Criticism & Curatorial Practice
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“I have wanted for so long to own and maintain even a few huge, interlocking thoughts that, having exhausted more legitimate methods, I have recently resorted to theoretical speculation.”
— Nicholson Baker, The Size of Thoughts , 1983
Criticism & Curatorial Practice (CRCP) offers a cross-disciplinary program intended for students interested in pursuing a career that includes the fields of curating, writing, exhibition production and art practice. Linking the Faculties of Art and Liberal Studies, CRCP provides an environment that extends into a wide range of disciplines from art history to current practices and theories of contemporary art and design.
The curriculum draws on the richly varied resources available across the College, and through required courses, helps students develop methodologies to define their own critical approach. To assist in this, the core faculty includes curators, critics, academics and artists respected in their fields for their critical and supervisory skills.
Students have an on-going opportunity to apply their skills through field study arrangements with Toronto galleries, museums, alternative spaces and publications.
As artist-curators, graduates are uniquely positioned to develop their own roles in the art and design world, both in Canada and internationally. A contemporary arts environment in which critically informed collaborations occur between artists, curators, writers and designers has become a hallmark of engaged practice.
It is an environment that offers students of the program an exciting and fulfilling future at the centre of today’s visual culture.
Criticism & Curatorial Practice Program Guide
This Major is only available to Bachelor of Fine Arts students. All Criticism & Curatorial Practice major students must complete the requirements listed below as well as additional specific liberal studies requirements. See the Liberal Studies requirements that pertain to you.
| COURSE CODE | COURSE NAME | CREDIT |
|
200 Level Requirements | ||
| CRCP 2B01 | Contemporary Issues: Art Today (SEM) | 0.5 |
| CRCP 2B02 | Museums, Galleries and Alternate Spaces (SEM) | 0.5 |
| VISC 2B07 | History of Modern Art | 0.5* |
| VISC 2B32 | Canadian Culture: The Modern Era | 0.5* |
| 200 Level | English (ENGL) | 0.5* |
| 200 Level | Studio, Studio-Seminar or Liberal Studies electives | 2.5 |
| Total Credits | 5.0 | |
|
Recommended: | ||
| FABR 2B05 | Introduction to Fabrication: Wood | |
|
300 Level Requirements | ||
| CRCP 3B05 |
A Question of Beauty (SEM) |
0.5 |
| HUMN 3B03 |
The History and Theory of Art Criticism |
0.5* |
| VISC 3B03 | Contemporary Canadian Art | 0.5* |
| VISC 3B09 |
Art After Modern Art: Conceptual Practices |
0.5* |
| SCTM or SOSC |
Science/Technology/Mathematics or Social Sciences |
0.5* |
| 200 or 300 Level | Studio, Studio-Seminar, Design or Liberal Studies electives | 2.0 |
| 300 Level | Field Study (CRCP) | 0.5** |
| Total Credits | 5.0 | |
| Recommended: | ||
| CRCP 3B03 | Special Focus: Talking Community (SEM) | |
| CRCP 3B04 | Special Focus: Making Community | |
| INTM 3B09 |
Publications: Print | |
| or | ||
| INTM 3B17 | Publications: Digital | |
|
400 Level Requirements | ||
| CRCP 4B02 |
Art Writing: A Workshop in Practice and Ideas (SEM) |
0.5 |
| CRCP 4C01 | CRCP Thesis: Research | 1.0 |
| CRCP 4C02 |
CRCP Thesis: Presentation |
1.0 |
| HUMN 4B18 |
Understanding Postmodernism: Critical Perspectives |
0.5* |
| SCTM or SOSC |
Social Sciences or Science/Technology/Mathematics |
0.5* |
| 200, 300 or 400 Level |
|
1.5 |
| Total Credits | 5.0 | |
| Recommended: | ||
| CRCP 4B03 | Visual Culture Publications | |
| or | ||
| 400 Level | Field Study (CRCP) ** | |
*See the Liberal Studies requirements for the Degree Stream.
** See Special Studies under Alternative Studies regarding application deadlines and policies.
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