All Courses at the Faculty of Information
Below is the course directory, a searchable list of courses offered by the Faculty of Information, including course descriptions, pre-requisites, co-requisites and other relevant information.
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MSL2370H — Museums and Cultural Heritage: Context and Critical Issues This course provides students with an introductory overview of the museum and cultural heritage sectors. Students will be exposed to a wide range of themes and concepts that constitute and shape the discipline, in particular preservation, representation and authenticity, memorialization, taxonomy, technology, ownership and repatriation, […]
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MSL2331H — The Museum Exhibition: Histories, Practices, Genres The exhibition is a museum’s main form of public engagement, and this course investigates the histories, processes and practices through which exhibitions have developed over time, within a Western and global context. Why do museums prioritize exhibitions over other forms of programming? Why do exhibitions succeed, and […]
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MSL1230H — Ethics, Leadership, Management This course introduces a perspective based on museum ethics and contemporary approaches to leadership in order to address key concepts, contexts and issues of museum management: the changing missions, external environments and stakeholders of contemporary museums, organizational structure and design, mission, policy and strategy, planning and programming, marketing, museum economics […]
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MSL1150H — Collection Management This course is designed to provide an understanding of objects, the storage, handling, conservations and management of collections, that is, the activities upon which the curatorial, research and educational functions of the museum are based. Syllabus Winter 2017 Syllabus Fall 2017 Syllabus Winter 2019 Syllabus Winter 2020 Syllabus Winter 2021 Syllabus […]
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Space Museums: technical and cultural considerations
Lindsay Small
The McMichaels & the McMichael Canadian art collection
Richard Daniel Laurin
Artifacts on air: Cultural conference, collaboration and remote access in indigenous archaeological collections
Emily Meikle
Becoming antiquities: How museum objects acquire educational and heritage value
Mary-Elizabeth Simonds
From print to paint: Analyzing the influence of print culture in art museums
Kathryn Methot
Museums and money: The impact of provincial cultural policy
Robin Nelson
Queering museums: Questions of space, affect, and the
Nicole Ritchie
The Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch Collection and its many social contexts: Constructing a collection’s object biography
Emma-Louise Knight
Between art and artefact: The photography of Abel Boulineau
Vanessa Fleet
Report on Adult and Community Public Programs in Contemporary Art Galleries in the Southern Ontario and Ottawa Region
John Anthony Rubino
Into the “Immortal Well”: Uses of Time Capsules in the Present
Emily Beliveau
Who are we doing this for, anyway?: Engaging diverse audiences through curatorial practices in contemporary art
Milena Placentile
Museum-to-go: A museum case handbook
Joan Lee
Standardizing museum practice: The development of community museum policy in Ontario and Alberta
Karen Linauskas
Colours yet untried: Achieving a more inclusive art museum in a pluralist society
Honore Marchant-Kelly
Discriminating tastes and indiscriminate passions: Curiosity and the codification of taste
Aron Mohr