Art History Paris (Fall Term +)

This innovative program immerses students in three weeks of "slow looking" at works of art in Paris museums, whose galleries of painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts will serve as our primary classrooms. The Louvre Museum will be the main site of our activities: in addition to the astounding riches of the permanent collection, we will explore the once-in-a-lifetime retrospective exhibition devoted to Jacques-Louis David several times as a group and once with the exhibition's curators. We will also visit the Chateau of Versailles (including parts of the museum normally closed to the public), and the Musée d'Orsay, and other area museums, including the Petit Palais, the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Each one of these museum visits will be dialogic and present students with opportunities for active learning and immersive looking (and often accompanied by the curators who are in charge of caring for these collections). In addition to museum visits, students will use the city as their classroom to help us study the ways in the urban history of Paris and the history of art are deeply intertwined. Students will build on their working knowledge of the broad strokes of European art history circa 1750-1850, based on their prerequisite coursework. Three meetings of the program in the Fall term on campus will also lay the groundwork for these on-site experiences. Except for three meetings on campus in the Fall preceding departure, all class sessions of this course will be held in museums and other cultural sites.

About 15 students are selected for the program. 

For more information about applying for this program, see our webpage on How to Apply & our FAQs under section 2 (How to Apply: Application)

Students will live in shared rooms in dormitory-style housing with a partial meal plan at the Cité Internationale Universitaire, located in the 14th arrondissement.

Please note that the tuition and fees you pay to the college for the fall term will include the Fall Term+ course associated with this off-campus program.  There will be additional room and board costs billed to your student account associated with the off-campus program.  These fees, in addition to any estimated out of pocket expenses will be eligible for financial aid for those students who qualify.

In order that all qualified Dartmouth undergraduate students may have the opportunity to take part in off-campus programs, the College endeavors to adjust its normal financial aid awards for students already receiving aid. Tuition and expected family contribution for Dartmouth's off-campus programs are the same as for an on-campus term.

All costs, including airfare and spending money, are considered when determining the cost of an off-campus program. Any costs more than a typical term in Hanover are met with additional Dartmouth Scholarship Funds.  If you have a work expectation for the term, this will be replaced by scholarship funding for programs that span the entire term. We do not replace work expectations for our Fall Term + programs as students are in Hanover for the 10 week term and remain eligible to work.

Students are responsible for purchasing their own plane tickets and, in many cases, meals. Often this means that part of the expected family contribution is used towards these costs rather than for tuition. For help sorting out who pays what and how-- a visit to the Financial Aid Office is often advisable.  For more information please also review the study abroad section of the financial aid website.

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