SCCS 810, 910, 899 and 999 are 6.0 credit units.  SCCS 821  is a 1.0 credit unit course.  All other courses are 3.0 credit units.
Consult with the department for annual course offerings and schedule.

CORE COURSES:

SCCS 810 Professional Development in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies
This course combines professional development, and a series of guest speakers. Professional development workshops will include sections of grant writing, conference presentation, strategies for the dissemination of their works, production and research ethics, and curriculum development. The course will run on a weekly basis over the course of the academic year, alternating between professional development workshops and visiting speakers in screen cultures and curatorial studies. The course offers in-depth series of workshops on media pedagogies. This is a core course for all graduate students in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. (6.0 credit units).
 

SCCS 812 Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies 
Graduate course examining the key critical and theoretical tenets of Screen Cultures and curatorial studies. The course shall have both historical and contemporary components in order to situate students within various fields of debate. An emphasis shall be placed on methodologies that best mobilize theoretical works in academic and artistic practices. An emphasis is placed on writing, editing, and integrating revisions while articulating the theoretical backbone of students’ projects.  This is a core course for all graduate students in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. (3.0 credit units).
Offered jointly with SCCS 912. Students who have completed SCCS 912, cannot take SCCS 812 unless the course content/instructor are different.

SCCS 814 Histories and Methodologies of Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies
This course will examine the various histories and methodologies applicable to screen cultures and curatorial studies. Drawing on a wide range of global media and the disciplines of film and media studies, curatorial studies, gender studies, and political and critical theory, the course helps students choose the best method(s) for their MA or PhD projects. The course addresses questions such as canonicity, globalization, alternative media practices, exhibition, and circulation histories, minoritarian cinemas, research-creation, and diverse production practices. The course also emphasizes how questions about the intersection between production, circulation, and exhibition inform historical and methodological approaches to screen cultures. Students will deploy these histories and methodologies to design the methodological chapter of their MA or PhD project. This is a core course for all graduate students in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies.
Offered jointly with SCCS 914. Students who have completed SCCS 914, cannot take SCCS 814 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 821 Screen Cultures and Curatorial Summer Institute Micro Course
This micro course offers specialized in-depth instruction associated with the newly established SCCS Summer Institute. The summer institute will run for one week in August on an ad hoc basis. Each iteration will focus on a different topic, led by a faculty member's research interest. Students taking the course will attend the summer institute and receive instruction by the lead faculty member prior to, and after, the institute's duration. Depending on the topic, the course may offer intensely specific training in methods, theoretical engagement, or a specific historical perspective. (1.0 credit units)

SCCS 899 Master's Thesis or Project  

SCCS 900 Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Practicum
This course is intended to support a student's PhD research through organizational and social experience gained from involvement with relevant on-campus and off-campus institutions, organizations, and community groups (such as the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, The Union Gallery, Modem Fuel, The Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Reelout, etc). A SCCS faculty member will oversee each placement in collaboration with a member of the relevant organization or group.
PREREQUISITE: At least two SCCS courses, or permission of Graduate Coordinator.

SCCS 910 Professional Development in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies
This course combines professional development, and a series of guest speakers. Professional development workshops will include sections of grant writing, conference presentation, strategies for the dissemination of their works, production and research ethics, and curriculum development. The course will run on a weekly basis over the course of the academic year, alternating between professional development workshops and visiting speakers in screen cultures and curatorial studies. The course offers in-depth series of workshops on media pedagogies. This is a core course for all graduate students in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. (6.0 credit units)

SCCS 912 Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies
Graduate course examining the key critical and theoretical tenets of Screen Cultures and curatorial studies. The course shall have both historical and contemporary components in order to situate students within various fields of debate. An emphasis shall be placed on methodologies that best mobilize theoretical works in academic and artistic practices. An emphasis is placed on writing, editing, and integrating revisions while articulating the theoretical backbone of students’ projects. This is a core course for all graduate students in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Offered jointly with SCCS 812. Students who have completed SCCS 812, cannot take SCCS 912 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)
SCCS 914 Histories and Methodologies of Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies
This course will examine the various histories and methodologies applicable to screen cultures and curatorial studies. Drawing on a wide range of global media and the disciplines of film and media studies, curatorial studies, gender studies, and political and critical theory, the course helps students choose the best method(s) for their MA or PhD projects. The course addresses questions such as canonicity, globalization, alternative media practices, exhibition, and circulation histories, minoritarian cinemas, research-creation, and diverse production practices. The course also emphasizes how questions about the intersection between production, circulation, and exhibition inform historical and methodological approaches to screen cultures. Students will deploy these histories and methodologies to design the methodological chapter of their MA or PhD project. This is a core course for all graduate students in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Offered jointly with SCCS 814. Students who have completed SCCS 814, cannot take SCCS 914 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 999 Ph.D. Thesis or Project

ELECTIVES COURSES:

SCCS 815 Studies in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies I Graduate course with specialized faculty focus, which may change from year to year. Topics may include: historiography; research-creation; archives and exhibition; on-line curation; digital media practice; images, activism, and the real; animation theory and practice. Offered jointly with SCCS 915. Students who have completed SCCS 915, cannot take SCCS 815 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 818  Studies in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies II Graduate course with specialized faculty focus, which may change from year to year. Topics may include: new forms of authorship; Indigenous media; exhibition and performance; critical curatorial studies; diasporic cinemas; interactivity and media. Offered jointly with SCCS 918. Students who have completed SCCS 918, cannot take SCCS 818 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 820 Media Production Seminar 
This course will combine production and theory in order for students to develop innovative, interdisciplinary, and informed media practice. It will include modules in conceptualizing, producing, and dissemination, as well as structured peer-feedback sessions. The course builds on students’ technical capabilities, and each student will design their own creative project and execute it with technical and conceptual support from the instructor. While there are no prerequisites for this course, it is designed for students who are also practicing artists. This is a core course for all graduate students in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. Offered jointly with SCCS 920. Students who have completed SCCS 920, cannot take SCCS 820 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 828 Critical Curatorial Seminar 
This graduate seminar course addresses the histories, theories and issues of curatorial practice as a tool of cultural agency and considers evolving paradigms of “the curatorial.” Through defined case studies and critical analysis, the class will investigate the forces and frameworks that shape the creation, presentation and meaning of art, ranging across such topics as exhibition formats including global circuits, audience formations, resources/markets, institutional types, belief systems/values, policy and politics, funders and philanthropists. Offered jointly with SCCS 928. Students who have completed SCCS 928, cannot take SCCS 828 unless the course content/instructor are different.  (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 830 Curating in Context 
This production-oriented graduate course explores the development of exhibitions, programs and collections, with emphasis on drawing out and cultivating their relationship to context. Students will develop advanced understanding of method, applied standards and processes of innovation through projects fusing research, articulation, and creative collaboration. The course offers a framework to encounter and experience practical strategies for successful realization of artistic programs. Offered jointly with SCCS 930. Students who have completed SCCS 930, cannot take SCCS 830 unless the course content/instructor are different.

SCCS 840  Directed Reading 
Under supervision by a faculty member, graduate students may conduct intensive reading, curation, or production in an area not offered in core or elective courses that supports graduate research on applications of Screen Cultures, and curatorial studies. Readings and project are to be arranged in consultation with the sponsoring faculty member and joined by meetings during the term to discuss readings and submissions. Students who have completed SCCS 840, cannot take SCCS 940 unless the course content/instructor are different and students who have completed SCCS 940, cannot take SCCS 840 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 915 Studies in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies I
Graduate course with specialized faculty focus, which may change from year to year. Topics may include: historiography; research-creation; archives and exhibition; on-line curation; digital media practice; images, activism, and the real; animation theory and practice. Offered jointly with SCCS 815. Students who have already completed SCCS 815, cannot take SCCS 915 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 918 Studies in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies II 
Graduate course with specialized faculty focus, which may change from year to year. Topics may include: new forms of authorship; Indigenous media; exhibition and performance; critical curatorial studies; diasporic cinemas; interactivity and media. Offered jointly with SCCS 818. Students who have already completed SCCS 818, cannot take SCCS 918 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)
 

SCCS 920 Media Production Seminar 
This course will combine production and theory in order for students to learn how to create innovative, interdisciplinary, and informed media productions and analysis. It will include modules in pre-production, production, and post-production, as well as labs on a variety of analog and digital audio, video, and new media platforms. Offered jointly with SCCS 820. Students who have already completed SCCS 820, cannot take SCCS 920 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)
PREREQUISITE: FILM-250, or permission of instructor based on sustained creative practice.

SCCS 928 Critical Curatorial Seminar 
This graduate seminar course addresses the histories, theories and issues of curatorial practice as a tool of cultural agency and considers evolving paradigms of “the curatorial.” Through defined case studies and critical analysis, the class will investigate the forces and frameworks that shape the creation, presentation and meaning of art, ranging across such topics as exhibition formats including global circuits, audience formations, resources/markets, institutional types, belief systems/values, policy and politics, funders and philanthropists. Offered jointly with SCCS 828. Students who have already completed SCCS 828, cannot take SCCS 928 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units) 
 

SCCS 930 Curating in Context 
This production-oriented graduate course explores the development of exhibitions, programs and collections, with emphasis on drawing out and cultivating their relationship to context. Students will develop advanced understanding of method, applied standards and processes of innovation through projects fusing research, articulation, and creative collaboration. The course offers a framework to encounter and experience practical strategies for successful realization of artistic programs. Offered jointly with SCCS 830. Students who have already completed SCCS 830, cannot take SCCS 930 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)

SCCS 940 Directed Reading
Under supervision by a faculty member, graduate students may conduct intensive reading, curation, or production in an area not offered in core or elective courses that supports graduate research on applications of Screen Cultures, and curatorial studies. Readings and project are to be arranged in consultation with the sponsoring faculty member and joined by meetings during the term to discuss readings and submissions. Students who have completed SCCS 840, cannot take SCCS 940 unless the course content/instructor are different. (3.0 credit units)