Courses

500/600-level HADVC Seminar Courses (2024-2025)

FALL TERM

HADVC 600 – Theories and Methods in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture
Fall Term R 9:30-12:20
Instructor: Lianne McTavish (In person delivery)
3 credits.
This course provides participants with an introduction to theories and methods used in the study of the history of art, design, and visual culture. We will examine a range of approaches, covering both historical and contemporary examples. The material is organized thematically, according to the site of meaning emphasized by the method (i.e. the site of representation, site of production, and site of reception). The course emphasizes the practical application of different approaches, noting how they both produce and obscure knowledge. Prerequisite: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.

HADVC 511 (A01) – About Time
Fall Term T 2:00-4:50
Instructor: Lisa Claypool (In person delivery)
3 credits
Can artworks command a time of viewing? How do encounters with art reveal cultural and scientific rhythms and tempos of time? Students in this course will produce thematically linked small-group curatorial projects about time in West Asian, European, Chinese, and Latin American arts, representing a diversity of cultural understandings of time and temporality, and making clear lived histories of heterochronicity against the dominant European colonial conceptualization of time that today marks our days. Prerequisite: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.

HADVC 511 (A02) – The Arts & Crafts Movement: 19th Century Craftivism?
Fall term W 12:30-3:20
Instructor: Brandi Goddard (In person delivery)
3 credits
This seminar course will cast a critical eye on the 19th century Arts and Crafts movement (centred in Britain and the United States, but with a global reach) from the perspective of social politics, labour activism, and class consciousness. The movement will be examined comparatively with other historical and contemporary instances of what today would be termed “craftivism.” Prerequisite: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.

WINTER TERM

HADVC 511 (B01) – Contemporary Indigenous Art
Winter term T 12:30-3:20
Instructor: Erin Sutherland
3 credits
This course will explore practices by Indigenous artists based in Turtle Island from the 1990s to present. With a focus on themes of indigenization, visual sovereignty and decolonization, this course will introduce students to a broad range of contemporary Indigenous art.
Prerequisite: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.

HADVC 511 (B02) – Art and Animals
Winter term W 12:30-3:20 (In person delivery)
Instructor: Betsy Boone
3 credits
This course will use recent literature in the field of animal studies to explore the representation of animals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B

HADVC 512 – Orthodoxy and Eccentricity in Early Modern Chinese Painting
Winter term R 12:30-3:20 (In person delivery)
Instructor: Walter Davis
3 credits
How did Chinese painting of the early modern era articulate cultural and political authority as well as individual creativity and difference? This seminar considers this question in relation to two important artistic movements of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911): the Orthodox School and the “eccentric” painting of Yangzhou. Seminar sessions will include firsthand viewing of works in the university’s Mactaggart Art Collection. Prerequisite: Consent of Department. Students are normally expected to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.