The Courtauld 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 Courtauld, 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 2024Book now: Built upon Waters: The Sea in Venetian art from Tintoretto to Canaletto
Led by a lecturer resident in Venice, this study tour centres on Venetian visual culture as a response to the city-state’s aquatic environment between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.
The course will consider the unique mix of architecture, sculpture, and painting that reflect the sensibility of writers, and artists and architects like Andrea Palladio, Jacopo Tintoretto, and Canaletto to the city’s fundamental connection with the element of water.
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Booking now open: Monet and London. Views of the Thames - In Context
This study morning accompanies The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition Monet and London. Views of the Thames (27 September 2024 – 19 January 2025). Join exhibition curator Dr Karen Serres in conversation with Dr Anne Puetz, as they discuss, among other topics, Monet’s London, the concept of seriality, and the artist as curator.
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