"At Smith, art history courses are shaped by the specialized research of our professors, offering students an in depth exploration of specific topics. In contrast, the Sorbonne’s art history curriculum is broader and more rigorously structured, emphasizing comprehensive knowledge of major movements, dates, and works across disciplines, with students expected to work independently and manage fewer, high stakes assignments." - JYA Student 2023-2024
Art History majors at Smith take courses at Sorbonne Université. Here are some relevant courses available to our students there:
FALL SEMESTER
Course code: L3AA27PG
This course will review the birth of art history and archaeology and delimit their field in relation to history, aesthetics and anthropology. It will offer a history of these two disciplines and present the main methodological approaches that have driven their development. It will also give students tools to nourish their practice since it will present the different types of sources on which they can rely, as well as the specialized places and databases to which they have access.
Schedule : 2 hour CM (26 hours per semester)
CM : Amphi – Vendredi – 10h00 à 12h00
Assessment Style : 2 hour final exam (100% of grade)
Course code: L3AA21PG
The course covers the works of the greatest names in architecture and urban planning of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the manuals published in the 20th century made them understandable. As a watermark to this great story, which is regularly the subject of critical re-readings, the course will evoke the origins and beginnings of the functionalist doctrine that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century.
Schedule : 2 hour CM (26 hours per semester)
CM : Doucet – Lundi – 14h00 à 16h00
Assessment Style : 2 hour final exam (100% of final grade)
Course code: L3AA06PG
Introductory lecture course on Romanesque art in Western Europe (religious architecture, sculpture, stained glass, mural painting, goldwork, ivories, etc.); the learning aims at understanding fundamental concepts, memorizing key dates and major players in artistic creation and acquiring the vocabulary essential to describing and analyzing works and buildings from the period considered - the panorama offered in class is supplemented by tutorials intended to consolidate theoretical knowledge as well as develop methodological skills on European art from the 11th-12th centuries.
Schedule : 2 hour CM + 1.5 hour TD (45.5 hours per semester)
CM : Amphi – Vendredi – 14h00 à 16h00
TD1 : Doucet – Lundi – 09h30 à 11h00
TD2 : Doucet – Lundi – 11h00 à 12h30
TD3 : Salle 115 – Lundi – 15h00 à 16h30
TD4 : Salle 115 – Lundi – 16h30 à 18h00
TD5 : Focillon – Vendredi – 16h00 à 17h30
TD6 : Focillon – Vendredi – 17h30 à 19h00
Assessment Style : CM : 1 épreuve terminale de 3h00 (60% of final grade) + TD : Minimum 2 notes de TD (40% of final grade)
2023-2024 Smith JYA students found that they learned a lot in this course, both in cultural understanding and French architectural and art historical terminology, and that the instructor was flexible and adaptable to study abroad students needs.
Course code: L3AA12PG
Art and Archaeology of Egypt in the New Kingdom (1539-1069 BC): This course will present the characteristics of art and archaeology in the New Kingdom, a period of great prosperity for the country, by studying the architecture and iconography of the great royal monuments of the Theban region. This will include the study of the great temples and royal necropolises, but also the large urban installations established in Thebes and Amarna.
Schedule : 2 hour CM + 1.5 hour TD (45.5 hours per semester)
CM : Chastel – Mercredi – 14h00 à 16h00
TD1 : Focillon – Mercredi – 17h00 à 18h30
TD2 : Salle 115 – Jeudi – 18h30 à 20h00
Assessment Style : CM : 1 épreuve terminale de 3h00 (60% of final grade) + TD : Minimum 2 notes de TD (40% of final grade)
SPRING SEMESTER
Course code: L4AA08PG
Course code: L4AA09PG
Course code: L4AA10PG
Course code: L6AA09HA
Course code: L6AA11HA
Course code: L6AA20HA
Course code: L6AA27HA