HIST 3349 - Images of Power

Credits: 3

Using art, literature, history, and philosophy, this course explores the social, political, and intellectual life of the Parisian aristocracy and elite of the 17th century in its architectural setting. The Bourbon monarchs were well aware that the arts were instrumental to the construction of the absolutist state. As the course is set both intellectually and physically in Paris, the architectural monuments encourage students to make immediate connections between what they read and what they see. (SMU Abroad)