Undergraduate Programs
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Program AssistantLinda Meloche
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visarts@uwo.ca
Undergraduate Chair
Tricia Johnson
VAC 200A
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities Academic Counseling
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Undergraduate Courses
FALL & WINTER COURSES 2022-2023
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.
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.
Art History
Course descriptions: please click here
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf. when available
- Note: Course outlines for 2022-2023 will be available in August-September.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
Course Delivery Type |
Art History and Visual Culture: Baroque to Contemporary |
C. Sprengler |
Online |
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Collecting Art and Culture |
S. Anderson |
Online |
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Theories and Practices of Art History and Visual Culture |
M. Hyett |
Online |
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Baroque in Europe and the Iberian Territories |
M. Flores Barba |
Blended |
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History of Photography |
S. Bassnett |
Online |
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Art and Mass Media |
C. Sprengler |
Online |
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Art from Latin America in Canada |
A. Robin |
In-Person | |
Death in Mexican Art: From Ancient Times to Today |
A. Robin |
In-Person |
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Hollywood and Cinema |
C. Sprengler |
Blended | |
Special Topics in Art History: Paradise Found |
I. Kazi | In-Person | |
Seminar in the Art of the Americas: Painting in Hispanic America |
C. Barteet | In-Person | |
Making Art with Environmental Awareness |
K. Wood |
Online | |
Special Topics in Art History: Art and Food |
A. White | In-Person | |
Special Topics in Art History: Art and Food |
Z. Heyn-Jones | Online |
Studio Art
Course descriptions: please click here
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf.
- Note: Course outlines for 2022-2023 will be available in August-September.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
Course Delivery Type |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
T. Johnson |
Blended |
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Advanced Visual Arts Foundation Studio |
A. Madelska |
In-Person |
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Advanced Visual Arts Foundation Studio |
J. Karuhanga |
In-Person |
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Art Now! |
L. Eurich |
In-Person |
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Studio Seminar I |
J. Karuhanga |
In-Person |
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Introduction to Drawing |
A. Madelska |
In-Person | |
Introduction to Drawing |
S. Nault |
In-Person | |
Introduction to Painting |
S. Nault | In-Person | |
Introduction to Painting |
K. Neudorf | In-Person | |
Introduction to Print Media |
T. Johnson | In-Person | |
Introduction to Print Media |
T. Johnson | In-Person | |
Introduction to Sculpture and Installation |
S. Esfahani |
In-Person |
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Introduction to Digital Photo |
C. Carney |
Online |
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Time-Based Video & Animation |
D. Sneppova | In-Person | |
Introduction to Time-Based Media Art |
S. Nault | In-Person | |
Special Topics in Studio Art: Ceramics & Clay Art |
G. Shepherd | In-Person | |
Studio Seminar II |
J. Karuhanga | In-Person | |
Drawing |
G. Shepherd | In-Person | |
Painting |
S. Glabush | In-Person | |
Print Media |
P. Mahon | In-Person | |
Sculpture: Alternative Materials |
S. Esfahani |
In-Person |
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Photography: Outdoors and Architecture |
K. Wood |
Blended |
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Embroidering with the Guid: A Community Engagement Learning Course | T. Johnson |
In-Person |
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Death in Mexican Art: From Ancient Times to Today | A. Robin |
In-Person |
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Experiential Learning |
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In-Person | |
Practicum |
A. Madelska |
In-Person |
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Making Art with Environmental Awareness |
K. Wood |
Online |
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Special Projects in Studio: Inside/Outside |
S. Glabush |
In-Person |
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Special Projects in Studio: Art and Food |
Z. Heyn-Jones |
Online |
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Special Projects in Studio: Art and Food |
A. White |
In-Person |
Museum and Curatorial Studies
Course descriptions: please click here
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf.
- Note: Course outlines for 2022-2023 will be available in August-September.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
Course Delivery Type |
The Greatest Shows on Earth |
R. Skinner |
In-Person |
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Controversies and Contestations: Museums |
H. Gregory |
In-Person |
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Intro to Exhibition Design and Museum Management | H. Gregory |
In-Person |
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Art from Latin America in Canada | A. Robin |
In-Person |
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Death in Mexican Art: From Ancient Times to Today | A. Robin |
In-Person |
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Special Topics in MCS: Art and Food | A. White |
In-Person |
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Special Topics in MCS: Waste Stream/Waste Dream | K. Robertson |
In-Person |
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Special Topics in MCS: Art and Food | Z. Heyn-Jones |
Online |
Special Topics (Fall & Winter 2022-2023)
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AH 3696G - Special Topics: Paradise Found: Un/tamed Nature in Early Modern Art
Instructor I. Kazi
This course will explore fourteenth to seventeenth-century sites and artistic developments through the examination of natural spaces. Nature, both tamed and untamed, has been present in art in countless ways, including being a source of inspiration, the background or subject of images, materials, and places where art can be created and discussed. By focusing on European art, along with Colonial Latin American and Islamic cultures, the course will explore the interconnections between natural space and art. Classes will be organized spatially with examinations of divine spaces, untamed natural places, and "tamed" spaces/gardens. Through the application of classical (Vitruvius), Renaissance (Alberti), modern (Foucault, de Certeau, Bachelard, and Lefebvre) theories of space and queer ecology (Sandilands), students will consider the complex relationship between the representation of early modern places and matters of power, gender, gaze, and colonization that continue to affect our present environment and notions of race and gender. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will study these cultures and artworks from the perspectives of art history, architecture, landscape design, history, literature and sustainability.
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AH 4636F/VISARTS 9566A/9666A - Special Topics: Painting in Hispanic America
Professor C. Barteet
This course considers the development of painting in select regions of Hispanic America from the 1500s to the early 1800s. Our approach to this approximately 300-year period will evolve around the following nine themes over the course’s term: 1) European representations of the Americas; 2) Iberian and monarchial pictorial claims to supremacy; 3) the role of print culture; 4) Indigenous engagements with European religious art; 5) Indigenous representations of the Americas; 6) the evolution of guilds and the academies; 7) the picturing of class and race; 8) the various roles of portraiture; and 9) the role of Marian cult imagery. Through these topic areas we will develop critical understandings of how the pictorial arts in Hispanic America developed over the colonial era through dynamic and continued negotiations between peoples of European and Indigenous descent to create a uniquely American artistic culture. In so doing we will consider issues of religion, race, gender, and identity broadly defined.
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AH 4692F/MCS 4690F/SA 4693A/VISARTS 9567A/9667A - Special Topics: Art and Food - Relational Perspectives
Instructor A. White
In this two-part class, which can be taken separately or as a whole, students will be engaged in creative responses to contemporary issues around food and agriculture. From the personal-relational to the global-social scale we will examine food systems and agriculture through the lens of the arts and research-creation. This course is interdisciplinary in focus and foregrounds experiential learning in local and international settings.
The first half of the course will focus on critical artistic approaches to food and agriculture from a relational, personal perspective. Drawing on theory from the environmental humanities, critical plant studies, feminist perspectives, science-fictional ecologies and biological arts, we will examine personal and physical relationships with the world through the food that we eat. Students will be introduced to these ideas using interdisciplinary and research-creation approaches and examples (studio, kitchen, field trips, art historical texts, etc.) with a particular focus on edible plants, and plants in agriculture. This half of the course will provide the foundation and theoretical basis that will be built upon in the second half, as well as rooting the course in a regional context.
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AH 4694G/MCS 4692G/SA 4692B/VISARTS 9581B/9681B - Special Topics: Art and Food - Hemipheric Perspectives
Instructor Z. Heyn-Jones
In this two-part class, which can be taken separately or as a whole, students will be engaged in creative responses to contemporary issues around food and agriculture. From the personal-relational to the global-social scale we will examine food systems and agriculture through the lens of the arts and research-creation. This course is interdisciplinary in focus and foregrounds experiential learning in local and international settings.
In part two we will take a wider lens, moving from personal sustenance and community sovereignty to connections across the Americas and issues of labour, migration and the climate emergency more broadly. Looking at the relationship between Mexico and Canada we will connect the local to the global, exploring flows of plants, produce, and people. Students will have the opportunity to visit Mexico City for 10 days over reading week in order to gain invaluable first-hand experience with precolonial cuisines and agricultural techniques, innovative urban agriculture projects, and the scale of industrial food systems that feed the hemisphere’s largest city and beyond.
The urgent problems we face connected to global food systems—from hunger and food insecurity to greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation—demand creative and innovative solutions. For this reason, food is a natural and vital topic to explore through the arts. This course asks: how can artistic and curatorial practices engage meaningfully with issues of food security, sovereignty and justice across the hemisphere?
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MCS 4691F - Special Topics: Waste Stream/Waste Dream: Addressing the Environmental Impact of Curatorial Practice
Professor K. Robertson
This class considers the waste streams created by curatorial practice alongside projects that imagine different futures for museums and artists. For decades, conservators and other museum professionals have studied how to keep pollutants (such as dirt, particulate, noxious gases) out of museums and have created carefully controlled environments to keep artworks and artefacts in as static conditions as possible. But this has had unexpected results. In trying to keep pollutants out, museums themselves have become massive polluters. This class addresses the waste streams and carbon footprints of museums. But it also looks at how artists, curators, and museum professionals are imagining radical futures for the display of art and cultural heritage. The course is organized around a series of talks from experts in the field and an exhibition of artist and curator Suzanne Carte’s Artist Material Fund, which will show in London in the Artlab beginning in November, 2022. Students will participate in the curating, programming, and installation of the exhibition and will develop a series of creative assignments in response to course content. As museums around the globe develop sustainability initiatives, this class will give students the knowledge and skills to be at the forefront of a sea change in the museum world.
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SA 2690Y - Special Topics: Ceramics & Clay Art
Instructor: G. Shepherd
An introduction to the medium of clay, focusing on hand-built ceramic sculptures and functional forms using a wide range of techniques demonstrated and discussed in bi-weekly classes. Projects will encourage learning through experimentation in scale and series in order to develop personal preferences and ability. No previous experience is required.
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SA 4690A - Special Topics: Inside/Outside: Examining the studio as site of material, intuitive and critical exploration
Professor S. Glabush
The idea of the studio conjures up images of the lone artist in a garret suffering for their creation. Critics like Rosalind Kraus have long since destabilized this idea and questioned the materially specific language of painting and sculpture in favour of broader definitions characterized by the “expanded field.” But recently many artists are returning to notions of the studio and materially specific languages in favour of an approach that embraces the métier of the studio, the history of art and reimagining and revisioning traditions.
The purpose of this seminar will be to define and explore each student’s relationship to their studio practice by closely examining their own processes but also engaging in a dialogue with professional artists through site visits, studio visits lectures and seminars. This course will alternate between seminars designed by the students and conducted inside the department with travelling outside the university and engaging with artists, curators, and others in the field. During our field work and discussions engendered in the studio, this course will provide a weekly forum of engagement with the ongoing material production and research of students. The course will be structured around seminars of each student’s artistic production and a close analysis of ideas related to contemporary art.
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