Undergraduate Programs
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Program AssistantParveen Grewal
519-661-3440
visarts@uwo.ca
Undergraduate Chair
Sarah Bassnett
VAC 200A
519-661-3440
vaugc@uwo.ca
University College 2230
arts@uwo.ca
FALL & WINTER COURSES 2024-2025
Art History
Course descriptions: please click
Additional details on courses can be accessed through your
- 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 |
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AH 1648A |
Collecting Art and Culture |
Online |
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AH 2600F |
Theories and Practices of Art History and Visual Culture |
In-Person |
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AH 2634G |
Indigenous Women in the Arts in Canada: Cultural Traditions, Survival, and Colonial Resistance |
Online |
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AH 2634G |
Indigenous Women in the Arts in Canada: Cultural Traditions, Survival, and Colonial Resistance |
In-Person |
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AH 2642G |
Expressionism to Surrealism |
Online |
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AH 2646G |
Contemporary Art | Online |
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AH 2650G |
History of Photography |
Online |
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AH 2678F |
What (Not) to Wear: Special Topics in Fashion, Textiles and Art |
In-Person |
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AH 2680G |
Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico – Art History |
Blended |
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AH 3602G |
Art History and Studio in Dialogue |
In-Person |
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AH 3620G |
Race & Gender in the Pre-Modern World | Blended |
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AH 3642F |
Cold War Art and Politics |
Online |
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AH 3644F |
Dada and Neo-Dada |
In-Person |
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AH 3670F |
Blended | |
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AH 3690G |
Online Synchronous | |
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AH 4642F |
Making Art with Environmental Awareness |
Online |
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AH 4690F |
Special Topics in Art History: For What It’s Worth: Revolutions in Art, the 1960s |
In-Person |
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AH 4692G |
In-Person |
Studio Art
Course descriptions: please click
- 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 |
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SA 1601 |
Foundations of Visual Arts |
In-Person |
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SA 1605 |
Advanced Visual Arts Foundation Studio |
In-Person |
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SA 2500A |
Art Now! I |
In-Person |
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SA 2602A |
Studio Seminar I |
In-Person |
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SA 2610A |
Introduction to Drawing |
In-Person |
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SA 2610B |
Introduction to Drawing |
In-Person |
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SA 2620A |
Introduction to Painting |
In-Person |
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SA 2620B |
Introduction to Painting |
In-Person |
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SA 2630A |
Introduction to Print Media |
In-Person |
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SA 2630B |
Introduction to Print Media |
In-Person |
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SA 2640B |
Introduction to Spacial Practices |
In-Person |
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SA 2645 |
Ceramics |
In-Person |
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SA 2652A |
Introduction to Digital Photo |
Online |
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SA 2660A |
Introduction to Time-Based Media Art: Sound and Performance |
In-Person |
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SA 2662B |
Introduction to Time-Based Media Art: Video and Animation |
In-Person |
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SA 2676A |
Landmarks: Spatial Storytelling, Land, Art, Place & Community I |
In-Person |
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SA 2680B |
Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico - Photography |
Blended |
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SA 3602B |
Studio Seminar II |
In-Person |
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SA 3604G |
In-Person | |
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SA 3611 |
Drawing |
In-Person |
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SA 3623 |
Painting |
In-Person |
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SA 3633 |
Print Media |
In-Person |
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SA 3672A |
Embroidering with the Guild |
In-Person |
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SA 3674A |
Alternative Approaches to Creative Methods |
In-Person |
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SA 3690B |
Special Topics in Studio Art: Disability and Art |
Online Synchronous |
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SA 3694B |
Special Topics in Studio Art: Decolonial Indie Video Game Development |
Blended |
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SA 4603 |
Experiential Learning |
In-Person |
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SA 4605 |
Practicum |
In-Person |
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SA 4642A |
Making Art with Environmental Awareness |
Online |
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SA 4670A |
Calligraphy to Conceptual Art |
In-Person |
Museum and Curatorial Studies
Course descriptions: please click
- 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 |
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MCS 2610F |
The Greatest Shows on Earth |
In-Person |
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MCS 3610F |
Controversies and Contestations: Museums |
In-Person |
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MCS 3620B |
Intro to Exhibition and Design |
In-Person |
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MCS 3642F |
Cold War Art and Politics |
Online |
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MCS 3690G |
Special Topics in MCS: Disability and Art |
Online Synchronous |
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MCS 4692G |
Special Topics in MCS: Museum/Decay |
In-Person |
Special Topics - fall 2024-2025
AH 3670F - Special Topics: Global Renaissance and Baroque Architecture & Urbanism
This course will explore the development of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urbanism from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. We will consider how these styles were affected by the more significant geopolitical transformations occurring during this period through global interactions and exchanges. Specifically, we consider how architectural and urban models influenced societal practices in the arts, religion, and governance. These practices influenced how people engaged in urban and architectural spaces. Considerations of materials, techniques, ecologies, environments, and cultural practices are recognized to inform our analyses of the built environment in that of architecture and urbanism. Topics discussed include the built environment as a space of control and defiance, how race, gender, and religion inhibited or offered access to urban spaces, and the impact of regionalism on architectural models. We explore these issues through Italian, Spanish, French, North American, and Latin American examples.
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.
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Special Topics - Winter 2024-2025
AH 3620G - Race & Gender in the Pre-Modern World
This course explores the influence of BIPOC and women as artists, patrons, collectors, subjects, and other active roles in the Early Modern art world. In approaching this topic, we begin by contextualizing feminist interventions, critical race theory, and queer studies in the field of art history to establish the initial processes of recovery of marginalized peoples and female artistic voices from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries in Europe, South Asia, and the Americas while also exploring their significant contributions to the Early Modern art market and production.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SA 3604G - Art History and Studio in Dialogue
Art History and Studio in Dialogue explores the varied methodologies of a studio practice, looking at how artists develop their work from inception to completion. The course addresses the question, what does time in the studio look like for artists? Students will examine the role of research in studio projects, and look at a variety of working methods such as collaborative processes, site specific practices, materially based approaches and conceptually driven work. The course discusses the challenges of working in isolation and examines self-doubt, creative blocks and lack of motivation. Students will engage in independent projects within their chosen medium, focusing on the development and understanding of their unique studio practice. This hands-on approach encourages experimentation and self-discovery, providing insights into both historical and contemporary practices while fostering the evolution of each students’ individual studio process.
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*Students in Visual Arts modules can substitute AH 3602G, AH 3620G, and AH 3670F in lieu of AH 2600-level courses in order to fulfill modular requirements. Please contact the Undergraduate Chair If you do not have the prerequisites, as you may be eligible for special permission.
