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VPAC13H3 - Planning and Project Management in the Arts and Cultural Sector

This course is designed to provide a foundation for project management and strategic planning knowledge and skills. Topics such as project and event management as well as strategic and business planning include how to understand organizational resource-management and consultative processes, contexts, and impacts, will be discussed and practiced through group and individual assignments.

Prerequisite: 8.0 credits including [VPAB13H3 and VPAB16H3]
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPAC15H3 - Cultural Policy

A survey of the principles, structures, and patterns of cultural policy and how these impact arts and media funding structures in Canada, nationally and internationally. Through original research including interviews in the sector, group and individual assignments will explore a wide range of cultural policy issues, processes, and theoretical commitments underpinning the subsidized arts, commercial and public media industries, and hybrid cultural enterprises, critically exploring the role of advocacy and the strengths and weaknesses of particular policy approaches.

Prerequisite: [8.0 credits, including VPAA10H3 and VPAA12H3] or [8.0 credits, including: SOCB58H3 and registration in the Minor Program in Culture, Creativity, and Cities]
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPAC16H3 - Contracts and Copyright

A study of essential legal and practical issues relevant to the arts and media workplace, with a particular focus on contracts, contract negotiation, and copyright.

Prerequisite: 8.0 credits including VPAA10H3 and VPAA12H3 and VPAB16H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPAC17H3 - Marketing in the Arts and Media

An advanced study of marketing in the arts and media sectors. Through group and individual assignments including the development of a marketing and promotions plan, this course facilitates a sophisticated understanding of the knowledge and skills required for arts and media managers to be responsive to varied market groups and changing market environments and successfully bring creative and cultural production and audiences together.

Prerequisite: VPAA10H3 and VPAA12H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPAC18H3 - Raising Funds in Arts and Media

An advanced study of fundraising and resource development in the arts and media sector. This course facilitates a sophisticated understanding of knowledge and skills required for arts and media managers to develop varied revenue streams, including grantwriting, media funding, and contributed revenue strategies to support artistic missions. Through group and individual assignments, the course culminates in pitch packages or grant applications for real-life programs including creative briefs, budgets, financing plans, and timelines

Prerequisite: VPAA12H3 and VPAB13H3 and VPAB16H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPAC21H3 - Special Topics in Arts Management I

Special topics for intensive practical, theoretical and/or experiential study of some specific aspects of Arts Management. The topic(s) to be explored in this course will change from session to session.

Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including [VPAA10H3 and VPAA12H3 and VPAB16H3]
Exclusion: (VPAD13H3)
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPAC22H3 - Special Topics in Arts Management II

Special topics for intensive practical, theoretical and/or experiential study of some specific aspects of Arts Management. The topic(s) to be explored in this course will change from session to session.

Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including [VPAA10H3 and VPAA12H3 and VPAB16H3]
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPAD10H3 - Good, Better, Best: Case Study Senior Seminar

This course will prepare students for the realities of working in and leading arts and media organizations by challenging them with real-world problems via case studies and simulations. Through individual and group assignments involving research in the field that culminates in an original case presentation and report, students will consider, compare, explain, and defend decisions and actions in real-life organizations to develop their ability to demonstrate effective and ethical approaches to arts and media management.

Prerequisite: At least 14.0 credits, including 1.0 credit at the C-level in VPA courses.
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Note: Preference is given to students enrolled in the Major programs in Arts & Media Management. This course requires ancillary fees (case study fees)

VPAD11H3 - Focus on the Field: Senior Research Seminar

Are you interested in researching hands-on professional practice to synthesize and apply the theory-based learning you have undertaken in arts and media management about how people and organizations work in the culture sector and media industries? In this course, you will propose your own research project to examine how a specific creative business (such as a creative hub, media company or performing or visual arts organization) and its related practices operate, exploring specific areas of arts or media management practice, theory, history or emergent issues. While the creative ecosystem is made up of a broad and sometimes baffling array of for-profit, non-profit and hybrid ways of doing things, this course will provide insights into an organization of your choice.

Prerequisite: At least 14.0 full credits, including 1.0 full credit at the C level in VPA courses.
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

VPAD12H3 - Senior Collaborative Projects

This course is an intensive synthesis and application of prior learning through collaborative project-based practice. Students will lead and actively contribute to one or more major initiative(s) that will allow them to apply the principles and employ the practices of effective arts and media management.

Prerequisite: At least 14.0 credits including VPAC13H3.
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Note: Restricted to students enrolled in the Specialist Program in Arts Management.

VPAD14H3 - Independent Studies in Arts Management

A directed research and/or project-oriented course for students who have demonstrated a high level of academic maturity and competence. Qualified students will have the opportunity to investigate an area of interest to both student and the Director in traditional or emerging subjects related to the field of Arts Management.

Prerequisite: At least 1.0 credit at the C-level in Arts Management courses. Written consent and approval of a formal proposal in the approved format must be obtained from the supervising instructor and Program Director by the last date of classes in the previous academic session.
Exclusion: MGTD80H3
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

VPHA46H3 - Ways of Seeing: Introduction to Art Histories

How and why are objects defined as Art? How do these definitions vary across cultures and time periods? Studying different approaches to writing art history and considering a wide range of media from photography to printmaking and installation arts.

Exclusion: (FAH100Y), FAH101H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB39H3 - Ten Key Words in Art History: Unpacking Methodology

Key concepts in art history, including intention, meaning, style, materiality, identity, production, reception, gender, visuality, and history. Students will explore critical questions such as whether and how to read artist's biographies into their art. This course helps students understand the discipline and develops critical thinking and research skills required in advanced courses.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3 or ACMA01H3
Exclusion: FAH102H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB40H3 - Exhibiting Art

This course offers a critical look at ways of exhibiting art, including exploring the exhibitions and collection of the Doris McCarthy Gallery and the public sculptures located on campus. Through readings, discussions and site visits we will consider the nature of exhibitions, their audiences and current practices juxtaposed with investigations of the history and practice of display.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Exclusion: VPSB73H3, (VPHB71H3), FAH310H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

VPHB50H3 - Africa Through the Photographic Lens

The centrality of photographic practice to African cultures and histories from the period of European imperialism, the rise of modernist "primitivism" and the birth of ethnology and anthropology to contemporary African artists living on the continent and abroad.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3 or ACMA01H3 or AFSA01H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB53H3 - Medieval Art

The origins of European artistic traditions in the early Christian, Mediterranean world; how these traditions were influenced by classical, Byzantine, Moslem and pagan forms; how they developed in an entirely new form of artistic expression in the high Middle Ages; and how they led on to the Renaissance.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Exclusion: FAH215H, FAH216H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB58H3 - Modern Art and Culture

A study of nineteenth and twentieth-century arts and visual media, across genres and cultures. What did modernity mean in different cultural contexts? How is 'modern' art or 'modernism' defined? How did the dynamic cultural, economic, and socio-political shifts of the globalizing and industrializing modern world affect the visual ars and their framing?

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Exclusion: FAH245H, FAH246H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB59H3 - Current Art Practices

Shifts in theory and practice in art of the past fifty years. Studying selected artists' works from around the world, we explore how notions of modern art gave way to new ideas about media, patterns of practice, and the relations of art and artists to the public, to their institutional contexts, and to globalized cultures.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3 or VPHB39H3
Exclusion: FAH245H, FAH246H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB63H3 - Fame, Spectacle and Glory: Objects of the Italian Renaissance

This course is an introduction to art and visual culture produced in Italy ca. 1350-1550. Students will explore new artistic media and techniques, along with critical issues of social, cultural, intellectual, theoretical and religious contexts that shaped the form and function of art made during this era.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Exclusion: FAH230H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB64H3 - Baroque Visions

This course introduces the art and culture of 17th century Europe and its colonies. Art of the Baroque era offers rich opportunities for investigations of human exploration in geographic, spiritual, intellectual and political realms. We will also consider the development of the artist and new specializations in subject and media.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Exclusion: FAH231H, FAH279H
Recommended Preparation: VPHB63H3 or VPHB74H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB68H3 - Art and the Everyday: Mass Culture and the Visual Arts

This course explores the relationship between visuality and practices of everyday life. It looks at the interaction of the political, economic and aesthetic aspects of mass media with the realm of "fine" arts across history and cultures. We will explore notions of the public, the mass, and the simulacrum.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

VPHB69H3 - Back to the Land: Restoring Embodied and Affective Ways of Knowing

In this course students will learn about sustainability thinking, its key concepts, historical development and applications to current environmental challenges. More specifically, students will gain a better understanding of the complexity of values, knowledge, and problem framings that sustainability practice engages with through a focused interdisciplinary study of land. This is a required course for the Certificate in Sustainability, a certificate available to any student at UTSC.
Same as ESTB03H3

Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

VPHB73H3 - Visualizing Asia

A survey of the art of China, Japan, Korean, India, and Southeast Asia. We will examine a wide range of artistic production, including ritual objects, painting, calligraphy, architectural monuments, textile, and prints. Special attention will be given to social contexts, belief systems, and interregional exchanges.
Same as GASB73H3

Prerequisite: ACMA01H3 or VPHA46H3 or GASA01H3
Exclusion: GASB73H3, FAH260H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB74H3 - Not the Italian Renaissance: Art in Early Modern Europe

This course explores the rich visual culture produced in northern and central Europe 1400-1600. Topics such as the rise of print culture, religious conflict, artistic identity, contacts with other cultures and the development of the art market will be explored in conjunction with new artistic techniques, styles and materials.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Exclusion: FAH230H, FAH274H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

VPHB77H3 - Modern Asian Art

An introduction to modern Asian art through domestic, regional, and international exhibitions. Students will study the multilayered new developments of art and art institutions in China, Japan, Korea, India, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as explore key issues such as colonial modernity, translingual practices, and multiple modernism.
Same as GASB77H3

Prerequisite: ACMA01H3 or VPHA46H3 or GASA01H3
Exclusion: GASB77H3, FAH262H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHB78H3 - Our Town, Our Art: Local Collections I

Local arts institutions are often taken for granted but understanding how and why collections are formed, why they are significant, and how they relate to larger art historical contexts provides important object-based learning opportunities. Students will explore these issues using a focused collection in the Royal Ontario Museum, the Aga Khan Museum or the Textile Museum.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

VPHB79H3 - Our Town, Our Art: Local Collections II

Local arts institutions are often taken for granted but understanding how and why collections are formed, why they are significant, and how they relate to larger art historical contexts provides important object-based learning opportunities. Students will explore these using a focused collection in the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Prerequisite: VPHA46H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience
Note: Some classes will be held at the museum; students should be prepared to travel.

VPHC41H3 - Carolingian and Romanesque Art

Major artistic and architectural monuments of Europe from the Carolingian renaissance to the renaissance of the twelfth century, considered in relation to geographical context, to monasticism and pilgrimage, to artistic developments of the contemporary Mediterranean world, and to the art and architecture of the later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Armenia, Islam and the art of the invasion period.

Prerequisite: VPHB53H3
Exclusion: (VPHB42H3), FAH215H
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

VPHC42H3 - Gothic Art and Architecture

Current scholarship is expanding and challenging how we decide "what is Gothic?" We will examine a variety of artworks, considering artistic culture, social, cultural, and physical contexts as well. Style, techniques, patronage, location in time and space, and importance of decoration (sculpture, stained glass, painting, tapestry) will be among topics discussed.

Prerequisite: VPHB53H3
Exclusion: FAH328H, FAH351H5, (FAH369H)
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

VPHC45H3 - Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Art

Special topics in twentieth-century painting and sculpture. The subject will change from time to time. After introductory sessions outlining the subject and ways of getting information about it, seminar members will research and present topics of their choice.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the VPHB-level
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language