Curriculum Structured Tours

Curriculum structured tours are museum presentations tailor-made for the academic community. The aim of this program is to use the Snite Museum as an educational resource for Notre Dame faculty and students. Please read the Statement of Purpose.

The lecture-tours occur during regular class periods. Each visit is individually arranged during a previous walk-through of the museum when the professor and the museum educator discuss the syllabus of the class and how the material will be used in conjunction with works of art.

Approximately 3,000 students visit the Snite Museum as part of their academic classes during the academic year. Teachers and professors who request curriculum structured tours come regularly from fourteen departments of the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Business Administration at Notre Dame, from Saint Mary's College, and from other colleges and high schools in the area.

Leadership Training for Executives: A collaboration between the Snite Museum and the Executive Education department Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. People tend to be much more aware of the effect of their words on people rather than of the effect of their bodily gestures and expressions, their clothes and whatever tools or machines they may carry, so learning to interpret non-verbal behavior, body language, clothes and props could help business leaders to understand better the people they lead, as well as letting them project more clearly their own particular points of view or ideas. On December 3, 2002 thirty nine mid-career business executives came to the Snite Museum of Art for a three part experience focusing on learning about leadership from looking at presentations of leaders in visual art. Firstly, during discussion with Diana Matthias, curator of education/academic programs, the executives learned about the visual language and persuasive techniques used by artists working in the European tradition. Secondly, participants put their newly-found knowledge to work by spending an hour drawing themselves as idealized leaders. Thirdly, the participants divided into small groups in order to explain to each other why they had used particular stylistic details, clothes or gestures in their interpretations of themselves as ideal leaders.
		Diana Matthias, Curator of Education, talking with business executives about Napoleon and leadership, for the Executive Integral Leadership Program, December 3, 2002

Link to: College of Arts & Letters — The Arts & Special Events

Foreign Language Tours

Foreign Language Tours are presented in the same way as Curriculum Structured Tours, but they are given in French, German and Spanish to classes studying these languages.

Many teachers of foreign languages like their students to have access to the civilization of the people whose language they are studying. To accommodate the language teachers, Foreign Language Tours focus on the art and society of select foreign language groups.

Students from Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College who have a skill in one of these languages often help the curator give these tours. The students come to the museum for several coaching sessions given by the curator, and when they are well-prepared and confident, the students give their tours to students from Notre Dame and area high schools.

Vocabulary Lists

French
French Vocabulary List #1
French Vocabulary List #2

Spanish
Spanish Vocabulary List #1
Spanish Vocabulary List #2

Method

University Tour Information | Teacher Programs
Curriculum Connections | Essay Competition