URBNST 0412 - GLOBAL CITY - LILLE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide students with an overview of the cultural heritage and museums of Lille's region, settled in the heart of Europe, at the crossroads of London, Paris and Brussels, close to Amsterdam. Students will have course sessions in various museums and sites as mentioned below. Topics to be covered will normally include: Architecture: guided tours of Lille to discover the typical Flemish architecture and the industrial architecture; visit to the Villa Cavrois, a modern museum in an art-deco home Medieval history and architecture: visit to Hospice Comtesse Museum, town museum of Lille housed in a former hospital founded in 1237 by Jeanne, Countess of Flanders. It focuses on the commercial and artistic and scientific history of Lille, and the collection features 17th and 18th century paintings and decorative arts (furniture, ceramics, tapestries) Fine arts: including a visit of the fine arts museum in Lille, one of the premier museums in France, which houses numerous European paintings across periods, a collection of antiquities, a medieval and Renaissance collection, 17th and 18th-century ceramics, 19th-century French sculptures and 18th-century scale models Modern art: visit to LaM (Lille Metropole Museum of Modern Art), contemporary art and art brut - an important museum for 20th and 21st century art in the north of Europe, including three permanent collections: modern art (Modigliani, Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee, Miro, Van Dongen ¿), contemporary art (Deacon, Soulages, Allan McCollum, Dennis Oppenheim¿), outsider art (Aloise Corbaz, Adolf Wolfli, Henry Darger¿) and a unique outdoor sculpture park Visit to the Louvre-Lens, the only regional branch of the Louvre in France, including art works from the Louvre Paris collection displayed in a contemporary building of glass and light created by SANAA, world-famous Japanese architects, in harmony with the location, an historical mining site La Piscine, in Roubaix, one of the most celebrated museums in France outside of Paris, in a former Art Deco swimming-pool Note: students will travel to these museums on foot or by public transportation and will be guided there by staff of the Universite Catholique de Lille. Class hours may vary according to visited sites.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade

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