Study Abroad: Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture
photos supplied by 2024 students, including Tegan Porter and Daisy Sparks
May 30 - June 30, 2025
Advanced Seminar in Baroque Culture:Â (HIST 4162//)
In June each year, this six credit hour summer course offered by ±«Óãtv's Fountain School of Performing Arts and the University of King's College gives students in Theatre, History, Music and other related disciplines a firsthand view of the splendour of European Baroque civilization.The class is taught in the beautiful town of , located in Southern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. ÄŒeský Krumlov is a : a town largely intact from the seventeenth century. The houses . It also owns a substantial collection of historical costumes.
Taught on site at the State Castle, the class involves a combination of historical and cultural research in one or more of the following fields: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre and opera; historical costume; the court life of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe; and the history of Central Europe with its Italian and French influences. Familiarity with foreign languages is not required. Excursions to Prague and local sites of interest will be arranged.
±«Óãtv/King’s reserves the right to cancel the course, if enrolment is below 20 students.
- For more information please contact Marie: marie.raynard@dal.caÂ