Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Build knowledge in the area of visual studies and acquire a basic competency in key texts and concepts in visual studies.
2. Enhance cross-disciplinary writing skills.
3. Enhance social responsibility, through a better understanding of the way images and other visual representations have an impact upon social relations in the contemporary world.
4. Enhance student's capacity to critically analyze the visual world.
5. Improve self-management and promote respect for diverse ways of knowing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. State basic facts about art from different periods and cultures of the western world and define basic art historical terminology.
2. Recognize and identify qualities of art associated with different styles and cultures of the western world.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of artistic development across time from the prehistoric to the current era.
4. Compare and contrast different works of art from various times and cultures in order to draw meaningful connections.
5. Implement visual analysis in order to understand and interpret meaning and intention embodied in works of art.
6. Independently research, analyze, and contextualize works of art not presented in lecture or textbook.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and analyze works of art, architecture, and material culture from different historical periods, geographic contexts, and cultural contexts using discipline appropriate terminology.
2. Demonstrate intercultural competence through visual and material analysis of works of art, architecture, and material culture from diverse contexts. Engage students in the study and analysis of artworks that represent the perspectives of different societies and cultural traditions.
3. Analyze differing narratives about the history of art and architecture to identify and evaluate the social, political, and cultural values that shape them.
4. Make connections between works of art, architecture, and material culture and the broader social world by discussing how their production and reception is shaped by historical contexts such as colonialism, social and political issues, and geographic locations.
5. Develop foundational research skills by learning how to use the tools (e.g., catalogue, database) available through Queen’s University Libraries.
6. Demonstrate critical reading skills by summarizing the core arguments of art historical texts. Actively and effectively communicate arguments in writing by crafting short texts on art.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and analyze key art institutions and their distinctive professional practices, including museums, art galleries, artist-run centres, art fairs, art exhibitions, art markets, and art criticism.
2. Demonstrate intercultural competence and empathy through an analysis of colonial histories and current colonial legacies of "art worlds". Recognize and compare the work of artists, curators, and administrators seeking to decolonize "art worlds".
3. Identify the role of art and artists within the institutional structures of "art worlds".
4. Describe and analyze the histories, current practices, and future challenges of key art institutions, making connections between historical contexts such as colonialism, social and political issues, and geographic locations.
5. Develop foundational professional skills that contribute towards a career in the cultural sector, or transferable skills for careers outside the arts, including improving critical thinking, observation/documentation, and writing skills.
6. Demonstrate critical reading skills by summarizing the core arguments of historical, theoretical, or practical texts. Actively and effectively communicate arguments in writing by crafting short texts on art.
7. Practice competent and sensitive engagements with museums, galleries or artist-run centres, by visiting them in person in their original locations.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze relationships between art and its larger social and cultural context.
2. Display critical thinking and support points of view through evidence and argument.
3. Familiarize oneself with the basic issues of the historiography/existing scholarship.
4. Identify key concepts and terminology regarding the art at hand.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and analyze various aspects of popular culture in short essay form.
2. Identify and analyze key works of popular culture from "high art" to popular cinema, popular music, and graphic novels.
3. Learn and employ theoretical models to explore and expand the meanings of popular culture.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe key works of architecture and be able to discuss them within their historical context.
2. Synthesize knowledge of world history, geography, and culture with the history of architecture and be able to discuss architecture's.
3. Learn and employ a language of description for architecture, including technical terms such as "barrel vault".

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Comprehend and describe basic knowledge on different methods of technical examination, their significance for art history, and their limitations.
2. Recognize documentation obtained from different methods of technical examination, such as X-radiographs, infrared reflectograms, and paint cross sections.
3. Comprehend and communicate the complexities of issues surrounding Technical Art History.
4. Review and critique web-based visualization techniques for technical documentation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify key works of medieval art from c.300-1400 including their various patrons, makers, and materials.
2. Become familiar with some current scholarship in medieval art and discuss its relative value in exploring medieval art for themselves.
3. Learn the profound place of medieval art and the middle ages generally in shaping our global world.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify significant works of art and architecture from the period 1300-1500 in Italy, France and Flanders, and describe their characteristics.
2. Describe and analyze the concept of the Renaissance as an art historical period and an intellectual idea.
3. Critically examine visual and written source material pertinent to the art historical developments of the period 1300-1500.
4. Assemble research beyond the required course readings on pertinent topics using Queen's libraries, their databases and other available resources.
5. Compose short essays in your own words to express an understanding of the art historical material and thematic concepts of the course.
6. Work actively to improve English writing skills and essay style so that writing is clear and grammatically correct, as appropriate to second year university.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and discuss major works of Renaissance art from ca.1500 onwards.
2. Analyze a work of art and make an original argument in correct and clear prose using written primary sources.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of how specific works of art functioned as a part of the lives of the men and women who commissioned, created, and viewed them.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply interdisciplinary perspectives to interpret, evaluate, and historically contextualize key examples of Socially Engaged Art.
2. Describe and analyze some of the ways that art has been used by social movements.
3. Describe and analyze the practices of artists who use their work as a tool for social change.
4. Develop skills in visual observation and analysis, building confidence in their own visual literacy and ability to critically assess works of art and visual culture.
5. Engage in debates about the relationship between art and activism.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply visual and material culture methods to a selection of images and objects.
2. Critically engage with arguments from multiple disciplinary perspectives; apply arguments to visual and material objects.
3. Describe and explain the major developments in Western fashion/dress from the Renaissance to the present.
4. Develop their own perspective on the relationship between fashion and fine art.
5. Enhance skills in art historical research and writing (using library resources, evaluating online sources, constructing arguments, incorporating research).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify key works of modern art from different contexts.
2. Develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills.
3. Gain concrete knowledge of the relationships between modernity, modern art, and modernism.
4. Gain confidence in critically assessing art practices in museum spaces.
5. Hone visual description and visual analysis skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Contextualize and analyze art works in relation to their conditions of production.
2. Explain and evaluate key theories of art from the 1960s to the present day.
3. Explain and evaluate the historical and theoretical debates around the notion of "the contemporary" as they have developed since the 1960s.
4. Identify and discuss major movements, patterns, and networks in transnational art from the 1960s to the present day.
5. Use visual and material analysis to interpret works of contemporary art in various media.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate and support an argument about art and material objects in Canadian contexts.
2. Critically analyze and evaluate Indigenous and settler artworks using appropriate historical approaches and methods.
3. Engage in discussions about Indigenous and Canadian art histories in relation to decolonization, equity, inclusion, regionalism, Indigenization, and internationalization through different modes of communication.
4. Find and interpret primary and secondary sources used in art historical research (exhibition catalogues, exhibition reviews, artist statements, museum, and art gallery archives).
5. Look at and describe art and material culture using art historical language, terminology, and methodology.
6. Make connections between the images and objects viewed in class to the visual culture of their world.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Compose written essays or responses of various lengths to express their comprehension of the ideas, material, and concepts of the course
2. Describe and interpret a variety of African art works, including archaeological finds and contemporary productions.
3. Organize library/research materials and produce a bibliography or inventory of relevant objects or texts associated with the course materials, beyond the assigned readings.
4. Summarize and critically analyze a broad range of material pertinent to the history of African art, visual culture, its criticism and understanding

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Compose essays or responses of various lengths to demonstrate comprehension of the ideas, material, and concepts of the course.
2. Identify examples of Indigenous North American arts from pre-history to the late twentieth century.
3. Describe and interpret significant works of Indigenous North American visual culture and art from prehistoric times to the present.
4. Organize library/research materials and produce a bibliography or inventory of relevant objects or texts associated with the course materials, beyond the assigned readings.
5. Summarize and critically analyze secondary source material pertinent to the history of Indigenous North American art, visual culture, its criticism or understanding.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how social, political, and technological factors can affect the visual arts.
2. Explain and compare issues relating to the categorization of the arts.
3. Explain the non-linear development of European visual arts.
4. Identify artists associated with 19th-century art movements, their styles, and artistic interests.
5. Identify key features of 19th-century Western art movements.
6. Identify key, social, political, cultural, and technological developments of the period.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assemble research beyond the required course readings on pertinent topics using the Queen's libraries, their databases and other available resources.
2. Compose short essays to express your understanding of the art historical material and thematic concepts of the course.
3. Critically examine visual and written source material pertinent to the historical impact of war on art and architecture.
4. Describe and analyze various human responses to the damage and destruction of art and architectural heritage from ancient times to the present.
5. Identify and describe significant examples of artistic and architectural monuments affected by war from ancient times to the present.
6. Work actively to improve English writing skills and essay style so that writing is clear and grammatically correct, as appropriate to second year university.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically examine visual and written source material presented in the course.
2. Describe various environmental and human threats to heritage, and some approaches to preservation.
3. Identify and describe significant examples of artistic and architectural monuments damaged or destroyed by environmental or human threats.
4. Relate and synthesize the art historical material and thematic concepts of the course.
5. Work actively to improve English writing skills and essay style to that writing is clear and grammatically correct, as appropriate to second year university.
6. Work independently to assemble research beyond the required course readings on specific topics using the Queen's libraries and their databases.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and analyze works of architecture from different historical periods, geographic contexts, and cultural contexts using discipline appropriate terminology.
2. Demonstrate intercultural competence through visual and material analysis of works of architecture from diverse cultures around the globe. Engage students in the study and analysis of works of architecture that represent the perspectives of different peoples, faiths, and cultural traditions.
3. Analyze differing narratives about the history of architecture and colonialism to identify and evaluate the social, political, and cultural values that shape them.
4. Make connections between works of architecture and the broader social world by discussing how their production and reception is shaped by historical contexts such as colonialism, slavery, and geographic location.
5. Develop foundational research skills by learning how to use the tools (e.g., catalogue, database) available through Queen’s University Libraries.
6. Demonstrate critical reading skills by summarizing the core arguments of scholarship on architecture and colonialism. Actively and effectively communicate arguments in writing by crafting short texts on the subject.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Ask questions about an object to identify and analyze material, function, production, style, and use.
2. Critically read primary texts and compare them to objects.
3. Describe changes in the idea of "good design" over time and with respect to gender.
4. Identify major design styles and approaches to design.
5. Identify major design styles and movements.
6. Situate and analyze design in relation to social, economic, and imperial histories.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and evaluate key concepts relating to globalization, exchange, empire, and forms of collective identity.
2. Compose and develop written texts that synthesize and formulate the relationships between particular objects and wider historical, cultural, and social contexts.
3. Develop skills in material and visual literacy through identifying, describing, and explaining artistic and artisanal techniques and materials.
4. Situate and interpret changing meanings of materials and styles in cultural, social, and economic contexts.
5. Summarize and analyze theories of aesthetics and craftsmanship in a variety of texts relating to South Asian traditions and apply these to the interpretation of objects.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and analyze the colonial histories and current colonial legacies of "art worlds".
2. Describe and analyze the histories, current practices, and future challenges of key art institutions.
3. Identify and describe key art institutions, including museums, art galleries, artist-run centres, art fairs, art exhibitions, and art criticism.
4. Identify the role of art and artists within the institutional structures of "art worlds".
5. Recognize and compare the work of artists, curators, and administrators seeking to decolonize "art worlds".
6. Recognize improved critical writing skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop skills of effective time management, work ethic, and project management, including both individual and group projects.
2. Engage in critical thinking about visual art and its cultural significance, with a focus on portraiture.
3. Gain experience in effective scholarly writing, including visual and contextual analysis of works of art, with a focus on portraiture.
4. Gain experience in persuasive oral communication through informal discussions and formal presentations.
5. Identify and describe major artists, themes and historical developments in visual portraiture.
6. Understand terms and concepts related to the study of art history, specifically portraiture, and use them correctly in discussion and writing assignments.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify themes and trends in the design and construction of modern landscapes.
2. Describe and define cultural ideals that have informed the creation and perception of modern landscapes.
3. Develop skills of "seeing" a landscape and its features; recognize assumptions that may have limited our ability to see.
4. Analyze, using in-person field work, the features of a parcel of land in Kingston according to some of the goals and values that might be relevant.
5. Display proficiency using primary and secondary sources to inform an analysis of landscapes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate key themes in health, medicine, and healthcare equity from inter- and transcultural perspectives.
2. Communicate their ideas on health, medicine, and healthcare equity in ways that support cultural awareness, safety, and humility.
3. Critically read short scholarly and journalistic texts on art, health, medicine, and medical humanities.
4. Describe and analyze art works in a range of media and from different cultural contexts that engage with key themes in health, medicine, and healthcare equity.
5. Engage in inter- and transdisciplinary conversations on health, medicine, and healthcare equity.
6. Write short self-reflective texts on art, health, and medicine that identify knowledge learned and plans for applying new knowledge.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe key works of Romanesque art from Ireland to the Holy Land.
2. Discuss works of medieval art in the context of key social and spiritual movements such as pilgrimage and the cult of saints.
3. Think synthetically by exploring relationships between works of art and key literary, scientific, and theological writings of the period.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe key works of Gothic art from Ireland to Spain and the Holy Land.
2. Discuss key works of Gothic art within the contexts of key social, spiritual, and political movements including the crusade, sacred kingship, chivalry, and romance.
3. Think synthetically by exploring relationships between works of art and key literary, scientific, and theological writings of the period.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply intersectional feminist methodologies to examine works of contemporary art and visual culture.
2. Demonstrate strategies and skills for researching and writing about historically underrepresented subjects.
3. Explain and analyze the relationship between the development of transnational feminisms and the development of transnational contemporary art from the 1960s to the present.
4. Identify and discuss how gender and sexuality function as visible and invisible factors in the production, reception, and interpretation of art.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the impact of networked, digital technologies on the production, display, and reception of global contemporary art.
2. Apply interdisciplinary perspectives to interpret, evaluate, and historically contextualize works of art that incorporate digital technologies.
3. Develop skills in visual observation and analysis, build confidence in visual literacy and have the ability to critically assess works of art and visual culture.
4. Identify and develop meaningful research topics and questions that will shape their writing projects and oral presentations

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain knowledge of French art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
2. Improve critical writing skills.
3. Improve text analysis skills.
4. Improve visual analysis skills.
5. Learn how to apply critical gender, postcolonial, and critical race analyses to key works of the period.
6. Learn how to place realist, impressionist, neo-impressionist, post-impressionist, symbolist, and modernist art in institutional, social, economic, and art historical contexts.
7. Learn research skills specific to art history.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Familiarize oneself with the various ways that architecture can be a reflection and expression of, and participant in, other societal trends.
2. Demonstrate the ability to be conversant with some of the architectural projects from the 1950s to 1970s and their basic built characteristics and societal goals.
3. Construct connections of various sorts--ideological, symbolic, material, ritual, functional--between architectural projects and the established themes of the course.
4. Develop research skills for searching academic, peer-review, "secondary" sources as well as potentially archival, "primary" sources.
5. Use research skills to identify additional architectural projects (1950s-1970s) and further salient themes affecting the architecture of this time.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and analyze major works of Italian Renaissance sculpture.
2. Interpret works of Italian sculpture in relation to their original social and physical contexts.
3. Relate specific case studies of Italian sculpture to larger issues about art and society.
4. Synthesize visual and textual primary source research into Italian sculpture in a clear and persuasive way.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Compose essays or responses of various lengths to demonstrate comprehension of the ideas, material, and concepts of the course.
2. Formulate an independent thesis on a research length topic that makes use of assigned readings.
3. Describe and interpret significant works of Indigenous Arctic visual culture and art from prehistoric times to the present.
4. Organize library/research materials and produce a bibliography or inventory of relevant objects or texts associated with the course materials, beyond the assigned readings.
5. Summarize and critically analyze secondary and primary source material pertinent to the history of Indigenous Arctic art, visual culture, its criticism or understanding.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of key readings on propaganda.
2. Demonstrate effective research and writing skills.
3. Discuss the varying definitions of "propaganda" and explain the relationship of visual propaganda to other forms of persuasion.
4. Provide a comprehensive analysis of a propaganda campaign in a research paper.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Conduct research on works of art in their aesthetic, socio-historical, and iconographic context, using both library (printed) and internet sources.
2. Conduct visual, iconographic, and contextual analysis of works of art.
3. Understand critical terms and concepts related to the study of art history and especially to printmaking, and use technical vocabulary correctly in discussion and in writing assignments.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage in visual, iconographic, and contextual analysis of works of art.
2. Engage in reading, research, writing, discussion, and critical thinking about art and its history, with particular attention to Dutch art of the 17th century.
3. Understand critical terms and concepts related to the study of art history, especially topics covered in this course, and use them correctly in discussion and in writing assignments.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Comprehend and describe local artistic developments within other areas in the Burgundian Netherlands in the 15th century.
2. Comprehend and describe past and current historical methodologies to study 15th-century Netherlandish painting.
3. Comprehend and describe the socio-economical, religious, and political contexts of 15th-century Netherlandish painting, with a focus on Bruges.
4. Identify and describe specific artistic strategies through a visual analysis of a 15th-century Netherlandish painting.
5. Identify key 15th-century Netherlandish paintings (artist, title, and date; medium, support, and dimensions; location).
6. Recognize and describe stylistic characteristics of the period's major painters such as Jan van Eyck, the Master of Flemalle, Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes, and Geertgen tot Sint Jans.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Comprehend and describe local artistic developments within other areas in the Burgundian Netherlands in the 16th century.
2. Comprehend and describe past and current historical methodologies to study 16th-century Netherlandish painting.
3. Comprehend and describe the larger socio-economical, religious, and political contexts of 16th-century Netherlandish painting.
4. Identify and describe specific artistic strategies through a visual analysis of a 16th-century Netherlandish painting.
5. Identify key 16th-century Netherlandish paintings (artist, title, and date; medium, support, and dimensions; location).
6. Recognize and describe stylistic characteristics of the period's major painters such as Gerard David, Jan Provoost, Jheronimus Bosch, Jan van Scorel, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain familiarity with properties, techniques, and processes of different materials.
2. Understand how materials gain cultural and political meanings (including in relation to race and gender) and analyze how these meanings change.
3. Analyze primary texts and compare with actual objects to understand design values.
4. Research the history of material innovations and design in the early twentieth century and place them in global context.
5. Brainstorm, research, compose, and revise an original argumentative essay.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop skills in independent research.
2. Examine, evaluate, and critique models of cross-cultural and economic exchange.
3. Identify, describe, and explain textile materials, processes, and techniques.
4. Relate textile objects to topics in world history and assess the relationship between a "text" and a "textile".
5. Situate and interpret changing meanings of textiles and styles in cultural, social, and creative contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the relationship between art and society, including the ways art shapes values and ethics in local and global contexts.
2. Develop communication skills through short-form writing assignments.
3. Develop public speaking skills through class discussions and presentations.
4. Develop critical visual analysis and thinking skills for interpreting art in person without relying on secondary material.
5. Gain practical experience and skills related to work in the arts.
6. Identify and discuss the key components of the Venice Biennale, its history, and the relationship of this type of large-scale, international exhibition to globalization.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply theoretical and historical knowledge to the phenomenon of fakes to determine and illustrate an understanding of the complexity of forgeries in our interconnected world.
2. Compare and contrast approaches of various disciplines to the complex, multi-faceted phenomenon of forgeries.
3. Critically analyze issues of how society can deal with forgeries economically, legally, scientifically, historically, and as part of museum practice.
4. Describe and explain the impact of forgeries and be able to discuss the place of forgeries in history using appropriate vocabulary.
5. Develop their own philosophical approach to forgeries, defend those ideas, and create their own solutions to dealing with fakes that reflects art historical considerations as well as ideas from their own fields of interest.