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GRAD STUDENT INFORMATION
Master's students
MA courses 2022-23
*All courses can be adapted for and delivered in the emergency remote teaching mode, if required.
ARTE 670 Critical Perspectives on Art Education: History, Theory and Practice (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Anita Sinner, anita.sinner@concordia.ca
A seminar course in which students develop critical reading and writing skills while adding to their understanding of trends past and present that have shaped the field of art education.
ARTE 672 Advanced Critical Analysis (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 670)
Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: TBD
A seminar course in which students develop advanced skills in critical analysis, academic writing and library research. Assignments include compiling and writing a review of literature on a topic of research or professional interest.
ARTE 680 Foundations for Inquiry (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00-18:00
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Lorrie Blair, lorrie.blair@concordia.ca
A seminar course in which students are introduced to the basic concepts, terminology, and contexts of inquiry in art education. Students learn about the practice of systematic inquiry, including: identifying and articulating a topic or question; situating the inquiry within a theoretical framework; relating the inquiry to art education practices; and selecting appropriate inquiry procedures. Each student develops a proposal for a small-scale project related to his/her particular art education interests.
ARTE 682 Research Practice (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 680 )
Term: Winter
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00 - 18:00
Place: EV 5.825
Instructor: Lorrie Blair, lorrie.blair@concordia.ca
A seminar course in which students conduct a small-scale research project based on their own research proposal. Students are introduced to appropriate forms and practices for conducting the project and presenting the results.
ARTE 606 Studio Inquiry (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Thursday 14:00-18:00
Room: EV 5-825
Instructor: Richard Lachapelle, richard.lachapelle@concordia.ca
Topic: Nature Culture
The fall 2022 section of the course ARTE 606/806 Studio Inquiry/Inquiry through Art Production will explore the topic NATURE/CULTURE. Through an investigative process focussing on art making, we’ll explore the connection between nature and culture. We’ll attempt to answer questions such as: “What is the relationship between nature and culture? Is there a clear boundary between these two realms? If so, where can we draw the line? Are humans from nature or part of culture? Has humankind permanently or irreparably severed its connection with nature? What might the future hold for nature and culture?” Students will be free to investigate this topic and related themes using either traditional art methods (painting, drawing) or more contemporary forms (video, performance, installation, digital art). Students with an established art practice will be free to pursue their ongoing interests.
ARTE 606 Studio Inquiry (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 14:00-18:00
Room: EV 5-825
Instructor: Joanna Joachim, joanna.joachim@concordia.ca
Topic: Into the Void, Archival Inquiries in Art Education
Archives serve a valuable purpose through their personal, social, academic, and historical contributions to our societies. Through guided activities with primary sources, learners can develop critical thinking as well as visual literacy skills and become increasingly engaged in their education and research. Similarly, speculation, critical fabulation and archival inquiry in art open the possibility for educators and researchers to practice and investigate new possibilities for art education. This course will explore the intersection of critical archival studies and art education. We will examine the ways in which Black artists and writers use critical archival practices to grapple with and complicate personal, cultural, and social histories. In this research informed studio course students will be challenged to consider issues of archival opacity, critical fabulation, and art making to both continue individual artistic inquiry and consider new possibilities for art education.
ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Fall
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Lorrie Blair, lorrie.blair@concordia.ca
Topic: Speculative Pedagogies: Imagining Art Education Futures
Recent events have left many feeling that the future is unpredictable and uncertain. In this course, we will take the opportunity to think about how artists and educators can create positive visions of the future. We begin by questioning how we viewed the future in the past, and explore strategies that give agency to allow us to shape desired futures. Moving from “the” future to alternative futures, we will map alternative futures that are participatory and open to different ways of knowing.
ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Anita Sinner, anita.sinner@concordia.ca
Topic: Object itineraries: Crafting visual life writing as métissage
The aim of this course is to survey the pedagogic potential of object itineraries, or simply, the journey of things, as artists, researchers and teachers of art education. Informed by visual life writing, and with dispositions of new materialism and more-than-humanism, we interrogate how artefacts ‘enflesh’ object-body-space, and how we map our geographies as relational, contingent, and entangled storied encounters.
Bringing theory-practice together, we explore why artwork scholarship – an umbrella term for arts-based educational research, visual art practice, a/r/tography and artistic research – opens latitudes for stories across domains of visual, literary, performative and digital arts (including but not limited to social fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, dance, music, time capsules, virtual platforms, digital storytelling, photo-voice, comics and more).
We will experiment with artful applications of life writing and collaborate with international partners to explore how immersive activations serve as sites of inquiry. Student projects will engage in expansive, continuous variations, such as:
- Curating stories about the classroom, beyond the classroom: Objects in the lives of teachers
- Things in motion: Transnational geographies
- Sense-making: Body, objects and spaces
- You are here: Tracing ego-medias as virtual constructs
- Objects as translanguaging: Negotiating art education internationally
- ‘The stories nice things tell about us; the stories we tell ourselves about nice things’
- Visual journals: Archiving the self-in-relation as currere
- Object itineraries and EDIA+: Counter-narratives and dissident stories as pedagogy
- Things that can/not be undone: Public art as pedagogic prompts
- Stolen art: Tenuous relations with museums today
- Contested ground: Legacies of Indigenous-settler relations
- Animating interior worlds: Speculative fiction and experimental life writing
Questions? Please email the instructor.
Suggested MA student timeline
| Fall | Winter | |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 670 | 672 |
| 680 | 682 | |
| 606 | 660 | |
| Year 2 | Elective | Thesis work |
| Thesis work |
| Fall | Winter | Summer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 670 | 672 | 607 |
| 606 | 682 | Elective | |
| 680 | 660 | ||
| Year 2 | 660 | 660 | Elective |
| 660 | Elective | ||
| Elective | Elective |
Doctoral students
PhD courses 2022-23
*All courses can be adapted for and delivered in the emergency remote teaching mode, if required.
ARTE 870 Critical Perspectives on Art Education: History, Theory and Practice (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Anita Sinner, anita.sinner@concordia.ca
A seminar course in which students develop critical reading and writing skills while adding to their understanding of trends past and present that have shaped the field of art education.
ARTE 872 Advanced Critical Analysis (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 870)
Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 18:30-20:30
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: TBD
A seminar course in which students develop advanced skills in critical analysis, academic writing and library research. Assignments include compiling and writing a review of literature on a topic of research or professional interest.
ARTE 880 Foundations for Inquiry (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00-18:00
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Lorrie Blair, lorrie.blair@concordia.ca
A seminar course in which students are introduced to the basic concepts, terminology, and contexts of inquiry in art education. Students learn about the practice of systematic inquiry, including: identifying and articulating a topic or question; situating the inquiry within a theoretical framework; relating the inquiry to art education practices; and selecting appropriate inquiry procedures. Each student develops a proposal for a small-scale project related to his/her particular art education interests.
ARTE 882 Research Practice (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 880 )
Term: Winter
Day/time: Wednesday 16:00 - 18:00
Place: EV 5.825
Instructor: Lorrie Blair, lorrie.blair@concordia.ca
A seminar course in which students conduct a small-scale research project based on their own research proposal. Students are introduced to appropriate forms and practices for conducting the project and presenting the results.
ARTE 884 Doctoral Seminar (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Wednesday 18:30-20:30
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Juan Carlos Castro, juancarlos.castro@concordia.ca
This course addresses research and communication, thesis writing, and professional practice.
ARTE 806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Thursday 14:00-18:00
Room: EV 5-825
Instructor: Richard Lachapelle, richard.lachapelle@concordia.ca
Topic: Nature Culture
The fall 2022 section of the course ARTE 606/806 Studio Inquiry/Inquiry through Art Production will explore the topic NATURE/CULTURE. Through an investigative process focussing on art making, we’ll explore the connection between nature and culture. We’ll attempt to answer questions such as: “What is the relationship between nature and culture? Is there a clear boundary between these two realms? If so, where can we draw the line? Are humans from nature or part of culture? Has humankind permanently or irreparably severed its connection with nature? What might the future hold for nature and culture?” Students will be free to investigate this topic and related themes using either traditional art methods (painting, drawing) or more contemporary forms (video, performance, installation, digital art). Students with an established art practice will be free to pursue their ongoing interests.
ARTE 806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 14:00-18:00
Room: EV 5-825
Instructor: Joanna Joachim, joanna.joachim@concordia.ca
Topic: Into the Void, Archival Inquiries in Art Education
Archives serve a valuable purpose through their personal, social, academic, and historical contributions to our societies. Through guided activities with primary sources, learners can develop critical thinking as well as visual literacy skills and become increasingly engaged in their education and research. Similarly, speculation, critical fabulation and archival inquiry in art open the possibility for educators and researchers to practice and investigate new possibilities for art education. This course will explore the intersection of critical archival studies and art education. We will examine the ways in which Black artists and writers use critical archival practices to grapple with and complicate personal, cultural, and social histories. In this research informed studio course students will be challenged to consider issues of archival opacity, critical fabulation, and art making to both continue individual artistic inquiry and consider new possibilities for art education.
ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Fall
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Lorrie Blair, lorrie.blair@concordia.ca
Topic: Speculative Pedagogies: Imagining Art Education Futures
Recent events have left many feeling that the future is unpredictable and uncertain. In this course, we will take the opportunity to think about how artists and educators can create positive visions of the future. We begin by questioning how we viewed the future in the past, and explore strategies that give agency to allow us to shape desired futures. Moving from “the” future to alternative futures, we will map alternative futures that are participatory and open to different ways of knowing.
ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Room: EV 5.825
Instructor: Anita Sinner, anita.sinner@concordia.ca
Topic: Object itineraries: Crafting visual life writing as métissage
The aim of this course is to survey the pedagogic potential of object itineraries, or simply, the journey of things, as artists, researchers and teachers of art education. Informed by visual life writing, and with dispositions of new materialism and more-than-humanism, we interrogate how artefacts ‘enflesh’ object-body-space, and how we map our geographies as relational, contingent, and entangled storied encounters.
Bringing theory-practice together, we explore why artwork scholarship – an umbrella term for arts-based educational research, visual art practice, a/r/tography and artistic research – opens latitudes for stories across domains of visual, literary, performative and digital arts (including but not limited to social fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, dance, music, time capsules, virtual platforms, digital storytelling, photo-voice, comics and more).
We will experiment with artful applications of life writing and collaborate with international partners to explore how immersive activations serve as sites of inquiry. Student projects will engage in expansive, continuous variations, such as:
- Curating stories about the classroom, beyond the classroom: Objects in the lives of teachers
- Things in motion: Transnational geographies
- Sense-making: Body, objects and spaces
- You are here: Tracing ego-medias as virtual constructs
- Objects as translanguaging: Negotiating art education internationally
- ‘The stories nice things tell about us; the stories we tell ourselves about nice things’
- Visual journals: Archiving the self-in-relation as currere
- Object itineraries and EDIA+: Counter-narratives and dissident stories as pedagogy
- Things that can/not be undone: Public art as pedagogic prompts
- Stolen art: Tenuous relations with museums today
- Contested ground: Legacies of Indigenous-settler relations
- Animating interior worlds: Speculative fiction and experimental life writing
Questions? Please email the instructor.
Other resources & forms
- Apply for assistantships
- Fill out the Reserved Courses for Graduate Students Application to teach part-time (PhD students preferred)
- Independent study guidelines
- Course substitution guidelines
- PhD: comprehensive exam guidelines
Support contacts
For registration please contact the graduate program assistant arte.gpa@concordia.ca
Graduate Program Director, Vivek Venkatesh vivek.venkatesh@concordia.ca
