On September 2, 2020, President Santa J. Ono announced that the majority of UBC classes in 2020W term 2 (January to April 2021) will be offered online, with some face-to-face instruction in select programs. Read the full announcement.
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory will offer most courses online in term 2. Details for individual programs are noted below.
Undergraduate Courses
ARTH (Art History) Courses
All undergraduate ARTH courses in term 2 will be 100% online.
VISA (Visual Art) Courses
Most VISA courses in term 2 will be 100% online.
Some VISA classes that rely on the use of specialized equipment and facilities and/or that involve technical instruction will be delivered face-to-face in order to achieve key learning outcomes and to allow for the production of artwork in certain media.
Some VISA classes will be delivered with a combination of online teaching and, for those students who are willing/able, occasional face-to-face meetings on campus (i.e., “hybrid”).
Note that any face-to-face instruction for term 2 is currently pending approval by the University (noted as “pending approval” below). These courses are subject to change.
Details for individual courses are as follows:
- VISA 110 002: Foundation Studio: Digital Media: 100% online lecture and labs
- VISA 110 227: Foundation Studio: Digital Media: 100% online lecture and labs
- VISA 180 002: Foundation Studio: Approaches to Media: 100% online lecture and tutorials
- VISA 183 002: Foundation Studio: Ideas as Practice I: 100% online lecture and tutorials
- VISA 210 003: Digital Arts: 100% online
- VISA 210 004: Digital Arts: 100% online
- VISA 220 002: Drawing: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 220 003: Drawing: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 230 002: Painting: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 230 003: Painting: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 230 004: Painting: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 240 001: Photography: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 241 002: Digital Photography: 100% online
- VISA 241 003: Digital Photography: 100% online
- VISA 241 228: Digital Photography: 100% online
- VISA 250 003: Print Media: Face-to-face (pending approval)
- VISA 260 002: Sculpture: 100% online
- VISA 310 002: Intermediate Digital Arts I: 100% online
- VISA 311 001: Intermediate Digital Arts II: 100% online
- VISA 321 001: Intermediate Drawing II: Face-to-face (pending approval)
- VISA 331 001: Intermediate Painting II: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 340 002: Intermediate Photography I: 100% online
- VISA 341 001: Intermediate Photography II: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 350 001: Intermediate Print Media I: Face-to-face (pending approval)
- VISA 351 001: Intermediate Print Media II: Face-to-face (pending approval)
- VISA 380 001: Studio Theory: 100% online lecture and tutorials
- VISA 401E 001: Advanced Open Studio (with Gu Xiong): 100% online
- VISA 401F 001: Advanced Open Studio (with Phil McCrum): 100% online
- VISA 401G 001: Advanced Open Studio (with Barrie Jones): 100% online
- VISA 401H 001: Advanced Open Studio (with Althea Thauberger): 100% online
- VISA 401I 001: Advanced Open Studio (with Marina Roy): 100% online
- VISA 475 001: Exhibition Theory and Practice: Hybrid (online with optional face-to-face components—pending approval)
- VISA 481 001: Advanced Seminar II: 100% online
Instructors are currently determining whether online courses will be synchronous (i.e., “real time”), asynchronous, or a combination thereof. Instructors will communicate these details to students as they become available.
Graduate Courses
All ARTH graduate courses will be 100% online.
VISA graduate courses TBC.
This page will be updated as more information becomes available.
