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ART1311 The Painting Field (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Introduction to painting through direct experience of its materials and procedures: the picture plane, surface, format, frame, pigment and colour, forms, composition.
C, B.F.A. (P).
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ART1321 The Autonomous Object (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Introduction to sculpture through a study of the object, its modes of production (modelling, casting, sculpting, construction, the found object) and its structure (fragmented or unified, ordered or disordered).
C, B.F.A. (P).
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ART1331 The Photographic Image (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Exploration of the nature of photography as an image-making process, with an emphasis on observation and expression. Introduction to basic camera techniques and to the prduction of photographs as art.
C, B.F.A. (P).
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ART1341 The Image in Motion (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Introduction to moving images - captured or generated - through an exploration of chosen technologies and art practices.
C, B.F.A. (P).
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ART1711 L'espace peint (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Introduction � la peinture � travers une exp�rience directe de ses mat�riaux et de ses proc�d�s : plan pictural, support, format, cadre, pigment et couleur, formes, compositions.
C, B.A.V. (P).
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ART1721 L'objet autonome (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Introduction � la sculpture : �tude de l'objet, de ses modes de r�alisation (objet model�, moul�, sculpt�, construit, trouv�) et de sa structure (fragment�e ou unifi�e, ordonn�e ou d�sordonn�e).
C, B.A.V. (P).
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ART1731 L'image photographique (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Exploration de la photographie comme moyen d'observation et d'expression. Introduction aux principes de base de l'appareil photo et de la production d'images photographiques en tant qu'objet d'art.
C, B.A.V. (P).
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ART1741 L'image en mouvement (0,0,4) 3 cr.
Introduction aux images anim�es - capt�es ou g�n�r�es - � travers l'�tude de technologies et de pratiques artistiques choisies.
C, B.A.V. (P).
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ART2014 La peinture et l'image / Painting and Image (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of the relationships between two-dimensional surface and pictorial space: figure and field, opticality and tactility, figuration and abstraction, narration.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART2015 La peinture en contexte / Painting in Context (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of the relationship between painting, its making and the place of its reception.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART2024 La sculpture en transformation / Sculpture in Transformation (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of unstable materials, forms, and situations - in movement, in transformation - as traces of an event or a process.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART2025 La sculpture et l'image / Sculpture and Image (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of the relationships between sculpture and two-dimensional space: the plane, frontality, instantaneous perception, opticality. Issues of figuration and narration.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART2032 Photographie : vision et repr�sentation / Photography: Vision and Representation (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Further study of forms of personal expression and refinements of modes of representation.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART2040 Intermedia / Intermedia (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Interdisciplinary media art workshop dealing with non-traditional art processes and concepts, including electronic means. Issues of image, sound and performance, in relation to movement, time, space.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART2051 Le dessin : la marque et l'image / Drawing: Marking and Image (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Development of the physical characteristics and expressivity of drawing through intuitive and analytic processes of direct mark-making in confrontation with the image.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART2160 Art Histories (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Historical overview of artistic practices from Prehistory to Modernity.
G, C, B.F.A. (T).
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ART2161 Art Theories (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Historical and methodological overview of aesthetic and cultural theories from the Antique period to the present. Their application to the study of the art object.
Prerequisite : ART2160 or the permission of the Department. (H).
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ART2560 Histoires de l'art (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Panorama historiques des pratiques artistiques de la pr�histoire � la modernit�.
G, C, B.A.V. (T).
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ART2561 Th�ories de l'art (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Panorama historique et m�thodologique des th�ories esth�tiques et culturelles de l'Antiquit� � nos jours. Application � l'�tude d'oeuvres d'art.
Pr�alable : ART2560 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3016 Peinture et source / Painting and Source (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of the connections between painting and diverse image sources. Issues of iconography, photography, collage, appropriation, etc.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART3026 La sculpture en contexte / Sculpture in Context (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of the relationship between sculpture and its immediate environment: space, place, site. Issues of installation, architecture, institution, nature, public art, social and political art.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART3032 Photographie: documentation et construction / Photography: Documentation and Construction (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of photography as a means of documentation or personal communication.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART3033 Laboratoire de photographie / Photo Laboratory (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Introduction to large-format photography, perspective controls, advanced printing techniques, colour photography, and quality digital scanning and printing.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART3040 M�dias mixtes / Mixed Media (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Exploration of relationships arising from the encounter of various form of art, communication and information processing both old and new in order to invent new means of expression.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART3041 Intention et invention / Intention and Invention (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Advanced study and implementation in media art of real or synthetic, photographic or electronic images, static or cinematic, in two or three dimensions, for the purpose of personal expression, factual documentation or social animation.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART3051 Le dessin: le regard et le sens / Drawing: Seeing and Meaning (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Development of perceptual awareness through the study of the nature and the meanings of what we see. Development of intuitive and analytic skills, and study of the personal, factual and cultural issues of representation. Interaction with reproduced imagery and with other media.
Prerequisites: ART1311, ART1321, ART1331, ART1341. B.F.A. (P).
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ART3115 Art in Public Spaces (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Examination of modern and contemporary public art practices and of diverse questions related to art in public spaces, such as the site, urban and natural environments, the public sphere, commemoration and a broadened understanding of audience.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3116 Art and New Technologies (3,0,0) 3 cr.
The impact of new technologies on contemporary artistic practices, their production, mediation and dissemination.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3117 Art and Gender (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Exploration of sexual and gender identities and roles through the study of Modern and contemporary artistic practices and theories: feminism, masculinity, Queer studies and transgender issues, among others.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3118 Art, Globalization and Cultural Hybridities (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Impact of globalization on cultural practices and theories since the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on Orientalism, colonialism, cultural appropriation and the development of international art networks, among other issues.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3170 Modern Art and the Crisis of Representation (3,0,0) 3 cr.
History of modern art from the middle of the XIXth century to World War I through a study of chosen issues.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H). (Formerly : ART2170).
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ART3171 Art, Utopia and the Avant-garde (3,0,0) 3 cr.
History of modern art from World War I to the early 1960s through a study of chosen issues.
Prerequisite: ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H). (Formerly : ART2171).
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ART3180 Art after Modernism (3,0,0) 3 cr.
History of artistic practices in the 1960's and 1970's through a study of chosen issues.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3181 Artistic Strategies of the Postmodern Era (3,0,0) 3 cr.
The exploration of artistic practices since the 1980s through a study of chosen issues.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3334 Canadian Art and Cultural Identities (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Study of Canadian artistic practices through the lens of national identities and cultural diversity, with an emphasis on the Modern and contemporary periods.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3344 Museum Studies and Artistic Practices (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Study of different functions of the art gallery and museum: the exhibition, dissemination, collection, conservation and documentation of art. The impact of contemporary critical theories on museal practices.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permissin of the Department. (H).
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ART3354 Inuit and Amerindian Art (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Study of the traditional and contemporary arts of the Inuit and Amerindian peoples in their anthropological, historical and political contexts.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3364 Histories and Theories of Photography (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Histories and theories of photography from the XIXth century to the present through the study of chosen issues.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or the permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3374 Artists and Critical Discourse (3,0,0) 3 cr.
An examination of Modern and contemporary artistic practices and their cultural mediations through the discourses of artists and art critics.
Prerequisite : ART2161 or permission of the Department. (H).
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ART3515 L'art dans l'espace public (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Examen de pratiques d'art public modernes et contemporaines et des diff�rents enjeux de l'art dans l'espace public, tels le site, les milieux urbains et naturels, la sph�re publique, la comm�moration et la notion �largie de public.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3516 Art et nouvelles technologies (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Incidences des nouvelles technologies sur les pratiques artistiques, leur production, leur m�diation et leur diffusion.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3517 Art et genre (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Exploration des identit�s sexuelles et des genres � travers l'�tude des pratiques et des th�ories artistiques modernes et contemporaines : f�minisme, masculinit�, �tudes gaies et lesbiennes, les enjeux de la transsexualit�, etc.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3518 Art, mondialisation et m�tissages culturels (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Incidences de la mondialisation sur les pratiques et les th�ories de l'art depuis le XVIIIe si�cle : l'orientalisme, le colonialisme, l'appropriation culturelle, le d�veloppement des r�seaux artistiques internationaux, etc.
Pr�alable : ART 2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3570 Art moderne et crise de la repr�sentation (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Histoire de l'art moderne du milieu du XIXe si�cle jusqu'� la Premi�re Guerre mondiale � travers l'�tude de probl�matiques choisies.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H). (Ant�rieurement : ART2570).
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ART3571 Art, utopies et avant-gardes (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Histoire de l'art moderne de la Premi�re Guerre mondiale au d�but des ann�es soixante � travers l'�tude de probl�matiques choisies.
Pr�alable : ART 2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H). (Ant�rieurement : ART2571).
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ART3580 L'art apr�s le modernisme (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Histoire des pratiques artistiques dans les ann�es soixante et soixante-dix � travers l'�tude de probl�matiques choisies.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3581 Strat�gies artistiques de la postmodernit� (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Exploration des pratiques artistiques depuis les ann�es quatre-vingt � travers l'�tude de probl�matiques choisies.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3734 Art canadien et identit�s culturelles (3,0,0) 3 cr.
�tude des pratiques artistiques canadiennes, plus particuli�rement modernes et contemporaines, � travers les questions d'identit�s nationales et de diversit� culturelle.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3744 �tudes mus�ales et pratiques artistiques (3,0,0) 3 cr.
�tude des diff�rentes fonctions des institutions mus�ales artistiques : l'exposition, la diffusion, la collection, la conservation, la documentation. Incidences des th�ories culturelles contemporaines sur les pratiques mus�ales.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3754 Art inuit et am�rindien (3,0,0) 3 cr.
�tude des arts traditionnels et contemporains des inuits et des am�rindiens dans leurs contextes anthropologique, historique et politique.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3764 Histoires et th�ories de la photographie (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Histoires et th�ories de la photographie du XIXe si�cle jusqu'� nos jours � travers l'�tude de probl�matiques choisies.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART3774 L'artiste et le discours critique (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Examen des pratiques artistiques modernes et contemporaines, et de leurs m�diations culturelles � travers l'�tude du discours des artistes et des critiques d'art.
Pr�alable : ART2561 ou permission du D�partement. (H).
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ART4080 Atelier dirig� I / Supervised Studio I (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Individual research and collective critiques under the direction of a professor.
B.F.A. Restricted to fourth-year students. (P).
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ART4089 Atelier dirig� II / Supervised Studio II (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Individual research and collective critiques under the direction of a professor. Exhibition and evaluation of work by a committee of professors.
Prerequisite or co-requisite: ART4080. B.F.A. (P).
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ART4090 Th�me choisi / Special Topic (0,0,4) 6 cr.
Practical research on a selected topic.
Prerequisite: To be determined by the chosen topic. B.F.A. (P).
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ART4115 Special Topics in History and Theory of Art (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Topic chosen from among historical or theoretical questions of current concern.
Prerequisite: to be determined according to the subject. (H).
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ART4515 Th�mes choisis en histoire et th�orie de l'art (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Th�me choisi parmi les questions historiques ou th�oriques que soul�ve l'actualit�.
Pr�alable : � d�terminer selon le sujet du cours. (H).
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ART4900 Stage / Apprenticeship 3 cr.
Period of assistantship and practical studies with a professional (artist, researcher, curator, records manager, administrator, etc.) Who must provide the department with a description of both the work program and the evaluation process for approval. The practicum director and the student must present a final report to the department. Duration of apprenticeship: 150 hours.
B.F.A. Restricted to fourth-year students. (P/T).
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ART4956 Travaux dirig�s I / Directed Research I (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Under the supervision of a professor the student will undertake a program of selected readings and personal research in an area of art history or of art theory.
Prerequisite: Requires professor's approval. Reserved for fourth year students. (T).
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ART4957 Travaux dirig�s II / Directed Research II (3,0,0) 3 cr.
Under the supervision of a professor the student will undertake a program of selected readings and personal research in an area of history and theory of art.
Prerequisite : ART4956 and permission of the Department. Reserved for students registered in the Major in History and Theory of Art. (H).
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