Not all the courses listed below will be offered in any one year; a few are offered only infrequently. A list of the expected offerings with detailed course descriptions is available from the department in July or August each year.

The content of the courses designated Studies or Topics and listed without further description in the calendar varies from year to year. 

Normally, courses are one-term, 3.0 credit unit courses. 

ARTH 800 Methods for an Expanded Art History
This course introduces students to various methods of an expanded art history addressing not only art works, but also objects of visual and material culture, institutional practices of collecting and display, and the writing of art history itself. Open to MA students only. Jointly offered with ARTH 900.  Winter; N. Vorano.
EXCLUSION: ARTH 900

ARTH 802 Studies in the History of Prints and Drawings 
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 804  Studies in Critical and Cultural Theory  
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 805 Art Historiography    
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 806 Studies in Iconography   
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 807 Studies in the History of Renaissance Painting Technique     
Jointly offered with ARTH 402; Fall; R. Spronk
EXCLUSION: ARTH 402

ARTH 809 Conservation and Art History  
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 810 Museums, Collecting and Culture I
Jointly offered with ARTH 434; Fall; J. Ribeiro de Silva Bevilacqua
EXCLUSION: ARTH 434

ARTH 811 Museums, Collecting and Culture II  
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 812 Studies in Visual and Material Cultures
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 813 Studies in Indigenous Visual and Material Cultures     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 837 Medieval Art I   

ARTH 838  Medieval Art II     
Winter; M. Reeve

ARTH 839  Medieval Art III     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 840 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art I 
Not offered 2023-24.  

ARTH 841 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art II 
Fall; U. D’Elia

ARTH 842  Studies in Italian Renaissance Art III     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 844 Studies in Northern Renaissance Art  
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 845 Studies in Northern European Art of the 17th-Century I     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 846 Studies in Northern European Art of the 17th-Century II  
Not offered 2023-24.
    
ARTH 847 Studies in Southern European Art of the 17th-Century I     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 848 Studies in Southern European Art of the 17th-Century II 
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 849 Studies in 18th-Century European Art 
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 850 Studies in 19th-Century Art     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 851 Studies in 19th-Century Art II  
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 854  Studies in Baroque
Jointly offered with ARTH 494; Winter; G. Bailey
EXCLUSION: ARTH 494

ARTH 860 Cultural Heritage Preservation II    
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 861 Cultural Heritage Preservation II    
Fall; C. Hoeniger

ARTH 862 History of Photography I     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 863 History of Photography II
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 864 Studies in Modern Art I   
Winter; A. Morehead

ARTH 865 Topics in Modern Art II
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 868 Topics in Contemporary Art I
Not offered 2023-24.     

ARTH 869 Topics in Contemporary Art II     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 870 Studies in Canadian Art and Architecture I     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 871 Studies in Canadian Art and Architecture II
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 874 Studies in Architectural History I
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 875 Studies in Architectural History II   
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 876 Studies in Curatorial Practice & Cultural Policy I     
Not offered in 2023-24.

ARTH 877 Studies in Curatorial Practice & Cultural Policy II  
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 878 Studies in Experimental & New Media I     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 879 Studies in Experimental & New Media II     
Not offered 2023-24.

ARTH 880     Agnes Etherington Art Centre Practicum     
Fall, winter, or summer.  Various instructors.

ARTH 890  Directed Research in a Cultural Institution     
This course is intended to provide graduate students an opportunity to undertake a directed research project in an art gallery, museum, or archive. The research will focus on some aspect of the chosen institution's collection and will be supervised by a specialist in that area who works at the institution or co-supervised by such a specialist and a faculty member. Fall, winter, or summer.

ARTH 897 Directed Reading     
Individual directed reading course under the guidance of a faculty member in an area of the instructor's expertise.   Fall or Winter.

ARTH 898 Research Paper     

ARTH 899 Master's Thesis Research  

ARTH 900 Methods for an Expanded Art History
This course introduces students to various methods of an expanded art history addressing not only art works, but also objects of visual and material culture, institutional practices of collecting and display, and the writing of art history itself. Open to PhD students only. Jointly offered with ARTH 800; Winter; N. Vorano.
EXCLUSION:  ARTH 800

ARTH 906 General Area Examination III     

ARTH 907 Research Project at the Art Gallery of Ontario     

ARTH 997 Directed Reading     
Individual directed reading course under the guidance of a faculty member in an area of the instructor's expertise.  This course is normally reserved for Doctoral students. Fall or Winter

ARTH 999 Ph.D. Thesis Research