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2001-2002 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR
Carleton University

Studies in Art and Culture:

Art History, Film Studies, Music

(Arts and Social Sciences)


 

423 St. Patrick's Building

Telephone: 520-3993

Academic Administration

Director, Bryan Gillingham

Assistant Director, Art History, Roger Mesley

Assistant Director, Film Studies, André Loiselle

Assistant Director, Music, Jennifer Giles

Teaching Staff

Professor Emeritus

George Swinton (Art History)

Professors

P. Cardy (Music) • C.G. Faulkner (Film Studies) • G. Finn (Cultural Studies) • B. Gillingham (Music) • A. Gillmor (Music) • E. Keillor (Music) • Z. Pick (Film Studies) • J. Shepherd (Music)

Associate Professors

M. Bell (Art History) • A. Carr (Art History) • K. Crossman (Art History) • M. Langer (Film Studies) • D. le Berrurier (Art History) • N. Luckyj (Art History) • G. McKnight (Film Studies) • R. Mesley (Art History) • D. Piper (Music)

Assistant Professors

R. Klebanoff (Art History) • A. Loiselle (Film Studies) • L.U. Marks (Film Studies) • C. O'Brien (Film Studies), C. Payne (Art History)• C. Stevens (Art History)

Instructor

J. Giles (Music)

Adjunct Professors

Blaine Allen, Queen's University (Film Studies) • Peter Baxter, Queen's University (Film Studies) • Rosemarie Bergmann (Art History) • Ted Brasser (Art History) • Clifford Brown (Art History) • Christina Cameron, Canadian Parks Service (Art History) • David Gardner (Music) • Peter Harcourt (Film Studies) • Stephen Inglis, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Art History) • Helmut Kallmann, National Library of Canada (Music) • Deborah Knight, Queen’s University (Philosophy) • Lily Koltun, National Archives of Canada (Art History) • Andrea Laforet, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Art History) • Susan Lord, Queen’s University (Film Studies) • George MacDonald (Art History) • Lora Matthews (Music) • Gerald McMaster, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Art History) • Diana Nemiroff, National Gallery of Canada (Art History) • Paolo Bellomia (Music) • Peter Wicke, Direktor Forschungszentrum populäre Musik, Humboldt Universität (Music)

Sessional Lecturers

Kathy Armstrong (Music) • Martin Bressani (Art History) Michael Bussière (Music) • Lisette Canton (Music) • Jack Coghill (Art and Culture/Music) •John Geggie (Music) • George Kellaris (Art History) • Maureen Korp Brenda Lafleur (Art History) • Patrick MacFadden (Film Studies) • José Sanchez Mosquera (Film Studies ) • Barbara Stevenson (Art History) • Rob Surdu (Art History) • Charles Tepperman (Film Studies)

Research Associates

Robert Barclay (Music) • James Burant, National Archives of Canada (Art History) • Clifford Ford, Canadian Musical Heritage Society (Music) • Anne-Marie Gaston (Music) • Eva Major-Marothy, National Archives of Canada (Art History) • Melissa Rombout, National Archives of Canada (Art History) • Patricia D. Sutherland, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Art History) • Judy Thompson, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Art History) • Carl Widstrand (Music)

 

General Information

The School for Studies in Art and Culture administers the B.A. (Honours) degree in Art and Culture as well as the University's degree programs in Art History , Film Studies and Music , Theory of History and Architecture, and the diploma program in Sonic Design.

The School, through the Office of the Director, provides advice to students wishing to submit a coherent pattern of courses on an area of the Visual and Performing Arts for a B.A. or B.A. (Honours) (Directed Interdisciplinary Studies). Details of this program may be found under separate entries for the Directed Interdisciplinary Studies.

B.A. (Honours) in Art and Culture

General Information

The School for Studies in Art and Culture offers a B.A. (Honours) program in Theories of Art and Culture which draws on the School's courses in Art History, Film Studies and Music as well as on the School's interdisciplinary courses in Art and Culture. It is also possible to take courses in disciplines other than Art History, Film Studies and Music as core and optional components of the program.

The disciplines of the School share a common interest in areas such as cultural theory, Canadian art and culture, aboriginal art and culture, issues of gender, and the situation of women in art and culture. The B.A. (Honours) program in Theories of Art and Culture enables students to gain a focused, comprehensive and systematic knowledge of areas of inquiry such as critical theory, cultural theory, aesthetics, multiculturalism, post-colonialism and feminism in these areas as they are applied to the study of art and culture in both Western and non-Western societies and in all historical periods. In conjunction with their study of theory, students will be encouraged to follow a sequence of courses in at least two of Art History, Film Studies and Music.

Graduation Regulations

In order to graduate, students must fulfill all University graduation Regulations, all Faculty regulations including those relating to First-Year Seminars and Breadth requirements, in addition to all discipline regulations and requirements as set out below.

B.A. (Honours) In Art and Culture:

Each prospective student must consult the School for advice before entering the program.

The B.A. (Honours) program requires 20.0 credits, including 10.0 credits as follows:

First Year

2.0 credits from First-Year Seminar 01.101, Art History 11.110*, 11.111*, 11.120*, 11.121*, Film Studies 19.100, Music 30.101*, 30.102*.

Second Year

Art and Culture 08.200;

2.0 credits from other 200-level courses in at least two of Art History, Film Studies, Music, or Art and Culture.

Third Year

1.0 credit chosen from Art History 11.316, Film Studies 19.301*, 19.351*;

2.0 credits chosen from the following courses:

Art and Culture 08.395;

any 300-level course in Art History:

Film Studies 19.315*, 19.329*, 19.331*, 19.333, 19.342*, 19.371*, 19.381*;

Music 30.313*, 30.314*, 30.332*, 30.342*, 30.343*, 30.344*, 30.380*;

Sociology-Anthropology 56.383*, 56.385*.

Fourth Year

1.0 credit chosen from Art and Culture 08.400*, 08.401*, 08.402*, 08.403*;

1.0 credit chosen from the following courses:

Art History 11.400*, 11.404*, 11.405*, 11.435*, 11.462*, 11.480*, 11.487*, 11.499;

Film Studies 19.400, 19.421*, 19.429*, 19.441*, 19.451*, 19.480*, 19.485*, 19.491*, 19.495;

Music 30.406*, 30.430*, 30.433*, 30.473*, 30.480*, 30.481*, 30.498.

Note: It is strongly recommended that students take 1.0 credit in a language other than English.

Requirement for Breadth, B.A. and B.A.(Honours) degrees

Category for Breadth
Courses in this unit
The temporal dimension of human societies, analyzing times before the present era or societies other than our own  
The artifacts of the imagination in literature and/or other forms, or that addresses the life of the imagination and culture All courses in Art and Culture
The understanding of social, technological and/or natural processes and the ways in which that understanding is obtained in science and social science.  
Matters of human values, ethics and social responsibilities  


Courses

Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

The School for Studies in Art and Culture offers the following courses in the study of art and culture:

First-Year Seminar in Art and Culture 01.101

Reading Art and Culture

Development of academic writing and study skills through a close analysis of individual works and an examination of theories, aesthetic issues, and critical perspectives found in the literature of music, art history and film studies. Limited enrolment.

Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.

Seminar three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.115

Introduction to Media and Technology in Art and Culture

Introduction to the technological innovations which have had significant impact on the course of twentieth-century cultural and artistic practices. This introduction is achieved through a combination of academic and practical studio work.

Prerequisite: Enrolment in one of the programs of the School for Studies in Art and Culture or the School of Journalism and Communication, or in the Arts Canterbury program, and permission of the School.

Lectures and studio demonstrations three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.200

Theories of Art and Culture

Major writings on art and culture in historical Western traditions with particular reference to the contents and concerns of the three disciplines of the School.

Prerequisite: Second-year standing in the Program or permission of the School.

Lecture three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.215

Survey of Computer Applications/Programming in Music

Introduction to various programming languages and systemic processes commonly used in sonic computer applications.

Prerequisite: Enrolment in one of the programs of the School for Studies in Art and Culture

Lectures and studio demonstrations three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.395

Visual and Performing Arts in the Twentieth Century

This interdisciplinary course is designed to examine selected aspects of the creation, distribution and reception of the arts in this century. The focus of the course is on the interplay of aesthetics, ideology and technology in music, theatre, film, art and architecture.

Prerequisite: Third-year standing and permission of the School.

Lectures three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.400*

Topics in Cultural Studies

Selected topics in the development of cultural studies as an interrelated series of intellectual trajectories originating in England during the late 1950s. Topics may change from year to year.

Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the Program or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.401*

Aspects of Modernism in Art and Culture

Selected aspects of modernist theory and practice in art and culture. Topics may change from year to year and may include the arts and European colonialism; `primitivism'; practices and theories of the avant-garde; surrealism; expressionism; art and the popular; modernism and myth.

Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the Program or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.402*

Topics in Audiovisual Cultures

Selected aspects of the audio-visual cultures of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.(Also listed as Film Studies 19.402*.)

Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the Program or permission of the School.

Seminar three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.403*

Cultural Theory in Canadian Contexts

Established and contemporary theories of cultures developed within Canadian contexts.

Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the Program or permission of the School.

Lectures three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.490*

Special Topic in the Study of Art and Culture

This course is designed specifically for Honours students in the School interested in interdisciplinary aspects of their course of study. The course offerings change from year to year.

Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in one of the School's degree programs or permission of the School.

Lectures and seminars three hours a week.

Art and Culture 08.491*

Special Topic in the Study of Art and Culture

This course is designed specifically for Honours students in the School interested in interdisciplinary aspects of their course of study. The course offerings change from year to year.

Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in one of the School's degree programs or permission of the School.

Lectures and seminars three hours a week.


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