Short Courses 2024

On campus and online

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The Â鶹ÊÓƵ shares its scholarly expertise with everyone interested in art and art history through the Short Courses. Our courses present up-to-date art-historical thinking, often including our lecturers’ current research, and are led by experts in their field who are chosen for their academic excellence, enthusiasm, and the ability to communicate with diverse audiences.

Covering a global range of historical periods and art-historical themes, the Short Courses programme has much to offer to both newcomers to the subject and to participants with existing knowledge and interests.

Our on campus courses combine teaching in the classroom with visits to galleries and museums across London. If you are stretched for time or too far away from The Â鶹ÊÓƵ, you can also study with us online! You will receive expert lectures and reading material between 2-4 weeks before the start of an online programme so that you can immerse yourself in the content at your own time, in preparation for the lively online seminars during the course delivery week.

You can find our courses and their full descriptions on this website.  Our frequently asked questions may answer any queries, but if not, please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

Our new programmes for 2025 will be online in mid December this year. If you are not already on our mailing list, do contact short.courses@courtauld.ac.uk to join, so that you do not miss out when we launch the programmes.

Download our Short Courses calendar for 2024, listing all our courses and tours per month, here:

Short Courses Calendar 2024

Contact us

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Book now: Anatomy of an Art World – The American Scene c. 1850-1950

Tuesday 7 January – Tuesday 11 March 2025, 19:00
On campus
OR
Wednesday 15 January – Wednesday 19 March 2025, 20:00 [London time]
Online
£195

Our evening lecture series Showcasing Art History will examine the institutions, processes and individuals that led to the centre of the art market gravitating from Europe to the United States, along with the societal shifts – cultural, political, demographic – that transformed the country over the course of a century.

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Our programmes


Summer School

On campus and online. Summer School 2024 features 25 intensive five-day courses on a global range of topics from late classical to contemporary art. ...

Autumn Courses

Our Autumn Courses go considerably beyond introductory surveys. Organised thematically, they provide a solid basis for further studies of areas of Western art from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. ...

Spring Courses

Online and on campus options. Our Spring Courses go considerably beyond introductory surveys. Organised thematically, they provide a solid basis for further study in Western art from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. ...

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Showcasing Art History

On campus and online. As the programme name implies, the series aims to share the latest art-historical thinking, and The Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s excellence in teaching and research, with the wider public....

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Tours

Join our expert lecturers for one of our sought-after Â鶹ÊÓƵ Tours in person, which are celebrated for their scholarly excellence, conviviality and small group size. ...

Saturday Â鶹ÊÓƵ

Saturday Â鶹ÊÓƵ delivers short, intensive and, we hope, enjoyable events that help to give further context to our temporary exhibitions, or use selected works from our permanent collections as starting points for the investigation of significant art-h...

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