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 for our next Saturday Study event on 8 March 2025: The Reinharts of Winterthur: Merchants, Philanthropists and Collectors, which accompanies The Courtauld’s upcoming exhibition Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection.
Coming soon: our spring online courses, including Variations on a Theme: Modernism in Art and Music, Pagans, Christians and the Art of Late Antiquity, The Fear and the Fury: Abstract Expressionism, Heroines: Depicting Famous Women in Italian Renaissance Art, and Making Sense of ‘Nature’ in Western Art.
Newly added: our new Study Tour Uptown, Midtown, Downtown: An Art-Historical Tour of New York City, taking place in October 2025.
If you have any questions, please contact us at short.courses@courtauld.ac.uk