A Crash Course in Art History Through Parisian Museums and Monuments

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course is designed for students wondering how to recognize and understand the significance of the major movements and styles that have influenced art and architecture in Paris. The course will be conducted entirely out of the classroom, in a selection of Paris's most emblematic monuments and museums. The course is designed to help students make the most of their time in Paris, by giving them the codes to decipher the hidden messages captured on canvas and in stone that they will observe in and out of the classroom in Paris. However, the image analysis methodology and codes of visual literacy will serve them beyond their semester in Paris as citizens of our hyper-image-focused society.