Summer Calendar - St. Francis Xavier University

UNDERGRADUATE COURSESSPRING SESSIONCRN = Course Reference NumberANTIGONISH (ON CAMPUS)April 24 - June 18 (Unless otherwise indicated)Room codes: AX (Annex), JBB (J. Bruce Brown), IM Immaculata Hall), MA (Marguerite), NH (Nicholson Hall), OC (OlandCentre), SW (Swartz School of Business Administration and Information Systems building).ON-CAMPUS SPRINGCOURSESART 100.30DrawingCRN 14222M. MacFarlaneART 125.30Materials and MethodsCRN 14223R. YoungART 145.30Introduction to ColourCRN 14224M. MacFarlaneBIOL 307.30Field BiologyCRN 14225D. Garbary, R. Lauff, M.Pulsifer & N. HillDEVS 391.30Selected Topics: Skills forSocial ChangeCRN 14295B. ForoughiDATESApril 24 - June 189:00 am - 12:00 pmMonday / Tuesday / ThursdayRoom 002, IMMay 24 - June 181:00pm - 4:00 pmMonday / Tuesday / ThursdayRoom 018, IMApril 24 - May 221:00 pm - 4:00 pmMonday / Tuesday / ThursdayRoom 002, IM8:00 am - 10:00pmMonday - SaturdayMay 6 - May 19(Initial meeting will be SundayApril 29 at 7:00 pm)Lab Fee: $75 (in addition totuition)Room 236, BBMay 7 - 25, 2012Monday-Friday8:45am – 12n & 2pm – 5pmInstructor permission is requiredto register for this course.For information/registrationcontact: bforough@stfx.caDESCRIPTIONAn elementary course in drawing and composition withmixed media, including some work in colour. The focuswill be on line, skeletal forms, planes, mass forms, stilllife and the figure. Six credits.Students will create small works in watercolour, oil,acrylic and egg tempera. The goal is a workingknowledge of each medium’s properties, brushhandling, supports, preservation, and threedimensionalart work. Three credits.This course deals with the vocabulary, nature, andphysical properties of colour: hue, value, and intensity.Studio assignments provide practice in learning colourrelationships in unified and contrasting colour schemes.Three credits.This course provides practical experience in theobservation, collection, identification, andquantification of organisms in nature. Held for twoweeks in May, the course emphasizes field ecology,dealing with some or all of the following groups oforganisms: birds, small mammals, fish, plants, marinealgae, marine invertebrates, and insects. Prerequisite:BIOL 203. Three credits.This course provides a space for collective explorationof self, community transformation and our role asadvocates of social and economic justice. Whether it isto examine the intricacies of donor relations, the powerof social media in promoting change or the challengesof grassroots organizing, we will encourage one anotherto better understand and be empowered by thepossibilities that exist for community transformation.Three credits.12