2012 SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Summer Durations
Classes in the summer run from three to twelve weeks, followed by a critique and exam period. Classes take place from one to four days per week and may be scheduled mornings, afternoons and/or evenings.
Summer courses are open to all program students who meet prerequisite requirements.
Program requirements are outlined in ‘Program Guides’ in the current fall/winter Course Calendar.
Summer Courses by Subject:
Advertising (ADVR)
Criticism & Curatorial Practice (CRCP)
Drawing & Painting (DRPT)
English (ENGL)
General Art first year (GART)
General Design(GDES)
Graphic Design (GRPH)
History and Theory of Visual Culture (VISA, VISC, VISD, VISM)
Humanities (HUMN)
Illustration (ILLU)
Integrated Media (INTM)
Interdisciplinary (INTR)
Liberal Studies (first-year) (LBST)
Material Art & Design (MAAD)
Photography (PHOT)
Printmaking (PRNT)
Scuplture/Installation (SCIN)
Science/Technology/Mathematics (SCTM)
Social Sciences (SOSC)
Final Examination schedule - Duration 2 [updated 2012-05-29]
Final Examination Schedule - Duration 5 [updated 2012-07-06]
Advertising (ADVR)
ADVR 2K02 Advertising Concept 2 [cancelled 2012-04-26]
ADVR 2K02 [cancelled 2012-04-26]
Advertising Concept 2
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 17:30 to 21:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and ADVR 2K01 Advertising Concept 1.
Conditions: ADVR 2K02 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
This course introduces students to the subject of branding and an understanding of what consumers will respond to. Case-study analysis will deepen their comprehension of how to reach a specific audience. Students will study and research brand positioning, strategy development, idea/image creation and the development of innovative and effective advertising solutions. Project assignments will address a variety of media, including newspaper, magazine, poster, broadcast, and the Internet. Issues of art director/client responsibility, ethics and legal requirements will be discussed. A high degree of responsibility is placed on students to inquire, create, execute and present their work. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and one-on-one consultations and critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components. Project assignments of varying lengths and complexity address the issues and help students refine their communication skills.
Criticism & Curatorial Practice (CRCP)
CRCP 3B07 Publications 1 [cancelled 2012-05-04]
CRCP 3B07 [cancelled 2012-05-04]
Publications 1
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Garnet, Eldon
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and 0.5 credit second-year English.
Antirequisite: Students who have taken INTR 3B04 Visual Culture Publications I or CRCP 4B03 Visual Culture Publications may not take this course for credit.
Working within the current state of art and design publications this course presents publishing as a unique form of artistic expression and cultural production. Focusing on the theoretical and pragmatic concerns associated with this broad field, students will research a diverse range of publications, including exhibition catalogues, monographs, periodicals, newspaper articles and reviews, and artists’ books. By the end of the course students will have developed a strong understanding of contemporary publishing activity. Students will engage in creating, compiling and editing both self-produced and solicited visual and written material for publication.
Drawing & Painting (DRPT)
DRPT 2B02 Abstract Painting
DRPT 2B03 Drawing Workshop
DRPT 2B07 Figurative Drawing
DRPT 2B09 Issues of Representation
DRPT 2B19 Figurative Painting
DRPT 2B39 Painting and Digital Imaging 1
DRPT 3B01 Intermediate Painting: Figurative
DRPT 3B06 Representation From Memory and Desire
DRPT 3B22 Contemporary Collage Methodologies
DRPT 3B23 The Convincing Picture: Critical Views on Painting
DRPT 4C11 Advanced Studio [cancelled 2012-05-04]
DRPT 2B02
Abstract Painting
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursday, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course introduces students to expressive and experiential nature of abstract painting. Students develop their own painting vocabulary and an understanding of abstract form through a series of projects that emphasize the meaning of colour, gesture, form and compositional design that belie the flatness of picture plane.
DRPT 2B03
Drawing Workshop
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Suddick, Jennie
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Drawing is essential to visual communication as both a preparatory tool and as a distinct medium of expression. Building on the drawing techniques and the principles of perspective and composition acquired in GART 1C00, and through formal exercises utilizing a range of media, techniques and subject matter, various approaches to drawing are explored, including investigative, observational and experimental practices. This course is appropriate for both Art and Design students and requires minimal drawing experience.
DRPT 2B07
Figurative Drawing
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Rucklidge, Andrew
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course focuses on drawing from human figure. In a range of structured exercises varying from short gestures to sustained poses, the principles of composition, proportion and volume are explored through line and tone and the modelling of light and shadow. Anatomy and portraiture are introduced, as well as techniques such as measuring and reference point, hatching and contour drawing.
DRPT 2B09
Issues of Representation
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Harrison, Spencer
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Representation is a critical issue which each artist addresses in a different way, from the use of symbolism to realism, from autobiography to the appropriation of images from popular culture. This studio class encourages students to develop problem solving skills and to articulate approaches to representation which reflect their artistic concerns in drawing and painting. Lectures and slide presentations introduce students to artists who address a range of approaches to representation in their work.
DRPT 2B19
Figurative Painting
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Antkoviak, Michael
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Approaches to rendering the human figure are explored and developed through studies, sketches and studio paintings from life models. Oil and/or acrylic mediums, grounds and techniques are developed as well as solvent-free oil processes. Students build on basic painting practices developed in GART courses, focusing on techniques that relate to the painting of the figure such as ala prima, glazing, scumbling and other brushwork.
DRPT 2B39
Painting and Digital Imaging 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Luca, Bogdan
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
The capacity to manipulate and synthesize images digitally from a vast number of sources allows artists increased latitude in generating ideas for paintings. In this studio/lab-based course, students use the computers, digital cameras and scanners to gather images and create compositions for their paintings. Through a combination of painting and digital experiments, students explore a range of possibilities for expanding the painter's vocabulary.
DRPT 3B01
Intermediate Painting: Figurative
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Antkowiak, Michael
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Rapid and sustained studies from life models, demonstrations and individual critiques build the in-depth knowledge of painting processes and techniques that students need to represent the human figure. The emphasis is on building surfaces, the application of colours, brushstrokes and glazes, and on interpreting light and form within figure/ground relationships.
DRPT 3B06
Representation From Memory and Desire
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Daley, Cathy
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Artists' images and ideas develop from personal experience, dreams and fantasies, as well as from sources such as popular culture and mass media. To represent these visually, various materials and approaches are explored, leading to the creation of drawing or painting series of particular themes and narratives. Studio exercises and independent projects are complemented by discussions, slide and video presentations, talks by visiting artists and gallery visits.
DRPT 3B22
Contemporary Collage Methodologies
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Harrison, Spencer
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and DRPT 2C03 Painting Studio or any 0.5 credit second-year DRPT studio course.
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course examines the implications of collage methodologies in the context of contemporary painting. Drawing upon the historical practices of Cubism, Dada and Constructivism, students do research and produce conceptually-based projects that reference post-modern architecture, electronic music, literary criticism, and cinematography. Also, this course promotes students' understanding of the concepts of appropriation, deconstruction, hybridization, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to painting.
DRPT 3B23
The Convincing Picture: Critical Views on Painting
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Olley, James
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and Contemporary Issues: Art Today (one of CRCP 2B01, DRPT 2B13, INTM 2B22, PHOT 2B12, PRNT 2B25 or SCIN 2B09).
Note: This course fulfills the Drawing & Painting requirement for a year 3 level DRPT studio/Seminar.
This course will examine some of the critiques levelled against paintings' relevance and offers a means of responding in both written and visual forms to these debates. The role of painting in contemporary visual culture and the expanding virtual realm are amongst the topics to be considered. As a studio seminar, students will read critical texts, participate in seminar presentations, write essays and make artwork responding to post-modern speculations on the validity of painting.
DRPT 4C11 [cancelled 2012-05-04]
Advanced Studio
1.0 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Smith, Pete
Prerequisite: 13.0 credits, including all first-year and second-year requirements (10.0 credits), and DRPT 3C11 Intermediate Painting Studio.
Notes: Mandatory for Drawing & Painting Directed Studio students. Drawing & Painting Thesis students may not enroll in this course. This course has material fees associated with it.
Students concentrate on developing a body of work while exploring current issues in drawing and painting. In tandem with their own individual interests students will conduct research that supports an indepth exploration of process and ideas. Studio practice will be supported by a research paper and oral presentations. Team taught and scheduled concurrently with DRPT Thesis, students will have access to a shared studio space for the duration of their course work. Artist presentations, panel discussions, readings and visits to art exhibitions will create context and heighten awareness of the issues impacting contemporary painting practice today.
English (ENGL)
ENGL 2B01 Introduction to Creative Writing [updated 2012-04-23]
ENGL 2B03 Introduction to Literary Criticism [updated 2012-04-23]
ENGL 3B03 Children's Literature [updated 2012-04-23]
ENGL 3B04 Science and Technology in Literature [updated 2012-04-26]
ENGL 3B08 Ways of Telling: Aboriginal Literature & Narrative Tradition [cancelled 2012-03-28]
ENGL 3B13 Studies in American Literature [added 2012-04-23]
ENGL 2B01
Introduction to Creative Writing
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Niedzviecki, Hall [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 3B11 Creative Writing I or ENGL 3B11 Creative Writing I may not take this course for further credit.
Note: Alumni students who are considering taking this course to fulfill their writing course requirement must make an advising appointment with the Liberal Arts & Sciences 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 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Marques, Irene [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course is strongly recommended in advance of third-year 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 3B03
Children's Literature
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Szczepaniak, Angela [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Note: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of third-year or fourth-year ENGL courses.
This course aims to answer the question: What is children's literature? The course will survey children's fiction, poetry, and picture-books to introduce students to a wide range of children's literature. We will examine different cultural and critical approaches to this field in relation to cultural interpretations of childhood and gender. As we discuss the social and political visions put forth in these texts, we will consider the effects of publishing and the media (for example, the Harry Potter films) on the field of contemporary children's literature. Our analysis of genre will include the study of the relationship between text and illustration. Course readings may include works by Carroll, The Brothers Grimm, Lewis, Rowling, Seuss, and others.
ENGL 3B04
Science and Technology in Literature
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Newman, Daniel [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Note: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of third-year or fourth-year ENGL courses.
We live in a culture in which science and technology influence how we imagine and inhabit the world. The relationship between humans and technology has long been a concern of both literary and science writers who have produced such engaging figures as the raging machine that turns on its creator and the cyborg. What are the limits of our responsibility for the technology we create and use? In this course, we will study literary and scientific representations of science and technology and the people who use it. We will consider how writers' wrestle with such concepts as destiny, free will, and utopia. Genres studied will include speculative fiction, fantasy, science writing, and creative non-fiction. Course readings may include texts by Gibson, Hopkinson, LeGuin, Orwell, Shelley, and others.
ENGL 3B08 [cancelled 2012-03-28]
Ways of Telling: Aboriginal Literature & Narrative Tradition
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ABVC 3B08 Ways of Telling: Aboriginal Literature & Narrative Tradition may not take this course for further credit.
Through a survey of Aboriginal authors, this course will introduce students to the rich literary tradition of the Americas. The course begins with the Popol Vuh codices of the ancient Maya extending to the great oral cycle stories of the Iroquioan and Anishnaabe peoples. The course will trace Aboriginal literary development from early narratives in picture writing to contemporary expression in fiction, theatre, poetry and the essay. Authors covered will include: novelists Eden Robinson, Joseph Boyden and Sherman Alexie; poets, Pauline Johnson, Lee Maracle, and Simon J. Ortiz; playwrights Thomson Highway and Drew Hayden Taylor; and essayists Marcia Crosby, Margaret Archuleta and Gerald Vizenor.
ENGL 3B13 [added 2012-03-29]
Studies in American Literature
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Chen, Brian [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Note: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of third-year or fourth-year ENGL courses.
A survey of major works in American literature, through an examination of various time periods. Taking a close look at individual texts and traditions, this course considers notions of America through literary representations of its people, languages, and landscapes. Texts studied may range from slave narratives to novels to short stories to poetry. Traditions may include folklore, hip hop, and the contemporary, urban avant-garde.
General Art first year (GART)
GART 1B04 Colour Exploration
GART 1B05 Form and Structure
GART 1B06 Time-Based Media
GART 1C00 Drawing
First-Year Art Elective
GART 1B04
Colour Exploration
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Collyer, Gillian
This course introduces students to the historical and contemporary fundamentals of art making by studying the interdependency of colour and visual elements across a broad range of media, from painting and photography to digital tools. Building upon conceptual and visual aspects of two-dimensional design, students investigate the relationships between ideas, forms, and shapes through the exploration of pictorial and virtual spaces, with attention to colour. Instruction and assignments that are germane to contemporary art practices will focus on composition and the contextual application of colour as a mode of expression.
GART 1B05
Form and Structure
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Maxwell, James
Students develop a visual language capable of shaping and expressing clear and creative ideas in three-dimensional forms. The course introduces students to the conceptual elements, organizing principles, and creative processes used in the development of form. Using a variety of materials and processes, students examine the meanings and association of forms, along with the underlying structural principles affecting their creation. Central, too, are the relationships between concept, idea, form, material, and process. Through questioning and a developing awareness of contemporary art practice, students develop the confidence to produce meaningful forms in three dimensions.
GART 1B06
Time-Based Media
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Liddington, Derek
Students will engage the principles, vocabulary, and concepts of time-based and digital media. While examining the transition from analog to digital (with an emphasis on media literacy), students gain knowledge of the creative opportunities that current and emerging technologies provide. Students acquire experience through projects in video, performance, audio and the creative use of electronics. Students develop understanding of the basic methods, tools, and techniques of time-based media within the context of contemporary art practice.
GART 1C00
Drawing
1.0 Credit | Studio
GART 1C00 will not be offered in the 2012 summer semester; instead of GART 1C00 students may take first–year Design courses: GDES 1B10 and either GDES 1B22 or ILLU 1B01. First-year Art students must enroll and be successful in both these courses to receive 1.0 credit GART 1C00 equivalency.
First-Year Art Elective
0.5 Credit | Studio
First-Year Art electives will not be offered in the 2012 summer semester; instead students may take one of the following first–year Design courses: GDES 1B09, GDES 1B19 or ILLU 1B04.
General Design (GDES)
GDES 1B09 Communication Design 1
GDES 1B10 Drawing: Visualization [duration/time change 2012-03-29]
GDES 1B16 Colour in Context
GDES 1B18 Communication Design 2
GDES 1B19 Photography for Communication [cancelled 2012-05-04]
GDES 1B21 Experience Design
GDES 1B22 Drawing for ID and MAAD
GDES 1B24 Colour and Two-Dimensional Design
GDES 1B25 Form and Structure
GDES 2B03 Think Tank 1: Awareness [updated 2012-05-01]
GDES 3B02 Editorial & Publication Design 1 [updated 2012-04-16]
GDES 3B06 Guerrilla Entrepreneurship
GDES 3B10 Art of Presentation
GDES 3B20 Small Object Design: Virtual to Reality 1
GDES 3B48 Illustrative Activism
GDES 3B59 Urban Design Ecology [updated 2012-04-19]
GDES 3B63 Cities for People/Summer Workshop
GDES 3B68 Design (As) Research
GDES 3B76 Graphic Novel Illustration
GDES 3B77 Fibre: Sustainable Fashion and Textiles [cancelled 2012-04-26]
GDES 3B82 Book Illustration [cancelled 2012-04-26]
GDES 3B83 Design Forge [updated 2012-04-16]
GDES 4B03 Internship
GDES 1B09
Communication Design 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Izzard, Daniel
Note: Mandatory for Advertising, Graphic Design and Illustration students.
Communication Design 1 is an introductory sequence of experiences that begin to address the environment of the communication designer as a relationship between tools, techniques, process, decision, judgment and knowledge. Students engage design as a process of formal experimentation in two dimensions using typography, photography and drawing.
GDES 1B10 [duration/time change 2012-03-29]
Drawing: Visualization
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Mondays and Wednesdays, 17:30 to 20:30
Instructor: Sebastian, Fred
Note: Mandatory for Advertising and Graphic Design students.
Communication designers need to develop skills in quick-sketching essential shape/form/environment - capturing the essence of a concept for iteration, lay-out and storyboarding. The practice and understanding of basic perspective, figure work (gestural, weight and balance, basic proportion and movement), light and shadow, cropping and composition and narrative sequence are essential to confident creative thinking and communication, and form the core work of this course.
GDES 1B16
Colour in Context
0.5 Credit | Studio
This course will not be offered in the 2012 summer semester. First-year Design students may take GART 1B04 Colour Exploration as an equivalent to GDES 1B16.
GDES 1B18
Communication Design 2
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: McCrum, Guy
Prerequisite: GDES 1B09 Communication Design 1
Conditions: GDES 1B18 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
Note: Mandatory for Advertising and Graphic Design students.
Communication Design 2 reinforces the activities, language and tools/techniques presented in Communication Design 1. Projects address the evolving abilities of students, through encouraging formal risk-taking, self-direction and evaluation. Design processes are discussed as a way to move from a position of uncertainty to a position of potential knowledge. Two, three and four-dimensional contexts are explored through a series of experimental projects. This course is core to graphic design and advertising.
GDES 1B19 [cancelled 2012-05-04]
Photography for Communication
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Foster, Tori
Note: Mandatory for Advertising and Graphic Design students.
The focus of this studio is digital photography as it is integrated into the practice of communication design. Students will be introduced to photographic basics: camera function, lens and filter selection, exposure, lighting, basic studio techniques and post-processing/image management in a digital environment. Students will learn to evaluate the effectiveness of images in relation to specific messages. Lectures, demonstrations and a series of assignments will build students’ skills in camera and image control. Students will require access to a digital or 35 mm camera.
GDES 1B21
Experience Design
0.5 Credit | Studio
This course will not be offered in the 2012 summer semester. First-year Design students may take GART 1B06 Time-Based Media as an equivalent to GDES 1B21.
GDES 1B22
Drawing for ID and MAAD
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Hladin, Brian
Note: Mandatory for Industrial Design and Material Art & Design students.
Focusing on objects and human figures, this course is designed as an introduction to “drawing as seeing,” drawing as visual language and “drawing as manipulation of surface and spatial illusion.” Important elements of the course include: material exploration, drawing accuracy and heightened sensitivity to observation.
GDES 1B24
Colour and Two-Dimensional Design
0.5 Credit | Studio
This course will not be offered in the 2012 summer semester. First-year Design students may take GART 1B04 Colour Exploration as an equivalent to GDES 1B24.
GDES 1B25
Form and Structure
0.5 Credit | Studio
This course will not be offered in the 2012 summer semester. First-year Design students may take GART 1B05 Form and Structure as an equivalent to GDES 1B25.
GDES 2B03
Think Tank 1: Awareness
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Ebrahim, Zahra
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Uchida, Robin [updated 2012-05-01]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: All Think Tank courses are intended to augment and inform the core studio classes from each of the six design disciplines and to introduce students from the Faculty of Art to the Faculty of Design’s underlying philosophy.
This interdisciplinary course examines the social condition of where and how we live in the context of the Faculty of Design’s primary mandate ‘Design and Humanity.’ The significant impact that intelligent and sustainable design can have on people’s lives and the considerable responsibility that the designer has to society are critical factors in shaping behaviour and turning research and perception into action. Strategies for change are channeled into potential project solutions in this course through the research, discussion and debate of current societal issues.
GDES 3B02
Editorial & Publication Design 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Kittmer, Paul [updated 2012-04-16]
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
This studio course provides an in-depth study of systems and structures fundamental to publication design. Students learn to analyze, evaluate, design and/or redesign actual publications incorporating typography, photography, illustration, charts and graphs. Through a series of exercises and small publication design projects students are introduced to the rich history, current practices, and the future of magazine, book and corporate publication design.
GDES 3B06
Guerrilla Entrepreneurship
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Adams, Kathryn
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
In response to the growing practice of artist-produced objects (e.g. books, zines, apparel, accessories, housewares, linens, toys, games, etc), this course acts as an introduction to creative entrepreneurial activity. Students learn of the various media and techniques available in self-publishing and production, and of proven DIY marketing tactics and venues. Students will produce individually, and in groups, a number of small, reproducible, marketable items.
GDES 3B10
Art of Presentation
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Cohen, Arlene
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Cohen, Arlene
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
A brilliant idea without acceptance will never solve a design problem. Therefore, creating acceptance for a design solution is as important as the solution itself. The primary tools for garnering this acceptance are through formal and information presentations.
Delivering persuasive presentations is not always intuitive. As a design professional, important skills are required to plan, build and then deliver presentations. This course teaches the skills necessary to sell important concepts and ideas by carefully crafting and telling stories. Presentation strategy and the creation of a presentation narrative through traditional and digital media techniques are thoroughly explored in this course.
GDES 3B20
Small Object Design: Virtual to Reality 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Jackson, Jesse
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of designing, prototyping and fabricating small-scale products and jewellery using three-dimensional computer modelling and associated manufacturing technologies. Students will become familiar with the Computer Aided Design operations required to generate simple three-dimensional computer models and output basic two-dimensional representations. These virtual objects will be then translated into prototypes and finished objects using Computer Aided Manufacturing processes (e.g. laser cutting, additive manufacturing and CNC machining) as well as conventional fabrication processes. Students will begin to understand some of the advantages and limitations of CAD/CAM technologies, and will begin to consider the implications these technologies have on the future of design practice.
GDES 3B48
Illustrative Activism
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Zaharuk, Michael
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
The use of Illustration to express dissent and improve established conditions enjoys a long and kinetic history, ranging from Victorian era Punch cartoons to contemporary multi-million-dollar ad campaigns. The illustrator’s heightened awareness of social and political issues, coupled with unique communication skills, provides otherwise unrepresented and disenfranchised citizens with a powerful and provocative voice. This course focuses on the illustrator as ‘activist’ achieving positive change through the effective and subversive use of images in the global arena of national and personal politics, social movements, and environmentalism. Posters, billboards, newspaper and magazine ads, editorial illustration, annual reports, flyers, t-shirts, buttons, ambient media, and the web represent media applications explored and discussed in this course.
GDES 3B59
Urban Design Ecology
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Liefhebber, Martin [updated 2012-04-19]
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and both ENVR 2B17 and ENVR 2B19, or ENVR 2K01 and ENVR 2K02. [updated 2012-04-02]
Urban Design Ecology looks at the city through the lens of Environmental Design with the intention of understanding and designing for the integration of urban and natural systems. The course will examine the way that urban development patterns interact with ecological systems. Students will examine precedents of ecological urbanism such as manufactured nature, green infrastructure, and landscape urbanism as well as broader ecological concepts applied to coupled human-natural systems. Through readings, lectures, seminars and the development of case studies students will examine the relationship between urban form and the environmental context in which it is generated.
GDES 3B63
Cities for People/Summer Workshop
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Micallef, Shawn
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
This course can be presented as a ‘Professional Research’ opportunity for students who wish to explore the urban fabric from a holistic perspective, and undertake primary and secondary research, using Toronto as a laboratory. The main premise of the course is to develop an understanding of the issues and opportunities for healthy community development throughout the city. Topics can include social / cultural aspects such as community gardens/farming, bicycle and pedestrian pathways; economic aspects such as green enterprise, sustainable business. Students will have the opportunity to meet with some of the champions of green enterprise and community development; they can work on strategies, which can increase stewardship and awareness through the integration of ‘ecorevelatory’ art and design projects.
GDES 3B68
Design (As) Research
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Desjardins, Michael
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
This third-year course will explore practice-based research techniques in design as ethnographic methods to prepare students for their graduate year thesis or core projects. Small research projects will be used in this course to pursue three objectives: research to inform the design deliverables (the outcomes of design practice), research to educate the designer/researcher for future practice (tacit knowledge) and research to inform the professional design, academic and wider communities (explicit knowledge). This course will inform both internal and external audiences that design is, in itself, research.
GDES 3B76
Graphic Novel Illustration
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Smyth, Fiona
Antirequisite: Students who have taken GDES 3B29 Sequential Narrative 2 may not take this course for credit.
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
Storytelling, through the medium of comics and graphic novels, is explored in this course. Employing principles of narrative structure as a framework, original stories integrating text and image are created in sequential panel formats. Graphic components including preliminary sketches, page layout, penciling, inking, and title design are developed in conjunction with plotline and dialogue, requiring students to function as both illustrator and author. As a means to inform and contextualize their own work, students research historical and contemporary examples.
GDES 3B77 [cancelled 2012-04-26]
Fibre: Sustainable Fashion and Textiles
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Tuesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: MacHenry, Rachel
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course will introduce students to alternative materials, sustainable and ethical processes for fashion, wearable forms and accessories. Projects and exercises will include the development of material research and experimentation, sampling, wearable forms and accessories. An emphasis will be placed on the experimental use of recycled, re-purposed and re-imagined materials and forms. Locally sourced materials and production methods will be investigated. Both production and conceptual fashion concepts will be explored.
GDES 3B82 [cancelled 2012-04-26]
Book Illustration
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Drawson, Blair
Antirequisite: Students who have taken GDES 3B05 Sequential Narrative 1 may not take this course for credit.
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
Conditions: Students require intermediate or advanced drawing competencies.
This course provides an in-depth study of Illustration as it applies to contemporary picture book design. With both the child and adult reader in mind, students create short self-authored book projects, applying principles of traditional storytelling and narrative structure. Individual visual languages are developed through the creation of consistently stylized illustrations and the interplay of images with text.
GDES 3B83
Design Forge
0.5 Credit | Studio/Seminar
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Jones, Janet [updated 2012-04-16]
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
The Design Forge is a full immersion into problem solving for ‘real world’ situations. Design problems that are not suitable for taking to commercial design studios will be brought to this course by various outside companies. Students will work in a concentrated way to problem solve. All resultant intellectual property will belong to the students. It will be offered during the summer when it is possible to work in a compressed schedule.
GDES 4B03
Internship
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Tranum, Sarah
Prerequisite: 14.0 credits, including all first-year and second-year requirements (10.0 credits).
Notes: Registration in this course requires prior approval by an Associate Dean, Faculty of Design. This internship must be appropriate to the student's major or minor.
Conditions: Only students with a 70% average are eligible to take this course.
Through a guided self-directed initiative, the senior student will research, propose and contact a practicing professional in an individual studio, gallery, educational institution or professional organization to search out an intern position of 60 work hours. This actual "real world" work experience will develop networking abilities and provide the student a glimpse into the design studio or art related environment and prepare the emerging artist/designer for employment upon graduation.
Graphic Design (GRPH)
GRPH 2B06 Typography 2: Structures
GRPH 2K01 Graphic Design 1 [updated 2012-04-16]
GRPH 2K02 Graphic Design 2
GRPH 3B14 Typography 3: Advanced Structures
GRPH 2B06
Typography 2: Structures
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Grezova, Mariana
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and GDES 1B17 Typography 1 or GRPH 2A04 Typography 1: Letters and Words.
In this course students will explore typographic structures, focusing on normative and conceptual principles. An in depth analysis is undertaken in this course that explores the letter relationship to the word, the word relationship to the line, lines in relationship to column and the way these elements activate a particular space. Students will be introduced to the basic principles of visual hierarchy and grid structures, as well as the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic qualities of typography.
GRPH 2K01
Graphic Design 1
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:30 to 16:30
Instructor: Moorehead, Chris [updated 2012-04-16]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and GDES 1B18 Communication Design 2 or GDES 1B27 Graphic Communication.
Note: GRPH 2K01 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
This course will introduce students to the knowledge and skills needed for the purposeful implementation of contemporary communication. In the context of cultural/societal issues, students will learn about the impact of effective communication on people's lives. Through a variety of exercises ranging from the development of graphic form to composition and colour, students will develop a visual vocabulary and an aesthetic understanding of how content and message impact on form and communication. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components. The course will be supported by guest lectures and digital tech support designed to introduce current and appropriate software.
GRPH 2K02
Graphic Design 2
0.75 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 to 16:30
Instructor: Lau, Terry
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and GRPH 2K01 Graphic Design 1.
Conditions: GRPH 2K02 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
Two-dimensional space is examined through the application of graphic grid structures and conceptual design ideas. Students will be encouraged to develop an independent voice while respecting historically proven and effective practices. The course focuses on idea development, methods of research, word/image interaction, meaning, hierarchy and the impact of colour and form on effective communication. Students will learn to distill complex ideas into concise and convincing graphic elements. The course will be delivered using lectures, in-class discussions and critiques. All studio-based assignments require research and presentations that include verbal, written and visual components. The course will be supported by guest lectures and digital tech support designed to introduce current and appropriate software.
GRPH 3B14
Typography 3: Advanced Structures
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Young, Jackie
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and GRPH 2B06 Typography 2: Structures. [updated 2012-04-02]
Antirequisite: Students who have taken GRPH 2B10 Typography 3: Advanced Structures may not take this course for credit.
Students will continue to explore the design of organizational typographic structures in this course. The presentation of complex information in a clear and engaging manner, servicing utility and where appropriate, beauty, is the primary focus. An increased emphasis on content, concept and type’s association to imagery for specific target audiences will be addressed through a range of typographically-driven projects.
History and Theory of Visual Culture (VISA, VISC, VISD, VISM)
VISA 2B07 History of Modern Art [updated 2012-04-23]
VISA 2B13 History of Photography [updated 2012-04-23]
VISA 3B05 Dada and Surrealism [updated 2012-04-02]
VISA 3B07 Art of the Italian Renaissance [updated 2012-04-26]
VISC 4B15 Urban Life: Art, Design and the City [updated 2012-04-26]
VISD 2B01 History of Modern Design [updated 2012-04-23]
VISD 2B36 History and Evolution of Typography [updated 2012-04-02]
VISD 2B38 Design Thinking
VISD 2B39 Graphic Design History in the 20th Century [updated 2012-04-26]
VISD 3B32 History of Furniture [updated 2012-05-04]
VISD 3B46 Sustainable Design Theories & Practices [updated 2012-05-04]
VISM 2B15 Introduction to Games Studies
VISM 2B40 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies [updated 2012-04-26]
VISM 3B18 Television Criticism [updated 2012-04-23]
VISM 3B34 Japanese Cinema
VISM 4B05 Future Cinema: Digital Narratives
VISA 2B07
History of Modern Art
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Myzelev, Alla [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 2B07 History of Modern Art may not take this course for further credit.
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.
VISA 2B13
History of Photography
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Kurtovic, Nikolina [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 2B13 History of Photography or VISC 2B13 History of Photography may not take this course for further credit.
This 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.
VISA 3B05
Dada and Surrealism
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Lauzon, Claudette [updated 2012-04-02]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 3B05 Dada and Surrealism or VISC 3B05 Dada and Surrealism may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course presents a concentrated study of the Dada and Surrealist movements, which represent the antithesis of Cubism and other formalist developments in early 20th-century art and aesthetics. The course examines the spirit of Dada on both sides of the Atlantic through the work of artists such as Duchamp, Hoch, Schwitters, Dal Miro and Magritte; precursors of the Surrealists such as Rousseau and de Chirico; and the legacy of Surrealism and Breton and his circle.
VISA 3B07
Art of the Italian Renaissance
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Carson, Rebekah [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 2B18 Art of the Italian Renaissance, VISC 2B18 Art of the Italian Renaissance or VISC 3B07 Art of the Italian Renaissance may not take this course for further credit. Students who have taken VISA 3B13 Italian Art History I: Florence Program and/or VISA 3B14 Italian Art History I: Florence Program II in OCAD U's Florence Program may not take VISA 3B07 Art of the Italian Renaissance for further credit after they return from Florence. HOWEVER, students can take VISA 3B07 Art of the Italian Renaissance for credit before they go to Florence as a preparation for their studies there.
This 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 4B15
Urban Life: Art, Design and the City
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Scarlett, Ashley [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 4B15 Urban Life: Art, Design and the City may not take this course for further credit.
This seminar course examines ideas and issues for artists and designers in relation to the city as a cultural community and as an architectural built-form. The range of topics covered includes: the history of cities and urban life, issues of public art and urban design, Modernist utopias of the city of the future, urban landscape and contemporary theories, and practices of urban planning. Students develop a working understanding of Toronto, both as an urban built-form and as a social community. In order to develop documentary and analytical research skills, students undertake research in archives, libraries and public institutions for class presentation and essays.
VISD 2B01
History of Modern Design
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Kellett, Heidi [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 2B01 History of Modern Design may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course provides a broad overview of the history and philosophy of design in the 20th century. Focusing primarily on Europe and North America, we examine the evolution of Modern design as both an artistic movement and a response to the historical conditions of modernity. The work of individual designers, architects, urban planners and critics is studied in relationship to the larger movements of the period, including such factors as social and technological change.
VISD 2B36
History and Evolution of Typography
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Hunt, Richard [updated 2012-04-02]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken COMM 2B07 Evolution of Typography or VISC 2B36 History and Evolution of Typography 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."
VISD 2B38
Design Thinking
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Riva, Lori [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ENVR 3B11 Design Methodologies, VISC 3B11 Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts or VISC 2B38 Design Thinking may not take this course for further credit.
Design practice is becoming increasingly more interdisciplinary, socially focused and complex. As a result, design as a discipline has needed to initiate new modes of thinking about design which includes adapting methodologies from fields other than design. This course explores a broad range of contemporary design practices such as industrial design, environmental design and material art & design within this framework. Students will read contemporary texts written by or about designers and design theorists, analyze exemplary contemporary design practices through case studies and be encouraged to view design in an expanded field of related disciplines and practices.
VISD 2B39
Graphic Design History in the 20th Century
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Wednesdays and Fridays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: McArthur, Glenn [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).<
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B20 Graphic Design History in the 20th Twentieth Century, VISC 4B14 History of Graphic Design II: 20th Century or VISC 2B39 Graphic Design History in the 20th Century 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.
VISD 3B32
History of Furniture
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Finkel-Freyger, Janna [updated 2012-05-04]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 3B32 A History of Furniture or VISC 3B32 History of Furniture 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.
VISD 3B46
Sustainable Design Theories & Practices
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Riva, Lori [updated 2012-05-04]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B93 Special Topic in Visual Culture: Design and Sustainability or VISC 3B46 Design & Sustainability may not take this course for further credit.
This course provides a theoretical and historical framework for understanding sustainable design within its evolving context. This course combines the analysis of historical events, important texts and significant figures in sustainable design history with case studies utilized to illustrate and critique contemporary and historical sustainable design practices. Case studies are organized categorically by fields that include architecture, industrial design and urban planning among others. An emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of sustainable design is placed within a broader cultural context, which includes a healthy dose of informed cynicism and active critique of contemporary sustainable design production and consumption. This course includes field trips and independent research.
VISM 2B15
Introduction to Games Studies
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Westecott, Emma
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B92 Special Topic in Visual Culture: An Introduction to Games Studies or VISC 2B93 Special Topic in Visual Culture: An Introduction to Games Studies may not take this course for further credit.
Games studies views games as complex objects, mapping the game "object", the player "subject" and the critical dialogue that delimits game space. This course explores games as cultural artifacts, arising from diverse cultural histories, landscapes and geographies, impacting and impacted by sub-cultures. Students will learn to analyse the mechanics, aesthetics and practices of games via varied analytical approaches addressing their textual, performative, socio-cultural, design and political contexts. As well, the course introduces students to tools and techniques to analyze the cultural impact of the video game.
VISM 2B40
Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Colangelo, David [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies or VISC 2B40 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies may not take this course for further credit.
Note: CrosThis course is also offered as SOSC 2B02. 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 VISM 2B40. [updated 2012-04-26]
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.
VISM 3B18
Television Criticism
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Ionita, Maria [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B18 Television Criticism may not take this course for further credit.
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.
VISM 3B34
Japanese Cinema
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Mcintosh, David
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B34 Japanese Cinema or ACAD 3B34 Film Studies: Japanese may not take this course for further credit.
This course introduces students to developments in Japanese film from the mid-1920s to the present day. Through a series of screenings, lectures, discussions, readings and written assignments, students develop an understanding and appreciation of some of the more important films, directors, movements and issues in Japanese film.
VISM 4B05
Future Cinema: Digital Narratives
0.5 Credit |Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Mcintosh, David
Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 4B05 Cosmopolis: New Narrative in Contemporary Media or VISC 4B05 Future Cinema: Digital Narratives may not take this course for further credit.
Film, video and digital media have converged and continue to open new possibilities for multimedia production. Classical cinematic narrative is transforming into a new culture of drama, gaming and fiction-based forms that merge traditional cinema, experimental literature, television, video, and the Internet. This seminar focuses on a range of contemporary film, video and digital artists who move across analogue and digital media forms to construct experimental narratives and to represent developing discourses of post-human existence and embodied imaginaries produced by media convergence. The course will present a range of contemporary theoretical approaches to frame analogue and digital narratives, including Peter Weibel’s "Future Cinema" and Katherine Hayles "How We Became Post-Human". As well, key theoretical approaches to new multimedia narratives will be presented. The course involves weekly screenings and discussion of readings; assignments include a research paper and analytical essays.
Humanities (HUMN)
HUMN 2B16 Twentieth Century Ideas [updated 2012-04-23]
HUMN 3B01 Reading Popular Culture [updated 2012-04-23]
HUMN 3B02 The Romantic Rebellion in Europe [updated 2012-04-26]
HUMN 3B08 Ethics, Advertising and Design [updated 2012-04-26]
HUMN 3B09 Introduction to Gender Studies [updated 2012-04-23]
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives [updated 2012-04-03]
HUMN 2B16
Twentieth Century Ideas
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Kiloh, Kathy [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 2B16 Twentieth Century Ideas may not take this course for further credit.
This lecture course draws from the broad spectrum of twentieth century thought to introduce students to issues and competing perspectives that have had an impact on the art, design and culture of our time. Ideas and issues to be examined include psychoanalysis and the unconscious, behavourism and the machine model of humanity, scientific method and objective truth, imperialism and the conflict of ideologies, existentialism and the plight of the individual, feminism and the Other, semiotics, and the postmodern condition.
HUMN 3B01
Reading Popular Culture
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Flisfeder, Matthew [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 2B14 Mass Media: Reading Popular Culture or HUMN 2B14 Reading Popular Culture 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 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Slinger, Lee [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
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 in 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 ancien regime create the socio-political foundation for the culture of the period.
HUMN 3B08
Ethics, Advertising and Design
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Petrenko, Anton [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
This course examines the philosophical field of ethics as it pertains to the design and advertising of products in the marketplace. Students are introduced to the principal issues faced by advertising executives and industrial designers in practicing their professions. We examine various theories of ethics, probe the meaning of moral judgments, and identify the underlying assumptions in each case. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to develop the skills of critical enquiry.
HUMN 3B09
Introduction to Gender Studies
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Wyndham-West, Michelle [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Throughout the world, men and women have historically been represented differently, whether those differences are attributed to nature or to culture. Drawing on cross-cultural critiques of art and culture - feminist, masculinist and queer - this course introduces students to some of the historical and contemporary contexts that have contributed to the construction of gendered identities.
HUMN 4B18
Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Ordonez, Maria-Belen [updated 2012-04-03]
Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 4B18 Understanding Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives may not take this course for further credit.
Note: VISA 2B07 (formerly 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.
Illustration (ILLU)
ILLU 1B01 Observational Drawing and Painting 1 [cancelled 2012-05-01]
ILLU 1B02 Illustrative Concepts 1 [cancelled 2012-05-01]
ILLU 1B03 Illustrative Concepts 2 [cancelled 2012-06-20]
ILLU 1B04 Media Studio: Analogue
ILLU 2B04 Illustration 1
ILLU 2B10 Illustration 2
ILLU 1B01 [cancelled 2012-05-01]
Observational Drawing and Painting 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Aoki, Nick
Prerequisite: ILLU 1B05 Observational Drawing Principles (previously titled: Illustrative Drawing Principles).
Integrating representational drawing principles and practices with wet media, students execute figure and still life exercises from observation, as a foundation for Illustration. Further examination of surface anatomy, proportion, human locomotion is undertaken to inform figurative works. Fundamental painting techniques using limited warm/cool palettes are explored to assess the aesthetic possibilities and physical properties inherent in painting media. Ongoing sketchbook assignments maintain a drawing routine outside the classroom.
ILLU 1B02 [cancelled 2012-05-01]
Illustrative Concepts 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Hilborn, Adam [updated 2012-03-27]
Illustrative Concepts 1 introduces students to the fundamental theories and practices in the field of contemporary illustration, with an emphasis on ideation and visual problem-solving methods. Students develop and apply design processes, including problem definition, design criteria development, research and observation, brainstorming, mindmapping and visual synthesis, divergent and convergent thinking, critical thinking, and cycles of testing and refinement through a variety of studio projects. Central to this course is the illustrator’s role as storyteller, communicator and commentator.
ILLU 1B03 [cancelled 2012-06-20]
Illustrative Concepts 2
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Power, Stephanie
Prerequisite: ILLU 1B02 Illustrative Concepts 1.
Conditions: ILLU 1B03 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
Note: Mandatory for Illustration students.
Building on the ideation methods developed in Illustrative Concepts 1, students apply further visual problem-solving techniques to create communicative images. Narratives are developed through symbolic means of representation, employing metaphor and metonymy, and through conceptual synthesis. The diverse meaning of symbols, as defined by context and sequence is also explored, while the storytelling effect of formal pictorial elements such as line, shape, value, light, movement, placement, scale, cropping and colour is examined. Simple text-to-image translation methods are introduced.
ILLU 1B04
Media Studio: Analogue
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Todd, Jon
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ILLU 2A02 Media Studio 1 or ILLU 2B11 Media Studio 1 may not take this course for credit.
Students in this course will explore a variety of analogue or traditional illustration media and materials, assessing and applying their properties through multiple techniques and methodologies. Through a series of exercises manipulating the formal aspects of picture making, students will acquire capacities to synthesize appropriate wet, dry and mixed media with illustrative concepts.
ILLU 2B04
Illustration 1
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Todd, Jon
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and ILLU 1B03 Illustrative Concepts 2 or GDES 1B27 Graphic Communication.
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ILLU 2K01 Illustration 1 may not take this course for credit.
Conditions: ILLU2B04 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
In this core course, text-to-image methodologies are applied to written material ranging in complexity from a key word to full manuscripts. Students analyze and distill texts, and generate concepts through a series of revised preliminary drawings reflecting the collaborative process between illustrator and art director. Students examine a variety of visual strategies including literal depiction, symbolism, montage, synthesis, transformation, distortion, synesthesia, anecdote and decoration, to identify appropriate solutions to a given text. Complementary media is subsequently investigated for final art.
ILLU 2B10
Illustration 2
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Mably, Greg
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and ILLU 2B04 Illustration 1 or ILLU2K01 Illustration 1.
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ILLU 2K02 Illustration 2 may not take this course for credit.
Conditions: ILLU 2B10 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
Distinctions between categories of contemporary Illustration, regarding function, usage and audience, are systematically explored and defined through the development of book, editorial and advertising images. Students apply ideation methodologies, visual strategies, diverse media and professional practices to assignments approximating commissions by clients. Various contexts for assessing illustration- artistic, commercial, ethical, and societal- are compared, to discuss the illustrator’s role in shaping culture.
Integrated Media (INTM)
INTM 2B03 Body as Material: Performance by Artists [cancelled 2012-05-04]
INTM 2B11 Animation: Origins & Techniques [cancelled 2012-05-04]
INTM 2B21 Online Art & Website Creation [updated 2012-05-01]
INTM 2B29 Video for Artists I [updated 2012-04-26]
INTM 2B03 [cancelled 2012-05-04]
Body as Material: Performance by Artists
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 14:30 [updated 2012-04-19]
Instructor: L'Hirondelle, Cheryl [updated 2012-04-02]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
This studio course explores performance art histories, concepts and practices by introducing students to an extensive range of live art activities. Through projects and assignments, students develop an understanding of the significance of the artist’s body as a material for, and site of, art-making. Issues around areas such as writing and narrative, integrating media and the relationship between artist and audience and will be considered.
INTM 2B11 [cancelled 2012-05-04]
Animation: Origins & Techniques
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Ferady Miller, Cathy [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
This course will combine a historical and contemporary survey of animation from the perspective of animation as an art, a technological practice, and an object of theoretical investigation. From zoetropes and magic lanterns to digital animation and 3D rendering, students will investigate the history of animation through a sequence of studio projects, short written assignments and seminars.
INTM 2B21
Online Art & Website Creation
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Pearl, Zach [updated 2012-05-01]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and basic computer knowledge.
This course examines the web as an artistic medium through a review of artists' on-line projects and the creation of websites by students. Techniques covered include image preparation, HTML authoring, navigation and Flash animation. The social implications of the web's underlying structures will be considered.
INTM 2B29
Video for Artists I
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 08:30 to 14:30
Tutorial: Tuesdays, 14:30 to 17:30 [updated 2012-04-26]
Instructor: Kennedy, Chris [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Working within the context of time-based art, this course approaches video as a unique tool for artistic expression. While acquiring technical, conceptual and critical skills through a range of projects, students investigate the history of the medium, its practitioners and its various manifestations as a contemporary art form. Field trips, readings, screenings and in-class critiques augment hands-on instruction in production and postproduction techniques.
Interdisciplinary Studies (INTR)
INTR 3B90 Special Topic in Art: Gibraltar Point: A Living Laboratory
INTR 3B90
Special Topic in Art: Gibraltar Point: A Living Laboratory
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Hickox, April
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and Contemporary Issues: Art Today (one of CRCP 2B01, DRPT 2B13, INTM 2B22, PHOT 2B12, PRNT 2B25 or SCIN 2B09) or GDES 2B03 Think Tank I: Awareness.
Note: Students will incur an accommodation fee attached to the residency at Gibraltar Point.
Using Toronto Island as a living laboratory, students work in collaboration to produce site-specific artworks or design solutions. During the first part of the course, students conduct research in support of their projects through readings and day trips to the island. The second part of the course focuses on production. During this eight day incubation period, students and faculty live and work on the island residing at Artscape’s Gibraltar Point. Evening programming supplements the day’s activities through the coordination of meals, screenings, lectures, readings and discussions. As the residency concludes, students participate in group critiques where material documentation of their work is presented. This interdisciplinary initiative embraces collaborative and community building methodologies within studio production.
Liberal Studies (first-year) (LBST)
LBST 1B02 Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Culture to 1500 [updated 2012-04-23]
LBST 1B03 Introduction to Visual Studies II: History and Culture Since 1500 [updated 2012-05-16]
LBST 1B06 Introduction to Visual Studies III: Critical Frameworks [updated 2012-06-28]
LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics [updated 2012-04-23]
LBST 1B12 The Essay and the Argument: ESL [updated 2012-05-07]
LBST 1B13 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric
LBST 1B02
Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Culture to 1500
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:30 to 18:30
Instructor: Hosein, Lise [updated 2012-04-23]
Tutorials: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 19:30 or 19:30 to 20:30
Note: This course is composed of a large weekly lecture and a smaller tutorial. Students must register for both a lecture and tutorial.
This lecture course surveys the history of art from the prehistoric era to the fifteenth century. Key examples of art, architecture, design and material culture from around the world will be examined in their social and aesthetic context. Students will gain an overview of the major periods, geographical centres and stylistic developments of visual art and design in ancient, medieval and early Renaissance eras.
LBST 1B03
Introduction to Visual Studies II: History and Culture Since 1500
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 13:30
Instructor: Modigliani, Leah [updated 2012-04-23]
Tutorials: Wednesdays and Fridays, 13:30 to 14:30, 14:30 to 15:30, or 15:30 to 16:30
Tutorial Instructors: Stone, Taylor (tutorial 1); Pearl, Zachary (tutorials 2 & 3) [updated 2012-05-16]
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 1B03 Culture, History & Ideas or ACAD 1B03 Culture, History & Ideas may not take this course for further credit.
Note: This course is composed of a large weekly lecture and a smaller tutorial. Students must register for both a lecture and tutorial.
This lecture course continues the survey of art and design history in a global perspective by examining cultural production from the Renaissance to the present. Covering aesthetic as well as social issues, students will explore the relationship of visual representation to themes 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 III: Critical Frameworks
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 14:30 to 17:30 [updated 2012-06-28]
Instructor: Valiquette, Renee [updated 2012-04-23]
Tutorials: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:30 to 17:30 or 17:30 to 18:30 [cancelled 2012-06-28]
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 1B04 Visual Culture I, VISC 1B05 Visual Culture II, or VISC 1B06 Introduction to Visual Culture may not take this course for further credit.
Note: This course is composed of a large weekly lecture and a smaller tutorial. Students must register for both a lecture and tutorial.
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 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Lapointe, Micheal [updated 2012-04-23]
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Cecchetto, David [updated 2012-04-23]
Antirequisite: Students who have taken one of: ENGL 2B30 Critical Writing for Artists and Designers, ENGL 1B01 Critical Writing for Creative Thinkers, ENGL 1B02 Critical Writing for Creative Thinkers - ESL, ENGL 1B03 The Essay and the Argument, LBST 1B12 The Essay and the Argument: ESL, LBST 1B13 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric, or LBST 1A40 The Essay and the Argument with one of LBST 1A41 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics, LBST 1A42 The Essay and the Argument: ESL or LBST 1A43 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric may not take this course for further credit.
Conditions: LBST 1B11 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
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. Students who select LBST 1B11 Mechanics, will develop their basic writing skills such as sentence, paragraph and essay structure, punctuation, as well as critical thinking.
LBST 1B12
The Essay and the Argument: ESL
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Black, Catherine [updated 2012-04-02]
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Sova, Ilene [updated 2012-05-07]
Antirequisite: Students who have taken one of: ENGL 2B30 Critical Writing for Artists and Designers, ENGL 1B01 Critical Writing for Creative Thinkers, ENGL 1B02 Critical Writing for Creative Thinkers - ESL, ENGL 1B03 The Essay and the Argument, LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics, LBST 1B13 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric, or LBST 1A40 The Essay and the Argument with one of LBST 1A41 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics, LBST 1A42 The Essay and the Argument: ESL or LBST 1A43 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric may not take this course for further credit.
Conditions: LBST 1B12 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
This course is designed specifically for ESL (English as a Second Language) students who wish to improve academic writing and critical reading skills. Students will focus on grammar, composition, vocabulary building, in-class (timed) writing, as well as research writing and documentation of sources. A secondary focus of this course is the practice of listening and speaking skills in English: students will learn lecture note-taking strategies and will have opportunities to practice contributing to discussion and making short presentations in English. Students who select LBST 1B12 ESL, will be students whose first language is not English and need additional time and support to complete the first-year writing requirement.
LBST 1B13
The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Daniels, Sara [updated 2012-04-23]
Antirequisite: Students who have taken one of: ENGL 2B30 Critical Writing for Artists and Designers, ENGL 1B01 Critical Writing for Creative Thinkers, ENGL 1B02 Critical Writing for Creative Thinkers - ESL, ENGL 1B03 The Essay and the Argument, LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics, LBST 1B12 The Essay and the Argument: ESL, or LBST 1A40 The Essay and the Argument with one of LBST 1A41 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics, LBST 1A42 The Essay and the Argument: ESL or LBST 1A43 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric may not take this course for further credit
Conditions: LBST 1B13 requires a minimum pass grade of 60%.
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. Students who select LBST 1B13 Rhetoric, should already have strong language skills that will support them in advanced engagement with the ideas under discussion and their rhetorical exposition.
Material Art & Design (MAAD)
MAAD 1B01 Material Art & Design Studio: Fibre
MAAD 1B02 Material Art & Design Studio: Jewellery
MAAD 2B01 Intro to Fibre
MAAD 2B08 Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Casting
MAAD 2B14 Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication
MAAD 2B15 Intro to Ceramics
MAAD 2B29 Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication 2 [cancelled 2012-04-26]
MAAD 2B30 Ceramics: Intro to Throwing
MAAD 3B01 Fibre: Dyeing
MAAD 3B40 Ceramics: Throwing Workshop
MAAD 3B41 Silversmithing
MAAD 1B01
Material Art & Design Studio: Fibre
0.5 Credit | Studio
This course is not offered in the 2012 summer semester. In its place, students may take the equivalent course, MAAD 2B01 Intro to Fibre.
MAAD 1B02
Material Art & Design Studio: Jewellery
0.5 Credit | Studio
This course is not offered in the 2012 summer semester. In its place, students may take the equivalent course, MAAD 2B14 Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication.
MAAD 2B01
Intro to Fibre
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Price, Meghan
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken MAAD 1B01 Material Art & Design Studio: Fibre may not take this course for credit.
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Conditions: Students must achieve a minimum grade of 60% in at least one of their core studio courses each semester to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course introduces the students of Material Art & Design to the possibilities of fibres. The class addresses two major areas of concern within Fibre: interlacement, encompassing hand manipulated construction techniques, and surface design, which includes print and dye. Parallel with these technical studies will be work with concept development to evolve a visual vocabulary suitable for design and/or art based works. The course will be delivered using visual presentations, demonstrations, hands-on production, in-class discussions and one-on-one and group critiques.
MAAD 2B08
Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Casting
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: McKenzie, Van
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Conditions: Students must achieve a minimum grade of 60% in at least one of their core studio courses each semester to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course introduces the traditional casting processes of lost wax, delft clay and cuttlefish and investigates the technical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of body adornment. Students will be exposed to a variety of model making techniques including: carving, modeling, mouldmaking and rapid prototyping. Contemporary, historical examples from a variety of cultures will be presented to illustrate concepts embodied in the projects.
MAAD 2B14
Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Wednesdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: McKenzie, Van
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken MAAD 1B02 Material Art & Design Studio: Jewellery or GDES 3B34 Jewellery Design 1: An Introduction may not take this course for credit.
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Conditions: Students must achieve a minimum grade of 60% in at least one of their core studio courses each semester to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course explores the aesthetic, technical and cultural aspects of body adornment. Fabrication skills such as silver soldering, piercing, forming, elementary stone setting and surface treatments are covered within a series of projects designed and produced by the students. Students are also encouraged to reassess their concept of jewellery. Writing, drawing and modelmaking assignments dealing with conceptual and experimental approaches are part of this course.
MAAD 2B15
Intro to Ceramics
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Tuesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Jaroszewicz, Mark
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it. This course is open to Art and Design students. (Art students - please contact the Design office for access).
This introductory ceramics course emphasizes hand-forming and wheel-throwing techniques for both pottery and sculpture. Slide presentations and ceramic study pieces introduce the student to historical and contemporary ceramic work.
MAAD 2B29 [cancelled 2012-04-26]
Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication 2
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Tuesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Batcher, Gillian
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and MAAD 1B02 Material Art & Design Studio: Jewellery or MAAD 2B14 Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication or GDES 3B34 Jewellery Design 1: An Introduction
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Conditions: Students must achieve a minimum grade of 60% in at least one of their core studio courses each semester to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
The major focus of this course is based on developing a student's increasing understanding and knowledge of the skills required to create more complex fabricated works through a series of projects and samples. Students will create mechanical devices and fasteners as a part of the skill development required for these fabrications. Drawing, model-making, research and development of concepts will also be components of this course.
MAAD 2B30
Ceramics: Intro to Throwing
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Clennell, Anthony
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Throwing is the action of making forms on a rotating wheel using only the hands. This course trains students to use the wheel as a forming tool, explores a variety of techniques and familiarizes students with the vocabulary used in the development of functional and sculptural pieces. Students will experiment with colour and texture using decorating, glazing and firing techniques. They will discover a holistic view of clay making, where techniques both inform and produce the final product. Related topics such as context, concept, function, glazing and firing are also considered. This explorative engagement with the wheel aims to open up new creative and technical possibilities within the student's process of clay making. The course will be delivered using illustrated lectures, demonstrations, in-class discussions and one-on-one and group critiques.
MAAD 3B01
Fibre: Dyeing
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Wassink, Laurie
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Conditions: Students must achieve a minimum grade of 60% in at least one of their core studio courses each semester to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
This course investigates colour theory and dye techniques as applied to fibre. Studies will include traditional and experimental processes for natural and synthetic dyeing on woven and nonwoven textiles. The emphasis is on acquiring a thorough knowledge of the relationship between fibre and dyestuff. Students will develop their own colour sense as well as mastery of the technical aspects of colour with both cellulose and protein fibre. The course will be delivered using lectures, demonstrations, in-class experiments and one-on-one and group critiques.
MAAD 3B40
Ceramics: Throwing Workshop
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 3: May 14 to August 18, Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Clennell, Anthony
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits). [updated 2012-04-02]
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course teaches the process of making objects with clay using the potter's wheel. This method can quickly create basic forms which can be transformed into useful objects with specific needs in mind. In this context, throwing is used as an important vehicle of expression. During this course students are encouraged to further investigate the creative and/or production potential of this process in the hope of gaining a totality of clay making. Wheel throwing can both inform and produce the work and will be integrated with other aspects of the process such as context, concept, function and texture.
MAAD 3B41
Silversmithing
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Chu, Shao-pin
Prerequisite: 9.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and MAAD 1B02 Material Art & Design Studio: Jewellery or MAAD 2B14 Intro to Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Fabrication or GDES 3B34 Jewellery Design 1: An Introduction. [updated 2012-04-02]
Antirequisite: Students who have taken MAAD 2B09 Silversmithing may not take this course for credit.
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Conditions: Students must achieve a minimum grade of 60% in at least one of their core studio courses each semester to advance to further Material Art & Design studio courses.
Through the use of hammers, steel and wooden forms, the plasticity and malleability of non-ferrous (copper, brass and silver) metals are explored. Forging, sinking and raising metal forms are the major techniques covered in this course. One project asks the student to explore their own personal design process through writing, drawing and modelmaking and subsequently create a piece of flatware related to their own experience.
Photography (PHOT)
PHOT 2B01 Photography: Light and Studio
PHOT 2B03 Introductory Photography: Black & White
PHOT 2B05 Introductory Photography: Colour
PHOT 2B07 Introductory Photography: Digital
PHOT 3B19 Professional Practices & Applications
PHOT 3B21 Reconsidering Documentary Photography [cancelled 2012-05-28]
PHOT 2B01
Photography: Light and Studio
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Mokrosz, Iza
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course introduces students to the basics of lighting for studio and location photography. The principles of lighting, including temperature, sources and lighting styles, are also covered. Students explore issues relating to lighting through a range of studio and location exercises.
PHOT 2B03
Introductory Photography: Black & White
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Lawoti, Surendra
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken PHOT 2C02 Contemporary Photography Studio may not take this course for credit.
Note: Mandatory for Photography students. This course has material fees associated with it.
This course offers an introduction to the technical and visual tools of photography, including camera functions, film exposure and black-and-white darkroom procedures. In class demonstration, lecture and critiques support hands-on practice.
PHOT 2B05
Introductory Photography: Colour
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Thursdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Jones, John
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken PHOT 2C02 Contemporary Photography Studio may not take this course for credit.
Note: Mandatory for Photograpy students.
This studio-based course explores the creative use of colour in contemporary photography. Students are introduced to both analog and digital methodologies. Areas covered are colour light theory, image formation in film and digital, exposure and colour balance fundamentals, proper selection of colour and transparency films, chemical colour printing, digital colour capture, digital device calibration and printing from digital files. Hands-on practice is supplemented by presentations, lectures and critiques of student work. Aesthetic issues and trends are discussed.
PHOT 2B07
Introductory Photography: Digital
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Lawoti, Surendra
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken PHOT 2C02 Contemporary Photography Studio may not take this course for credit.
Note: Mandatory for Photograpy students. This course has material fees associated with it.
Students are introduced to digital imaging as it relates to photographic practice. This course provides a basic overview of digital photography technology including Adobe Photoshop tools, scanning and printing. Hands-on practice is supplemented by demonstrations, lectures and presentations. Basic computer literacy is required; access to a digital camera is not.
PHOT 3B19
Professional Practices & Applications
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Jones, John
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
In this course, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of applied business practice, portfolio preparation and self promotion through practical assignments, critiques and skill building demonstrations. This course provides an excellent opportunity to build your portfolio with images that explore the creative potential of editorial, advertising and portfolio photography.
PHOT 3B21 [cancelled 2012-05-28]
Reconsidering Documentary Photography
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Sramek, Peter [updated 2012-05-18]
Prerequisite: 8.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and 0.5 credit second-year Photography course.
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This studio course will consider documentary photographic practices in the context of a post-modern image culture. Focusing on frameworks for documentary practices provided by assigned readings and a study of practitioners, the issues of cultural and social representation and working with communities will be examined. Focus on the impact of digital technologies and the blurring lines of fact and fiction will lead to discussions of new strategies for making socially relevant photographic images today. Students will undertake projects in relation to the ideas presented and discussed.
Printmaking (PRNT)
PRNT 2B01 Screenprinting
PRNT 2B05 Papermaking
PRNT 2B18 Printmaking for Painters
PRNT 2B20 Book Arts: Bookbinding
PRNT 2B22 Non-Toxic Printmaking
PRNT 2B26 Nano Publishing: Independent Publications [updated 2012-04-16]
PRNT 2B27 From Letterpress to Contemporary Typography
PRNT 2B01
Screenprinting
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 15:30 to 18:30
Instructor: Judd, Alison
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
Screenprinting is a modern and flexible stencil technique providing students with a variety of image making possibilities. This studio course covers basic hand stencil techniques and photographic screen processes using water-based inks. Class demonstrations, discussions, individual and group critiques, and directed projects are integral to this course.
PRNT 2B05
Papermaking
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Cook, Emily
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course explores the creative possibilities of working with handmade paper. Techniques practiced include sheet forming, pulp painting, colour and fibre exploration, as well as research into the diverse characteristics of assorted paper pulps. Additional focus is placed on the study of European and Asian papermaking practices, as well as contemporary applications for paper art. Students are encouraged to complete project work in open studio time immediately following the class.
PRNT 2B18
Printmaking for Painters
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Cook, Emily
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course explores the flexibility of traditional and contemporary methods of creating print-based work through the adaptation of technical skills from painting. Students will explore a variety of printmaking techniques such as serigraphy, collagraphy, relief and intaglio to create monoprints, mixed media works or multiples on paper. Hands-on studio work is supplemented by group and individual critiques.
PRNT 2B20
Book Arts: Bookbinding
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 11:30
Instructor: Beatty, Reg
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course explores the traditional and contemporary concepts of the book as an art object and information vehicle. It introduces students to alternative book structures and bookbinding methods, including sewing, case binding and the construction of boxes, slip cases and book containers. Students produce several working book models and an independent project.
PRNT 2B22
Non-Toxic Printmaking
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 4: June 4 to June 27, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Bariteau, Nadine
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course offers a sustainable approach to printmaking. Students are introduced to a range of print media which are water-based, non-toxic and, in some cases, portable enough to be set up in a private studio. Students work with water-based relief printing, and learn how to make their own brush-on inks in the Japanese Print tradition, as well as learn about roll-on inks. Students work with water-based mono-printing, which allows painterly images to be layered and multiplied as prints. This course allows students to explore screenprinting on textiles and work on larger scaled work.
PRNT 2B26
Nano Publishing: Independent Publications
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Garard, Shannon [updated 2012-04-16]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
The nature and strategies of publishing will be examined in this hands-on course. Art and design students will develop and produce printed material for distribution by using a variety of traditional and contemporary studio techniques ranging from letterpress, silkscreen, fine digital printing, and book arts. Students’ publications will match materials, printing techniques, and presentation solutions with concept and content.
PRNT 2B27
From Letterpress to Contemporary Typography
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 12:00 to 15:00
Instructor: Judd, Alison
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course will bring art and design students together to explore applications of letterpress printing in contemporary typography. Both contemporary typography and desktop publishing have their roots in the tradition of letterpress. This tradition is introduced to students by utilizing methods of handset lead and wood type, linotype, foil-stamping, hand-cut wood, linoleum blocks, and photographic polymer plates. Moreover, contemporary design platforms provide a forum for interpreting the relationship between typography, language and meaning.
Sculpture/Installation (SCIN)
SCIN 2B03 Shaping Ideas [updated 2012-04-26]
SCIN 2B07 Sculpture: Language of Materials [updated 2012-04-26]
SCIN 2B03
Shaping Ideas
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Wednesdays and Fridays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Bethune-Leamen, Katie [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Within the context of sculpture and installation practices students will develop projects using the pliable mediums of clay, plaster and wax. Exploring the potentials of these three media beyond their historic links to traditional figuration, this course supports in-studio, practical research and production using case studies of a range of contemporary artists and art works. Students will be presented with a wide scope of strategies to connect ideas with material outcomes, while developing the studio skills to support the process.
SCIN 2B07
Sculpture: Language of Materials
0.5 Credit | Studio
Duration 1: May 14 to June 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 08:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Brown, Adam [updated 2012-04-26]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Note: This course has material fees associated with it.
This course encourages students to explore the physical qualities inherent in materials and the associative meanings we bring to the material world around us. Students experiment with materials, form and space in order to understand how materials can be transformed to create new meaning or convey complex ideas. Students examine issues relevant to contemporary artists working in the areas of sculpture and installation.
Science/Technology/Math (SCTM)
SCTM 2B10 Introduction to Psychology
SCTM 2B22 Topics in the Science of Colour
SCTM 2B10
Introduction to Psychology
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Kushnir, Helena
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade 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 2B10 (ONLINE DELIVERY)
Introduction to Psychology
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 17:00 to 20:00
Instructor: Kushnir, Helena
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Conditions: A student who registers in the online section of Introduction to Psychology acknowledges and agrees to the following:
- Your intention to access lectures and other course materials online
- Class participation will be assessed through activities that will be made available through the course Web site
- That you can only change course sections through approved procedures within the dates specified by the Office of the Registrar.
- That the online section has reserved days and times to conduct certain course activities and although this is an online course usually completed at times, and from locations, that are convenient for you, there are some dates and times when you will be required to come to campus in person (e.g., for term tests and final exam; details as listed in the course syllabus), and there are some dates and times when you will be required to be online for group activities (e.g., Skype group sessions; details as listed in the course syllabus)
- That you are aware of, and will abide by, the academic integrity policies and student conduct policies (both academic and non-academic) as outlined on the OCAD University Web site at http://www.ocadu.ca/students.htm, which pertain to online courses in the same way as other courses and University life
- That everything you need to succeed in the course will be available to you online (with the exception of the course text, which will be available in the OCADU book store, and term tests, which will be conducted on campus on dates and times listed in the course syllabus)
- That in order to participate in the online section of the course, you will need:
- Access to a computer and the Internet with capability for reviewing video and audio content
- Capability to upload coursework to course Web site (e.g., scanner or device to take photos and upload)
- Headset with boom microphone or equivalent peripherals
- High speed Internet access (highly recommended but not required)
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 2: May 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Kingsburgh, Robin
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken SCTM 2B90 Special Topic in Science/Technology/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.
Social Sciences (SOSC)
SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies [updated 2012-04-26]
SOSC 3B02 Material Culture and Consumer Society [updated 2012-04-23]
SOSC 3B03 Sociology of the Body [updated 2012-04-16]
SOSC 3B05 Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour [updated 2012-04-23]
SOSC 4B02 Gender, Globalization and Social Change [updated 2012-04-23]
SOSC 2B02
Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 2: May 14 to June 28, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Colangelo, David [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken VISC 2B40 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape or VISM 2B40 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape for credit may not take this course for further credit.
Note: This course is also offered as SOSC 2B02. 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 VISM 2B40. [updated 2012-04-26]
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 2: May 14 to June 28, Wednesdays and Fridays, 14:30 to 17:30
Instructor: Bullen, Ross [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken ACAD 3B22 Material Culture, HUMN 3B22 Material Culture (2001) or VISC 3B22 Material Culture (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 14 to June 28, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Ordonez, Maria-Belen [updated 2012-04-16]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
The human body is the focus of a wide range of sociological specialties including the sociology of health and illness, of the emotions, of entertainment, as well as social studies of science and technology. This course examines how "bodies" are integrated into patterns of everyday social interaction and become visible in broader social contexts such as culture and politics. Students are provided with the concepts and tools necessary for exploring sociological questions raised by bodies in society.
SOSC 3B05
Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Wednesdays and Fridays, 18:30 to 21:30
Instructor: Leung, Carrianne [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken SOSC 2B90 Special Topic in Social Science: Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour in the 2004/2005 academic year or SOSC 2B03 Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour may not take this course for further credit.
The course explains how and why we buy goods and services. In other words, the course studies how individuals come to make decisions around the spending of their available resources (time, money, effort) on consumption-related items. Relatedly, it addresses why we often buy excessively (the consumer society critique). This necessarily requires us to look at what good and services mean to us such that we purchase them. That is, how do goods and services give expression to the tastes, values and affiliations of individuals and groups(i.e., self-representations)?
SOSC 4B02
Gender, Globalization and Social Change
0.5 Credit | Liberal Studies
Duration 5: July 3 to August 18, Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:30 to 14:30
Instructor: Atluri, Tara [updated 2012-04-23]
Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM).
Antirequisite: Students who have taken SOSC 3B01 Gender, Globalization and Social Change may not take this course 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.
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