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COURSE LISTING
Sequence of Courses, Internship, and Professional Practice Project
First Year - Fall Term
PP8100 - History of Photography I (1 Credit)
This course provides a survey of the medium's history from early experiments to present. It provides an
overview of photography's development and its impact on society as both a cultural and sociological
phenomenon. It also familiarizes students with existing histories of photography, and addresses some of
the problems of defining a visual history through photographic collections. Photographic theory is introduced
to provide a critical context for discussion of these issues.
PP8101 - History of Photographic Materials (1 Credit)
Conceived as a parallel to History of Photography I, this course provides a technical and social history of
photographic materials from 1839 to present. It describes various materials and techniques used in
photography so that their composition, date of origin, and social context can be understood and used in
defining approaches to photographic preservation. Laboratory sessions are used to provide students with the
ability to identify and date major photographic processes and formats.
PP8102 - Research Methods (1 Credit)
This course complements material presented in previous courses and provides theoretical and methodological
foundations for conducting graduate research in the history, preservation, and conservation of photographs.
The course addresses research design, bibliographic construction, cataloguing and archival methods, content
and process analysis, textual analysis, historiography, and documentary research.
PP8103 - Photographic Collections (1 Credit)
This course is concerned with photographic collections as specialized repositories of historical knowledge and
cultural value. It identifies different types of public and private photographic collections as reflections of
governmental, commercial, cultural, and societal needs, and describes their histories, purposes, intellectual
organization, and physical management. The course includes the history of the preservation movement and
explains the relationship of preservation to conservation both historically and today.
First Year - Winter Term
PP8104 - Photographic Materials and Processes: The Nineteenth Century (1 Credit)
This course provides detailed investigation of the history and practice of major nineteenth century
photographic negative and positive processes, including photogenic drawings, calotypes, cased images
(daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes), wet-plate collodion negatives, and albumen prints through
lectures, practical demonstrations, darkroom and studio experimentation, and relevant historical literature.
PP8105 - Chemistry of Photographic Deterioration (1 Credit)
In conjunction with two courses on nineteenth and twentieth centuries processes, and as an
outgrowth of History of Photographic Materials, this course surveys environmental factors and
underlying chemical mechanisms that cause both black and white and colour photographs to stain, fade, or
otherwise deteriorate while in storage or on exhibition. Laboratory sessions are used to illustrate the effects
of deterioration through exposure to heat, light, humidity, and pollutants. The course provides a fundamental
basis for decisions concerning storage conditions, remedial measures, and long-term preservation planning.
PP8106 - Photographic Materials and Processes: The Twentieth Century (1 Credit)
This course provides detailed investigation of the history and practice of major twentieth century photographic
negative and positive processes, including platinum prints, gum bichromate prints, gelatin silver negatives and
prints, and colour negatives and prints through lectures, practical demonstrations, darkroom and studio
experimentation, and relevant historical literature.
PP8107 - Digital Applications for Collection Management (1 Credit)
This course is closely allied to the Cataloguing and Registration Methods course, designed to
provide students with specific digital technologies currently in use in most museums. Image capturing,
database entry/management, and issues surrounding search engines are explored in detail. Through a series
of hands-on assignments, students become familiar with computer hardware and software applications in the
above-mentioned areas.
PP8010 - Internship - Spring/Summer (2 Credits)
PP8010 - Internship Seminar (1 Credit)
The internship allows the student to participate in the current activities or long-term plans of an institution.
Interns may take part in a number of activities including exhibit development, collections research, study
collections management problems, digital cataloguing initiatives and preservation planning and implementation.
As an intern, the student has an opportunity to develop competence in museum work while performing in a
professional work situation. Interns are able to evaluate photographic collection management and preservation
practices in relation to the history and theory of photography, and integrate the knowledge and professional
significance of these practices into the instructional program.
Internship Set up and Evaluation
By the end of the first term, each student will meet with the Internship Supervisor to discuss her or his career
goals and interests. Through the second term, drawing on the expertise of faculty and staff, the students
develop a list of possible institutions where they might intern, write letters of inquiry to determine interest and
potential supervisors. Once the student has been accepted, the graduate committee approaches the
institution to ask for a job description and details of the internship. The job description defines the intern's
major areas of responsibility and aspects of specific projects in which she or he will be involved. Although
flexible, the job description will clearly state what is expected of the intern and form the basis for her or his
performance evaluation.
Second Year - Fall Term
PP8108 - Topics in the History of Photography II (1 Credit)
This course is an examination of issues in photographic history from the invention of the medium until now.
The first part of the class is a seminar, discussing two papers related to a specific theme (see below). We will analyze the content of these papers, but also their structure, their context of publication and what is at stake. Within this theoretical framework, in second part of the class, based on access to the AGO collection, we will study particular photographs in terms of how and in what contexts they have been produced and used. We will analyze technical aspects, commercial production, amateur snapshots, scientific pictures, press photographs and art photographs. This is a course in the history of photographs that emphasizes their nature as objects as much as their nature as images.
PP8110 - Cataloguing and Registration Methods (1 Credit)
This course provides an overview of the purpose and function of collection registration and cataloguing.
It includes an overview of the function of registration and cataloguing staff, developing cataloguing systems,
role and usage of computer technology, collection management procedures, shipping and receiving, insurance
and conditions reports. Digital applications are also discussed.
Second Year - Winter Term
PP8109 - Photographic Preservation (1 Credit)
This course provides an overview of the history of philosophy, ethics, concerns, and methods of preservation.
It covers materials, tools, sources of supply, and methods of providing protection for photographs through
proper mounting, housing, and stabilization procedures. It also covers the purposes and procedures for
compiling standard condition reports, and conducting preservation surveys. Students will also be introduced to
conservation procedures in order to facilitate their interaction with conservators and their practices.
PP8111 - Exhibition and Publication of Photographs (1 Credit)
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of issues and policies related to the exhibition and
publication of photographs. It covers preservation issues involved in preparing, installing, monitoring, and
circulating photographic exhibitions, as well as copyright and reproduction issues. Digital applications and
issues are also discussed.
Elective courses (may not be offered - 2011 / 2012)
one elective offered below - 1 Credit (Three offered each year including the France Workshop)
PP8200 - Topics in Photographic Preservation: Nineteenth Century Materials
Seminar devoted to an issue or aspect of the care and preservation of nineteenth century photographic materials.
PP8201 - Topics in Photographic Preservation: Twentieth Century Materials
Seminar devoted to an issue or aspect of the care and preservation of twentieth century photographic materials.
PP8202 - Topics in Photographic Preservation: New Media
Seminar devoted to an issue or aspect of the care and preservation of new photographic digital image materials.
PP8203 - Topics in Photographic Preservation: Photographic Albums and Books
Seminar devoted to the history and structure of bound books, and their materials and technology
(including the photograph album). Factors in deterioration, analysis of condition, need for intervention;
treatment proposals, stabilization, and repair are covered. Methods of display, handling, and storage are also
covered.
PP8204 - Topics in Photographic Preservation: Negatives
Seminar devoted to an issue or aspect of the care and preservation of photographic negatives.
PP8205 - France Workshop
Through 12 days of on-site lectures by, and consultations with, curators of the most distinguished
photographic collections, archives, and conservation laboratories in Paris, the course provides students with
special access to a broad range of French state and municipal photographic collections and preservation
practices. Ryerson has developed strong working relationships with a number of the most important curators
and conservationists in Paris including those at the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Bibliothèque Nationale,
and the Musée Carnavalet among others. They allow students behind-the-scenes access to their collections,
work spaces, and storage vaults that are unavailable to the general public.
An extra fee of approximately CDN $5,000 is levied for this course and the course will be offered
subject to enrollment. There are a maximum of 11 places available for this course.
Professional Practice Seminar - (1 Credit)
PP8000
- Professional
Practice Project - (3 Credits)
This course is designed to assist the student with the development of her or his thesis or applied project through the proposal, preliminary bibliography, outline, timetable, and oral report stages. The course is based on the premise that the successful conception, execution, and completion of a thesis or applied project is a systematic process, one that is developed over a period of time in identifiable stages, each building upon the previous ones. The course is practical in its orientation and is tailored to the needs of each student. Specific notes on the theses and applied projects are included in a separate document.
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