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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Discovering Arts

Course Information

Subject: Art History (ARTH), French (FRE)
Number: 100 Level
Language of Instruction: French

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 45 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits

Availability

The specific availability for this course is not currently known. If you would like to know if this course will be offered during your session, please contact us.

Full Description

Objectives: 

  • Practice the French language in expressing works of art, both in museums and in the classroom.
  • Learn how to examine, analyze, and understand a work of art: the composition and pictorial techniques
  • Identify and know how to read the subjects represented, while looking for their significance with regards to the era
  • Acquire the necessary base to be able to describe and comment on a work of art (Vocabulary, tools of analysis, historic points of reference and style)
  • Become familiar with the well known works of art and French artists

Program:

This course is divided into two topics

  • Themes
  • Art History: Artists and their works of art

Grading:

3 grades
1 exam
1 written assignment
Participation

Educational Materials

Museum visits, post cards and books

 

Original Language Description

Objectifs

  • Pratiquer la langue française en s'exprimant sur une œuvre d'art, au musée ou en cours.
  • Apprendre a regarder, analyser, comprendre une œuvre : composition, techniques picturales
  • Identifier et savoir lire les sujets représentés en recherchant leur signification par rapport a l'époque
  • Acquérir les bases nécessaires pour savoir décrire et commenter une œuvre d'art (vocabulaire, outils d'analyse, repérés historiques, grands courants stylistiques).
  • Connaître les grandes œuvres de référence et les grands artistes français

Programme

  • Ce cours s'organise selon deux orientations :
  • Les genres picturaux et les grands thèmes de l'art
  • Parcours de l'histoire de l'art en France : les artistes et leurs œuvres majeures.

Evaluation Pédagogique

3 notes
1 contrôle + 1 exposé écrit
1 note de participation

Supports Pédagogiques

Visites au Musee, cartes postales + livres

 

 

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