This course is an intensive translation seminar for the Williams College Graduate Program in Art History and for interested undergraduate students, with permission of instructor. The core of the course is based on the reading and translating of a variety of critical works covering different periods and genres in the field of Art History The various texts read in this class will be analyzed in form and content, translated or summarized in order to develop the skills and understand the techniques necessary to accurately read French. Grammar will systematically be reviewed in context. Evaluation will be based on participation, papers, a midterm, a project and a final examination. Prerequisites: French 511 or permission of instructor.