Academic Calendar - 2024
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Creative Arts
Students will be introduced to critical ways of thinking about creativity and creative practice across a range of disciplines in the arts, music, and media. Topics covered may include: what creativity looks like; where creativity comes from; who can be creative; and why creativity matters.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses case studies to explore creativity within a contemporary context. How have creativity and creative practices responded to and been shaped by the social, technological, political, and environmental challenges we face in the first decades of the twenty-first century? Topics may include labour, affect, entrepreneurialism, the gig economy.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 1020A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to key critical concepts related to creative practices. It explores these concepts through the practical integration students’ existing skills and creative practices, allowing them to explore collaborative creative practice in the context of classroom exercises and projects. This is a critically informed, practice-based course.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 1020A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in year 2 of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to the principles and techniques of developing, delivering and archiving creative production within an integrated media environment. Students will learn the basics of digital design and apply these to establishing a digital presence for their creative activities. Students will complete the course with an e-portfolio.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 1020A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in second year of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course, led by the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, will allow students to explore creativity and its role in the production and study of the arts more broadly.
Antirequisite(s): English 2099F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course builds on and extends the concepts, approaches, and practices developed in CA 2200A/B within a context that foregrounds equity, social justice, inclusion, and decolonization. Students will hone their self-reflexive creative practice by proposing, developing, and participating in a collaborative small group creative enterprise.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 2200A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in third year of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the reciprocal relationship between creativity and research, including research creation (the integration of artistic expression, scholarly investigation, and experimentation) and creative practice research (how we study the creative industries), as well as how disparate research-based skills inform creative activities, and garners support for creative enterprises.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Creative Arts 3300A/B LEGAL ISSUES IN CREATIVE PRACTICE: CONTRACTS, COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
This course covers legal issues of relevance to different forms of creative activity and enterprises, including intellectual property, copyright, and contracts. It will include an exploration of the ways in which intellectual property is regulated, both nationally and internationally, through institutions, laws, and practices.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses a case-based approach to identify key practical issues facing creative producers or those who are interested in creative or media industries. A focus on financial management and business and organizational principles helps students to develop a business plan, understand contracts, and protect their labour and intellectual property.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Arts-Based Entrepreneurship is intended as a practical guide to the initial questions creatives need to think about in starting a small business that is aligned with their talents and values.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This project-based capstone course takes place across two terms and involves all students proposing, developing, and participating in a cohort wide initiative (performance, installation, film, exhibition etc.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in year 4 of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This self-reflexive experiential learning course provides students with the opportunity to pursue an industry placement with an arts or media organization.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in fourth year of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This self-reflexive experiential learning course provides students with the opportunity to propose and complete their own creative performance or production under the supervision of a faculty mentor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in fourth year of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Creative Arts
Students will be introduced to critical ways of thinking about creativity and creative practice across a range of disciplines in the arts, music, and media. Topics covered may include: what creativity looks like; where creativity comes from; who can be creative; and why creativity matters.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This course uses case studies to explore creativity within a contemporary context. How have creativity and creative practices responded to and been shaped by the social, technological, political, and environmental challenges we face in the first decades of the twenty-first century? Topics may include labour, affect, entrepreneurialism, the gig economy.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 1020A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to key critical concepts related to creative practices. It explores these concepts through the practical integration students’ existing skills and creative practices, allowing them to explore collaborative creative practice in the context of classroom exercises and projects. This is a critically informed, practice-based course.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 1020A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in year 2 of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course introduces students to the principles and techniques of developing, delivering and archiving creative production within an integrated media environment. Students will learn the basics of digital design and apply these to establishing a digital presence for their creative activities. Students will complete the course with an e-portfolio.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 1020A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in second year of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course, led by the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, will allow students to explore creativity and its role in the production and study of the arts more broadly.
Antirequisite(s): English 2099F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This course builds on and extends the concepts, approaches, and practices developed in CA 2200A/B within a context that foregrounds equity, social justice, inclusion, and decolonization. Students will hone their self-reflexive creative practice by proposing, developing, and participating in a collaborative small group creative enterprise.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Creative Arts 2200A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in third year of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the reciprocal relationship between creativity and research, including research creation (the integration of artistic expression, scholarly investigation, and experimentation) and creative practice research (how we study the creative industries), as well as how disparate research-based skills inform creative activities, and garners support for creative enterprises.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Creative Arts 3300A/B LEGAL ISSUES IN CREATIVE PRACTICE: CONTRACTS, COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
This course covers legal issues of relevance to different forms of creative activity and enterprises, including intellectual property, copyright, and contracts. It will include an exploration of the ways in which intellectual property is regulated, both nationally and internationally, through institutions, laws, and practices.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This course uses a case-based approach to identify key practical issues facing creative producers or those who are interested in creative or media industries. A focus on financial management and business and organizational principles helps students to develop a business plan, understand contracts, and protect their labour and intellectual property.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
Arts-Based Entrepreneurship is intended as a practical guide to the initial questions creatives need to think about in starting a small business that is aligned with their talents and values.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This project-based capstone course takes place across two terms and involves all students proposing, developing, and participating in a cohort wide initiative (performance, installation, film, exhibition etc.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in year 4 of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This self-reflexive experiential learning course provides students with the opportunity to pursue an industry placement with an arts or media organization.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in fourth year of the Creative Arts and Production program.
Course Weight: 0.50
Return to top
This self-reflexive experiential learning course provides students with the opportunity to propose and complete their own creative performance or production under the supervision of a faculty mentor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours. Must be taken in fourth year of the Creative Arts and Production program.