GRAD STUDENT INFORMATION
Master's students
MA courses 2024-25
*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
Instructor: Juan Carlos Castro
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
Instructor: MJ Thompson
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
Instructor: TBD
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
Instructor: TBD
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 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)
Instructor: Dave LeRue
Topic: Art and Spatial Production: Interdisciplinary Investigation in the Built Environment
“Each place is, in its way, the world.” Milton Santos, 1996
How can making art in a space help us to understand how spaces mediate human experience? And how can artmaking help us to understand how spaces are produced and reproduced? This graduate level studio course will explore these questions through interdisciplinary projects focused on the built environment. Students will choose a neighborhood they can visit regularly to make site responsive artworks over the semester. In-class and reading content will connect artmaking to spatial frameworks such as feminist geography and the spatial dialectic, and concepts such as the image of the city, hostile architectures, nuclear semiotics, utopia, common spaces, and universal design, which will provide us with methods to decode, analyze, and represent the built environment. Students will develop projects using their preferred artistic mediums, with in-class activities exploring a variety of materials and approaches. Some components may take place in other parts of campus or in off-campus fieldtrips, which will be decided collectively early in the semester.
Students will be expected to participate in weekly studio making and activities, engage in and lead discussions and making sessions, undertake one group design project, and develop and complete a major artistic project of their choosing over the course of the semester that may use or combine artistic, academic, or research-creation components. The class will culminate in an end of semester exhibition open to the Concordia community.
ARTE 606 Studio Inquiry (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)
Instructor: David Pariser
Topic: TBD
ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Fall
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Instructor: TBD
Topic: TBD
ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Instructor: Jessie Beier
Topic: TBD
ARTE 660 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Summer 2024
Day/time: June 1-30, 2024
Instructor: Kathleen Vaughan
Topic: Iceland Field School
The Iceland Field School is is an interdisciplinary, mixed-level (BFA to PhD) Special Topics course (3 credits), sited at the Icelandic Textile Centre (textilmidstod.is/en), an academic research centre and artistic residency in Blönduós, Iceland, from June 1-30, 2024. In addition to pursuing workshops with Icelandic experts in spinning, tapestry weaving, and natural dyeing from foraged plants, students develop individualized and interdisciplinary artistic projects in a variety of media including textiles, photography, video, performance, drawing, environmental art, graphic novels, book arts, writing, or academic work on themes of museum studies, community development, tourism, and hospitality studies. We learn using a place-based, post-humanist lens, and consider environmental issues important to Iceland, Canada, and the world. We aim to give back to our host community as well as to receive. Admission is by application only, and now closed for 2024.
Suggested MA student timeline
| Fall | Winter | |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 670 | 672 |
| 680 | 682 | |
| 660 or 606 | 660 or 606 | |
| Year 2 | 660 or 606 | Thesis work |
| Thesis work | Thesis work |
Please note:
Students are required to complete a minimum of 3 credits of 660 (Selected Topics in Art Education). The remaining 6 credits of elective coursework may be chosen from additional 660 (Selected Topics in Art Education) or 606 (Art Education Topics in Studio Inquiry). The first studio inquiry course taken by students is 606. Subsequent registrations in the course are registered under 607 and 608.
| Fall | Winter | Summer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 670 | 672 | 3 or 6 credits chosen from: |
| 680 | 682 | 660 / 606 / elective | |
| 660 or 606 | 660 or 606 | ||
| Year 2 | 660 | 660 | 3 or 6 credits chosen from: |
| 606 | 606 | 660 /606 / elective | |
| elective | elective |
Please note:
Students are required to complete 12 credits of 660 (Selected Topics in Art Education course) within their degree. The deparment normally offers one section in each of the fall and winter terms. The offering of 660 and/or 606 in the summer term can vary from year to year.
The Art Education Topics in Studio Inquiry course (606) can be repeated up to a maximum of 6 times. The first time it is taken students register under the course number 606. Subsequent registrations are done sequentially as 607, 608, 609, 610, and 611.
Doctoral students
PhD courses 2024-25
*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
Instructor: Juan Carlos Castro
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
Instructor: MJ Thompson
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
Instructor: TBD
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
Instructor: TBD
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: Not offered in 2024-25
Day/time:
Instructor:
This course addresses research and communication, thesis writing, and professional practice.
ARTE 806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits)
Term: Fall
Day/time: Thursday 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)
Instructor: Dave LeRue
Topic: Art and Spatial Production: Interdisciplinary Investigations in the Built Environment
“Each place is, in its way, the world.” Milton Santos, 1996
How can making art in a space help us to understand how spaces mediate human experience? And how can artmaking help us to understand how spaces are produced and reproduced? This graduate level studio course will explore these questions through interdisciplinary projects focused on the built environment. Students will choose a neighborhood they can visit regularly to make site responsive artworks over the semester. In-class and reading content will connect artmaking to spatial frameworks such as feminist geography and the spatial dialectic, and concepts such as the image of the city, hostile architectures, nuclear semiotics, utopia, common spaces, and universal design, which will provide us with methods to decode, analyze, and represent the built environment. Students will develop projects using their preferred artistic mediums, with in-class activities exploring a variety of materials and approaches. Some components may take place in other parts of campus or in off-campus fieldtrips, which will be decided collectively early in the semester.
Students will be expected to participate in weekly studio making and activities, engage in and lead discussions and making sessions, undertake one group design project, and develop and complete a major artistic project of their choosing over the course of the semester that may use or combine artistic, academic, or research-creation components. The class will culminate in an end of semester exhibition open to the Concordia community.
ARTE 806 Studio Inquiry (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Monday 16:00-18:00 (Lab 14:00-16:00)
Instructor: David Pariser
Topic: TBD
ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Fall
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Instructor: TBD
Topic: TBD
ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Winter
Day/time: Tuesday 16:00-18:00
Instructor: Jessie Beier
Topic: TBD
ARTE 850 Selected Topics in Art Education (3 credits):
Term: Summer 2024
Day/time: TBD
Instructor: Kathleen Vaughan
Topic: Iceland Field School
Description will follow shortly.
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
