For me, the three greatest benefits of
studying at The Courtauld are the breadth
and range of subjects that you can study
across your degree. This includes from
Early Byzantium through to 18th century
China, the Italian Renaissance to modern
and contemporary art. The second for me
is the expertise of the faculty and
associate lecturers that you'll meet
here.
Many of us are curators, and critics, and
writers; we're really a faculty who is
shaping the field even as we're teaching
it to our students.
The third was our size. We're a very small
institution which means that our
students get to meet each other across
cohorts, from BA students right through
to PhDs and they also get to mix so you
meet conservators, curators as well
as art historians.
So what makes The Courtauld so
unique is that it's a single
discipline Institute. It's deeply engaged
with art history but at the same time, it
pushes as a splint towards other
disciplines like philosophy, politics
economics, which I loved at The Courtauld.
I think what makes The Courtauld
unique is its library. It has a fantastic
collection of books and pamphlets and
and papers that you might need during
your courses, so to have that just on
hand in the building that you're
studying and just popping down to the
library it was really really helpful.
So the greatest benefits are really the
proximity to the collections in London,
and particularly The Courtauld collection.
Student life at The Courtauld is a
really tight-knit community, with lots of
different societies and lots of
opportunities to get involved with our
student-led magazine and our student-led
exhibition.
Because the year is so
intense and learning, obviously
everyone's so committed to learning,
everyone's very hard-working, is
perfectly balanced, I think, with fun as
well. There are so many societies that
you can join.
The Courtauldian is our
student-run magazine, established in 2012.
It includes sections on exhibition
reviews, current affairs and,
illustrations. You can get involved in so
many ways, for example, graphic design,
editing, writing or illustrating.
So what I took away from The Courtauld
is the ability to think creatively, and
that I continue to apply my work every
day in The City, even though I apply it
to a very different subject now, it's
still the same skill I gained at The Courtauld.
The quality of teaching here
at The Courtauld has been incredible.
Having the facilities, from the library
to the lectures, you can really take the
learning that you've had of art history
with you throughout your career.
The three key things I took away from my
time at The Courtauld were an open mind,
the skills for my future career, and lots
of new friends.
