The OICR curriculum consists of the Critical Theory Seminar (12 hours), Research Design and Methods Seminar (6 hours), and Special Topics Research (6 hours) as well as 3 two-week intensive editing sessions (6 hours) that occur directly after the end of each of the academic terms, making for a total of 450 contact hours (30 credit hours) per year.
Classes meet each week on Thursdays and Fridays, 11:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. (with an hour break for lunch), at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters on SE Hawthorne Boulevard.