ART
Textile Art Studio (Embodied Textiles)
ART 3015 A
3.0 Credit Hours
Textile Art Studio (Embodied Textiles) will provide experience in a wide range of fibre material practices through hands-on workshops. Students will engage in a series of thematic projects in textile art with a focus on the embodied, performative and communicative aspects of textiles.
Prerequisite(s): Four of: [Art 2005 or Art 2006], Art 2010, Art 2015, Art 2023, Art 2027, Art 2033, [Art 2060 or Art 2061], or Art 2350/Indigenous Studies 2350 AND 15 university-level courses (a minimum of 45.0 credit hours)
Painting the Body
ART 3015 A
3.0 Credit Hours
Painting the Body is a studio-based course that will explore ideas of the body and embodiment as thematic subjects within contemporary art. Materials and process will be based in observational painting, drawing, and mixed media approaches. Students will explore the figure as subject through art historical context in a variety of ways, include life-drawing from the model, working from photo-based sources, self-portraiture, and alternative forms of observation and imagery.
Prerequisite(s): Four of: [Art 2005 or Art 2006], Art 2010, Art 2015, Art 2023, Art 2027, Art 2033, [Art 2060 or Art 2061], or Art 2350/Indigenous Studies 2350 AND 15 university-level courses (a minimum of 45.0 credit hours)
Senior Studio I & II
ART 4048 & 4049
6.0 Credit Hours
The following instructors will be available as supervising faculty members for the above mentioned classes in Fall 2023:
Students who register for these courses will interview with each of the supervising faculty members to determine which faculty member will be their instructor of record. Students must ensure they are registered in the correct section of the course with their assigned instructor by the end of the add/drop period.
History of Photography
ARHI 3151
3.0 Credit Hours
This is a historical thematic introduction to the history of photography. We will discuss a wide variety of approaches to the medium so as to consider how and why photography has become such a fundamental visual communcative medium over the past 160 years. Art-related photography will be central, but the class will also deal with photography situated in the broader culture. Photography is a constant in our everyday life, and this course will concentrate on deciphering the significance of these images that surround us.
Prerequisite(s): Art History 1002 or Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Critical Issues in Contemporary Indigenous Art
ARHI 3152 A
3.0 Credit Hours
This course examines current critical issues in contemporary Indigenous art and visual culture from across the settler-colonial areas of North American, as well as Australia and New Zealand. We will explore how Indigenous arts are understood in the communities in which they are made, how indigenous artworks have been understood in Western art historical discourse and museum exhibitions, as well as the relationship between “historic” and “contemporary” indigenous arts. This course will investigate the recent role of indigenous art in the questioning of identity and self-representation, decolonization, sovereignty, self-determination, and anti-colonial resistance. The course will rely heavily on course readings and class participation, structured like a seminar it is organized both thematically and geographically in order to address the specific concerns of the land, visual culture, survivance, and Indigeneity
Prerequisite(s): One of Art History 1001, Art History 1002, or Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
DRAMA
Screen Acting: Theory and Analysis
CINE 4850 / DRAM 4850 A
3.0 Credit Hours
A study of major stylistic approaches to performance throughout the history of film, television, and other media, and an overview of prominent theories that focus on the work of screen actors. Students will acquire specialized means of understanding screen actors’ expressive capabilities, and the methods to critically examine actors’ performances through close, formal analysis.
Prerequisite: Cinema 1000 or Drama 1000 AND third year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)
Production and Stage Management
DRAM 3821 A
3.0 Credit Hours
This is a nuts & bolts course covering the basic hard and soft skills required in the fields of stage and production management. Topics include: leadership and management, communication, creative problem solving, facilitation, teamwork. Through classroom learning, learning through production, and special projects, we will investigate the path to being artful collaborators in support of dramatic story-telling.
MUSIC
Guitar Ensemble
MUSE 1850 N
1.5 Credit Hours
Guitar is a versatile instrument capable of rhythm, harmony, and melody. Combining multiple guitar players into a group, all playing together, is quite an awesome experience. Guitar students very rarely get the ensemble experience that band, and orchestra instruments do.
Guitar ensembles are intended to give students the opportunity to enhance skills they develop in weekly lessons. Ensembles allow them to further improve sight-reading, listening skills, perform unique repertoire and more, in addition to the social advantages of camaraderie with others.
Open but not limited to Music major guitar students, students coming from other courses, faculties, or adults who wish to be challenged by a more advanced guitar ensemble repertoire are welcome.
Prerequisite: Audition
History of Rock and Roll to 1970
MUSI 3200 A
3.0 Credit Hours
This course is designed to give the student a historical overview of the development of rock ‘n roll from its roots up until the end of the 60’s. This will be presented in a chronological manner, beginning with a brief overview of rock ‘n roll’s ancestors and influences. It will go on to study the musical and cultural melting pot of the 1950’s, followed by the effects of the British Invasion of the 60’s. A discussion of developments occurring in North America following the British Invasion will be the culminating point of this class.
Prerequisite: 15 university-level courses (a minimum of 45.0 credit hours) - as per calendar
Equivalent: Music 3200 – History of Rock and Roll: 1948-1970
NOTE: Not counted in the 16-course Arts & Science major or the core courses in the B.Mus. degree.
NOTE: Students with credit in Music 2850 (History of Rock ‘n Roll), 2850 (3850) (Popular Music in the 20th Century) or 3010 cannot receive credit for the same offering in the Music 3200 series.
NOTE: Credit is not allowed for MUSI 3200 - History of Rock & Roll to 1970 and MUSI 3200 History of Rock and Roll: 1948-1970 or MUSI 3200 – History of Rock and Roll
History of Jazz
MUSI 3200 B
3.0 Credit Hours
This course provides a comprehensive overview of jazz history, covering the major jazz styles and important musicians that have pioneered this music. We will trace jazz from its infancy, beginning in New Orleans and will highlight how this music has developed through the years and has grown into various sub-genres. Some of the styles that will be covered include: Early Jazz, Swing Era, Bebop, Cool and Fusion. Other topics will include learning important jazz terminology, becoming acquainted with the preeminent jazz artists within each style and most importantly analyzing how jazz has evolved and inspired other music genres since early in the twentieth-century.
Prerequisite: 15 university-level courses (a minimum of 45.0 credit hours)
NOTE: Not counted in the 16-course Arts and Science Music major or the core courses in the B.Mus. degree.
Indigenous Musics
MUSI 3850 A
3.0 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to a selection of Indigenous musics and musicians, considering ways in which music articulates and shapes issues of tradition and modernity; place and belonging; protest and resistance; power and intercultural relations; and sovereignty, resurgence, refusal, and self-determination.
Prerequisite(s): 15 university-level courses (a minimum of 45.0 credit hours) Note: Credit is not allowed for Music 3850 - Indigenous Musics and Music 2850 - Introduction to Indigenous Musics
Aesthetic Noise: Noise in Audio Art Making
MUSI 4850 A
3.0 Credit Hours
Disruptive, disturbing, dangerous, and unwanted are all adjectives that are commonly attributed to the word noise. Though generally interpreted as negative, the artist can reveal additional possibilities of noise by using it as an artistic material. When used aesthetically, it is possible for noise to communicate the ineffable. However, to gain an understanding of noise in this context, it will need to be filtered through multiple philosophies. In this course, we will explore the works of various artists who use noise as an anesthetic material and then filter the works through classical and continental philosophies to better understand noise’s potential. In doing so, we find that in the hands of an artist, noise can become a call for justice, symbolize trauma and be a mechanism for its discharge. It can also be a means of emotional and spiritual expansion. Noise presents nearly limitless possibilities when used aesthetically. In addition to exploring works and philosophies of noise, the student will create a work of noise drawing inspiration from the materials covered in class.
Prerequisite: Completion of 25 university-level courses (75.0 credit hours) with a major offered by the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Recommended Background: Experience with a digital audio workstation would be an asset.
NEW MEDIA
Emerging Video Technology
NMED 3850 A
3.0 Credit Hours
A studio intensive in moving image creation. Students are encouraged to pursue new innovations in video creation including immersive installation, 360° video, projection mapping and video applications for augmented and virtual reality.
Prerequisites: New Media 2030 or Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours) and a skills based assessment.
Documentary Video Production
NMED 3850 C
3.0 Credit Hours
An introduction to the art and craft of documentary video creation. Students will explore the techniques and strategies used in making compelling documentary video including research, storytelling, videography and post-production. Through studio practice, students will gain an understanding of documentary and its complicated role in contemporary media.
Prerequisites: NMED 2030
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