology of the Body [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
SOSC 4B02 Gender, Globalization and Social Change [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Visual Culture
VISC 2B07 History of Modern Art [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
VISC 2B10 History of 20th Century Architecture
VISC 2B13 History of Photography [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
VISC 2B22 History of Material Arts: Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
VISC 2B36 History and Evolution of Typography [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-16]
VISC 2B38 Design Thinking [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
VISC 2B39 Graphic Design History in the 20th Century [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-06-03]
VISC 3B07 Art of the Italian Renaissance
VISC 3B18 Television Criticism [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
VISC 3B32 History of Furniture [DURATION CHANGE effective 2009-03-25] [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-16]
VISC 3B33 Canadian Cinema [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
VISC 4B07 Images and Practices of Technology [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-06-08]
VISC 4B08 Studies in Contemporary Art: Europe 1960s-1990s
LBST 1B03
Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Ideas
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Lisa Peden [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 1B03 or ACAD 1B03 may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course is an introduction to the history and context of visual studies from a thematic and global perspective. Through an issue-based approach to art and design, students explore the historical relationship of visual representation of ideas such as spirituality, colonialism, the body, race, gender, industrialization, mass reproduction and technology. An emphasis is placed on integrating textual and visual analysis in lectures, tutorials and assignments and introducing students to research methodologies for artists and designers.
LBST 1B06
Introduction to Visual Studies II: Critical Frameworks
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Instructor: Bojana Videkanic [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken VISC 1B04, VISC 1B05 or VISC 1B06 may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course introduces students to ways of thinking critically and analytically about visual culture in a contemporary global context. Students are introduced to the ways in which meanings are produced through visual forms, including paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news and science images. The course examines how we "read" the image as a visual language and what influences our ways of seeing, including aesthetics, ideology, gender, race and class.
LBST 1B11
The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 am to 11:30 am
Instructor: Maggie Roberts [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 am to 11:30 am
Instructor: TBA
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took one of: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43 may not take this course for extra credit.
Notes: A writing course is required for all First-Year students.
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).
This course is designed specifically for students who wish to sharpen their writing skills through intensive practice and review of composition mechanics and English grammar. Students will focus on grammar fundamentals, paragraph construction and reading strategies. This workshop allows students to explore aspects of essay composition while developing confidence in their own writing skills through practical exercises.
This course focuses on the essay – personal, descriptive, analytical, persuasive and research based – and how to develop a clear, compelling thesis and convincing argument. Students will read among the best models of the essay, which may include works by, among others, Montaigne, Swift, Lincoln, Thoreau, Douglass, Woolf, Orwell, Bettleheim, Arendt, Sartre, Nabokov, Sontag and Kincaid. Through short lectures, group work, peer reviews, class discussions and instructor feedback, students will practice the art of writing in a variety of rhetorical modes, undergoing an intensive, rigorous learning process designed to be useful to them as practicing artists, designers, researchers and critics.
LBST 1B12
The Essay and the Argument: ESL
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 3: May 19 to August 21, Wednesday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Instructor: Lisa Tomlinson [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took one of: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43 may not take this course for extra credit.
Notes: A writing course is required for all First-Year students.
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).
This course is designed specifically for ESL (English as a Second Language) students who wish to reinforce skills in English grammar and written English. Students will focus on grammar, composition, vocabulary building, techniques for reading efficiently and academic style.
This course focuses on the essay – personal, descriptive, analytical, persuasive and research based – and how to develop a clear, compelling thesis and convincing argument. Students will read among the best models of the essay, which may include works by, among others, Montaigne, Swift, Lincoln, Thoreau, Douglass, Woolf, Orwell, Bettleheim, Arendt, Sartre, Nabokov, Sontag and Kincaid. Through short lectures, group work, peer reviews, class discussions and instructor feedback, students will practice the art of writing in a variety of rhetorical modes, undergoing an intensive, rigorous learning process designed to be useful to them as practicing artists, designers, researchers and critics.
LBST 1B13
The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Instructor: Amanda Spencer [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Duration 5: July 6 – August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm [CANCELLED effective 2009-05-01]
Instructor: Jessica Barr [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took one of: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43 may not take this course for extra credit.
Notes: A writing course is required for all First-Year students.
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).
This course is designed specifically for students who wish to sharpen their persuasive skills through an intensive study of the art of rhetoric and debate. Students will focus on advanced arguments through in-depth analysis of course readings as well as a close examination of various rhetorical tips and strategies.
This course focuses on the essay – personal, descriptive, analytical, persuasive and research based – and how to develop a clear, compelling thesis and convincing argument. Students will read among the best models of the essay, which may include works by, among others, Montaigne, Swift, Lincoln, Thoreau, Douglass, Woolf, Orwell, Bettleheim, Arendt, Sartre, Nabokov, Sontag and Kincaid. Through short lectures, group work, peer reviews, class discussions and instructor feedback, students will practice the art of writing in a variety of rhetorical modes, undergoing an intensive, rigorous learning process designed to be useful to them as practicing artists, designers, researchers and critics.
ENGL 2B01
Introduction to Creative Writing
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Lillian Allen
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken ACAD3B11 or ENGL 3B11 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: Alumni and advanced standing students who are considering taking this course to fulfill their writing course requirement must make an advising appointment with the Liberal Studies office for approval.
This seminar course offers students the opportunity to develop, critique and refine a body of writing with an emphasis on the exploration of individual style. Through lectures, writing exercises, class discussion, readings, presentations, and individual critiques, the elements and strategies involved in both the craft and the creative process of writing are examined, as are different critical theories of literature. As a way of understanding cultural and social influences on artistic vision and the creative imagination, students are exposed to a range of writers of diverse cultural and aesthetic backgrounds.
ENGL 2B03
Introduction to Literary Criticism
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Monday and Wednesday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Instructor: Lynn Crosbie
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Notes: This course is strongly recommended in advance of third- or fourth-year ENGL courses.
The focus of this course will be twofold. Firstly, it will seek to articulate the ways in which critical thinking has developed in literary criticism from the classical to the contemporary period. From this perspective, we will trace the influences of classical thought on contemporary schools by introducing students to a range of methodologies, which will include the following: formalism, semiotics, new criticism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, queer theory and critical race studies. Secondly, by using this historical and theoretical paradigm as a frame of reference, the course will shift into a critical analysis of theorizing by questioning the presuppositions that underlie various developments in the tradition of critical thinking. Students will be encouraged to consider the relevance of both ancient and current methodologies in relation to issues of representation and power relations in the contemporary world.
ENGL 2B30
Critical Writing for Artists & Designers
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Leanna Mclennan [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 100 level.
Anti-requisite: Students who have a credit in one of ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, LBST 1A40 (and one of the workshops: LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43), LBST 1B11, LBST 1B12 or LBST 1B13, ACAD 3B12 or ACAD 2B30 may not take this course for further credit.
This writing and composition course provides students with the opportunity to develop communication skills essential for artists and designers through lectures, writing exercises, oral presentations, class discussions, readings, group and individual critiques. The emphasis of the course is on the development of clear and effective writing specific to art and design contexts, with students led through the process of preparing a variety of written materials including proposals, artists' statements, reviews, and critical briefs.
ENGL 3B01
The Artist in European and American Literature
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Timothy Jacobs [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-30]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Notes: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of 300 or 400 level ENGL courses.
This literature course considers the topic of the artist in the literature of Europe and America, exploring depictions of artists, the nature of creativity, and the social role and aspirations of art. In the light of changing ideas about the nature of humanity and of ideals of individuality, democracy, and reason, Western authors have viewed the creativity of both visual and verbal artist in diverse yet motivated ways.
ENGL 3B06
Studies in Canadian Literature
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Instructor: Tanya D'Anger [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ENGL 2B02: Studies in Canadian Literature may not take this course for further credit.
Taking a close look at individual texts and traditions, this course considers notions of Canada through literary representations of its people, languages, and landscapes, and through Canada's different models of verbal art (Aboriginal, African, European, and others). Texts studied may range from pre-contact indigenous myths, the diaries of early pioneers, novels of the immigrant condition, to French-Canadian works in translation. Traditions may include folklore, hip hop, the Anglo-American modernist literary tradition, and the contemporary, urban avant-garde.
ENGL 4B17
Advanced Creative Writing
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Lillian Allen
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit) and ENGL 2B01 Creative Writing I or permission of instructor
This seminar course offers students at an advanced level the opportunity to discover and challenge preconceptions about a broad range of styles, genres, traditions and conventions of writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction in the late twentieth century. The focus of the course is on the development of individual style and the production of a body of work. Exposure to a cross-cultural variety of contemporary writing assists students to integrate theoretical and critical perspectives with their developing voices.
HUMN 2B01
Aesthetics
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Instructor: Hugh Alcock [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
This course offers students an introduction to the philosophy of art through the study of concepts and issues which have concerned artists, critics and philosophers from modernism to postmodernism. We examine some of the traditional philosophical problems of aesthetics connected to ideas of beauty, genius, imagination, creativity, artistic value and expression, critical evaluation, and the role of the artist in society. We also investigate contemporary issues related to the dematerialization of the art object in the twentieth century such as visual thinking, spatial intelligence, representation, semiotic signification, the anti-aesthetic, and the connection between art and politics.
HUMN 3B01
Reading Popular Culture
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Lynn Crosbie
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 2B14 or HUMN 2B14 may not take this course for further credit.
This course examines the mass media as a dominant form of culture which socializes us while providing the materials for social reproduction and change. The emphasis of the course is on the stimulation of critical reflection and debate relevant to an understanding of various popular cultural genres in contemporary Canadian and global cultures. In studying various genres, including soap opera, science fiction, fashion and dance music, we compare different analytical approaches to reading culture and questioning the politics of representation, distribution, production, and consumption.
HUMN 3B02
The Romantic Rebellion in Europe
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 3: May 19 to August 21, Wednesday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm [TIME CHANGE effective 2009-04-02]
Instructor: Keith O’Regan [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-30]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
This course studies the Romantic movement in European culture through lectures and discussion on the literature, philosophy, art and music of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics include the revival of interest I mediaevalism, folklore, emotion, and self-expression in art and daily life, and new concepts of male-female relationships. Later currents include the mysterious and dangerous Byronic hero, as well as a greater interest in social satire and the uncanny. The emphasis will be on German, English, and Russian culture, though examples will also be drawn from French, Italian, East European and Scandinavian Romantic movements. The rise of nationalism, the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, and the reestablishment of the ancient regime create the socio-political foundation for the culture of the period.
HUMN 4B01
Modernism; Critical Perspectives
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Ben Freedman [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took HUMN 3B04: Understanding Modernism or took HUMN 3B90: Special Topic in Humanities: Understanding Modernism in the 2004/2005 academic year may not take this course for further credit.
This course offers an overview of the historical and cultural context of the modern period from the mid 1850s to 1945. It is designed to offer students a context in which to understand not only the key issues and innovations central to artistic modernism but also the ways in which modernism forms the basis for much of our understanding of contemporary culture. Students will consider how historical forces such as the rise of literacy and the working class, industrialization, colonialism, revolution, women’s rights, and the World Wars created contexts in which innovation and critical approaches to art emerged.
HUMN 4B18
Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Dot Tuer [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-03-25]
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 4B12 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: VISC 2B07 is strongly recommended in advance of this course.
*It is recommended that students complete HUMN 4B18 in their third year or in the summer preceding their thesis year.
This seminar course examines key theories and ideas that have emerged under the broad term of postmodernism. Readings for the course familiarize students with the debates about postmodernism and contemporary culture related to issues of technology, globalization and postcolonialism. Assignments focus on the development of critical strategies and analytical frameworks for reading, responding to, and writing about theoretical ideas. In depth examination of assigned readings is complemented by discussion of related artistic practices.
SCTM 2B03
Astronomy: An Exploration of Scales & Structure in our Universe
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Robin Kingsburgh [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took SCTM 2B94 Special Topics in Science, Technology, Math: Astronomy: An Exploration of Scales and Structures in our Universe may not take this course for further credit.
The goal of physics is to understand the workings of nature through observation, experimentation, and theory. In this course, we will explore the world of physics through its observations and visualizations of nature, from the realm of the human scale through microscopic and macroscopic scales. The course will examine such topics in modern physics as cosmology, relativity, and quantum mechanics, along with their classical historical contexts. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of visualization in science, and interrelations between science and art. (Note: As little mathematics as possible will be used; emphasis is on conceptual ideas. No background in science/math is presumed.)
SCTM 2B10
Introduction to Psychology
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Lena Kushnir [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
This lecture course introduces students to the scientific study of human and animal behaviour, with a particular emphasis on the individual as the unit of study rather than the group. Through discussion, the course text and clips from Universal Studio films, students survey key concepts, issues and research methods in the various sub-disciplines of psychology and relate these to contemporary life and culture. Topics include: physiological processes, motivation, learning, perception and sensation, memory and thinking, and social, developmental and abnormal psychology. Students learn to develop their critical thinking and analytical skills and learn to distinguish between the average layperson's notion of psychology and psychology as a science.
SCTM 2B22
Topics in the Science of Colour
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Instructor: Jonathan Korman [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who have previously taken SCTM 2B90: Special Topic in Science, Technology and Mathematics: Topics in the Science of Colour may not take this course for further credit.
A cross-disciplinary approach in examining colour, with the aim of understanding colour from the multiple viewpoints of art, physics, chemistry, physiology and history. Topics include: perception, wave nature of light, spectroscopy, colour harmony and contrast, natural phenomena, dyes and pigments.
SOSC 2B02 / VISC 2B40
Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 3: May 19 to August 21, Thursday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Colin Campbell [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 2B40 for credit may not take SOSC 2B02 for further credit.
Notes: This course is also offered as VISC 2B40. You must decide which course category you wish this to be counted towards at the time of registration by registering for either SOSC 2B02 or VISC 2B40.
This lecture course is designed to offer students critical and analytical skills to understand our complex media environment through the study of the basic principles, methodologies and topics relevant to Communications Studies. Students examine historical, economic, technological and policy perspectives that shape how we respond to and participate in a media landscape, with an emphasis placed on the Canadian context. Topics to be addressed include: theories of communications and media; public and private media; communications and nations; culture industries; media convergence; geopolitics of global communications; networks and communications; democracy and media; and consumers, identity and media.
SOSC 3B02
Material Culture and Consumer Society
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 3: May 19 to August 21, Tuesday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Saeed Hydaralli [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD3B22, HUMN 3B22 (2001) or VISC 3B22 (2002) may not take this course for further credit.
In its broadest sense, material culture is the study of the objects people make, use, purchase and consume to interact with their physical worlds and to construct visible social relationships. This course explores how objects are a reflection of the individuals and societies that produce them, and examines the design of objects and their meanings through interdisciplinary methodologies. Using a case-study approach to find what objects "say" about us, we examine a range of Western and non-Western objects including furniture, household products, clothing, cars and architecture, and topics such as collecting, souvenirs, branding and gift-giving.
SOSC 3B03
Sociology of the Body
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Maria-Belen Ordonez [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Beverly-Jean Daniel [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
This course examines sociological approaches to understanding the body in contemporary society. The idea of "body techniques" will be emphasized, including the following: techniques of production which permit construction, transformation or manipulation of the body; techniques of representation which permit free individual or collective expression concerning the body in society; and institutional techniques which determine the behaviour of individuals towards their own bodies and the bodies of others. Each "technique" will be examined in relationship to how they broaden perceptions about the body, what they replace, and what they take from society.
SOSC 4B02
Gender, Globalization and Social Change
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Instructor: Phillipa Chong [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took SOSC 3B01 for credit may not take SOSC 4B02 for further credit.
This seminar course examines anthropological/social science perspectives on the role that gender plays in organizing society and in understanding social change. We begin by analyzing initial research in the early 1970s that sought to understand gender hierarchies by identifying universals in sexual status cross-culturally and the subsequent critiques of this early approach. We conclude by studying feminist approaches and methodologies that have developed in the anthropology of gender. To contextualize the theories of gender, we examine geographically and culturally diverse empirical studies of households, labour markets, agriculture, industrialization, development projects and visual culture in both rural and urban contexts.
VISC 2B07
History of Modern Art
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 am to 11:30 am
Instructor: Lise Hosein [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
This lecture course surveys major artistic movements and artists from the 1860s to the 1970s. We begin by examining the roots of Modernism and proceed to a consideration of movements such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism. We then examine Duchamp and the Armory Show of 1913 to illustrate the influence of the early-20th-century European avant-garde on North American art and aesthetics, particularly Abstract Expressionism. We conclude with a discussion of mid-20th-century art movements, including British and American Pop, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Performance, Land-based Art and Post-Minimalism.
VISC 2B10
History of 20th Century Architecture
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 am to 11:30 am
Instructor: Eric Nay
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Note: VISC 2B10 is an approved substitute for VISC 2B01. [NEW; effective 2008-04-17]
This course will examine the architecture of the 20th century focusing on the buildings and writings of the modern and postmodern movements from the turn of the century to the present following a chronological trajectory of events, ideas and buildings. Though dealing primarily with architectural developments in Europe and North America, the class will also examine the spread of modernism and postmodernism within a global context, as well as new conceptual relationships between the canonical themes of modernity and current trends and practices in contemporary architecture.
VISC 2B13
History of Photography
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Jill Glessing [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 2B13 may not take this course for further credit.
This slide-lecture course offers an overview of the history of photography from a social and aesthetic perspective. The role of photography as a documentary and artistic medium in the 19th and 20th centuries is explored, as well as the ways in which the mass reproduction of images has altered our perceptions of reality, subjectivity, memory and culture. Emphasis is placed on analyzing photography as a formal and conceptual language framed by cultural specificity and historical context.
VISC 2B22
History of Material Arts: Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Monday and Wednesday, 8:30 am to 11:30 am
Instructor: Janna Eggebeen [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 2B22 or MAAD 2B22 may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course draws upon the resources of the Royal Ontario Museum to introduce students to the chronological progression and the stylistic appearances of European ceramics, metalwork and textiles. Students learn to identify and date forms and materials with the knowledge of changing technology, methods of production and manufacturing, and makers' marks. Whenever appropriate, architecture, interior decoration, furniture and costume are included to develop a more complete context of each culture and period.
VISC 2B36
History and Evolution of Typography
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Monday and Wednesday, 8:30 am to 11:30 am
Instructor: Richard Hunt [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-16]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took COMM 2B07 may not take this course for further credit.
This course addresses the historic development of the typographic form from the calligraphic forms that pre-date Guttenberg's invention of movable type and letterpress to current digital typography. We consider the cultural, technological and historical contexts critical to the understanding of typography and its uses. Typographic nomenclature as it has evolved is studied with respect to anatomy of the letter, its measurement and its technological history. Through lectures, class discussion, readings and research, students will learn to analyze typography and its effectiveness in the shaping of "word pictures."
VISC 2B38
Design Thinking
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Lori Riva [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 2B38: Design Methodologies, VISC 3B11: Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts or ENVR 3B11 may not take this course for further credit.
Understanding the nature of design ideas and the subsequent approaches, activities and methodologies applied in the realization of these conceptual ideas is critical for the emerging designer. This course examines the work of a number of key architects and interior and industrial designers in order to study their approaches in the context of their individual philosophies, design vocabularies and the parameters within which they worked. Through this study, we will consider and evaluate their diverse methodologies and results.
VISC 2B39
Graphic Design History in the Twentieth Century
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Heidi Kellett [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-06-03]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 3B20 or VISC 4B14 may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture-seminar course engages in a study of communication arts and media within the context of the 20th century. The course focuses on the relationships between technological, social, economic, political and cultural changes that have shaped and influenced the development of communication arts. The range of subjects covered includes the impact of the two world wars and the Vietnam War; the influence of the Bauhaus, the developments in editorial design, the first attempts at computer composition, corporate design, electronic imaging and advances in print and pre-press technologies.
VISC 3B07
Art of the Italian Renaissance
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Instructor: Francis Broun
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 2B18 or VISC 2B18 may not take this course for further credit.
Students who previously took VISC 3B13/3B14 in OCAD's Florence Program may not take VISC 3B07 for further credit after they return from Florence. HOWEVER, students can take VISC 3B07 for credit before they go to Florence as a preparation for their studies there.
This slide lecture course is an intensive study of Renaissance art in Italy and begins with an examination of the early Renaissance in Siena and Florence and artists such as Duccio and Giotto. We then move to a discussion of the development of art and ideas in 15th-century Florence and examine artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Massaccio, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca and Botticelli. We conclude with an examination of the High Renaissance (Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo) and the work of the Venetians (Bellini, Giorgione and Titian).
VISC 3B18
Television Criticism
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Alison Hearn [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level (including 0.5 credit in VISC).
This class is designed to familiarize students with different approaches to television criticism, and to introduce students to practices of formulating and writing television criticism. The focus is on a critical tradition to understanding meaning making in television, and as such the class provides multiple perspectives, including textual approaches (such as semiotics), producer-oriented approaches (such as auteur analysis), audience research (such as audience-oriented research and critical audience research), and finally ideological analysis (such as feminist and critical cultural studies). Readings include both theoretical and materialized pieces of critical television criticism scholarship. Students will gain knowledge of important television research methods and their usefulness. In addition, students will, through the readings, learn about the economy/business and politics of television production, the aesthetics or codes of various TV genre, will address identity and TV representation in terms of gender, ethnic, sexual and other characteristics, and will learn about the processes by which audiences negotiate television. Upon concluding the class, students should be able to articulate the tenets of multiple television genres, determine the type of television criticism most appropriate to a particular type of question regarding television, articulate the steps of four different types of television criticism, and conduct an actual (undergraduate level) television research project.
VISC 3B32
History of Furniture
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 [NEW effective 2009-03-25]
Instructor: Bahar Hejazi [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-16]
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 [CANCELLED effective 2009-03-25]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level (including 0.5 credit in VISC).
Anti-requisite: Students who have previously taken ACAD 3B32 may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course introduces students to a survey of the history, form and function of Western furniture design. The course traces the diverse cultural influences on the development of furniture and considers how furniture reflects the changing social structure of society and the internal environment. The importance of the religious, social and cultural connotations of furniture will also be discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship of furniture design to its role in representing social status in Western culture and, by the late 19th century, domestic comfort. Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level (including 0.5 VISC credit).
VISC 3B33
Canadian Cinema
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 3: May 19 to August 21, Wednesday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Scott Preston [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-04-08]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level (including 0.5 credit in VISC).
This lecture-seminar course examines the history and current realities of Canadian cinema from the emergence of Canada as a world leader in documentary cinema in the 1950s to recent successes of independent feature films. The course will map the structural context of Canadian cinema, from state funding through to international markets, and will also examine a number of critical approaches to Canadian cinema, including two nations, indigenous perspectives, diaspora, regionalisms, experimentalism, gendered nations and cosmopolitanism. Through screenings, readings, discussion and written assignments, students will develop critical/analytical skills to address the key concepts underpinning Canadian cinema.
VISC 4B07
Images and Practices of Technology
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 6 - August 21, Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Instructor: Lewis Kaye [INSTRUCTOR CHANGE effective 2009-06-08]
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 4B07 may not take this course for further credit.
Every culture has its unique attitudes to the practices of technology, which are conditioned by political and economic factors, and beliefs about the role of science and technology. This course looks at the practices of technology in a number of different cultures and examines some of the resulting technological images and their impact on contemporary society and our lives.
VISC 4B08
Studies in Contemporary Art: Europe 1960s - 1990s
0.5 credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 19 – July 3, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30
Instructor: Ananda Chakrabarty
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 4B08 may not take this course for further credit.
This advanced survey course looks at European art in the context of the 1960s and 1990s. Sessions include both lecture and seminar components, and there is considerable emphasis on student presentations. The course examines the context and aesthetic innovations of European art in this period and includes studies of Arte Povera, the Italian Trans-avant-garde, Beuys and social sculpture, German Neo-Expressionism, new contemporary museums in Europe, Ana Prada and the new Spanish sculpture.
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