GRAD STUDENT INFORMATION

ARTE 670 Critical Perspectives on Art Education: History, Theory and Practice (3 credits)

Term: Fall
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30

Instructor: Juan Carlos Castro 

A seminar course in which students develop critical reading and writing skills while adding to their understanding of trends past and present that have shaped the field of art education. 

ARTE 672 Advanced Critical Analysis (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 670)

Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30

Instructor: TBD

A seminar course in which students develop advanced skills in critical analysis, academic writing and library research. Assignments include compiling and writing a review of literature on a topic of research or professional interest.

ARTE 680 Foundations for Inquiry (3 credits)

Term: Fall
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00-18:00

Instructor: Jessie Beier

A seminar course in which students are introduced to the basic concepts, terminology, and contexts of inquiry in art education. Students learn about the practice of systematic inquiry, including: identifying and articulating a topic or question; situating the inquiry within a theoretical framework; relating the inquiry to art education practices; and selecting appropriate inquiry procedures. Each student develops a proposal for a small-scale project related to his/her particular art education interests.

ARTE 682 Research Practice (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 680 )

Term: Winter
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00 - 18:00

Instructor: Jessie Beier

A seminar course in which students conduct a small-scale research project based on their own research proposal. Students are introduced to appropriate forms and practices for conducting the project and presenting the results.

ARTE 606 Studio Inquiry (3 credits)

Term: Fall
Day/time: Thursday 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)

Instructor: Dave LeRue
Topic: Art and Spatial Production: Interdisciplinary Investigation in the Built Environment

“Each place is, in its way, the world.” Milton Santos, 1996

How can making art in a space help us to understand how spaces mediate human experience? And how can artmaking help us to understand how spaces are produced and reproduced? This graduate level studio course will explore these questions through interdisciplinary projects focused on the built environment. Students will choose a neighborhood they can visit regularly to make site responsive artworks over the semester. In-class and reading content will connect artmaking to spatial frameworks such as feminist geography and the spatial dialectic, and concepts such as the image of the city, hostile architectures, nuclear semiotics, utopia, common spaces, and universal design, which will provide us with methods to decode, analyze, and represent the built environment. Students will develop projects using their preferred artistic mediums, with in-class activities exploring a variety of materials and approaches. Some components may take place in other parts of campus or in off-campus fieldtrips, which will be decided collectively early in the semester.

Students will be expected to participate in weekly studio making and activities, engage in and lead discussions and making sessions, undertake one group design project, and develop and complete a major artistic project of their choosing over the course of the semester that may use or combine artistic, academic, or research-creation components. The class will culminate in an end of semester exhibition open to the Concordia community. 

ARTE 606 Studio Inquiry (3 credits): 

Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)

Instructor: David Pariser
Topic: Drawing: Illusions and Conclusions

This Graduate Studio will focus on drawing - defined as; The linear gesture in a multitude of possible media and with a multitude of possible subjects. You will be expected to produce a sequence of 15 drawings (animated or still images) - or the equivalent in another medium, such as fabric, exploring a given topic/subject. For inspiration, the class will avail itself of Montreal’s rich visual environment: architectural spaces, museum exhibitions and collections, industrial sites, urban landscapes. Several class sessions will be devoted to site visits for the purpose of making drawings on the spot. These drawings will contribute in some fashion, to your second major project and will be shown in your final presentation.

You will be responsible for two major projects. The two projects must each have the same theme as their basis. The thematic content can emerge directly from your personal. interests and concerns or the theme can emerge from an examination of artworks, settings, or objects, that you will encounter in your exploration of Montreal sites.

The first project will be an examination of two graphic artists whom you find of interest and worthy of respect and who examine aspects of a theme or topic that you find of interest and will pursue. These 2 artists must be chosen from two different art historical eras and/or cultures. For example Hiroshige (Japan 19^th C. ) and William. Kentridge (20^th C. South Africa). Common theme = urban crowds/city life.  You will present the work of your 2 artists to the class in a power point/illustrated lecture. Your discussion  will explain : 1) Why you chose the work of the two artists.  2) An overview of the social and historical context in which the  2 artists worked.

The second project will be your visual exploration of the theme/issue that you have identified and wish to explore. The visual exploration will take the form of a sequence of still images (15) OR an animated/video dealing with the same topic- where the images are dependent primarily on graphic elements. Ideally, the images/video should only be in Black and White. Students will have to offer reasons why they wish to use color. You will present your images and/or the video/films to the class at the conclusion of the semester.  These images will be accompanied by a brief discussion (a short paper 3-5 pages in good academic form) explaining your choices and the themes and influences that you explored.

Grading will be based on; 1) The quality of your two major projects;  2)  In-class participation ; 3) A short paper discussing the visual work that you  presented at the close of the semester.

ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Term: Fall
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00

Instructor:  Jessie Beier
Topic: Post-Human Pedagogies in Art Education

What does it mean to think with and through art in an era of global weirding? This graduate seminar explores this question by turning to recent developments in critical post-human theory and practice in order to question the often taken-for-granted definition and status of consciousness, intelligence, and embodied cognition in art education today. Bringing together recent conversations in critical disability studies, black studies, and material feminisms with experimental and artistic developments in speculative realism, affect theory and post-psychoanalytic theory, this graduate seminar course offers a site to explore how art education—and the human thinking it assumes at its centre—might be reoriented given current planetary realities. Inflected by a speculative charge, the course will unfold through a series of conceptual and material experiments where students will grapple with what it might be like to think with and through, for instance: objects; plastic; machines; algorithms; artificial intelligences; the ocean; plants, animals and fungi; alien life; and, not to be forgotten, human beings. 

ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Term: Winter
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00

Instructor: TBD
Topic: TBD

ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Term: Summer 2024
Day/time: June 1-30, 2024

Instructor: Kathleen Vaughan

Topic: Iceland Field School

The Iceland Field School is is an interdisciplinary, mixed-level (BFA to PhD) Special Topics course (3 credits), sited at the Icelandic Textile Centre (textilmidstod.is/en), an academic research centre and artistic residency in Blönduós, Iceland, from June 1-30, 2024. In addition to pursuing workshops with Icelandic experts in spinning, tapestry weaving, and natural dyeing from foraged plants, students develop individualized and interdisciplinary artistic projects in a variety of media including textiles, photography, video, performance, drawing, environmental art, graphic novels, book arts, writing, or academic work on themes of museum studies, community development, tourism, and hospitality studies. We learn using a place-based, post-humanist lens, and consider environmental issues important to Iceland, Canada, and the world. We aim to give back to our host community as well as to receive. Admission is by application only, and now closed for 2024. 

ARTE 870 Critical Perspectives on Art Education: History, Theory and Practice (3 credits)

Term: Fall
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30

Instructor:  Juan Carlos Castro

A seminar course in which students develop critical reading and writing skills while adding to their understanding of trends past and present that have shaped the field of art education. 

ARTE 872 Advanced Critical Analysis (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 870)

Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30

Instructor:  TBD

A seminar course in which students develop advanced skills in critical analysis, academic writing and library research. Assignments include compiling and writing a review of literature on a topic of research or professional interest.

ARTE 880 Foundations for Inquiry (3 credits)

Term: Fall
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00-18:00

Instructor: Jessie Beier

A seminar course in which students are introduced to the basic concepts, terminology, and contexts of inquiry in art education. Students learn about the practice of systematic inquiry, including: identifying and articulating a topic or question; situating the inquiry within a theoretical framework; relating the inquiry to art education practices; and selecting appropriate inquiry procedures. Each student develops a proposal for a small-scale project related to his/her particular art education interests.

ARTE 882 Research Practice (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 880 )

Term: Winter
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00 - 18:00

Instructor: Jessie Beier

A seminar course in which students conduct a small-scale research project based on their own research proposal. Students are introduced to appropriate forms and practices for conducting the project and presenting the results.

ARTE 884 Doctoral Seminar (3 credits)

Term: Not offered in 2024-25
Day/time: 

Instructor: 

This course addresses research and communication, thesis writing, and professional practice.

ARTE 806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits)

Term: Fall
Day/time: Thursday 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)

Instructor:  Dave LeRue
Topic: Art and Spatial Production: Interdisciplinary Investigations in the Built Environment

“Each place is, in its way, the world.” Milton Santos, 1996

How can making art in a space help us to understand how spaces mediate human experience? And how can artmaking help us to understand how spaces are produced and reproduced? This graduate level studio course will explore these questions through interdisciplinary projects focused on the built environment. Students will choose a neighborhood they can visit regularly to make site responsive artworks over the semester. In-class and reading content will connect artmaking to spatial frameworks such as feminist geography and the spatial dialectic, and concepts such as the image of the city, hostile architectures, nuclear semiotics, utopia, common spaces, and universal design, which will provide us with methods to decode, analyze, and represent the built environment. Students will develop projects using their preferred artistic mediums, with in-class activities exploring a variety of materials and approaches. Some components may take place in other parts of campus or in off-campus fieldtrips, which will be decided collectively early in the semester.

Students will be expected to participate in weekly studio making and activities, engage in and lead discussions and making sessions, undertake one group design project, and develop and complete a major artistic project of their choosing over the course of the semester that may use or combine artistic, academic, or research-creation components. The class will culminate in an end of semester exhibition open to the Concordia community. 

ARTE 806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits): 

Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)

Instructor:  David Pariser
Topic: Drawing: Illusions and Conclusions

This Graduate Studio will focus on drawing -defined as ; The linear gesture ina multitude of possible media and with a multitude of possible subjects. You will be expected to produce a sequence of 15 drawings (animated or still images)-or the equivalent in another medium.. such as fabric.. exploring a given topic/subject. For inspiration, the class will avail itself of Montreal’s rich visual environment: architectural spaces, museum exhibitions and collections, industrial sites, urban landscapes. Several class sessions will be devoted to site visits for the purpose of making drawings on the spot. These drawings will contribute in some fashion, to your second major project and will be shown in your final presentation.

You will be responsible for two major projects. The two projects must each have the same theme as their basis. The thematic content can emerge directly from your personal. interests and concerns or the theme can emerge from an examination of artworks, settings, or objects, that you will encounter in your exploration of Montreal sites.

The first project will be an examination of two graphic artists whom you find of interest and worthy of respect and who examine aspects of a theme or topic that you find of interest and will pursue. These 2 artists must be chosen from two different art historical eras and/or cultures. For example Hiroshige (Japan 19^th C. ) and William. Kentridge (20^th C. South Africa). Common theme = urban crowds/city life.  You will present the work of your 2 artists to the class in a power point/illustrated lecture. Your discussion  will explain : 1) Why you chose the work of the two artists.  2) An overview of the social and historical context in which the  2 artists worked.

The second project will be your visual exploration of the theme/issue that you have identified and wish to explore. The visual exploration will take the form of a sequence of still images (15) OR an animated/video dealing with the same topic- where the images are dependent primarily on graphic elements. Ideally, the images/video should only be in Black and White. Students will have to offer reasons why they wish to use color. You will present your images and/or the video/films to the class at the conclusion of the semester.  These images will be accompanied by a brief discussion (a short paper 3-5 pages in good academic form) explaining your choices and the themes and influences that you explored.

Grading will be based on; 1) The quality of your two major projects;  2)  In-class participation ; 3) A short paper discussing the visual work that you  presented at the close of the semester.

ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Term: Fall
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00

Instructor:  Jessie Beier
Topic: Post-Human Pedagogies in Art Education

What does it mean to think with and through art in an era of global weirding? This graduate seminar explores this question by turning to recent developments in critical post-human theory and practice in order to question the often taken-for-granted definition and status of consciousness, intelligence, and embodied cognition in art education today. Bringing together recent conversations in critical disability studies, black studies, and material feminisms with experimental and artistic developments in speculative realism, affect theory and post-psychoanalytic theory, this graduate seminar course offers a site to explore how art education—and the human thinking it assumes at its centre—might be reoriented given current planetary realities. Inflected by a speculative charge, the course will unfold through a series of conceptual and material experiments where students will grapple with what it might be like to think with and through, for instance: objects; plastic; machines; algorithms; artificial intelligences; the ocean; plants, animals and fungi; alien life; and, not to be forgotten, human beings.

ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Term: Winter
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00

Instructor:  TBD
Topic:  TBD

ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Term: Summer 2024

Day/time: June 1-30, 2024

Instructor: Kathleen Vaughan

Topic: Iceland Field School

The Iceland Field School is is an interdisciplinary, mixed-level (BFA to PhD) Special Topics course (3 credits), sited at the Icelandic Textile Centre (textilmidstod.is/en), an academic research centre and artistic residency in Blönduós, Iceland, from June 1-30, 2024. In addition to pursuing workshops with Icelandic experts in spinning, tapestry weaving, and natural dyeing from foraged plants, students develop individualized and interdisciplinary artistic projects in a variety of media including textiles, photography, video, performance, drawing, environmental art, graphic novels, book arts, writing, or academic work on themes of museum studies, community development, tourism, and hospitality studies. We learn using a place-based, post-humanist lens, and consider environmental issues important to Iceland, Canada, and the world. We aim to give back to our host community as well as to receive. Admission is by application only, and now closed for 2024.