Undergraduate Programs
Questions?
Program AssistantParveen Grewal
519-661-3440
visarts@uwo.ca
Undergraduate Chair
Sarah Bassnett
VAC 200A
519-661-3440
vaugc@uwo.ca
Faculty of Arts & Humanities Academic Counseling
University College 2230
arts@uwo.ca
FALL & WINTER COURSES 2024-2025
Art History
Course descriptions: please click here
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf. when available
- Note: Course outlines for 2024-2025 will be available in August-September.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Course Delivery Type |
| Media and Popular Culture |
Online |
|
|
AH 1648A |
History of Art and Visual Culture |
Online |
|
AH 2600F |
Theories and Practices of Art History and Visual Culture |
In-Person |
|
AH 2634G |
Indigenous Women in the Arts in Canada: Cultural Traditions, Survival, and Colonial Resistance |
Online |
|
AH 2634G |
Indigenous Women in the Arts in Canada: Cultural Traditions, Survival, and Colonial Resistance |
In-Person |
|
AH 2642G |
Expressionism to Surrealism |
Online |
|
AH 2646G |
Contemporary Art | Online |
|
AH 2650G |
History of Photography |
Online |
|
AH 2678F |
What (Not) to Wear: Special Topics in Fashion, Textiles and Art |
In-Person |
|
AH 2680G |
Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico – Art History |
Blended |
|
AH 3602G |
Art History and Studio in Dialogue |
In-Person |
|
AH 3620G |
Race and Gender |
Blended |
|
AH 3642F |
Cold War Art and Politics |
Online |
|
AH 3644F |
Dada and Neo-Dada |
In-Person |
|
AH 3670F |
Topics in Architecture and Urbanism |
Blended |
|
AH 3690G |
Online Synchronous | |
|
AH 4640G |
Seminar in Modern/Contemporary Art: Portraiture: Then and Now |
In-Person |
|
AH 4642F |
Making Art with Environmental Awareness |
Online |
|
AH 4690F |
Special Topics in Art History: For What It’s Worth: Revolutions in Art, the 1960s |
In-Person |
|
AH 4692G |
In-Person |
Studio Art
Course descriptions: please click here
- Click the course number to download the outline as a pdf.
- Note: Course outlines for 2024-2025 will be available in August-September.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Course Delivery Type |
|
SA 1601 |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
In-Person |
|
SA 1605 |
Advanced Visual Arts Foundation Studio |
In-Person |
|
SA 2500A |
Art Now! I |
In-Person |
|
SA 2602A |
Studio Seminar I |
In-Person |
|
SA 2610A |
Introduction to Drawing |
In-Person |
|
SA 2610B |
Introduction to Drawing |
In-Person |
|
SA 2620A |
Introduction to Painting |
In-Person |
|
SA 2620B |
Introduction to Painting |
In-Person |
|
SA 2630A |
Introduction to Print Media |
In-Person |
|
SA 2630B |
Introduction to Print Media |
In-Person |
|
SA 2640B |
Introduction to Spacial Practices |
In-Person |
|
SA 2645 |
Ceramics |
In-Person |
|
SA 2652A |
Introduction to Digital Photo |
Online |
|
SA 2660A |
Introduction to Time-Based Media Art: Sound and Performance |
In-Person |
|
SA 2662B |
Introduction to Time-Based Media Art: Video and Animation |
In-Person |
|
SA 2676A |
Landmarks: Spatial Storytelling, Land, Art, Place & Community I |
In-Person |
|
SA 2680B |
Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico - Photography |
Blended |
|
SA 3602B |
Studio Seminar II |
In-Person |
|
SA 3604G |
Art History and Studio in Dialogue |
In-Person |
|
SA 3611 |
Drawing |
In-Person |
|
SA 3623 |
Painting |
In-Person |
|
SA 3633 |
Print Media |
In-Person |
|
SA 3672A |
Embroidering with the Guild |
In-Person |
|
SA 3674A |
Alternative Approaches to Creative Methods |
In-Person |
|
SA 3690B |
Special Topics in Studio Art: Disability and Art |
Online Synchronous |
|
SA 3694B |
Special Topics in Studio Art: Decolonial Indie Video Game Development |
Blended |
|
SA 4603 |
Experiential Learning |
In-Person |
|
SA 4605 |
Practicum |
In-Person |
|
SA 4642A |
Making Art with Environmental Awareness |
Online |
|
SA 4670A |
Calligraphy to Conceptual Art |
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 2024-2025 will be available in August-September.
Course Number |
Course Title |
Course Delivery Type |
|
MCS 2610F |
The Greatest Shows on Earth |
In-Person |
|
MCS 3610F |
Controversies and Contestations: Museums |
In-Person |
|
MCS 3620B |
Intro to Exhibition and Design |
In-Person |
|
MCS 3642F |
Cold War Art and Politics |
Online |
|
MCS 3690G |
Special Topics in MCS: Disability and Art |
Online Synchronous |
|
MCS 4692G |
Special Topics in MCS: Museum/Decay |
In-Person |
Special Topics - fall 2024-2025
AH 4690F/VISARTS 9555 - Special Topics: For What It’s Worth: Revolutions in Art, the 1960s
There have been few decades as tumultuous culturally as the 1960s. Artistically, it was one of the richest, most creative periods in the history of modern and contemporary art with only the decade of the 1910s as its equal. One could argue that in fact the latter sowed the seeds for the art of the 60s whose full germination was delayed by two world wars. This course will look at the breathtaking range of art movements from this decade that include Pop Art, Happenings, Post-Painterly Abstraction, the Gutai, Arte Povera, the Situationist International, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Fluxus amongst many, many more. We have yet to see anything equalling the varied and innovative output of the 1960s since, whose legacy survives to this day.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Special Topics - Winter 2024-2025
AH 3690G/MCS 3690G/SA 3690B - Special Topics: Disability and Art
This course will explore the historical and current representations of disability in art both created by, or representing disabled people, using a blended multidisciplinary approach. We will analyze the modern disability rights movement, with contextualization of the historical perspectives and influences on our views of disability. Further, we will consider accessible museum design and exhibition standards within a larger framework of societal accessibility and the social model of disability. This course is a blended lecture-seminar approach held as a synchronous Zoom course, with three assignment streams for an opportunity to cultivate practical knowledge in art history, museum studies or curation, and studio art.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
AH 4640G/VISARTS 9581 - Special Topics: Portraiture: Then and Now
This course explores the uses and forms of portraiture from the Early Modern era to contemporary times. We first explore the idea of portraiture as a mode of individual and group self-representation as peoples of various races and genders attempted to situate themselves in the increasingly global world of the sixteenth century to today. Although focusing on the pre-Modern era, the course also considers the relationships between historical portraiture on the contemporary world; from Beyonce’s play on Botticelli to the Obamas’ Presidential Portraits, contemporary portraiture both pays homage to historical imagery as well as breaking, or even perpetuating racial, ethnic, and gender stereotypes.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
AH 4692G/MCS 4692G/VISARTS 9571 - Special Topics: Museum/Decay
This class begins with a provocation: the museum, as an idea, tries to avoid the passage of time, through processes of conservation, through the creation of artificial climates, and through both embracing and sidestepping linearity in being simultaneously of its time/ahead of its time/behind the times. But time always catches up, often through slow processes of decay. Ranging from deep time through to the present moment, and pausing to consider plastics, funghi, jellyfish, ice, outer space, and colour (among other objects, topics, beings, and kin), this experimental class examines museums, time, and collections from the perspective of a world that is constantly in motion.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
SA 3694B - Special Topics: Decolonial Indie Video Game Development
This course will study decolonization in gaming and teach skills in designing and developing a video game. Popular games like Animal Crossing tend to encourage colonization and normalize terraforming as a method to develop a "civilized" society. Other games with military strategy encourage the most violent parts of colonization. However there are games which push back on colonialism and encourage alternate futures. In this class students will study games, use Twine to draft a text only game, write a game design document for a new decolonial game, and learn skills like digital illustration, C# coding, and using Unity to make a small prototype of their game. At the end of the course they will walk away with skills to continue developing their games.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
