Study Abroad

The art department’s May Seminar is one of the most popular May Seminars offered at Concordia.  After completing a semester long preseminar course on campus, you’ll spend the month of May exploring the art and architecture of the great cultural centers of Europe. You will earn academic credit for both the May Seminar and the preseminar course. In recent years, seminars have traveled to Austria, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Spain and Turkey.

The May Seminar is designed as an intense, immersive adventure in the history of Western art. As such, your seminar leaders – art faculty – provide constant opportunities for you to directly experience the most influential painting, sculpture and architecture of Western world. Equally important, the seminar is designed to allow you to engage the history of art as a history of ideas and cultures, focusing specifically on the economic, social and political structures that makes the art of the West a significant – and fascinating – discipline of study.


Here’s what's planned for May 2010:

Three Art Capitals of Europe: London, Florence and Paris
Art 300 • Prerequisite: Art 155 or 156 or 158
Peter Schultz and Heather Pollock, Art

Fun-loving art fanatics wanted! We’ll travel to London, Florence and Paris to observe and study some of the world’s greatest collections of art in three of Europe’s most dazzling “art capitals.” We’ll tour the museums, cathedrals, galleries and theatres that set these cities apart. Of particular importance will be your ability to demonstrate familiarity with the basic monuments of Western art, place these monuments within meaningful social contexts and to think about the interactions that exist between material culture, the historical process and the human mind.

We’ll begin in London and the exquisite collection of ancient Greek art in the British Museum. We’ll stop at the National Gallery, St. Paul’s Cathedral and sample the West End theatre district. Then it’s off to glorious Florence, where the Renaissance flourished, to enjoy the city and spend time at the Uffizi, Duomo, Medici Palace and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum. In Paris we’ll make the most of the Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay before exploring the colorful neighborhoods of the City of Light.

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