The art history major and minor provide an excellent foundation in modern and contemporary art history, museum studies and curatorial practices, as well as a good knowledge of critical and theoretical discourse in these fields. Our teachers focus on an interdisciplinary approach by bringing in perspectives borrowed from aesthetics and philosophy, feminist and gender theories or linked to post-colonialism, identity, globalization, and new technologies.
Students play an active role in Ottawa’s arts community by participating in curatorial projects on campus and elsewhere in the city, visiting national and municipal galleries and museums, participating in internships, and attending classroom presentations by curators, artists, and visiting professors.
Our graduates pursue careers as exhibition curators, collection curators or directors in museums or galleries, in arts organizations or foundations, in libraries or archive centers, or as editors in art journals or other publications of this kind. They can also pursue master’s or doctoral studies in art history or museum studies and curatorial practices, among other disciplines.
This program is offered in French and English.
NOTE: The University of Ottawa offers a partial tuition fee waiver scholarship to French-speaking international students. This significant contribution to financing their study project allows for a considerable reduction in tuition fees.
To benefit from the partial exemption scholarship, international students must:
- accept an offer of admission to a program of study offered in French;
- register full-time and take at least 3 courses (9 credits) per term in French.
OR
- accept an offer of admission to a program in English offering the French Immersion Program;
- meet the requirements of the Plan; And
- register full-time and take at least 3 courses (9 credits) per term in French.
