Critical and Contextual Studies (CCS) is a school-wide teaching curriculumIn education, a curriculum (or curricula) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view of the student's experiences in terms of the educator's or school's instructional goals. A curriculum may incorporate the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives. Curricula are split into several categories: the explicit, the implicit (including the hidden), the excluded, and the extracurricular. Curricula may be tightly standardized or may include a high level of instructor or learner autonomy. Many countries have national curricula in primary and secondary education, such as the United Kingdom's National Curriculum. that aims to orient and engage students in the histories and theories of their disciplineA specific way, a set of procedures and techniques for a specific activity e.g. the discipline of drawing embraces perspective, figure and conceptual ways of working, each with their own specific attributes.
The syllabus offers a solid background in essential histories and discourses of contemporary artContemporary art is art work which is currently being produced by living artists. It is often concerned with contemporary issues and can take many forms. See for example conceptual art and site-specific art. to help artistsPeople who are engaged in a broad spectrum of visually led ideas and activities aligned to the expressive arts address questions about their practice and its context: about what artArt refers to a diverse range of human intellectual and expressive activities and the outcomes of those activities. Within this context art is further defined as visual art and includes painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and work made using digital media. is, how it is judged and how it relates to society