Current Status

In terms of teaching, I am on sabbatical for the upcoming academic year but will return in September 2010.

List Of Undergraduate Courses

ARTS AND IDEAS

FA/FACS 1900 6.0

A thematic introduction to aspects of the fine, performing and new media arts from interdisciplinary perspectives. Explores relationships between the arts across history, to disciplines traditionally situated beyond their borders, and to social, political, economic and/or cultural contexts.

CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES: WORKS AND LIVES

FA/FACS 2100 3.0

Explores the use of biography as a critical tool in understanding artistic creativity and cultural theory in the fine, performing, and new media arts. Biographical texts are studied in conjunction with an examination of artistic and theoretical works.

PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM AND POPULAR CULTURE

FA/FACS 2400 6.0 (a.k.a. FACS 2700)

Explores the inter-related histories of photography and film within the theoretical constructs of popular culture by examining the origins of these media, their documentation of quotidian life, influence on questions of gender and race and their place in cultural theory.

FLANERIE: writing by way of photographic and cinematic images

FA/FACS 3700 3.0

...forthcoming...

CONTEMPORARY THEORY THROUGH FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY

FA/FACS 4700 3.0

Making reference to a very small number of carefully selected photographic and cinematic texts, the course uses the mechanically reproduced image as a tool to focus theoretical discourse on either textuality or intertextuality.

THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF DOCUMENTARY

FA/FACS 4750 3.0

Explores contemporary documentary theory and historical documentary practices from interdisciplinary perspectives drawing on disciplines such as dance, design, cinema, literature, music, new media, photography, theatre, and/or the visual arts. Individually or collectively, students construct their own interdisciplinary documentary project.

INDEPENDENT STUDY

FA/FACS 4950 3.0

An individualized programme for students to pursue an independent project under the supervision of a faculty member on a topic not available in other courses in the Program. Proposals should focus on interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary issues of history, criticism and/or theory.

INTERNSHIP

FA/FACS 4960 3.0

Allows advanced students to undertake an approved internship at an arts or educational organization. Internship activity must be related to the mandate of the FACS program. Proposals must be signed by a FACS faculty supervisor and approved by the FACS coordinator.