Art History: Art History MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered each year. Check the departmental website for course availability under the current timetable.

Methods

Course CodeCourse Title
Methods of Art History

Ancient

Course CodeCourse Title
FAH2020HConnectivity and Mobility: Networks in the Ancient World
Myth and Fantasy in Roman Painting
Visual Narrative and Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Art
Women and Gender in Ancient Greece
Art and the Philosophy of Time
Topics in Roman Imperial Art
FAH2037HEmpathy, Embodiment, and Emotion in Ancient Art
FAH2038HGreek and Roman Sculpture in the Royal Ontario Museum
FAH2041HGreek Vases at the Royal Ontario Museum
FAH2042HSex, Gender, and Subjectivity in Ancient Art
FAH2060HArtisans and Artists in the Ancient Mediterranean

Medieval

Course CodeCourse Title
The Medieval Treasury
Global Medieval Art in China
Early Medieval Art
FAH1130HArchitecture of the Otherworld
FAH1175HEarly Islamic Architecture: 7th–10th c.
FAH1176HHistory of Islamic Cairo (7th–16th c.)
FAH1177HBuilding the Islamic Empire: Architecture of the Umayyads

Early Modern

Course CodeCourse Title
Correggio and the Problem of Italian Renaissance Art
The Cassinese Art of Reform in Renaissance Italy
Early Modern Intermediality
FAH1206HArtistic Localities in the Early Modern World
FAH1207HFormalism and Its Objects
FAH1210HChinese Painting: Objects, Theories, Methods
FAH1220HMulti-Media Transmorphism
Inside the Painter's Studio
Architecture of the Global Renaissance
Northern European Sculpture 1400–1600
FAH1232HLiquescent Art and Cultures
FAH1310HTopics in Chinese Painting History

Modern and Contemporary

Course CodeCourse Title
FAH1410HArtwriting Past and Present
FAH1411HArt and Analogy
FAH1416HArt History and the Digital
FAH1457HVernacular Photography
FAH1460HWallace Berman and His Countercultural Circles
FAH1462HPhotography and Scientific Representation in the 19th Century
FAH1463HRealisms
FAH1475HPicasso in View of Nanette
Bloomsbury and Vorticism
FAH1489HRe: Vision (Comparative Histories of the Senses)
FAH1490HPhotography and the Occult
FAH1495HArt, Empire, Colonization
Augmented Reality Art
FAH1756HAcoustic Space
FAH1757HAnimal Images
FAH1758HWhat Images Do: Approaches From South Asia
FAH1759HModern Architecture and Its Representations
FAH1820HModern Craft
FAH1870HThe Visual Arts in Canada in International Perspective
Primitivism to Globalism: Theories of Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Arts
GeoAesthetics
FAH1922HContemporary Art and Ethnography: Renewed Exchanges
FAH1934HCosmopolitan/Comparative Modernisms
FAH1935HContemporary Art Practices and the Modernist Archive
Photography and Humour
Contemporary Chinese Art and its Discontents
FAH1960HIndigenous Art, Land, and Material Relations in the Great Lakes
FAH1961HArt and Activism
FAH1965HThe Sixties Revisited

Reading Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Special Studies in History of Art
Readings in Ancient Art
Readings in Medieval Art
Readings in Renaissance and Baroque Art
Readings in Modern and Contemporary Art
Comprehensive Examinations and Dissertation Topic Reading Course

Undergraduate/Graduate Courses

Periodically, the department may offer fourth-year undergraduate courses that have been recognized for graduate credit. Please visit the departmental website and discuss with the Graduate Coordinator.

Relevant Courses in Other Departments

Course CodeCourse Title
Topics in Chinese Aesthetics
Topics in Chinese Art Theories
The Photographic Record