Course Code:
VSAR 113
Credits:
3
Calendar Description:
An introduction to the analysis and reception of visual images and objects within their historical and social contexts.
Date First Offered:
2010-09-01
Hours:
Total Hours: 45
Lecture Hours: 45
Total Weeks:
15
This course is offered online:
No
Pre-Requisites:
None
Non-Course Pre-Requisites:
None
Co-Requisites:
None
Rearticulation Submission:
No
Course Content:
- The elements of perception: the eye and the brain
- The history of perspective
- Culture: high, low, mass and pop
- Modernity and the problem of the observer
- Camera obscura and the photograph
- Subjective vision and the division of labour
- The flaneur, public space and shopping
- Art in the age of mechanical reproduction
- The society of the spectacle
- The male gaze
- The machine eye
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and discuss key historical and cultural 'lenses' used in the history of art from the modern era to present
- Apply a critical and cultural awareness to the practise of their own studio work and the visual environment that surrounds them daily
Passing Grade:
C (60%)
Grading Weight:
Final Exam: 30 %
Midterm Exam: 25 %
Assignments: 25 %
Participation: 10 %
Other: 10 %
Number of Assignments:
3
Nature of Participation:
Attendance, classroom activities and assignments, discussion
Writing Assignments:
Reading and response
Percentage of Individual Work:
90
Percentage of Group Work:
10
Course Offered in Other Programs:
No
Additional Comments:
Lectures will be based on slide and video presentations and class participation is expected. There will be class activities and in-class written assignments.
There will be one take home midterm exam as well as a final exam.
Students will keep a class journal and submit 4 short written responses to readings.