A description of the program leading to the B.F.A. degree is given in Section 7.7 of the Calendar. Studio courses are offered in the following areas: Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture and Open Media.

Students completing a B.A. may earn a Minor or Major in Art History. These programs are outlined under Art History at the beginning of the section. A Minor or Major in Fine Arts which includes a combination of Art History and Studio Art courses may also be completed on a B.A. degree. Students should submit a portfolio of artwork for assessment by April 1, to be considered for a Major or Minor in Fine Arts. The B.F.A. programs are outlined as follows:

The pre-requisite for 2000 level studio courses is the successful completion of the appropriate 1000 level course; i.e. 1101, 1111, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1931. Any first year studio course that is failed will have to be passed by the end of the next academic year in which the student is enrolled.

Studio Courses Open to Non-Fine Arts Students

Six credits chosen from FINA 1101, 1111, 1901, 1911, and FINA 1921, 1931 are open to students from other degree programs, dependent on available space, and by written permission of the Department only.

Preference will be given to students with a major in Art History or Drama.

Students who have no background or previous training in visual art should be advised that these courses are required for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program and that standards are set accordingly.

Upper level studio courses will be open to students from other programs on a space available basis, provided that the student has met the prerequisite requirement, or been granted the permission of the department.

FINA 1101 (3CR)
FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING I
Format: studio
This course will introduce the student to drawing as a common language of expression in the visual arts. A variety of drawing media will be used.

FINA 1111 (3CR)
FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1101; or permission of the Department
This course is a continuation of Fine Arts 1101. It is required of all students enrolled in the B.F.A. program.

FINA 1901 (3CR)
ELEMENTS OF ART I
Format: studio
This course focuses on elements of two dimensional design in black and white and colour. It also surveys theories of composition in the visual arts and provides an introduction to art theory and media.

FINA 1911 (3CR)
ELEMENTS OF ART II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1901; or permission of the Department
This course surveys elements of three dimensional design and composition, alternate media and processes, and non-conventional and lateral thinking in the visual arts. The course is required of all students in the B.F.A. program.

FINA 1921 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA I
Format: studio
This course is designed to introduce the studio areas of printmaking and photography. It is required of all B.F.A. students.

FINA 1931 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA II
Format: studio
This course is designed to introduce the studio areas of painting and sculpture. It is required of all B.F.A. students.

FINA 2101 (3CR)
DRAWING I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1101 and 1111; or permission of the Department
This course emphasizes drawing from the figure and also includes various other projects related to drawing. It is required of all B.F.A. students.

FINA 2111 (3CR)
DRAWING II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2101; or permission of the Department
This course is a continuation of Drawing I. It is required of all B.F.A. students.

FINA 2201 (3CR)
PRINTMAKING I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1921; or permission of the Department
This course introduces intaglio and relief printmaking techniques.

FINA 2211 (3CR)
PRINTMAKING II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1921; or permission of the Department
This course introduces lithography printmaking techniques.

FINA 2301 (3CR)
PAINTING I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1931; or permission of the Department
This course uses various media to focus on the fundamentals of basic painting. It explores colour and techniques and emphasizes observational painting, from various subjects including the figure.

FINA 2311 (3CR)
PAINTING II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2301; or permission of the Department
This is an exploration of painting materials and means, pictorial elements, and issues fundamental to expressive painting. Both traditional and contemporary painting will be considered.

FINA 2401 (3CR)
SCULPTURE I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1931; or permission of the Department
This course addresses the basic sculptural practices through a variety of sculptural traditions, including wire, wood, mesh, scavenged or natural materials and clay.

FINA 2411 (3CR)
SCULPTURE II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2401; or permission of the Department
This course is a continuation of FINA 2401 and emphasizes a more experimental approach to sculpture. This course investigates how the shape and form of a structure is imposed by the materials used.

FINA 2501 (3CR)
PHOTOGRAPHY I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 1921; or permission of the Department
Fine Arts 2501 is intended to give the fine arts photography student a firm background both aesthetically and technically in the uses of photography as a fine art medium. The following will be covered: conceptualization of the image/technical review, exposing film for optimum results (slide & B&W), processing and proofing, storage and editing, introduction to the fine print portfolio presentation, evaluation criticism, and an historical perspective. Each student is required to own a 35 mm camera with manual metering.

FINA 2511 (3CR)
PHOTOGRAPHY II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2501; or permission of the Department
Fine Arts 2511 addresses itself both aesthetically and technically in small format photography as a component of your development as an artist. This course will deal with notions of the black and white "fine print", social, political and personal issues in the work and portfolio development as well as a number of other studio techniques. Assignments dealing with portraiture, self portraiture, landscape and photo fabrication will allow for personal investigation of a number of given subjects that may or may not contribute to the conceptualization of the final portfolio.

FINA 3101 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE DRAWING I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2101 and 2111; or permission of the Department
Through completing a variety of projects, students will develop their skills with traditional and non-traditional drawing media, and gain a deeper understanding of the issues and potentials of drawing. Students will explore approaches to representation and abstraction, and work toward developing personal imagery. This course is required of all students in the B.F.A. program.

FINA 3111 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE DRAWING II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 3101; or permission of the Department
This course emphasizes individual direction and style in drawing, using a variety of traditional and non-traditional media.

FINA 3201 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE PRINTMAKING I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2201 and 2211; or permission of the Department

FINA 3211 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE PRINTMAKING II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 3201; or permission of the Department
Fine Arts 3201 and 3211 survey traditional and non-traditional printmaking for students with a background in printmaking.

FINA 3301 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE PAINTING I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2301 and 2311; or permission of the Department
This course focuses on the study of figurative and non-figurative painting, using various painting methods and mixed media. Consideration will be given to contemporary artists and to the cultural context of painting.

FINA 3311 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE PAINTING II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 3301; or permission of the Department
Students will explore uses of various painting and mixed media, and work from figurative and non-figurative sources as they complete projects with diverse formal, thematic or conceptual objectives.

FINA 3401 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE SCULPTURE I
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2401 and 2411; or permission of the Department
This course emphasizes contemporary attitudes, theory, and non-traditional approaches to sculpture. It addresses a mixed media approach, installation, and outdoor or environmental art.

FINA 3411 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE SCULPTURE II
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 3401; or permission of the Department
This course investigates student initiated work, public sculpture proposals, and model making which combines and/or extends approaches from previous courses and which lead into the fourth year tutorial program.

FINA 3501 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE PHOTOGRAPHY I - THE VIEW CAMERA
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 2501 and 2511; or permission of the Department
This course covers the use of medium and large format cameras in the context of landscape and studio work, through use of colour and black and white materials.

FINA 3511 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE PHOTOGRAPHY II - COLOUR AND PHOTOFABRICATION
Format: studio
Prereq: FINA 3501; or permission of the Department
A continuation of 3501 with colour printmaking and photo fabrication assignments. Processes covered include RA4 and Ilfochrome colour printmaking, Platinum, Cyanotype, Van Dyke and other alternate printing methods. Further exploration will include advanced view camera and studio technique.

FINA 3601 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE OPEN MEDIA I
Format: studio
Prereq: Completion of at least 4 of the following courses: FINA 2101, 2111, 2201, 2301, 2311, 2401, 2411, 2501, 2511; or permission of the Department
Fine Arts 3601 and 3611 will offer the opportunity to integrate various media with which the student is already familiar. They will also introduce technical skills and a conceptual framework to facilitate this investigation. Performance and installation may be components of the course. Either or both courses may be taken for credit.

FINA 3611 (3CR)
INTERMEDIATE OPEN MEDIA II
Format: studio
Prereq: Completion of at least 4 of the following courses: FINA 2101, 2111, 2201, 2301, 2311, 2401, 2411, 2501, 2511; or permission of the Department

FINA 3701 (3CR)
THIRD YEAR SEMINAR IN FINE ARTS
Format: seminar
Prereq: Open to only B.F.A. students and open to other students on a space available basis with preference given to students in the BA degree program with a Major or Minor in Art History or Fine Arts; or permission of the Department
A seminar course on contemporary art issues in Fine Arts, usually taught in the second term of each year. Students will lead seminar discussions on selected topics and produce research papers. The course is required of all third year B.F.A. students.

FINA 4701 (3CR)
ADVANCED SEMINAR IN FINE ARTS
Format: seminar
Prereq: Open to only B.F.A. students and open to other students on a space available basis with preference given to students in the BA degree program with a Major or Minor in Art History or Fine Arts; or permission of the Department
An advanced seminar on contemporary art issues in Fine Arts, taught in the first term of each year. Students will lead seminar discussions on selected topics and produce research papers. The course is required of all fourth year B.F.A. students.

FINA 4801/4811/4821/4831 (3CR)
ADVANCED STUDIO I TO IV
Format: studio
Students will take all of these tutorial courses in their final year. Courses are arranged with faculty members on an individual basis. Students in fourth year must have more than one tutor. The courses are designed to meet students needs and may be in a single medium or in various media.

FINA 2001 (3CR)
WORLD ART FROM THE FIRST PEOPLES TO THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Format: lecture 3 hours
This course surveys art and architecture from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe within their historical and cultural context. The course will emphasize how works of art are produced in a variety of media. This introductory course is designed for students with no previous background in the history of art and architecture.

FINA 2011 (3CR)
WORLD ART FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT
Format: lecture 3 hours
This course surveys art and architecture from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe within their historical and cultural context. The course will emphasize how works of art are produced in a variety of media.

FINA 3021 (3CR)
CANADIAN ART FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE 1960S
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course surveys the history of art in Canada from its beginnings to the 1960s within its historical, social, political, and cultural contexts and considers the ways in which art history and its narratives function. The course covers: the art of Canada's First Nations; topographical and portrait traditions in the Colonial period; landscape painting and the idea of Nationhood; mysticism and nature in Canadian painting; art and democracy; formal experimentation and the urban space in the art of the Inter-War Years; the development of Canadian sculpture; modernism in Canadian painting; Quebec art, politics, and the Church; and the development of abstraction.

FINA 3031 (3CR)
CANADIAN ART FROM THE 1960S TO THE PRESENT
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course considers visual art in Canada from the mid-1960s to the present. It looks at a range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, audio, performance, installation, and Internet art. It investigates current issues in contemporary art practice including cultural identity, the politics of representation, gender and the body, audience, and censorship.

FINA 3041 (3CR)
MUSEUM STUDIES
Format: Seminar 3 Hours
Prereq: Two art history courses; or permission of the Department
This course examines the art museum within contemporary society. It considers the history and future shape of the museum, and examines current practice, issues, and debate. Topics covered include: the politics of the museum; its history and discourse; curatorial practice and the development of exhibitions; the museum and its publics; museums and new media; collections; and issues of artistic freedom and censorship.

FINA 3051 (3CR)
TWENTIETH CENTURY ART TO 1940
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course examines art and architecture in Europe and North America from 1900 to 1940. It covers schools and movements including the Secession, Expressionism, The Fauves, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Abstraction, Dada, Surrealism, and Social Realism, as well as artists working independently of any formal group. The architectural movements covered include Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Prairie style, and International style. Issues addressed in this course include gender, psychoanalysis, "primitivism," and the politics of colonialism and international warfare.

FINA 3061 (3CR)
MODERN ART FROM 1940 TO 1970
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course examines art and architecture in Europe and the United States from 1940 to 1970. It considers schools and movements including Abstract Expressionism, CoBrA, Pop Art, Junk Art, Minimalism, Kinetic Art, Op Art, Land Art, Process Art, Conceptual Art, Arte Povera and Performance Art, as well as artists and architects working independently of any formal group. Issues addressed in this course include notions of modernism and the avant-garde, gender, international warfare, post-World War II consumerism, internationalism, and the role of art critics in shaping a "canon" for twentieth-century art.

FINA 3071 (3CR)
CONTEMPORARY ART SINCE 1970
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course examines contemporary art and architecture since 1970 and focuses on themes including the body and identity. Topics include naturally, and culturally, constructed bodies, gender identity, sexual identities, ethnic bodies, abject bodies, and political and religious identities. This course will include art in a variety of media including the bodies of humans and animals, painting, sculpture, assemblage, installation, photography, printmaking, architecture, textiles, film, video, and performance art.

FINA 3081 (3CR)
WOMEN, ART AND SOCIETY
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course offers a history of women in art and society, with examples from the Medieval period through to the practice of women artists in contemporary culture. Drawing on social history, feminism and its implications, and the representation of women in the visual arts, this course will provide a better understanding of the situation of women artists within different social, regional and global contexts.

FINA 3141 (3CR)
NINETEENTH CENTURY ART, PART ONE
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course examines art and architecture during the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States and Western Europe (particularly Belgium, England, France, Germany and Spain). This course includes art in a variety of media and will pay particular attention to the inventions of lithography and photography during this time. Artistic movements such as Neo-Classicism, Romanticism and Realism will be considered in this course along with artists who worked independently from these movements.

FINA 3241 (3CR)
NINETEENTH CENTURY ART, PART TWO
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011; or permission of the Department
This course examines art and architecture during the second half of the nineteenth century in the United States and Western Europe (particularly Belgium, England, France, Germany and Spain). This course includes art in a variety of media and will pay particular attention to innovations in the production of photographs, etchings, and posters during this time. Artistic movements such as Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impression and Art Nouveau will be considered in this course.

FINA 4041 (3CR)
ART CRITICISM AND THEORY
Format: lecture 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011 plus two further courses in Art History at the 3/4000 level; or permission of the Department
Exclusion: FINA 4041-Principles of Art Criticism I, FINA 4051
A study of art criticism and theory within a selected time frame with emphasis on the writings of critics, artists and philosophers.

FINA 4091 (3CR)
ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ART HISTORY
Format: seminar 3 hours
Prereq: FINA 2001 and 2011 plus two further courses in Art History at the 3/4000 level; or permission of the Department
This course is a research seminar on key issues in nineteenth and twentieth century art, with topics to vary from term to term. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary, theoretical, methodological and critical approaches to the art of the recent past.

FINA 4950/4951 (6/3CR)
INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FINE ARTS
Format: Independent Study
Prereq: Permission of the Department/Program Advisor. Students must obtain consent of an instructor who is willing to be a supervisor and must register for the course prior to the last day for change of registration in the term during which the course is being taken.
Note: A program on Independent Study cannot duplicate subject matter covered through regular course offerings.
Note: Students may register for FINA 4950/51 more than once, provided the subject matter differs.
This course permits senior students, under the direction faculty members, to pursue their interest in areas not covered, or not covered in depth, by other courses through a program of independent study.

FINA 1991/2991/3991/4991 (3CR)
SPECIAL TOPIC IN FINE ARTS
Format: Variable
Prereq: Set by the Department/Program when the topic and level are announced
Note: When a Department or Program intends to offer a course under this designation, it must submit course information, normally at least three months in advance, to the Dean.
Note: Students may register for FINA 1991/2991/3991/4991 more than once, provided the subject matter differs.
This course either focuses on topics not covered by the current course offerings in a department or program or offers the opportunity to pilot a course that is being considered for inclusion in the regular program.

The following courses also count as Art History offerings:

CLAS 3601 (3CR)
THE BIRTH OF GREEK ART
Format: lecture 3 hours

CLAS 3611 (3CR)
THE SPLENDOURS OF CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC GREEK ART
Format: lecture 3 hours

CLAS 3701 (3CR)
ETRUSCAN AND EARLY ROMAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Format: lecture 3 hours

CLAS 3711 (3CR)
THE ART OF IMPERIAL ROME AND ITS EMPIRE
Format: lecture 3 hours

ENGL 3621 (3CR)
READING FILMS
Format: lecture 3 hours, laboratory 2 hours

FREN 2801 (3CR)
LE CINÉMA DU MONDE FRANCOPHONE
Format: lecture 3 hours

GERM 2701 (3CR)
THE NEW GERMAN FILM: HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE
Format: lecture 3 hours, film screening 2.5 hours

HIST 4001 (3CR)
HISTORY THROUGH FILM
Format: Seminar 3 Hours

PHIL 2401 (3CR)
INTRODUCTORY AESTHETICS
Format: Lecture 3 Hours