Exploring term Fall 2023 Change
- ACAN: Arts of Canada
- ADMN: Public Administration
- AE: Art Education
- AGEI: Ageing
- AHVS: Art History and Visual Studies
- ANTH: Anthropology
- ART: Visual Arts
- ARTS: Arts
- ASL: American Sign Language
- ASTR: Astronomy
- ATWP: Academic and Technical Writing Program
- BCMB: Biochemistry and Microbiology
- BIOC: Biochemistry
- BIOL: Biology
- BME: Biomedical Engineering
- CE: Community Engagement
- CHEM: Chemistry
- CIVE: Civil Engineering
- COM: Commerce
- CS: Canadian Studies
- CSC: Computer Science
- CW: Creative Writing (En'owkin Centre)
- CYC: Child and Youth Care
- DHUM: Digital Humanities
- DSST: Disability Studies (DSS)
- ECE: Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECON: Economics
- ED-D: Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
- ED-P: Curriculum and Instruction Studies
- EDCI: Curriculum and Instruction Studies
- EDUC: Education
- ENGR: Engineering
- ENSH: English
- ENT: Entrepreneurship
- EOS: Earth and Ocean Sciences
- EPHE: Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
- ER: Environmental Restoration
- ES: Environmental Studies
- EUS: European Studies
- FA: Fine Arts
- FRAN: French and Francophone Studies
- GDS: Global Development Studies
- GEOG: Geography
- GMST: Germanic Studies
- GNDR: Gender Studies
- GREE: Greek
- GRS: Greek and Roman Studies
- HDCC: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- HINF: Health Information Science
- HLTH: Health
- HS: Health and Society
- HSD: Human and Social Development
- HSTR: History
- HUMA: Humanities
- IB: International Business
- ICDG: Indigenous Community Development and Governance
- IED: Indigenous Education
- IGOV: Indigenous Governance
- INGH: Indigenous Health Studies
- INTS: International Health Studies
- IS: Indigenous Studies
- ISP: Intercultural Studies and Practice
- ITAL: Italian
- LAS: Latin American Studies
- LATI: Latin
- LAW: Law
- LING: Linguistics
- MATH: Mathematics
- MDIA: Media Studies
- MECH: Mechanical Engineering
- MEDI: Medieval Studies
- MEDS: Medical Science
- MICR: Microbiology
- MRNE: Marine Science
- MUS: Music
- NURS: Nursing
- PAAS: Pacific and Asian Studies
- PHIL: Philosophy
- PHYS: Physics
- POLI: Political Science
- PORT: Portuguese
- PSYC: Psychology
- RCS: Religion, Culture and Society
- SCIE: Science
- SENG: Software Engineering
- SJS: Social Justice Studies
- SLST: Slavic Studies
- SMGT: Service Management
- SOCI: Sociology
- SOCW: Social Work
- SOSC: Social Science
- SPAN: Spanish
- STAT: Statistics
- TCA: Transformative Climate Action
- THEA: Theatre
- TS: Technology and Society
- VIRS: Visiting International Research Studies
- VKUR: Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award
- WRIT: Writing
- AHVS101: First-Year Seminar on Art, Images, Experience
- AHVS120: Exploring World Art
- AHVS121: Understanding Visual Communication
- AHVS200: Artists' Materials and Techniques
- AHVS202: Confronting the Object
- AHVS222: The Classical Tradition in Western Art
- AHVS223: Introduction to Western Architecture
- AHVS230: Monuments of South and Southeast Asia
- AHVS232: Sacred Form in South and Southeast Asian Art
- AHVS234: Encountering Renaissance Art
- AHVS241: The Image of the Artist
- AHVS251: Introduction to the Arts of Islam
- AHVS260: Modern and Contemporary Art Icons
- AHVS264: Art History and the Lens
- AHVS268: Introduction to Canadian Art and Architecture
- AHVS284: Indigenous Arts, Local Themes and Global Challenges
- AHVS292: Selected Themes in Art History and Visual Studies
- AHVS295A: Introduction to Film Analysis
- AHVS295B: Introduction to Film Studies
- AHVS300A: Masterpieces of Art and Architecture
- AHVS300B: Fakes, Forgeries and Fraud
- AHVS300C: The Destruction of Art
- AHVS310A: Making Art History
- AHVS310B: Presenting Digital Art History
- AHVS310C: Digital Tools for Art History and Visual Studies
- AHVS310D: Environmental Art
- AHVS310E: Topics in Craft and Communities
- AHVS310F: Modern and Contemporary Design
- AHVS311A: Visual Intelligence
- AHVS311B: Looking and the History of Perception
- AHVS311C: The Sacred Gaze
- AHVS311D: Artists and Art History in Popular Culture
- AHVS311E: History of Video Games and Interactive Media
- AHVS311F: Horror Video Games
- AHVS312: Gender, Identity and Film
- AHVS314: Special Topics in The Art of the Garden
- AHVS319: The Art of Power in South Asia
- AHVS321: Late Antique and Early Christian Art
- AHVS323: Byzantine Art
- AHVS324: Ancient and Medieval Jewish Art
- AHVS326: Early Medieval Art
- AHVS328: Gothic Art and Architecture
- AHVS329: People and Possessions in Medieval Households
- AHVS330A: Early Arts of South Asia
- AHVS330B: Later Arts of South Asia
- AHVS330C: The Body in Indian Art
- AHVS332A: Bollywood and Popular Visual Culture in India, 1950s onwards
- AHVS332B: Bollywood Global and Popular Visual Culture, India and Diaspora, 1990s onwards
- AHVS333A: Early Arts of Southeast Asia
- AHVS333B: Later Arts of Southeast Asia
- AHVS337: Special Topics in Contemporary Asian Art
- AHVS337A: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
- AHVS337B: Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
- AHVS338: Special Topics in Premodern Asian Art
- AHVS339: The Global Renaissance
- AHVS341A: Art in Renaissance Florence
- AHVS341C: Michelangelo and Leonardo
- AHVS342A: Baroque Art in Italy 1550-1700
- AHVS342B: Experiencing Baroque Painting
- AHVS342C: Gender and Sexuality in European Art 1400-1800
- AHVS342D: Collecting Cultures in Early Modern Europe
- AHVS343A: Art in Venice 1500-1800
- AHVS343B: The 18th Century in Northern Europe
- AHVS343C: Special Topics in The Lives of Artists
- AHVS344A: The Art of Travel 1200-1600
- AHVS344B: The Art of Travel 1600 to Present Day
- AHVS345: People and Things in the Early Modern Domestic Interior
- AHVS346C: Visual Culture in Jane Austen's World
- AHVS347: Art and Architecture of the Safavid and Mughal Empires
- AHVS348: Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
- AHVS349: Islam and the West: Artistic Contacts, 1500-1900
- AHVS351A: Painting in Medieval Islam
- AHVS351B: Painting in Iran
- AHVS352: The Genesis of Islamic Art and Architecture
- AHVS354: Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture
- AHVS355A: Old Kingdom Arts of Egypt
- AHVS355B: New Kingdom Arts of Egypt
- AHVS357: Arts of Mediterranean Islam, 13th- 20th Centuries
- AHVS358: Art of the Sultans and Emperors of India
- AHVS359: Islamic Arts from the Mongol Conquests to Modernity
- AHVS362A: Modern Art in Europe and North America, 1900 to 1945
- AHVS362B: Art in Europe and North America, 1945 to present
- AHVS362C: Critical Issues in Contemporary Art
- AHVS363: The Cinema and Modern Art Movements
- AHVS364: Documentary Film
- AHVS365: Experimental Film
- AHVS367: History in Cinema
- AHVS368B: Modern and Contemporary Canadian Art
- AHVS369: History of Photography
- AHVS370A: Popular Film and Cultural Theory
- AHVS370C: Horror Cinema
- AHVS370D: Canadian Film
- AHVS370E: The Family in Film
- AHVS370F: Apocalyptic Themes in Cinema
- AHVS370G: Time in Cinema
- AHVS372A: Chinese Art and Architecture
- AHVS373A: Japanese Art and Architecture
- AHVS381A: Modernism and Modern Art of the Pacific Northwest
- AHVS381B: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest
- AHVS381C: Contemporary Global Art
- AHVS382A: Indigenous Arts of the Arctic and Subarctic
- AHVS382B: Indigenous Arts of the Southwest, California and Great Basin
- AHVS382C: Indigenous Arts of the Plains, Plateau, Woodlands and Southeast
- AHVS383: Special Topics in North American Indigenous Arts
- AHVS383A: Arts and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
- AHVS383B: Indigenous Arts and the Internet
- AHVS384: Northwest Coast Indigenous Arts and Colonization
- AHVS385A: Indigenous Fashion in the Pacific Northwest
- AHVS385B: Pacific Northwest Indigenous Arts and Exhibitions
- AHVS386: Approaches to Collections and Museums
- AHVS387A: European and North American Architecture, 1750 to 1900
- AHVS387B: Modern and Contemporary Architecture
- AHVS388: Global Case Studies in Indigenous Arts
- AHVS389: Art History and Curatorial Research
- AHVS390: Directed Studies
- AHVS392: Special Topics in Art History and Visual Studies
- AHVS395: Art History in Action
- AHVS397: A Social History of Impressionism
- AHVS397A: A Social History of Post-Impressionism
- AHVS398A: Art and Revolution I
- AHVS398B: Art and Revolution II
- AHVS411: Seminar in World Histories of Art
- AHVS420: Seminar in Medieval Art
- AHVS430: Seminar in the Contemporary Art of South and Southeast Asia
- AHVS435: Seminar in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art, c. 1200-1500
- AHVS447: Seminar in Early Modern Art, c. 1500-1750
- AHVS449: Seminar in Orientalism in Art and Architecture
- AHVS450: Seminar in Islamic Art and Civilization
- AHVS451: Seminar in the Arts of Mughal India
- AHVS457: Seminar in Canadian Art
- AHVS460: Seminar in Modern Art I (1870-1945)
- AHVS461: Seminar in Modern Art II (1945-present)
- AHVS464: Seminar in Contemporary Art
- AHVS465: Seminar in 19th- and 20th-Century Architecture
- AHVS478: Seminar in Film Studies
- AHVS480: Seminar in Contemporary North American Indigenous Arts
- AHVS482: Seminar in Indigenous Arts
- AHVS484: Seminar in the Contemporary Arts of the Pacific Northwest
- AHVS486A: Museum Principles and Practices I
- AHVS486B: Museum Principles and Practices II
- AHVS487A: Heritage Resource Management
- AHVS488A: Managing Cultural Organizations
- AHVS488B: Collections Management
- AHVS488C: Communicating Through Exhibitions
- AHVS488D: Caring for Museum Collections
- AHVS488G: Public Programming
- AHVS488H: Topics in Museum Studies
- AHVS488I: Indigenous Cultural Stewardship
- AHVS488J: Contemporary Perspectives in Curatorship
- AHVS488K: Exhibition Planning and Design
- AHVS488N: Digital Planning for the Cultural Sector
- AHVS488S: Building Community Relationships
- AHVS488U: Managing Archival Collections
- AHVS488V: Museums as Learning Environments
- AHVS488W: Community Engagement and Social Change
- AHVS488X: Curatorial Planning and Practice
- AHVS488Y: Visitor Experiences
- AHVS489A: Heritage Area Conservation
- AHVS489C: Determining Significance of Heritage Resources
- AHVS489E: Topics in Heritage Conservation
- AHVS489G: Cultural Landscapes
- AHVS489H: Cultural Tourism
- AHVS489K: Heritage Conservation in Context
- AHVS489L: Heritage Conservation Planning
- AHVS490: Directed Studies
- AHVS491A: Directed Studies in Cultural Resource Management
- AHVS491B: Practicum in Cultural Resource Management
- AHVS492: Advanced Studies in Art History and Visual Studies
- AHVS493: Seminar on the Williams Collection
- AHVS498: Majors Seminar
- AHVS499: Honours Seminar
AHVS311C
The Sacred Gaze
An exploration of ways of seeing that invest images, buildings, people and places with spiritual significance. Investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions.
Lecture: 3h
Lab: 0h
Tutorial: 0h
Credits: 1.5