ARTE 201/A (Winter 2025): ART IN EARLY CHILDHOOD I
- Teacher: JIHANE MOSSALIM
ARTE 330/A (Winter 2025): INTRO TO COMMUNITY ARTE
The course investigates the various issues and concerns related to community art education. Students develop skills in assessing community needs. After processes of research, open dialogue and studio research, students will work in groups develop and propose an art education curriculum for a specific community setting or population. This course includes a practicum component.
- Teacher: JACOB ANTHONY LE GALLAIS
Welcome to ARTE 330/AA (Winter 2025): INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY ART EDUCATION
Course Description
The course investigates the various issues and concerns related to community art education. Students develop skills in assessing community needs. After observation and studio research, students develop and propose an art education curriculum for a specific community setting or population. This course includes a practicum component.
Course Objectives
● Cultivate our identities, values, sensibilities and methods as artist-educators within a community of practice.
● Investigate “what makes a community” alongside inclusion, engagement, participation and collaboration questions.
● Explore different approaches to engaging communities through art education in local and international contexts.
● Gain first-hand experience in art teaching through peer-to-peer learning and community-based internships.
● Understand how to develop and implement lesson plans that are meaningful to the communities concerned while integrating our unique artistic voices.
● Engage in open and critical dialogue regarding social, ethical and political concerns while reflecting on our biases/limitations.
- Teacher: JENNIFER WIEBE
- Teaching Assistant: Elizabeth Dovolis
- Teaching Assistant: Christina Alexa Miranda
- Teaching Assistant: Nicholas Nylen
- Teaching Assistant: Reza Sedighiankashi
- Teaching Assistant: Regan Shrumm
ARTE 340/AA (Winter 2025): ARTE FOR ADOLESCENTS/ADULTS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Prerequisite/Corequisite:
Students must have completed 24 credits in the Major in Art Education or the Specialization in Art Education – Visual Arts. prior to enrolling.
Students are introduced to theories of adolescent and adult learning, and how these are practised as teaching methods. Students learn about different types of group management and support techniques appropriate for adolescent and adult students. The course presents ways to effectively build relationships with learners over the age of 13, as well as strategies to plan and deliver programming in community settings or curriculum in school settings.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Students will explore theories, principles, methods, media, and materials for teaching adolescents and adults with the arts. Through process-oriented experiences, students will engage in creative strategies to foster self-expression, critical thinking, conceptual understanding and personal experiences.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this course, students will:
· Create artworks that express aesthetic, conceptual, and personal ideas.
· Explore storytelling through identity, culture, and community-based art.
· Design art-making activities for adolescent and adult learners.
· Reflect critically on their own and others’ creative practices.
· Collaborate effectively on inclusive and co-creative projects.
· Address environmental and social issues through sustainable art practices.
· Use art to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences.
· Respond to contemporary social and cultural issues through artmaking.
- Teacher: MARIA EZCURRA LUCOTTI
ARTE 352/A (Winter 2025): LIGHT-BASED MEDIA
- Teacher: MANUELLE FREIRE
- Teaching Assistant: Christine White
ARTE 354/A (Winter 2025): TIME-BASED MEDIA
- Teacher: NANCY LONG
ARTE 398/AA (Winter 2025): SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARTE: The Material, Media, and Technological Cultures of Teaching, Learning, and Creative Practice.
This course explores public pedagogy, teaching and learning philosophies, and art making as expressed and facilitated by material and digital media technologies. Students will research and discuss case studies, and engage in simple media production to better understand the material and technological conditions associated to the histories, ideologies and pedagogical frameworks of art education. The second part of the semester will focus on technological strategies for enacting collective knowledge, for promoting diversity and inclusion in learning and co-creation in art making.
- Teacher: MANUELLE FREIRE
- Teaching Assistant: Hannah Jakob
ARTE 434/A (Winter 2025): PROF. PRACT./ART EDUCATORS
- Teacher: DAVID LERUE
ARTE 660/A (Winter 2025): SELECTED TOPICS IN ARTE
- Teacher: MANUELLE FREIRE
ARTE 682/A (Winter 2025): RESEARCH PRACTICE
- Teacher: JESSIE BEIER