Our Short Courses share The Courtauld’s expertise with anyone interested in art and art history. Courses present up-to-date art-historical thinking, often including our lecturers’ current research, and are led by experts chosen for their academic excellence, enthusiasm, and the ability to communicate with diverse audiences.
Taught both in person and online, and 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. We mostly teach in small groups to facilitate discussion. The only pre-requisite to participation in our courses is a passion for the visual arts and for art history, along with a good command of the English language.
Please browse our programmes below.
Book now: Saturday Study event, 8 March 2025, The Reinharts of Winterthur: Merchants, Philanthropists and Collectors, accompanying The Courtauld’s exhibition Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection.
Coming soon: Modernism in Art & Music
Pagans & Christians
Abstract Expressionism
Heroines
Nature
Last few places available: Study Tours to Paris, September, and New York City, October 2025.
If you have any questions, please contact us at short.courses@courtauld.ac.uk
