COURSE CALENDARS

FACULTY OF LIBERAL STUDIES

Important Information: Special Notices

Aboriginal Visual Culture
ABVC 3B01 Bringing Visual Literacy to Aboriginal Communities (added 2011-04-26)

English
ENGL 2B01 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 2B03 Introduction to Literary Criticism
ENGL 2B05 Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction
ENGL 3B01 The Artist in European and American Literature
ENGL 3B07 Dramatic Literature
ENGL 4B03 European Literary Classics and Criticism

Humanities
HUMN 2B01 Aesthetics
HUMN 3B01 Reading Popular Culture
HUMN 3B02 The Romantic Rebellion in Europe
HUMN 3B11 Sexualities and Representation: Queer and Other Theories
HUMN 4B01 Modernism: Critical Perspectives
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives

First-Year Liberal Studies
LBST 1B03 Introduction to Visual Studies II: History and Culture Since 1500
LBST 1B06 Introduction to Visual Studies III: Critical Frameworks
LBST 1B11 The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics
LBST 1B12 The Essay and the Argument: ESL
LBST 1B13 The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric

Science, Technology, Mathematics
SCTM 2B10 Introduction to Psychology
SCTM 2B22 Topics in the Science of Colour

Social Sciences
SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies
SOSC 3B02 Material Culture and Consumer Society
SOSC 3B03 Sociology of the Body
SOSC 3B05 Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour
SOSC 4B02 Gender, Globalization and Social Change

Visual Culture
VISC 2B01 History of Modern Design
VISC 2B07 History of Modern Art
VISC 2B13 History of Photography
VISC 2B19 Art of Europe: The Northern Renaissance
VISC 2B22 History of Material Arts: Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe
VISC 2B36 History and Evolution of Typography
VISC 2B38 Design Thinking
VISC 2B39 Graphic Design History in the Twentieth Century
VISC 2B40 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies
VISC 3B05 Dada and Surrealism
VISC 3B18 Television Criticism
VISC 3B32 History of Furniture
VISC 3B46 Design and Sustainability
VISC 4B05 Future Cinema: Digital Narratives
VISC 4B08 Post-War European Art
VISC 4B15 Urban Life: Art, Design and the City

ABVC 3B01 (added 2011-04-26)
Bringing Visual Literacy to Aboriginal Communities
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 3:
May 16 - August 19
Instructor: TBA
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Note: Registration in this course requires approval by Bonnie Devine of the Aboriginal Visual Culture Program (ABVC), 113 McCaul St, Room 1401.

This summer course offers 3rd year students from all Faculties an opportunity to spend two months in a total-immersion environment in remote and fly-in First Nations communities in Central and Northern Ontario. Students will develop and teach curriculum in visual literacy in a variety of media and formats for First Nations children and youth, and gain valuable teaching skills and life experience within a challenging and stimulating environment. Successful applicants will participate in a preparatory seminar and orientation, will receive travel and lodging, and be equipped with supplies and media equipment to support their teaching. They will document and report their progress throughout and upon completion of the program to an off-site supervising OCAD faculty.

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ENGL 2B01
Introduction to Creative Writing
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Niedzviecki, Hal (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: ACAD 3B11 or ENGL 3B11
Note: Alumni and advanced standing students who are considering taking this course to fulfill their writing course requirement must make an advising appointment with the Liberal Studies office for approval.

This seminar course offers students the opportunity to develop, critique and refine a body of writing with an emphasis on the exploration of individual style. Through lectures, writing exercises, class discussion, readings, presentations, and individual critiques, the elements and strategies involved in both the craft and the creative process of writing are examined, as are different critical theories of literature. As a way of understanding cultural and social influences on artistic vision and the creative imagination, students are exposed to a range of writers of diverse cultural and aesthetic backgrounds.

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ENGL 2B03
Introduction to Literary Criticism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Marques, Irene (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Note: This course is strongly recommended in advance of third or fourth-year level 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.

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ENGL 2B05
Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Currie, John (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Note: Alumni and advanced standing students who are considering taking this course to fulfill their writing course requirement must make an advising appointment with the Liberal Studies office for approval.

Biography, memoir and graphic memoir, personal essay, and literary journalism: this course examines historical and contemporary incarnations of experience-based text, and asks students to draw upon their own lives to produce literary nonfiction. Students will explore such topics as the use of memorabilia and marginalia in memoir, the reliable narrator, recrafting memory, the ethics of factual accuracy, writing trauma, and veiling and unveiling truth. The class will read from a wide range of authors working in the genre (and sub-genres), including: Joan Didion, Lynn Hejinian, Diane Ackermann, Mary Karr, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf , Patrick Lane, Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Sedaris.

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ENGL 3B01
The Artist in European and American Literature
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: McLennan, Leanna (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Note: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of third or fourth-year level ENGL courses.

This literature course considers the topic of the artist in the literature of Europe and America, exploring depictions of artists, the nature of creativity, and the social role and aspirations of art. In the light of changing ideas about the nature of humanity and of ideals of individuality, democracy, and reason, Western authors have viewed the creativity of both visual and verbal artist in diverse yet motivated ways.

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ENGL 3B07
Dramatic Literature
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: D'Anger, Tanya (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ENGL 2B04

The goal of this course is to teach students how to read and write about drama by analyzing selections of drama from various parts of the world. The course will explore the notion of dramatic literature as a form of literary expression that only finds completion through its realization on the stage, and will seek to define the qualities that separate it from literature intended for the solitary reader. Each play will be contextualized within a historical and theoretical frame of reference that explores both the playwright's inspiration, and the articulation of that inspiration in concrete terms. Selections will be studied with reference to style, theme, genre and language with specific attention to the structural composition of plot and setting and the development of character in space and time. In our analysis, we will examine the representation of nation, gender, sexuality, class and culture. Recurrent themes will also be considered, such as the relationship between illusion and reality, and between society and the hero.

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ENGL 4B03
European Literary Classics and Criticism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Wednesday & Friday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Hopkirk, Susan (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Note: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of third or fourth-year level ENGL courses.

The course aims to cover questions such as: How do literary and cultural theorists approach literary texts? How are contemporary views of literature influenced by diverse theoretical approaches to the study of literature, in fields such as formalism, structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, and critical race studies. We will investigate the relation of literature to criticism, and the construction of a literary cannon, as we study a wide range of literary genres and theoretical approaches to literature. By examining contemporary readings of literary texts alongside prior interpretations, we will investigate how these texts are open to multiple interpretations. Our focus will be (1) critically analyzing literary theory; (2) writing essays in which you use specific theoretical approaches to analyze literary classics. Literary texts may include works by Blake, Dickinson, Milton, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Woolf and others.

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HUMN 2B01
Aesthetics
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Kiloh, Kathy (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.

This course offers students an introduction to the philosophy of art through the study of concepts and issues which have concerned artists, critics and philosophers from modernism to postmodernism. We examine some of the traditional philosophical problems of aesthetics connected to ideas of beauty, genius, imagination, creativity, artistic value and expression, critical evaluation, and the role of the artist in society. We also investigate contemporary issues related to the dematerialization of the art object in the twentieth century such as visual thinking, spatial intelligence, representation, semiotic signification, the anti-aesthetic, and the connection between art and politics.

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HUMN 3B01
Reading Popular Culture
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Wilson, Alex (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ACAD 2B14 or HUMN 2B14

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.

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HUMN 3B02
The Romantic Rebellion in Europe
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Burke, Donald (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

This course studies the Romantic movement in European culture through lectures and discussion on the literature, philosophy, art and music of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics include the revival of interest I mediaevalism, folklore, emotion, and self-expression in art and daily life, and new concepts of male-female relationships. Later currents include the mysterious and dangerous Byronic hero, as well as a greater interest in social satire and the uncanny. The emphasis will be on German, English, and Russian culture, though examples will also be drawn from French, Italian, East European and Scandinavian Romantic movements. The rise of nationalism, the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, and the reestablishment of the ancient regime create the socio-political foundation for the culture of the period.

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HUMN 3B11
Sexualities and Representation: Queer and Other Theories
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: McIntosh, David (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: HUMN 4B16 or VISC 4B16: Queer Theory: Sexuality and Representation.

This course will explore intersections in the history and theory of sexualities and the politics of representation by analyzing the relevant discourses in art and design, ideology and narratives, resistance and activism. Investigating the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Eve Sedgwick, students will gain informed knowledge about the construction and performance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) identity and about notions of being ‘inside or outside’ or straddling the edge of a community.

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HUMN 4B01
Modernism: Critical Perspectives
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Wolfe, David (updated 2011-04-12)
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: HUMN 3B04: Understanding Modernism or HUMN 3B90: Special Topic in Humanities: Understanding Modernism (2004/2005).

This course offers an overview of the historical and cultural context of the modern period from the mid 1850s to 1945. It is designed to offer students a context in which to understand not only the key issues and innovations central to artistic modernism but also the ways in which modernism forms the basis for much of our understanding of contemporary culture. Students will consider how historical forces such as the rise of literacy and the working class, industrialization, colonialism, revolution, women’s rights, and the World Wars created contexts in which innovation and critical approaches to art emerged.

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HUMN 4B18
Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Flisfeder, Matthew (updated 2011-04-12)
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ACAD 4B12
Note: VISC 2B07 is strongly recommended in advance of this course. It is recommended that Criticism & Curatorial Practice majors 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.

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LBST 1B03
Introduction to Visual Studies II: History and Culture Since 1500
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 11:30-13:30
Tutorials: Wednesday & Friday, 13:30-14:30 or 14:30-15:30
Instructor: Glessing, Jill (updated 2011-04-08)
Tutorial 1/2: Fraser, Alexandra (updated 2011-05-24)
Tutorial 3: Kalinowski, Emilie (updated 2011-05-24)
Antirequisite: VISC 1B03 or ACAD 1B03
Note: This course is composed of a large weekly lecture and a tutorial.

This lecture course is an introduction to the history and context of visual studies from a thematic and global perspective. Through an issue-based approach to art and design, students explore the historical relationship of visual representation of ideas such as spirituality, colonialism, the body, race, gender, industrialization, mass reproduction and technology. An emphasis is placed on integrating textual and visual analysis in lectures, tutorials and assignments and introducing students to research methodologies for artists and designers.

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LBST 1B06
Introduction to Visual Studies III: Critical Frameworks
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 17:30-19:30
Tutorials: Tuesday & Thursday, 19:30-20:30 or [20:30-21:30 (cancelled 2011-06-28)]
Instructor: Valiquette, Renee (updated 2011-04-08)
Antirequisite: VISC 1B04, VISC 1B05 or VISC 1B06
Note: This course is composed of a large weekly lecture and a 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.

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LBST 1B11
The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Topness, Leslie (updated 2011-05-05)
Duration 2: May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Cecchetto, David (updated 2011-05-05)
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Wednesday & Friday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Zelazo, Suzanne (updated 2011-04-08)
Antirequisite: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43.
Note: A writing course is required for all First-Year students not taking LBST 1D01 Liberal Studies One.
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).

This course is designed specifically for students who wish to sharpen their writing skills through intensive practice and review of composition mechanics and English grammar. Students will focus on grammar fundamentals, paragraph construction and reading strategies. This workshop allows students to explore aspects of essay composition while developing confidence in their own writing skills through practical exercises. 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.

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LBST 1B12
The Essay and the Argument: ESL
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 11:30-14:30
Instructor: Tomlinson, Lisa (updated 2011-04-08)
Antirequisite: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43
Note: A writing course is required for all First-Year students not taking LBST 1D01 Liberal Studies One.
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).

This course is designed specifically for ESL (English as a Second Language) students who wish to reinforce skills in English grammar and written English. Students will focus on grammar, composition, vocabulary building, techniques for reading efficiently and academic style. 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.

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LBST 1B13
The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Spencer, Amanda (updated 2011-04-08)
Antirequisite: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43
Note: A writing course is required for all First-Year students not taking LBST 1D01 Liberal Studies One.
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).

This course is designed specifically for students who wish to sharpen their persuasive skills through an intensive study of the art of rhetoric and debate. Students will focus on advanced arguments through in-depth analysis of course readings as well as a close examination of various rhetorical tips and strategies. 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.

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SCTM 2B10
Introduction to Psychology
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Kushnir, Helena (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.

This lecture course introduces students to the scientific study of human and animal behaviour, with a particular emphasis on the individual as the unit of study rather than the group. Through discussion, the course text and clips from Universal Studio films, students survey key concepts, issues and research methods in the various sub-disciplines of psychology and relate these to contemporary life and culture. Topics include: physiological processes, motivation, learning, perception and sensation, memory and thinking, and social, developmental and abnormal psychology. Students learn to develop their critical thinking and analytical skills and learn to distinguish between the average layperson's notion of psychology and psychology as a science.

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SCTM 2B22
Topics in the Science of Colour
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30-14:30
Instructor: Kingsburgh, Robin (updated 2011-04-21)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: SCTM 2B90: Special Topic in Science, Technology and Mathematics: Topics in the Science of Colour

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.

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SOSC 2B02
Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Balaisis, Nicholas (updated 2011-04-12)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: VISC 2B40
Note: This course is also offered as VISC 2B40.

This lecture course is designed to offer students critical and analytical skills to understand our complex media environment through the study of the basic principles, methodologies and topics relevant to Communications Studies. Students examine historical, economic, technological and policy perspectives that shape how we respond to and participate in a media landscape, with an emphasis placed on the Canadian context. Topics to be addressed include: theories of communications and media; public and private media; communications and nations; culture industries; media convergence; geopolitics of global communications; networks and communications; democracy and media; and consumers, identity and media.

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SOSC 3B02
Material Culture and Consumer Society
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Atluri, Tara (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ACAD 3B22, HUMN 3B22 (2001) or VISC 3B22 (2002)

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.

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SOSC 3B03
Sociology of the Body
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: MacDonald, Shana (updated 2011-04-08)
Duration 5: July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Ordonez, Maria-Belen (updated 2011-04-21)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

This course examines sociological approaches to understanding the body in contemporary society. The idea of "body techniques" will be emphasized, including the following: techniques of production which permit construction, transformation or manipulation of the body; techniques of representation which permit free individual or collective expression concerning the body in society; and institutional techniques which determine the behaviour of individuals towards their own bodies and the bodies of others. Each "technique" will be examined in relationship to how they broaden perceptions about the body, what they replace, and what they take from society.

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SOSC 3B05
Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Wednesday & Friday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Leung, Carrianne (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: SOSC 2B90: Special Topic in Social Science: Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour in the 2004/2005 academic year or SOSC 2B03

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)?

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SOSC 4B02
Gender, Globalization and Social Change
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 11:30-14:30
Instructor: Nagam, Julie (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: SOSC 3B01

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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VISC 2B01
History of Modern Design
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Kellett, Heidi (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.

This lecture course 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.

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VISC 2B07
History of Modern Art
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Hosein, Lise (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.

This lecture course surveys major artistic movements and artists from the 1860s to the 1970s. We begin by examining the roots of Modernism and proceed to a consideration of movements such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism. We then examine Duchamp and the Armory Show of 1913 to illustrate the influence of the early-20th-century European avant-garde on North American art and aesthetics, particularly Abstract Expressionism. We conclude with a discussion of mid-20th-century art movements, including British and American Pop, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Performance, Land-based Art and Post-Minimalism.

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VISC 2B13
History of Photography
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Morrell, Amish (updated 2011-04-21)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: ACAD 2B13

This slide-lecture course offers an overview of the history of photography from a social and aesthetic perspective. The role of photography as a documentary and artistic medium in the 19th and 20th centuries is explored, as well as the ways in which the mass reproduction of images has altered our perceptions of reality, subjectivity, memory and culture. Emphasis is placed on analyzing photography as a formal and conceptual language framed by cultural specificity and historical context.

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VISC 2B19
Art of Europe: The Northern Renaissance
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Broun, Francis (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.

This course deals with the signs and symbols, as well as with the sheer artistic brilliance that characterizes this period of artistic production in Northern Europe. Starting with a brief discussion of manuscript painting (the Limbourg Brothers), the lion's share of this course is devoted to the extraordinary genius of the great Flemish masters (Campin, van Eyck, van der Weyden, van der Goes, Memling, Bosch and Bruegel, among others). The final section of this course is given over to an examination of the unique qualities of contemporaneous painting in Germany, including such artists as Durer, Grunewald and Holbein.

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VISC 2B22
History of Material Arts: Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Wednesday & Friday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Eggebeen, Janna (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: ACAD 2B22 or MAAD 2B22

This lecture course draws upon the resources of the Royal Ontario Museum to introduce students to the chronological progression and the stylistic appearances of European ceramics, metalwork and textiles. Students learn to identify and date forms and materials with the knowledge of changing technology, methods of production and manufacturing, and makers' marks. Whenever appropriate, architecture, interior decoration, furniture and costume are included to develop a more complete context of each culture and period.

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VISC 2B36
History and Evolution of Typography
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 08:30-11:30
Instructor: Hunt, Richard (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: COMM 2B07

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."

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VISC 2B38
Design Thinking
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Monday & Wednesday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Riva, Lori (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: VISC 2B38: Design Methodologies, VISC 3B11: Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts or ENVR 3B11

Understanding the nature of design ideas and the subsequent approaches, activities and methodologies applied in the realization of these conceptual ideas is critical for the emerging designer. This course examines the work of a number of key architects and interior and industrial designers in order to study their approaches in the context of their individual philosophies, design vocabularies and the parameters within which they worked. Through this study, we will consider and evaluate their diverse methodologies and results.

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VISC 2B39
Graphic Design History in the Twentieth Century
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Wednesday & Friday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Hejazi, Bahar (updated 2011-07-04)
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 100 level including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60% and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: VISC 3B20 or VISC 4B14

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.

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VISC 2B40
Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 14:30-17:30
Instructor: Balaisis, Nicholas (updated 2011-04-12)
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%, and an overall average of 60%.
Antirequisite: SOSC 2B02
Note: This course is also offered as SOSC 2B02.

See SOSC 2B02 for course description.

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VISC 3B05
Dada and Surrealism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Wednesday & Friday, 8:30-11:30 (time updated 2011-04-07)
Instructor: Modigliani, Leah (updated 2011-04-21)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ACAD 3B05

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, Dalí, Miro and Magritte; precursors of the Surrealists such as Rousseau and de Chirico; and the legacy of Surrealism and Breton and his circle.

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VISC 3B18
Television Criticism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Monday & Wednesday, 11:30-14:30
Instructor: Hearn, Alison (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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.

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VISC 3B32
History of Furniture
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 4 - August 19, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Hejazi, Bahar (updated 2011-04-08)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ACAD 3B32

This lecture course introduces students to a survey of the history, form and function of Western furniture design. The course traces the diverse cultural influences on the development of furniture and considers how furniture reflects the changing social structure of society and the internal environment. The importance of the religious, social and cultural connotations of furniture will also be discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship of furniture design to its role in representing social status in Western culture and, by the late 19th century, domestic comfort. Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credit at the 200 level, including 0.5 VISC credit.

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VISC 3B46
Design and Sustainability
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30-14:30
Instructor: Nay, Eric (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: VISC 3B91 Special Topic in Visual Culture: Design and Sustainability

A growing awareness of the environmental, social and economic problems associated with contemporary architecture, industry and design has led communities and designers to look for long term solutions to use less energy, create less waste and generally reform the systems that are at the core of the post-industrialized world. This course will survey and analyze existing literature, built environments, and designed objects focusing on defining sustainability within today’s contemporary global context. Projects coming from a wide and varied interdisciplinary range of examples will be explored. Differing contexts, cultures, disciplines, institutions, and regional variations will also be factored into our investigation as we look at how the notion of sustainable design is conceptualized, interpreted and implemented.

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VISC 4B05
Future Cinema: Digital Narratives
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 14:30-17:30 (updated 2011-03-30)
Instructor: McIntosh, David (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: VISC 4B05 Cosmopolis: New Narrative in Contemporary Media

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.

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VISC 4B08
Post-War European Art
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 18:30-21:30
Instructor: Chakrabarty, Ananda (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ACAD 4B08

This seminar will look at some of the most creative moments in European art since 1945. The class will address a number of artistic propositions emerging from several groups (e.g. Arte Povera, Supports/Surfaces, Fluxus) as well as works by a range of artists (e.g. Yves Klein, Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Magdalena Abakanowicz). Particular emphasis will be placed on the re-figuration of the “body” in various forms of artistic practice and on a re-contextualization of earlier (both modern and pre-modern) works of art. Specific examples of artistic practices and discussions of critical texts will enable students to understand the different, often overlapping, contexts (social, historical, and philosophical) of postmodern and contemporary artistic production in post-war Europe.

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VISC 4B15
Urban Life: Art, Design and the City
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 16 - June 30, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30-14:30
Instructor: Nagam, Julie (updated 2011-03-29)
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).
Antirequisite: ACAD 4B15

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.

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