Images & Ideas: Interpreting Modern European Art

  Denmark

Copenhagen

Term: Summer 
Dates: Session 1 (May 22-Jun 12) and/or Session 2 (Jun 12-Jul 3)

Description: The Modern European Art course are designed for students majoring in the humanities. They introduce you to European and Scandinavian art from Impressionism, Expressionism and Cubism to contemporary art, highlighting major developments within their cultural context.

Through a combination of coursework and multiple hands-on study visits to premier art museums and galleries, the courses will familiarize you both with the schools art themselves and with how they relate to the surrounding society.

Prerequisites: General DIS prerequisites

Core Courses: "European Modernism: Representation, Imagination, Abstraction" (Session 1) and "Modern Art and Artists in Scandinavia" (Session 2)

Highlights: The program includes a one-week study tour to London & Paris (art museums and galleries, plus cultural-historical sites) during the first session and a one-week study tour in Norway & Sweden (art museums and galleries, plus cultural-historical sites) during the second session.

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: Please contact DIS for more information

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to American and Canadian Participants.

Participants Travel to Denmark Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently Or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Transcript
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network

DIS - Danish Institute for Study Abroad's Mission Statement: DIS is a specialized Danish institution offering study abroad programs in English for primarily American university students in their third or fourth year of study, with credit transfer to their home school. Among alumni and partners, we have a reputation of being intense, demanding and rewarding, and of providing a challenging educational environment in a full-service framework.

Year Founded: 1959