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FIRST-YEAR ART (GENERAL) PROGRAM GUIDE

COURSE CODE 
COURSE TITLE          
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Liberal studies courses 
Fall semester:     
LBST 1B04
Global Visual and Material Culture: Beginnings to 1800 
 0.5
Winter semester:    
LBST 1B05
Global Visual and Material Culture: 1800 to the Present 
 0.5
Fall or Winter semester:    
Choose one of the following  three writing courses:  0.5
  LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics
 
     
LBST 1B12  
The Essay and the Argument: ESL
 
  LBST 1B13
The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric (not offered 2013/2014)
 
Studio courses
 
Fall semester:   
GART 1B01 Drawing 1                                      
 0.5
GART 1B04
Colour Exploration *                           
 0.5
GART 1B05
Form and Structure                              
 0.5
Fall or Winter semester:   
GART 1B06
Time-Based Media                            
 0.5
   
 
Select ONE the following Time-Based Media (TBM):
 
   
 
i) TBM accents multi-disciplinary, select from the following:
Fall: sections 1, 2, 3 & 4      
Winter: 1, 2, 3 & 4
   
 
ii) TBM accents animation, select from the following:
Fall: sections 5 & 6                        
Winter: sections 5 & 6  
   
 
iii) TBM accents electronics, select from the following:
Fall: sections 7 & 8
Winter: sections 7 & 8
   
 
iv) TBM accents video, select from the following:
Fall: sections 9 & 10
Winter: sections 9 & 10
Winter semester:   
Choose one of the following core focus courses:
 0.5
  DRPT 2B03 Drawing Workshop (section 4)
 
  DRPT 2B07 Figurative Drawing (section 3)
 
  DRPT 2B39  Painting & Digital Imaging I  (section 3)
 
  INTM 2B02  The Moving Image: Cinematic Form & Practice (section 1)
 
  INTM 2B06  Sonic Arts (section 2)
 
  INTM 2B11 Animation: Origins & Techniques (section 2)
 
  INTM 2B29 The Moving Image: Documentation, Performance, Activism (section 1)
 
  FABR 2B03 Introduction to Fabrication: Mouldmaking (section 1)
 
  FABR 2B04 Introduction to Fabrication: Plastics (section 1)
 
  PHOT 2B03  Introduction to Photography: Black & White (sections 1,2,3)
 
Choose two of the following elective courses:
 1.0
Digital Practices, for those less familiar with digital tools, develops skills while considering how artists respond to and create the very structures by which the digital is presented.
 
  GART 1B03
Introduction to Digital Practices: Globalization
 
  GART 1B10
Introduction to Digital Practices: Body & Technology
 
The creative process unfolds through research, discovery, and production that combine and form the basis of an art practice.
 
  GART 1B20
Creative Process: Sculpture and Installation
 
  GART 1B21
Creative Process: Painting
 
  GART 1B23
Creative Process: Printmaking
 
  GART 1B24
Creative Process: Wearable Art
 
  GART 1B30
Creative Process: Digital Printmaking
 
  GART 1B32  Creative Process: Photography   
  GART 1B70
Creative Process: Art & Code
 
  GART 1B72
Creative Process: Paper Cut-Outs & 3D Pop-Ups
 
Narrative is key to contemporary visual practice as the unfolding of stories, the exploration of events, histories, ideas, and memories.
 
  GART 1B40
Narrative Strategies: Drawing
 
  GART 1B41
Narrative Strategies: Media Arts
 
  GART 1B43
Narrative Strategies: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture & Installation
 
The intersection of human activity and natural phenomena provides a zone of contention under investigation in contemporary art today.
 
  GART 1B50
Nature & Culture: Drawing
 
  GART 1B51  Nature & Culture: Contemporary Painting   
  GART 1B52
Nature & Culture: Curatorial Practices
 
  GART 1B53
Nature & Culture: Multidisciplinary Approaches
 
Site & Intervention challenges traditional notions of how space can have an impact on artwork by intervening on public and other spaces.
 
  GART 1B62 Site & Intervention: New Media   
  GART 1B63
Site & Intervention: Sculpture and Installation
 
Total Credits
 5.0

* If English is not your first language, consider enrolling in English Language Pathway, a group of first year courses with extended tutorials and added ESL support. General art students in the English Language Pathway take GDES 1B16 Colour in Context instead of GART 1B04 Colour Exploration.




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