Theatre

THEA 102 — Theatre Appreciation: From Page to Stage

THEA 102

Theatre Appreciation: From Page to Stage

CRN: 30416

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
10:30a - 12:20p	MTWRF	Phoenix Theatre 102	Jun 07 - Jun 29	Lecture

This is a course designed to enhance your understanding and appreciation of today’s theatre. Assignments include attendance at live theatre performances.

We will explore the art form from a number of perspectives, and examine the roles of actor, director, playwright, dramaturge, designer, and stage manager in theprocess of creating theatre. The course will give you insight into the responsibilities of each position. Through ensemble work, writing a short play, scene work, producing a short production, and attendance at live performances, you will gain an increased appreciation of the theatre and the tasks involved in making it happen.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. To learn the theory surrounding the practice of theatre professionals
2. To attend live scripted and improvised professional theatre and evaluate it
3. To increase students’ range of creative expression
4. To work cooperatively within a group
5. To undertake scene study and develop skills in script analysis, rehearsal technique, and research.
6. To learn the vocabulary of theatre practitioners
7. To gain confidence in performing in front of others
   

THEA 122 — The Acting Experience

THEA 122

The Acting Experience
Leslie D. Bland

CRN: 30417

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
10:30a - 12:20p	MTWRF	Phoenix Theatre 102	May 14 - Jun 06	Lecture

This course will explore the complex process of the art of acting. Students will experience this process through a variety of exercises and assignments that will focus on such elements of acting as: Relaxation, Observation, Imagination, Character and Scene Analysis, Character and Scene Study.

The study of acting is an ongoing process of discovery and the following objectives from the parameters and framework of our study:

• To explore the art of acting,
• To develop skill in the use of improvised material as an actor's tool,
• To increase the range of creative expression,
• To undertake scene study and develop skills in script analysis, rehearsal technique and research,
• To learn the actor's vocabulary.

Work will be discussed and evaluated in class both by the instructor and students. Observing and learning from the work of others is an important aspect of the acting process.

THEA 150 — Public Speaking

THEA 150

Public Speaking
Leslie D. Bland

CRN: 30418

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
2:30p - 4:20p	MTWRF	Phoenix Theatre 102	May 14 - Jun 06	Lecture

CRN: 30419

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
12:30p - 2:20p	MTWRF	Phoenix Theatre 102	Jun 07 - Jun 29	Lecture

CRN: 30420

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
12:30p - 2:20p	MTWRF	Phoenix Theatre 102	Jul 04 - Jul 26	Lecture

Most people find themselves in situations in which they must make oral presentations and communicate effectively. This course is designed to improve verbal and nonverbal communication skills, and allowstudents to learn techniques that will improve the quality and confidence of their oral presentations.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the completion of this course you will:

1. Be exposed to a warm-up routine of exercises that can be used to prepare for presentations, and to aid in the on-going improvement of vocal production.
2. Understand how the vocal instrument functions.
3. Effectively prepare verbal presentations.
4. Deliver speeches that are clear, concise, interesting, entertaining, command attention, and are appropriately targeted to an audience.
5. Perform self-analysis of your own work to identify strengths and points of weakness that need improvement.
6. Be able to critically analyze verbal presentations of others and provide constructive feedback.

Fine Arts

FA 200 — Canadian films don’t suck (and i can prove it!)

FA 200

Canadian films don’t suck (and i can prove it!)
Michael Giampa

CRN: 31272

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
12:30p - 2:20p	MTWRF	Cornett Building B143	May 14 - Jun 06	Lecture Topic

This course aims to shake the stereotype and show there is far more to the films hailing from our Home and Native Land than those about coming of age on the angst-ridden prairies. We are currently at the forefront of many movements – leading in First Nations films (Atanarjuat: Fast Runner), queer cinema (C.R.A.Z.Y.), documentaries, shorts... not to mention festivals, schools and cooperatives. But it’s not all about art and social issues. Our filmmakers also kick cinematic ass with guilty pleasures like Ginger Snaps, Fido, A History of Violence, Hobo with a Shotgun and Cube. So sign up and see (via lectures, films, clips, guests and creative exercises) that Canadian movies run the gamut from pure exploitation to pure abstraction. And – yes – there are even a few depressing ones in the mix.

FA 300 — Graphic Novels and Comic Art

FA 300

Graphic Novels and Comic Art
Peter Sandmark

CRN: 30390

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
2:30p - 4:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	Jul 04 - Jul 26	Lecture Topic

FA 346 — Avatars and Information Agents

Doug Jarvis avatar exploring Google Street view in the virtual environment of BlueMars.

FA 346

Avatars and Information Agents
Doug Jarvis

CRN: 30391

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
10:30a - 12:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	Jun 07 - Jun 29	Lecture

Create an avatar, explore a virtual world, and then determine its fate!

To participate in social media, online gaming, even College and University, you need to create some form of unique digital profile that becomes your representation in a virtual or information space. Digital culture has ushered in what is being called our ‘second self’, a coded version of us that lives on computer servers and in the wireless, networked world of information bits and bytes. Avatars and information agents are what we call these virtual versions of ourselves and managing all of these identities is becoming a challenge within the multiple dimensions of our mediated world.

Avatars and Information Agents is a practice-based lecture course that critically engages the role of our virtual entities and the increasing relationship we have with computer-based technologies in life and the arts. During the three-week course, through discussions, videos, lectures and computer-lab studio time we will explore the social, historical, and cultural aspects of our avatars and information agents. Each student will design and create a new avatar, hang out with it, explore virtual environments and then, ultimately, determine its fate!

Previous art and computer experience is not required but a curiosity about avatars and how they work will certainly help.

History in Art

HA 355A — Art & Architecture of Ancient Egypt: Old and Middle Kingdom

HA 355A

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt: Old and Middle Kingdom
Dennine Dudley

CRN: 31329

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
10:30a - 12:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	May 14 - Jun 06	Lecture

A thorough survey of Dynastic Egypt from 3200 BCE to about 1750 BCE. Through the examination of artifacts, monuments and texts, investigates the influence of social and religious thought upon Egyptian art.

HA 355B — Art & Architecture of Ancient Egypt: New Kingdom and Late

HA 355B

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt: New Kingdom and Late Period
Dennine Dudley

CRN: 31331

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
10:30a - 12:20p	MTWRF	Clearihue Building A303	Jun 07 - Jun 29	Lecture

A thorough survey of Dynastic Egypt from about 1550 BCE to 30 BCE. Through the examination of artifacts, monuments and texts, investigates the influence of social and religious thought upon Egyptian art.

HA 363 — The Cinema and Modern Art Movements

HA 363

The Cinema and Modern Art Movements
Mitchell Parry

CRN: 30392

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
2:30p - 4:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	May 14 - Jun 06	Lecture

An examination of the history of film in relationship to the major art movements of the 20th century. Students will view and analyze films by such directors as Lang, Eisenstein, Bunuel, Brakhage, and Snow; these films will be discussed in the light of their connection to such influential modern art movements as German Expressionism, Russian Constructivism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual Art.

HA 368B — History of 20th Century Canadian Art

HA 368B

History of 20th Century Canadian Art
Christopher Thomas

CRN: 30393

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
12:30p - 2:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	Jun 07 - Jun 29	Lecture

A history of the visual arts, especially painting and sculpture, from the end of World War I to the 1970s. Begins with the mature work of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries and ends with a treatment of the "postmodernist" reactions to international modernism in the late sixties and seventies.

HA 392 A01 — The Body: Spiritual and Erotic in Indian Art

HA 392 A01

The Body: Spiritual and Erotic in Indian Art
Astri Wright

CRN: 31042

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
12:30p - 2:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	May 14 - Jun 06	Lecture Topic

"In this course, we explore the human figure in the art of Hindu and Buddhist cultures in India, from the 3rd C BCE to the 14th C CE. One of the issues that has mystified scholars, both British-Colonial and Indian (trained in British institutions and values till recent decades), is the presence of what to European eyes looks like erotic art in Indian art record. A binary is set up here, between body and mind, eros and the spiritual. Is this accurate to the Indian understandings of the body, within Hindu and Buddhist cultures? In this course, we will explore historical Indian approaches to imaging and interpreting the body in stone, paint, and poetry."

NOTE: May be taken more than once for credit in different topics with permission of the Chair of the department, to a maximum of 6 units.

HA 392 A02 — Apocalypse in Film

HA 392 A02

Apocalypse in Film
Mitchell Parry

CRN: 30394

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
2:30p - 4:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	Jun 07 - Jun 29	Lecture Topic

One clear virtue of film lies in its ability to depict possible worlds for the spectator.  Audiences are allowed to see their dreams and nightmares projected before their eyes, without needing to undergo the direct risks such experiences would demand in actuality.  One puzzling (though perhaps inevitable) development to grow out of this dynamic is the medium’s fascination with depictions of ultimate catastrophe—with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic visions of the world.  In this course we will examine some of the recurrent themes and motifs in films that depict “the end of the world,” in an effort to come to an understanding—however partial—of the fears and desires that such films satisfy.

NOTE: May be taken more than once for credit in different topics with permission of the Chair of the department, to a maximum of 6 units. 

HA 392 A03 — From Versailles to Victoria: A History of Gardens

HA 392 A03

From Versailles to Victoria:  A History of Gardens
Susan Hawkins

CRN: 31336

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
10:30a - 12:20p	MTWRF	Fine Arts Building 103	Jul 04 - Jul 26	Lecture Topic

From Versailles to Victoria: A History of Gardens addresses itself to students with a passionate interest in the diverse and complex evolution of garden history. The course’s main emphasis is on detailed analysis of specific gardens in all parts of the world, with focus on both design and reception. The course is also specifically focused on garden and landscape history as part of wider contexts such as social and cultural history and geography, aesthetics, technology, horticulture, presentation, sustainable conservation and ecological purpose. It will provide an introduction to the interdisciplinary subject of garden history and will then go on to consider Victoria’s gardens from the early twentieth century to present day. By studying different periods and trends, including British, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Mogul, and Indigenous, the garden historian is able to understand the significance of gardens and the importance of their design. The course is intended to develop students’ knowledge, critical powers and judgment applied to garden and landscape history and also to the issues surrounding historic gardens, landscape art, garden myth and legend, and ecological advances in garden and landscape philosophy and design. The subject will be related to other disciplines such as history of art, visual art and architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, and the history of ideas. Teaching takes the form of lectures, field trips, and class presentations by students individually or in groups.

NOTE: May be taken more than once for credit in different topics with permission of the Chair of the department, to a maximum of 6 units.

Writing

WRIT 302 A01 — Writing Hip Hop

WRIT 302 A01

Writing Hip Hop
Jason Jobin

CRN: 31039

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
6:00p - 8:50p	MW	Fine Arts Building 103	May 14 - Jun 29	Lecture

This course, though it will include listening components, is focused on the writing behind the music: the rhymes, the techniques, the syncopation of a rap song, and how the way it is written translates to the way it is eventually spoken or performed. There will be assignments examining written technique and rhyme schemes, as well as a final written project either examing a particular artist’s hip hop writing or writing an original song.

WRIT 302 A02 — Spoken-Word Slam

WRIT 302 A02

Spoken-Word Slam
Kyeren Regehr

CRN: 31513

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
10:30a - 1:20p	TR	Cornett Building A225	May 14 - Jun 29	Lecture

Why should poets have all the fun? Slam artists are the revolutionaries of the poetry world, competitvely voicing their deftly crafted opinion since the 80s. This multi-genre slam class will get you writing edgy performance pieces in your preferred genre, and show you how to take your work, or the work of another artist, to the competitve stage. This course will culminate in a cross-genre summer slam: who’ll collect the crown?

WRIT 314 — Writing on the Road

WRIT 314

Writing on the Road
Matthew Hooton

CRN: 30454

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
6:00p - 8:50p	TR	Fine Arts Building 103	Jul 04 - Aug 20	Lecture

A lecture course examining travel literature in all its forms: fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, and the graphic novel, from Bruce Chatwin’s Songlines, to Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang. Students will be exposed to a variety of texts and perspectives while examing how an expanding worldview affects narrative.

NOTE: Open to Writing majors in all genres and students from all faculties with second-year standing. Eligible as a senior-year elective for the Minor in Professional Writing.

WRIT 410 — Lights, Camera, Sketch!

WRIT 410

Lights, Camera, Sketch!
Ryan Harper-Brown

CRN: 31040

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
2:30p - 5:20p	MW	MacLaurin Building D111	Jul 04 - Aug 20	Lecture

This course gets students actively involved with writing, producing, and promoting a 45 minute original comedy revue. Participants will take on various roles, get first hand experience putting together a real production, and learn to work with budgets, groups, and time constraints. The revue, performed live in front of an audience, will be taped and edited for internet distribution and DVD. Classes will mix seminar with group work and practical workshops; most rehearsals will take place outside of class time as homework hours.

WRIT 412 — Art of the Action Film

WRIT 412

Art of the Action Film
Michael Giampa

CRN: 30455

Time	Days	Where	Date Range	Schedule
6:00p - 8:50p	TF	Fine Arts Building 103	May 14 - Jun 29	Lecture

What is the body count racked up by Bruce Lee -- or Bruce Willis? And why does it matter? How come hearts race watching Sigourney Weaver wipe out Aliens or Uma Thurman carve up Carradine in Kill Bill? Because there is a raw artistry and cultural impact in actioners. Violence as ballet. Revenge as social catharsis. This course will look into that via lectures, feature films, film clips, film industry guests and fun, creative exercises as it examines the gamut of superheroes and sidekicks (figuratively and literally). From silent star Harold Lloyd balancing atop a train in Shy Girl to Will Smith punching one off the tracks in Hancock, the action genre has kicked and clawed itself into all of the top-20 grossing films of all time. And for bloody good reason.