Certificate in Art History and Visual Culture
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This certificate is open to currently registered ɫֱ and King's students in all Faculties.
DzԳٲ/Ǵǰ徱Բٴǰ: Dr. Lisa Binkley, History Department
The Certificate in Art History and Visual Culture is designed for students in the arts, social sciences, and sciences who are interested in advancing their visual literacy. The ability to interpret meaning from images and objects is critical in our increasingly image-saturated culture. This certificate program will provide students with solid training in visual analysis, art history methodologies, research, and communication.
A Certificate in Art History and Visual Culture would be most obviously beneficial to students considering graduate studies or careers in Art History, Museum Studies, Museum Education, Arts Administration, Conservation, Cultural Studies, etc. However, the importance of developing visual literacy is being recognized much more broadly in today’s digital, image-based world (for example, courses in art history are now required at several top medical schools). Indeed, in many fields visual thinking is considered as crucial as verbal thinking. A Certificate in Art History and Visual Culture would therefore provide a sound complement to any area of studies in the humanities, sciences, or social sciences.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will cultivate visual literacy - the ability to interpret works of arts & visual culture both as formal structures and in relation to social, political, and cultural contexts - and develop a working knowledge of the vocabulary of art history and criticism.
- Students will learn to effectively use objects as primary sources and to articulate the relevance of art as both evidence of, and stimulus for, historical, social, political, and intellectual movements.
- Students will develop the ability to communicate their knowledge of visual culture both orally and in writing by learning how to synthesize a wide range of primary and secondary sources.
Students will be able to count credit earned in these courses toward their undergaduate major, minor, or distribution requirements, unless otherwise specified in their program's regulations.
Requirements:
This certificate is a12 credithour certificatewith one required 3 credit hour course (.03/.03). The remainder of the courses will be selected from a list of 3 credit hour electives. Students have the option to take one of their 3 credit hour electives at NSCAD University.
- .03: Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to Art History and Visual Culture (Cross-listed.03)
And nine additional credit hours drawn from the following list of electives:
Department of Classics:
- .03: The Roots of Greek Civilization (held every two years)
- .03: Ancient Art and Architecture from the Pyramids to the Agora
Contemporary Studies Programme:
- .03: The “Pictorial Turn” in Recent Thought, Art and Theory
- .03: Theories of the Avant-Garde
- .03: Modern Film and Theory of the Gaze
- .03: Art and Atrocity: Contemporary Contexts, Genedered Perspectives
Early Modern Studies Programme:
- .03: Violence and Wonder: Baroque Art
- .03: Picture and Poetry in Early Modern Culture
- .03: The Art of Global Encounters in the Early Moderen Period
- .06: Early Modern Art, Literature, and Politics in Florence, Italy (Summer Study Abroad)
- .03: Love, lust, and desire in Italian Renaissance Art (Cross-listed.03)
- .03: Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art and Science (cross-listed.03)
- .03: The Renaissance Print and Cross-Cultural Exchange
- .03: Art, Optics, and Technologies of Illusion (cross-listed.03)
- ,03: Studies in Early Modern Aesthetics
- .03: Honours Semnar in Early Modern Studies: The Development of Aesthetic Theory in the Early Modern Period I
- .03: Honours Seminar in Early Modern Studies: The Development of Aesthetic Theory in the Early Modern Period II
- .03: Special Topics in Early Modern Aesthetics
Department of English:
- .03: Cartoons and Comics
- .03: Images and Texts
- .03: Graphic Novels
- ENGL 4890.03: Indigenous Graphic Novels
Fountain School of Performing Arts:
- .03: Caves to Castles: Costume and Identity from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages
- .03: Castle to Café: Costume and Identity from 1450 to 1700
- .03: Language of Design
- .03: Baroque to Bustles: Costume from 1700 to 1900
- .03: Bustles to Boardrooms: Costume and Identity from 1900- Present Day
Film
- .03: Film History I
- .03 Film Analysis
- .03: Film History 2
- .03: Animated Film: Technologies, Characters and Society
Department of History:
- .03: Capital of Europe: Paris in the Nineteenth Century
- .03: Introduction to Art History and Visual Culture
- HiST 3212.03: A History of Indigenous Visual and Material Culture
- .03: Indigenous Textiles: Tourism, Industry, Globalization
- .03: De-Colonizing Modernism: Critiquing the Legacy of Modern Art (Cross-listed.03)
- xy.06: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture (taught in the Czech Republic)
- .03: Bella Figura: Display Behaviours in Baroque Europe
- .03: Museums, Archives, and Material Culture (cross-listed)
- .03: The Birth of Pop: How Victorian Visual Culture Makes Meaning (Cross-listed.03)
History of Science and Technology Programme:
- .03: Artefacts: The Material Culture of Science and Technology
Indigenous Studies:
- .03: Contemporary Indigenous Art(Cross-listed.03)
Department of Philosophy:
- .03: Philosophy of Art