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Calendar Year
Term
Course #
Course Title
2024
F
gs/arth 5100A
Methods: Historiography and Contemporary Methodologies
Provides a forum for the examination of the historiography of art history and the various methodologies and ideologies that inform current academic practice in the field of art history, visual culture and studies in representation.
Instructional Format: LECT
Instructor(s): T. El-Sheikh
2025
W
gs/arth 5160M
Theoretical Issues in Contemporary Art
TBA
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): D. Adler
2024
F
gs/arth 5175A
Curatorial Practice
Instructional Format: LECT
Instructor(s): J. Fisher
2025
C1
gs/arth 5180A
Visual Culture and Sexualities
The course looks at contemporary debates in the theory, practice and pedagogies of visual culture with a focus on visual representations of sexualized/gendered bodies, and the ways in which these representations may work to constitute, disrupt, complicate, etc., cultural practices.
Instructional Format: SEMR
2025
W
gs/arth 5185M
Technological Mediations in Visual Culture
This course examines the interconnectedness of representation and visual culture in contemporary wired society. Students critically explore and assess the influence and shaping of technological mediations in visual culture investigating theory, culture, globalization and education.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): S. Singh
2024
F
gs/arth 5190A
Placement
TBA
Instructional Format: INSP
Instructor(s): D. Adler
2025
SU
gs/arth 5190A
Placement
TBA
Instructional Format: FDEX
2025
W
gs/arth 5190M
Placement
TBA
Instructional Format: INSP
Instructor(s): D. Adler
2024
F
gs/arth 5500A
Individualized Reading
A supervised reading course on a topic for which there is no current course offering. Permission of the Graduate Program Director is required.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2025
W
gs/arth 5500M
Individualized Reading
A supervised reading course on a topic for which there is no current course offering. Permission of the Graduate Program Director is required.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2025
W
gs/arth 5982M
Un-learning the Archive: Facts, Fictions and Missing Histories
This course addresses the archive institutional and informal as a source of historical authority, and as a site of resistance. Students engage in various archival encounters to develop an understanding of archives in relation to research, learning and teaching.
Instructional Format: BLEN
Instructor(s): G. Moser
2024
Y
gs/arth 6000A
Research and Professional Practices Seminar
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): D. Adler
2024
F
gs/arth 6010A
Research Paper
Integrated with an undergraduate course.
Instructional Format: RESP
2025
W
gs/arth 6010M
Research Paper
Integrated with an undergraduate course.
Instructional Format: RESP
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