REQUIRED/CORE COURSES

ARTE 670/870 Critical Perspectives on Art Education: History, Theory and Practice (3 credits)

Semester: Fall Day & Time: Monday 18:30-20:30 Place: EV-2.645
Instructor: Juan Carlos Castro, juancarlos.castro@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 672/872 Advanced Critical Analysis (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 670)

Semester: Winter Day & Time: Monday 18:30-20:30 Place:EV-5.825
Instructor: David Pariser, david.pariser@concordia.ca

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)

Semester: Fall Day & Time: Wednesday 16:00-18:00 Place: EV-2.776
Instructor: Anita Sinner, anita.sinner@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 682/882 Research Practice (3 credits -prerequisite ARTE 680 )

Semester: Winter Day & Time: Wednesday 16:00 - 18:00 Place: EV-5.825
Instructor: Richard Lachapelle, richard.lachapelle@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)

Semester: Fall Day & Time: Wednesday 18:30-20:30 Place: EV-5.825
Instructor: David Pariser, david.pariser@concordia.ca

This course addresses research and communication, thesis writing, and professional practice.             

STUDIOS AND TOPICS

ARTE 606/806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits):   

Social Pedagogy in Art Education – Theory and Practice

Semester: Fall  Day & Time: Thursdays 14:00-18:00 Place: EV-5.825
Instructor: Vivek Venkatesh, vivek.venkatesh@concordia.ca

This course will engage graduate learners in speculative deliberations on the ephemeral nature of social pedagogy in a post-web 2.0 era with a specific focus on the critical, reflexive and inclusive adoption of mobile and digital media in postmodern society. We will collaboratively co-create theoretical frameworks that describe social pedagogy as applied to the field of art education. We will also create practical instantiations of neo-communal forms of social pedagogy using physical and multimedia artistic installations.

ARTE 606/806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits): 

Fictional truths: Photographic narratives in the post-truth era

Semester: Winter  Day & Time: Monday 14:00-18:00 Place: EV-5.825
Instructor: Lorrie Blair, lorrie.blair@concordia.ca

Since its invention, photography was regarded as a truthful witness that objectively depicted reality. Photographs were called upon to provide legal and reliable sources of evidence, and in time, photography was enshrined as a viable research method. However, photography has always had a complex relationship with truth. Historically, photographers manipulated images using technology available to them. More recently, with easy to use applications such as Photoshop, photography shed its veneer of truth and entered into a world of alternative facts and fake news.

In this course, we will consider how current ways of making, sharing and viewing photographs are changing our understanding of reality. We explore the blurred line between truth and manufactured reality in visual storytelling and ask what role fiction might play in photographic practice, research, and teaching.

This course will rely on student-generated photographs using cell phones and iPads, and image-making techniques that do not require cameras. Class assignments will include in-class activities, short written assignments, and a final student-initiated project.

ARTE 660/850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives on the Pedagogic Turn to Art as Research

Semester: Fall Day & Time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00 Place: EV-5.825
Instructor: Anita Sinner, anita.sinner@concordia.ca

The aim of Artwork Scholarship is to survey international perspectives on the emerging paradigm of creative research that is infusing and evoking scholarship with pedagogic innovations, reflective and evaluative assessments, customary methodological approaches, and deliberations on ethical issues and concerns, in relation to a host of topic areas in education.

Artwork scholarship is an umbrella term for the proliferation of art as research, and includes a/r/tography, arts-based research, research creation, and related approaches that engage in broad definitions of artist, researcher and teacher. In this course, artwork scholarship embraces the visual arts, installation works, multi-media renderings, social fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, music, dance, hybrid arts inquiry, and more. Education constitutes formal and informal learning environments, such as schools to post-secondary institutions, as well as community and adult education.

Such inquiry is based on the contingency of adaptive, experimental and speculative dispositions, and students are invited to explore comparative contexts, experiment with artful applications, and profile international art education based on personal and professional experiences.

ARTE 660/850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):

Socially Engaged Art and Public Pedagogies

Semester: Winter Day & Time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00 Place: EV-5.825
Instructor: Kathleen Vaughan, Kathleen.Vaughan@concordia.ca

This course will explore theories and best practices of socially engaged art, considering how such work aims to make a difference in the world. In particular, we will take up questions of art’s public pedagogy: the means by which – through public presentations and performances – such art aims to inform, educate and motivate to social engagement. We will critically consider key texts, visit galleries and public sites, and exchange ideas and inspirations, considering implications for creative practice and art education. For their final term work, students will have the option of submitting an academic text that explores ideas, a teaching proposal for a hypothetical educational project, or an artwork and accompanying critical statement.