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Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5B 2K3
Program Administrator
RCC-311
Phone 416-979-5000, ext 2674
Email: gradppcm@ryerson.ca |
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The joint graduate program provides an integrated program of academic study and professional
education that will equip students to meet current responsibilities and future demands in
photographic preservation and in managing and preserving photographic collections. Its faculty
includes photographic historians, scientists, practitioners, curators and other museum
professionals.
The program is the only one of its kind in the world. Its curriculum is specifically designed
to deepen students' understanding of the history of the photographic medium, particularly
its social, cultural, and instrumental uses, and the purposes and functions of photographs
and photographic collections.
The intensive, two-year graduate program assumes that a photographic preservation specialist
or collections manager must be acquainted with the materials of photography, with its history,
the social and cultural conditions of its production, and the critical and theoretical
conceptions that inform its reception. Thirteen half-year courses, an internship, and a professional practice project are designed to
provide students with a graduate program in which historical knowledge, practical experience,
and professional education are fully integrated. Course offerings in the graduate program include seminars in photographic materials and history, and issues of curatorial practice and
practicums taught by preservation and conservation specialists. Students are required to
complete an internship in a professional setting between their first and second years.
Upon satisfactory completion of course work and other requirements of the graduate program,
students are awarded the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in photographic preservation and
collections management.
Candidacy for the master’s degree requires satisfactory completion of 13 required half-year
courses, 1 elective, an internship or work placement, and a professional practice project. |
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