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Second Year Visual Arts Courses
Visual Arts: 2000 Level Courses
VISA 2110-3 History of Art 3 (3,0,0)
VISA 2120-3 History of Art 4 (3,0,0)
VISA 2130-3 A Survey of Modern Art 1 (3,0,0)
VISA 2140-3 A Survey of Modern Art 2 (3,0,0)
VISA 2150-3 A Survey of the History of Canadian Painting (3,0,0)
VISA 2210-3 Drawing 3 (3,1,0)
VISA 2220-3 Drawing 4 (3,1,0)
VISA 2310-3 Sculpture 1 (3,1,0)
VISA 2320-3 Sculpture 2 (3,1,0)
VISA 2510-3 Printmaking: Screen Printing 1 (3,1,0)
VISA 2520-3 Printmaking: Screen Printing 2 (3,1,0)
VISA 2530-3 Printmaking: Etching and Relief 1 (3,1,0)
VISA 2540-3 Printmaking: Etching and Relief 2 (3,1,0)
VISA 2550-3 Printmaking: Lithography 1 (3,1,0)
VISA 2560-3 Printmaking: Lithography 2 (3,1,0)
VISA 2610-3 Painting 1 (3,1,0)
VISA 2620-3 Painting 2 (3,1,0)
VISA 2710-3 Introduction To Photography 1 (3,1,0)
VISA 2720-3 Introduction To Photography 2 (3,1,0)
VISA 2780-3; Video Production 1 (3,1,0)
VISA 2110 History of Art: Renaissance Art and Architecture (3,0,0)(L) HTA
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students study the history of Renaissance art and architecture.
Prerequisite: VISA 1120
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VISA 2120 History of Art: 17th and 18th Century Art (3,0,0) HTA
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students study 17th and 18th Century art and architecture.
Prerequisite: VISA 1120
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VISA 2130 A Survey of Modern Art 1 (HTA) (3,0,0)
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
This course identifies the origins of Modern Art in the mid-19th Century and traces its development up to World War II. This course emphasizes evidence of artists who moved European art from the narrative tradition to secularism and the subsequent explosion of change in the first decade of the 20th Century.
Prerequisite: VISA 1120
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VISA 2140 Art: 1945 to the 21st Century (3,0,0) HTA
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students explore Art after World War II to Post-Modernism and the 21st Century.
Prerequisite: VISA 1120
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VISA 2150 History of Canadian Painting (3,0,0) HTA
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students survey the art of painting, from the colonial periods of the French and English in Canada up to, and including, recent concerns in Canadian painting.
Prerequisite: VISA 1020
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VISA 2210 Drawing 3 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students are encouraged to become more experimental and individualized in their approach to studio work. Students develop and address the subject, content and form of their drawings through practice and in verbal and written forms. Students explore key historical and current issues in contemporary drawing.
Prerequisite: VISA 1220
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VISA 2220 Drawing 4 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students pursue independent research and practice related to contemporary drawing. Seminars, group critiques and visual lectures complement students' development. Students gain a working knowledge of selected topics related to historical and contemporary practice of drawing in order to define and discuss their work in a present-day context. Students are expected to be self-motivated and prepared for independent practice.
Prerequisite: VISA 2210
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VISA 2310 Sculpture 1 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
This course introduces students to sculptural materials, techniques and ideas. Students gain practical experience in sculptural practices of both an historical and an experimental, contemporary nature. Key historical and current issues in contemporary sculpture are explored through lectures, seminars, and critiques of student work. Through these activities, students develop a basis for addressing the subject, form, and content of their artworks.
Prerequisite: VISA 1030
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VISA 2320 Sculpture 2 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students explore a wide variety of media, skills, and strategies that define contemporary sculpture. Students are encouraged to develop individual content and to consider their work in a contemporary context, verbally and in writing. Students are introduced to aspects of contemporary sculptural practice, including installation and experience-based practice as a means of expanding upon considering sculpture as physical, three-dimensional objects. In-class demonstrations broaden students' range of technical processes.
Prerequisite: VISA 2310
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VISA 2510 Printmaking: Screen-Printing 1 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students are introduced to basic techniques of water-based screen-printing, such as stenciling techniques, digital and hand-drawn transparencies, light sensitive emulsions and registration. Through the production of their own imagery and artwork, students explore the conceptual and practical aspects of contemporary print media. Instruction includes lectures, demonstrations and critiques of students' work.
Prerequisite: VISA 1020
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VISA 2520 Printmaking: Screen-Printing 2 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students advance their skills in water-based screen-printing. The use of digitally generated transparencies combined with hand drawn stencils is emphasized. Students work with computer-based software (Photoshop) to prepare continuous tone images, halftones, and duotones suitable for printing. Colour separation processes such as CMYK are introduced. Emphasis is placed on technical competency as students develop creative ideas in the context of contemporary artistic practice through printing screen editions.
Prerequisite: VISA 2510
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VISA 2530 Printmaking: Relief-Printing (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
This introductory course in printmaking emphasizes the basic processes of relief and intaglio printing. Students consider a variety of mediums such as linocut, woodcut, collograph and metal plate printing. Students explore printmaking as an artistic practice in contemporary art, and advance their understanding of how current approaches relate to relief and intaglio prints of the Western European masters.
Prerequisite: VISA 1020
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VISA 2540 Printmaking: Etching and Intaglio (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
This course emphasizes the etching-intaglio processes. Students further develop medal plate-printing using colour processes, chine-collé and multiple plate printing. Students examine historical and contemporary approaches to these mediums as well as an ongoing exploration of personal imagery.
Prerequisite: VISA 1020 or VISA 1210
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VISA 2550 Printmaking: Lithography 1 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students are introduced to fundamental techniques of black and white lithography, involving drawing on limestone and on metal plates. Processes in etching and printing are practiced in order to print editions of consistent prints. Students develop personal image-making and demonstrate technical concepts in the medium of lithography.
Prerequisite: VISA 1020
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VISA 2560 Printmaking: Lithography 2 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students continue the practice of drawing on lithographic limestone and metal plates in black and white, and are introduced to color printing methods. Individual specialization in the mediums of photo-lithography, polyester plates, and plate lithography is demonstrated. Students practice the craft of lithography and are encouraged to develop personal imagery in the context of existing histories of printmaking, especially of lithography, as an artistic practice. Instruction includes lectures, demonstrations and critiques of students' work.
Prerequisite: VISA 2550
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VISA 2610 Painting 1 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students examine the fundamentals, materials and techniques of acrylic painting and related media. Emphasis is placed on formal aspects of painting, composition, colour, tonal relationships, and spatial concepts. Critiques, visual presentations, and projects engage historical and contemporary issues in painting. Students integrate conceptual knowledge and creative skills into their projects.
Prerequisite: VISA 1020
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VISA 2620 Painting 2 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
This course introduces oil painting processes and related media in a contemporary context. Further development of personal subject matter, process, and content is encouraged. Visual presentations, seminars, and critiques form the basis for explorations of oil painting through assigned projects. Students are expected to complete paintings in the studio outside of regular class time.
Prerequisite: VISA 2610
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VISA 2710 Introduction to Photography 1 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
Students are introduced to the technical aspects of black & white analog and digital photography and the use of photography as a contemporary expressive and conceptual artistic medium. Technical and aesthetic aspects of photography are explored in the context of contemporary and historic photographic practice. A range of equipment, including 35mm single-lens reflex cameras, are utilized. Students are expected to complete assignments outside of regularly scheduled class hours.
Prerequisite: VISA 1020
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VISA 2720 Introduction to Photography 2 (3,1,0)(L) Studio
Credits: 3 credits
Delivery: Campus
This course involves further technical and aesthetic refinement and exploration of camerawork, digital applications, printing and studio techniques. Students use these skills to produce artwork within the study of contemporary artists working with photo-based media. Students are expected to find further studio time in order to complete assignments introduced and discussed in class.
Prerequisite: VISA 2710
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