FACULTY OF LIBERAL STUDIES

Please be aware of 'Special Considerations' found under the current Fall/Winter Course Calendar/Faculty of Liberal Studies

[instructors updated 2010-04-19]

First-Year Liberal Studies
LBST 1B03 Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Ideas
LBST 1B06 Introduction to Visual Studies II: 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

English
ENGL 2B01 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 2B03 Introduction to Literary Criticism
ENGL 2B05 Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction [instructor change 2010-06-29]
ENGL 3B05 Creative Writing: Contemporary And Experimental Forms
ENGL 3B07 Dramatic Literature
ENGL 4B03 European Literary Classics and Criticism

Humanities
HUMN 2B16 Twentieth Century Ideas
HUMN 3B01 Reading Popular Culture
HUMN 3B07 Ethics and the Visual Arts
HUMN 3B09 Introduction to Gender Studies
HUMN 4B01 Modernism: Critical Perspectives
HUMN 4B18 Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives

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 [instructor change 2010-06-07]
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 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 3B05 Dada and Surrealism [instructor change 2010-06-07]
VISC 3B08 Art of Europe: Baroque & Rococo
VISC 3B18 Television Criticism
VISC 3B32 History of Furniture
VISC 3B34 Japanese Cinema
VISC 3B46 Design and Sustainability
VISC 4B04 Re-presenting Women: Feminist Film and Video
VISC 4B05 Future Cinema: Digital Narratives

LBST 1B03
Introduction to Visual Studies I: History and Ideas
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: Lisa Peden
Duration 2: May 17 - July 2, Wednesday & Friday, 11:30am – 2:30pm
Instructor: Scott Preston

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 1B03 or ACAD 1B03 may not take this course for further credit.

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LBST 1B06
Introduction to Visual Studies II: Critical Frameworks
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Bojana Videkanic

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who have taken VISC 1B04, VISC 1B05 or VISC 1B06 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: Note: 100 Level students are advised to take LBST 1B03 and LBST 1B06 in different semesters.

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LBST 1B11
The Essay and the Argument: Mechanics
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Thomas Robles
Duration 2: May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Jessica Barr
Duration 5: July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Tanya D'Anger

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took one of: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43 may not take this course for extra credit.
Notes: A writing course is required for all First-Year students not taking LBST 1D01 Liberal Studies One
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).

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LBST 1B12
The Essay and the Argument: ESL
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Brian Chen

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took one of: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43 may not take this course for extra credit.
Notes: A writing course is required for all First-Year students not taking LBST 1D01 Liberal Studies One
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).

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LBST 1B13
The Essay and the Argument: Rhetoric
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Amanda Spencer

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took one of: ENGL 2B30, ENGL 1B01, ENGL 1B02, ENGL 1B03, or LBST 1A40 with one of LBST 1A41, 1A42 or 1A43 may not take this course for extra credit.
Notes: A writing course is required for all First-Year students not taking LBST 1D01 Liberal Studies One
Conditions: The minimum passing grade for the first year writing course is 60% (C-).

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ENGL 2B01
Introduction to Creative Writing
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Lillian Allen
Prerequisite: 3.0 credits of first-year studio and 1.0 credit of first-year liberal studies, including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who have taken ACAD3B11 or ENGL 3B11 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: Alumni and advanced standing students who are considering taking this course to fulfill their writing course requirement must make an advising appointment with the Liberal Studies office for approval.#http://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.

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ENGL 2B03
Introduction to Literary Criticism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Irene Marques
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%.

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.

Notes: This course is strongly recommended in advance of 300 or 400-level ENGL courses.

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ENGL 2B05
Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Nalo Hopkinson [instructor change 2010-06-29]
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%.

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 3B05
Creative Writing: Contemporary And Experimental Forms
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Lillian Allen
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit) and ENGL 2B01: Introduction to Creative Writing or ENGL 2B05: Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction or permission of instructor.

Post-modernism has ushered in unprecedented possibilities for new writing forms, including but by no means limited to: image narrative, cross-genre, electronic, experimental, inter-disciplinary works, performance and post-genre writing. Through seminars, workshops, and peer group critiquing, this course will provide students an opportunity to explore the possibilities of contemporary creative writing as they bring their vision and voice to new and emerging literary forms.

Anti-requisite: Students who have previously taken ENGL 3B90: Special Topic in English: Creative Writing: Contemporary and Experimental Forms in 2006, 2007 or 2008 may not take this course for further credit.

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ENGL 3B07
Dramatic Literature
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Genevieve De Viveiros
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who have previously taken ENGL 2B04 may not take this course for further credit.

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ENGL 4B03
European Literary Classics and Criticism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Wednesday & Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Leanna Mclennan
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

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.

Notes: ENGL 2B03 is strongly recommended in advance of 300-level ENGL courses.

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HUMN 2B16
Twentieth Century Ideas
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Jeanette Bicknell
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%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD2B16 may not take this course for further credit.

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HUMN 3B01
Reading Popular Culture
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Alex Wilson
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 2B14 or HUMN 2B14 may not take this course for further credit.

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HUMN 3B07
Ethics and the Visual Arts
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Hugh Alcock
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

This course explores how ethics and ethical issues enter into the contemporary arts, whether painting, sculpture, installation, film, television, or video production. Students study ethical theories, probe the meaning of moral judgements, and identify the assumptions underlying different theories of ethics as they relate to artistic practice. Students consider some of the principal issues artists are faced with in contemporary practice, and are encouraged to develop the skills of critical enquiry and debate.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 3B07 may not take this course for further credit.

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HUMN 3B09
Introduction to Gender Studies
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Spencer Harrison
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

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.

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HUMN 4B01
Modernism: Critical Perspectives
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Wednesday & Friday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Matthew Flisfeder
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

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

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took HUMN 3B04: Understanding Modernism or took HUMN 3B90: Special Topic in Humanities: Understanding Modernism in the 2004/2005 academic year may not take this course for further credit.

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HUMN 4B18
Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: David Wolfe
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 4B12 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes:VISC 2B07 is strongly recommended in advance of this course.*It is recommended that students complete HUMN 4B18 in their third year or in the summer preceding their thesis year.

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SCTM 2B10
Introduction to Psychology
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Lena Kushnir
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%.

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 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Jonathan Korman
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%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who have previously taken SCTM 2B90: Special Topic in Science, Technology and Mathematics: Topics in the Science of Colour may not take this course for further credit.

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SOSC 2B02
Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Nicholas Balaisis
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%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 2B40 for credit may not take SOSC 2B02 for further credit.
Notes: This course is also offered as VISC 2B40. You must decide which course category you wish this to be counted towards at the time of registration by registering for either SOSC 2B02 or VISC 2B40.

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SOSC 3B02
Material Culture and Consumer Society
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Jooyeon Rhee
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD3B22, HUMN 3B22 (2001) or VISC 3B22 (2002) may not take this course for further credit.

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SOSC 3B03
Sociology of the Body
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Shana Macdonald
Duration 5: July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Maria-Belen Ordonez
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 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 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Guy Kirby Letts [instructor change 2010-06-07]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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)?

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took SOSC 2B90: Special Topic in Social Science: Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour in the 2004/2005 academic year or SOSC 2B03 may not take this course for further credit.

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SOSC 4B02
Gender, Globalization and Social Change
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Donna Schatz
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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.

Anti-requisite: Students who have taken SOSC 3B01 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 2B01
History of Modern Design
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Lise Hosein
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%.

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 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Bernice Iarocci
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%.

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 5:
July 5 - August 20, Monday & Wednesday, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Jill Glessing
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%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 2B13 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 2B22
History of Material Arts: Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Janna Eggebeen
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%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 2B22 or MAAD 2B22 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 2B36
History and Evolution of Typography
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Monday & Wednesday, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Richard Hunt
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%.

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."

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took COMM 2B07 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 2B38
Design Thinking
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Lori Riva
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%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 2B38: Design Methodologies, VISC 3B11: Design Methodologies: Theories and Concepts or ENVR 3B11 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 2B39
Graphic Design History in the Twentieth Century
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Heidi Kellett
Prerequisite: 1.0 Liberal Studies credits at the 100 level including the first year writing course with a minimum passing grade of 60%.

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 3B20 or VISC 4B14 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 3B05
Dada and Surrealism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Godfre Leung [instructor change 2010-06-07]
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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, Dalí, Miro and Magritte; precursors of the Surrealists such as Rousseau and de Chirico; and the legacy of Surrealism and Breton and his circle.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took ACAD 3B05 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 3B08
Art of Europe: Baroque & Rococo
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Francis Broun
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

This course is a study of the European artistic movements that followed the Renaissance period. We begin by examining the second Renaissance that took place in Rome in the early 1600s and the impact that the art of Carracci, Caravaggio and Bernini had throughout Europe, especially in Catholic countries such as France and Spain. We then examine the art of Hals, Rembrandt and Vermeer, which was fostered in Holland, a Protestant republic. Rococo painting will be studied mostly as it appeared in France (Watteau, Boucher, Chardin and Fragonard) and England (Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough).

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 2B34 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 3B18
Television Criticism
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Monday & Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Alison Hearn
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 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 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: Bahar Hejazi
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

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

Anti-requisite: Students who have previously taken ACAD 3B32 may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 3B34
Japanese Cinema
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Instructor: David McIntosh
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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.

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VISC 3B46
Design and Sustainability
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Eric Nay
Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including 3.5 credits of first-year studio, 1.5 credit of first-year liberal studies (including the Writing course with a passing grade of 60%), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

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.

Anti-requisite: Students who have taken VISC 3B91 Special Topic in Visual Culture: Design and Sustainability may not take this course for further credit.

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VISC 4B04
Re-presenting Women: Feminist Film and Video
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 2:
May 17 - July 2, Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Jenny Ellison
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit).

This course will review some of the seminal and contemporary writers and theorists in feminist film and video, including the formative work of Teresa DeLauretis, Laura Mulvey, Jane Gaines, Tania Modleski, Jackie Stacey, B Ruby Rich, and others. The course will review essays that employ a variety of methods and theoretical approaches, including critical theory, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and cultural studies approaches that enable a decidedly feminist critique of film and video. The course will also consider how feminist theories of film, and the aforementioned theoretical directions and methods have been integral to the establishment of "women's film" or feminist forms of filmmaking. Given that the subject matter, the range of subjects, theoretical approaches and topics will be interdisciplinary and diverse, addressing queer, diasporic, "third world", African American and other types of feminist filmmaking and theorizing. Through the semester, the class will look at both dominant and women's cinema. We will consider the representation of woman and the female in dominant Hollywood film forms, such as the "Weepies," Hitchcock, and Film Noir, employing feminist film theory. We will explore attempts at representing or re-presenting women in the work of feminist filmmakers and video artists such as Chantal Akerman, Cheryl Chisholm, Marlene Gorris, Bonnie Klein, Helke Sanders, and Trinh Minh Ha, among others. In so doing, we will consider issues in representing female time/space, female narrative, female relationships and female sexuality. The course will work as a seminar, with students introducing, considering and dialoguing with regard to the essay at hand. Each session will include the screening of a film that speaks to the essay at hand.

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VISC 4B05
Future Cinema: Digital Narratives
0.5 Credit | Academic Course
Duration 5:
July 5 - August 20, Wednesday & Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: David McIntosh
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC 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.

Anti-requisite: Students who previously took VISC 4B05 titled: Cosmopolis: New Narrative in Contemporary Media may not take this course for further credit.

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