Art History (ARHI) 301

Overview

Using contemporary scholarship, this course reexamines Canadian art history in light of multidisciplinary meanings of culture. The course focuses on mass-produced images such as photographs and prints, as well as the technologies of display that influence perceptions of nationhood, citizenship and indigeneity.

Outline

Unit 1: Introduction: What Is Visual Culture?

Unit 2: Historical Background: A Survey of Key Events and Themes

Unit 3: Points of Contact: Early Canadian Settlement

Unit 4: Frontier/Metropole: Constructing a Visual Identity in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Unit 5: Canadian Modernism in the Twentieth Century: Nationalism and the Group of Seven

Unit 6: Colonialism and Practices of Display

Unit 7: Representing Nation and Identity Through the Lens

Unit 8: Post-modern Issues: Race and Gender in Canadian Art

Evaluation

To receive credit for ARHI 301, you must complete six written assignments (four critical responses, a term paper proposal, and a major term paper) and write a final examination. Your final grade is determined by a weighted average of the grades you receive on these activities. You must achieve a minimum of D (50%) on the final examination and an overall grade of “D” (50 percent) for the entire course.

Assign. 1 Critical Response	Assign. 2 Critical Response	Assign. 3 Critical Response	Assign.4 Term Paper Proposal	Assign.5 Critical Response	Assign. 6 Term Paper	Final Exam	Total
5%	5%	5%	10%	5%	35%	35%	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbook

Other materials

The course materials include a reading file. All other materials are available online.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the ARHI 301 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on each part of the examination.

Part 1 Exam (Take Home Essay of  3000 Words)	Part 2 Exam (Invigilated Written Exam)	Total
50%	50%	100%

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form