Undergraduate Programs
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Undergraduate Chair
Tricia Johnson
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Undergraduate Courses
FALL & WINTER COURSES 2020-2021
Timetable: please click here
What are the different Types of Course Delivery?
In-Person
As long as the university considers face-to-face instruction with proper social distancing measures safe, these courses will be taught in-person in a classroom on campus with strict adherence to public health protocols.
Synchronous Online
These courses will offer an online component in which students will participate at the same time (synchronously). Some or all lectures, tutorials, film screenings, discussion groups or tests will require mandatory attendance during scheduled online meeting times. Other components of the course may be offered asynchronously, (i.e., with no requirement for attendance at a designated time). Consult individual course outlines for details.
Asynchronous Online
In this course type, all teaching activities will take place online with no time-slot assigned (asynchronously). You may access the course material any time you wish; there are no mandatory synchronous activities at a specified time during the week.
Blended
Blended courses have both face-to-face and online instruction.
Arts History
Course descriptions: please click here
Note: Course outlines for 2020-2021 will be available in August-September.
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf. when available
Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
Course Delivery Type |
| Art History and Visual Culture: Baroque to Contemporary |
C. Sprengler |
Asynchronous Online |
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Art, Science and Technology |
J. James |
Asynchronous Online |
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AH 2600G |
Theories and Practices of Art History and Visual Culture |
J. James |
Asynchronous Online |
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Pre-Contact American Art and Architecture |
C. Barteet |
Asynchronous Online |
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Expressionism to Surrealism |
J. Hatch |
Synchronous Online |
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AH 2650G |
History of Photography |
S. Bassnett |
Asynchronous Online |
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AH 2662G |
Art and Mass Media |
C. Sprengler |
Asynchronous Online |
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AH 3502G |
Art History and Studio in Dialogue: The Conundrum of Creativity |
J. Hatch |
Synchronous Online |
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AH 3620G |
Race and Gener in the Pre-Modern World |
C. Barteet |
Asynchronous Online |
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Cold War Art and Politics |
S. Bassnett | Asynchronous Online | |
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AH 3692F |
Special Topics in Art History- Art, Money, Crime |
K. Robertson |
Synchronous Online |
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AH 3692G |
Special Topics in Art History- At Large in the World: Art and Culture in Times of Crisis |
J. James |
Asynchronous Online |
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AH 4620G |
Seminar in Early Modern Art |
C. Barteet |
Asynchronous Online |
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Seminar in Modern/Contemporary Art |
S. Bassnett |
Synchronous Online | |
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AH 4650G |
Seminar in Photgraphy |
B. Sinder |
Synchronous Online |
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Special Topics in Art History- Making Art with Environmental Awareness |
K. Wood |
Asynchronous Online |
Studio Art
Course descriptions: please click here
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf.
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Note: Course outlines for 2020-2021 will be available in August-September.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
Course Delivery Type |
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Foundations of Visual Arts |
T. Johnson |
Asynchronous Online |
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Advanced Visual Arts Foundation Studio |
A. Madelska |
Synchronous Online |
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Art Now! |
C. Migone |
Synchronous Online |
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Studio Seminar I |
D. Merritt |
In-Person |
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Introduction to Drawing |
S. Esfahani |
Synchronous Online | |
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SA 2610B |
Introduction to Drawing |
S. Esfahani |
Synchronous Online |
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Introduction to Painting |
K. Neudorf | Synchronous Online | |
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Introduction to Painting |
S. Glabush | Synchronous Online | |
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Introduction to Print Media |
P. Mahon | Blended | |
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SA 2630B |
Introduction to Print Media |
T. Johnson | Blended |
| Introduction to Sculpture and Installation |
S. Esfahani |
Blended |
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Introduction to Digital Photo |
J. Martin |
Synchronous Online |
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SA 2652B |
Introduction to Digital Photo |
C. Carney |
Synchronous Online |
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Time-Based Sounds and Performance |
C. Migone | Synchronous Online | |
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SA 2662A |
Time-Based Video & Animation |
D. Sneppova | Synchronous Online |
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SA 3502G |
Art History and Studio in Dialogue: The Conundrum of Creativity |
J. Hatch | Synchronous Online |
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SA 3602B |
Studio Seminar II |
C. Migone | Synchronous Online |
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Drawing |
D. Merritt | Synchronous Online | |
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Painting |
S. Glabush | Blended | |
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Print Media |
T. Johnson | Blended | |
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Time-Based Media Art: Video |
C. Migone |
Synchronous Online |
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SA 4603 |
Experiential Learning |
A. Madelska |
Synchronous Online |
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Practicum |
A. Madelska |
Synchronous Online |
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Advanced Interdisciplinary Open Studio I |
K. Neudorf |
Synchronous Online |
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SA 4608B |
Advanced Interdisciplinary Open Studio II |
G. Shepherd |
Synchronous Online |
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Special Projects in Studio |
K. Wood |
Asynchronous Online |
Museum and Curatorial Studies
Course descriptions: please click here
Note: Course outlines for 2020-2021 will be available in August-September.
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
Course Delivery Type |
| The Greastest Shows on Earth |
K. Robertson |
Synchronous Online |
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MCS 2620G |
Introduction to Gallery, Museum, and Curatorial Studies |
K. Robertson |
Synchronous Online |
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Special Topics in Museum and Curatorial Studies- Cold War Art and Politics |
S. Bassnett |
Asynchronous Online |
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MCS 3692F |
Special Topics in Museum and Curatorial Studies- Art, Money, Crime |
K. Robertson |
Synchronous Online |
Special Topics (Fall & Winter 2020-2021)
Special Topics (Fall / Winter 2020-2021)
AH/SA 3502G - Art History and Studio in Dialogue
Professor J. Hatch
Creativity is a strange beast. In many ancient cultures it was a divine gift, ofttimes reserved solely for the divine. Today some believe it is possessed in some measure by all, while others hold it as a quality of genius alone. It is a concept that has been around so long that it has acquired too many meanings, shaped by so many cultural lenses, as to be almost meaningless. Yet creativity continues to fascinate many and has even managed to find its way today into the business world under several guises, design thinking being one example. Despite creativity’s elusiveness, this course attempts to chart an image of creativity by examining how it has manifested itself in the arts, with a focus on the last 150 years, looking at examples from painting, design, sculpture, popular music, architecture, film, and literature. We will study topics ranging from the use of chance in the paintings of Francis Bacon, cultural cross-fertilization in the photomontages of Hannah Höch, the absurd as a device in the literary work of Italo Calvino and the comedy of Monty Python, to technologically driven innovation in the music of the Beatles and the architecture of Frank Gehry. We’ll also explore various cultural notions of creativity, including the Chinese concept of co-creativity, and the various studies that have attempted to pin-down scientifically what creativity is from the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research’s study of creativity at the end of the 1950s involving some of the world’s best known architects to more recent neuroscience assessments.
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AH/MCS 3692F - Special Topic: Art, Money, Crime (Third year)
Professor K. Robertson
From museum heists to creative protest actions, and from looted art to the links between authoritative museum collections and histories of enslavement, this class will investigate the dark side of the global art world. Students will learn about the complicated relationship between art and money, as it manifests in every aspect of the art world from the history of patronage in the European Renaissance to the makeup of contemporary museum boards.
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AH 3692G - Special Topic: At Large in the World: Art and Visual Culture in Times of Crisis
Professor J. James
Using a case study approach, the course will investigate significant events in the production, exhibition and circulation of art and visual culture in times of crisis.
As is fitting in the midst of a global pandemic, we will focus our exploration of art’s engagement with and impact on those crises concerned with the world at large. That is to say, we will not primarily be working with the internal struggles of the discipline; those crises generated within and circumscribed by the discipline around which histories and theories of art revolved throughout the 19th and into the first half of the 20th century. Rather our focus will allow us to investigate, in some depth, a shift emerging in the very definition of philosophical and artistic understanding of aesthetics during these first decades of the 21st century.
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AH 4690F / SA 4690A - Special Topic: Making Art with Environmental Awareness (Fourth year)
Professor K. Wood
Organized as a creative research intensive, Making Art with Environmental Awareness explores artistic responses to ecology, sustainability and related social issues in various global/local contexts. The course examines select themes in environmental discourse—paying particular attention to how artists have engaged with them. Some examples of themes are: Extinctions; Petrocultures; Accelerationism and Food. Each week, a new theme is introduced and students will view online material, engage in critical writing and/or other online activities in response to these themes. Throughout the course students will simultaneously develop: a) a research paper, or, b) an imaginary curatorial project; or, c) an imaginary artistic project in any media. Students will be encouraged to THINK BIG and imagine an ideal kind of project that you likely could not accomplish other than in a virtual state. Students are expected to make a serious, sustained commitment to individual research and develop a personal project over the course of the entire semester. This upper-level course is structured to be responsive to students’ backgrounds, interests, and existing creative practices and/or curatorial goals or historical research. The course will be delivered online and conducted in an asynchronous manner, so that students can access the course material at any time; however, weekly deadlines will be in place for shorter, student assignments. The instructor will act as a resource person, respondent, and creative facilitator for student work and can be accessed online during an office hour session or virtual meeting.
