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FIRST-YEAR ART (GENERAL) PROGRAM GUIDE

COURSE CODE 
COURSE TITLE          
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Liberal Arts & Sciences courses 
LBST 1B04
Global Visual and Material Culture: Prehistory to 1800 
 0.5
LBST 1B05
Global Visual and Material Culture: 1800 to the Present 
 0.5
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
 
Studio courses
 
GART 1B01 Drawing                                            
 0.5
GART 1B04
Colour Exploration *                           
 0.5
GART 1B05
Form and Structure                              
 0.5
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 & 5 & 6      
(section 6 is now multi-disciplinary UPDATED: 2012, August 22 )
Winter: 1, 2, 3 & 4
   
 
ii) TBM accents animation, select from the following:
Fall: sections 7 & 11                        
(section 11 is new section of animation UPDATED: 2012 August 22)
Winter: sections 5 & 6  
   
 
iii) TBM accents electronics, select from the following:
Fall: sections 8 & 9
Winter: sections 7 & 8
   
 
iv) TBM accents video, select from the following:
Fall: sections 10
Winter: sections 9 & 10
Choose ONE of the following CORE FOCUS courses
 0.5
  GART 1B02
Drawing 2
 
  PHOT 2B03
Introduction to Photography: Black & White
 
  INTM 2B11
Animation: Origins & Techniques
 
  INTM 2B29
Video for Artists I
 
  FABR 2B03
Introduction to Fabrication: Mouldmaking
 
  FABR 2B04
Introduction to Fabrication: Plastics
 
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 1B31
Creative Process: Material Art & Design
 
  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 Aboriginal 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 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 1B60
Site & Intervention: Critical Practices
 
  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 special offering attached to GDES 1B16 Colour in Context which would be considered equivalent to GART 1B04 for ESL students in First Year Art.)




Last Modified:11/21/2012 2:54:29 PM