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VIS309H1 - Advanced Printmaking

Seminars and studio projects give the more advanced students the opportunity to address issues of transformation in print technology.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1, VIS206H1/VIS207H1
Exclusion: FAS334Y5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS310H1 - Imaging the Political

Studio projects complemented by seminars and readings examine plastic, social, and gender politics in contemporary visual art.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS312H1 - Collage

An investigation of historical and contemporary art incorporating collage as a central methodology. The evolution of collage as a means of expression is explored through studio-based projects and lectures.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS313H1 - The Body

This studio-based, open-media course challenges conventional ideas about the body by examining developments in technology, culture, and politics. Through projects, lectures and readings, this course considers the fluidity of concepts such as gender, beauty, and ability as interpreted through representations of the body.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS318H1 - Integrated Photobased Explorations

Studio projects exploring contemporary photographic issues and practice; seminars and readings are integral.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1, VIS217H1 + VIS218H1
Exclusion: FAS347Y5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS319H1 - Defining Landscapes

The concept of landscape is the entry point for investigating the relationship between people and their environments: landscape as both the source of inspiration and the vehicle of expression. Exploration through open media studio projects, written work, readings and seminars.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS320H1 - Critical Curatorial Lab

Projects and seminars develop an understanding of curatorial and critical practice in contemporary visual and media arts.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Exclusion: FAH451H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS321H1 - Artists' Multiples

Production of artists multiples in various media is augmented with gallery and archive visits, screenings, and artist talks. Historical and contemporary technologies for reproduction are examined.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS322H1 - The Constructed Image

Through research, concept development, as well as direct engagement with materials and processes, students will explore the constructed image and constructedness as an intersection of theory and practice.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS323H1 - Painting: Contemporary Practice

Painting: Contemporary Practice introduces philosophical and theoretical issues raised by the conceptual relationship of painting to other artistic strategies and the contemporary environment. Studio work will be complemented by the study of advanced artists working in this medium.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1, VIS220H1/VIS201H1
Exclusion: FAS245H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS324H1 - The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

This interdisciplinary seminar course examines the aesthetic qualities of objects and experiences not usually considered by philosophers, including such things as sports, food, and weather.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS325H1 - Contemporary Art Issues

Everything was contemporary once; this course explores the idea of contemporaneity. Students will be asked to identify themselves in the present-day landscape and to convey that awareness in seminar discussions and studio projects.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS326H1 - Studio Practice

A project-based studio course in which each student works to advance and to articulate their visual arts practice, and to develop individual process, themes and influences, the articulation. Group critiques, seminars, reading and writing assignments. Open media, students must have access to own means of production.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS327Y0 - Urban Studio: Hong Kong

Urban Studio uses the dynamic urban fabric of Hong Kong as a laboratory for art-making. Students will explore the city to develop visual research that examines social, spatial, and urban issues. The course consists of site research, field trips, guest speakers, and art production, and culminates in an informal public exhibition.

Prerequisite: JAV130H1/VIS130H1 (UTSC students: 1.0 FCE at either B or C level in studio)
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS328H1 - Publishing Platforms

From manifestos for avant-garde art and architecture movements to contemporary digital exchanges, publishing has played an important role in both the development of aesthetic discourse and as a primary platform for creation. This course combines both the seminar format for looking at the history of publishing as well as a studio environment for participants who will create publishing platforms such as posters, journals, serial magazines, artists books, pamphlets, micro-presses, blogs, websites, and social media.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS330H1 - Artists' Writings

A survey course of writings that artists have produced across history exploring all forms: manifestos, plays, novels, short stories, art reviews, theoretical, art historical, artist statements, and interventions. Artists writings are explored as a genre as well as gestures through which artists have entered a professional discourse. Students will explore various genres of writing in the course.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS331H1 - Art Criticism

Criticism is a practice of writing distinct from academic argumentation or artists' writings, with a long history in periodicals, newspapers, and exhibition catalogues. The course surveys the genre to analyze key texts that have shaped the narrative of art leading to, and including, the current discourse. Students both read and write criticism in the course, experimenting with voice, rhetoric, and polemics.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS332H1 - Advanced Critical Theory

A continuation of philosophic and theoretical writings first introduced in JAV200. Concepts in epistemology, psychoanalysis, socio-political thought, economic theory, visual culture, semiotics, material culture, feminism, queer studies, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and indigenous studies are explored through primary texts.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS340H1 - Advanced Sound Studio

Exploration and experimentation in advanced sound artworks. Building from projects first conducted in the intro prerequisite course, this course further considers architectural acoustics, politics of soundscapes, sonification and music in relation to contemporary art. Course content is composed of studio projects, presentations and seminars.

Prerequisite: VIS240H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

VIS399H1 - Research Opportunity Program

An opportunity for degree students in their third year in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design to work on the research project of a professor in return for 0.5 course credit.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 300-level in VIS courses. An application must be submitted to the Program Director.
Enrolment Limits: This course is restricted to Daniels Faculty students

VIS399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

An opportunity for degree students in their third year in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design to work on the research project of a professor in return for 1.0 course credit.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 300-level in VIS courses. An application must be submitted to the Program Director.
Enrolment Limits: This course is restricted to Daniels Faculty students

VIS403H1 - Secondary Focus Project

A variety of projects developed in various media with a strong interdisciplinary focus.

Prerequisite: JAV200H1/VIS200H1, and permission of instructor
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is restricted to students in any Specialist or Major in Visual Studies

VIS404H1 - Independent Studies

Individual advanced projects undertaken under the supervision of Visual Studies Faculty. Student meets regularly with faculty supervisor who provides individual critiques of research and artworks produced. The course culminates in an exhibition of the artwork(s) produced over the course of the term.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1, 1.0 credit at the 300-level in VIS courses, and permission of the Program Director
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is restricted to students in any Specialist or Major in Visual Studies

VIS405H1 - Visual Studies Internship

A one semester Internship provides placement at a gallery, media-arts centre, artist-run centre, artist, or publication with a focus on contemporary art practice

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1, 1.0 credit at the 300-level in VIS courses, and permission of the Program Director
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is restricted to students in any Specialist or Major in Visual Studies

VIS406H1 - Interventions: Art in Public Spaces

This course is an introduction into the complex process of public art. Through lectures, projects, seminars and field trips the student will develop a clearer understanding of the collaborative nature of public production around key issues such as advocacy, environmental ethics, and the sensual nature of space.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/ VIS200H1, VIS306H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS410H1 - Artist In Residence Master Class

Students work under the supervision of a visiting artist who provides the students with a full introduction to the specifics of her/his practice as an artist. A variety of media are explored specific to the visitors own practice. Seminars are augmented with critiques in response to assignments.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1, 1.0 credit at the 300-level in VIS courses, and permission of the Program Director
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS420H1 - Advanced Readings in Contemporary Art and Culture

A seminar course that investigates current issues in contemporary art. Focus is on contemporary theoretical readings and classic texts. The focus of topic changes each offering pending instructors research specialty and current issues.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS421H1 - Institutions and Exhibitions

A course in which students engage a variety of exhibition types in their institutional context: government museums, artist-run centres (ARC), cultural non-profits, media distribution centres, tourist museums, commercial galleries, private museums, collectives, pop-ups, community centres, etc. Students conduct site visits and analyze the architecture, economic models, audience, and content of various institutions.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, JAV200H1/VIS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Enrolment Limits: This course is open to Daniels Faculty students and to students outside of the Faculty

VIS430Y1 - Thesis Project (Critical Practices)

The culmination of the Critical Practices Specialist degree, this year-long course is composed of a Fall research session and Winter production session. Students determine which type of critical practice is to be undertaken over the course of the year with the instructor. Options include a written thesis on a historical or theoretical topic, the development of a publishing platform, or the production of an exhibition or screening program. Students are required to actively participate in all aspects of the course, including faculty-led class discussions, critiques, research, written thesis statement, and production.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, 1.0 credit at the 300-level in VIS courses
Exclusion: VIS401H1, VIS402H1, VIS431Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is restricted to students in the Specialist in Visual Studies: Critical Practices Stream and Major in Visual Studies (with permission of the Program Director)

VIS431Y1 - Thesis Project (Studio)

The culmination of the Specialist in Visual Studies: Studio Stream, this year-long course is composed of a Fall research session and Winter production session. Studio work and critical analysis are the basis for the mandatory final exhibition, normally occurring at the end of Winter term of works developed and produced over the year. Students are required to actively participate in all aspects of the course, including faculty-led class discussions, critiques, exhibition preparation, written thesis statement, and installation.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in VIS courses, 1.0 credit at the 300-level in VIS courses
Exclusion: VIS401H1, VIS402H1, VIS430Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Enrolment Limits: This course is restricted to students in the Specialist in Visual Studies: Studio Stream and Major in Visual Studies (with permission of the Program Director), and to students enrolled in the Visual Studies Specialist (AHSPE0660) or the Visual Studies Major (AHMAJ0660)