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NCSA > Fall Programme 2008 |
Fall 2008 - Dates of Term: September 15 - November 27; Mid-Term Break: 18 to 26 October |
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British Art and Architecture in the Age of Elegance Carole Machin, art historian Timetable: Syllabus |
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British Towns and Cities Thomas Harvety , Department of Geography, Portland State University Timetable: Syllabus |
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Modern Britain Andreas Staab, constitutional consultant Timetable: Syllabus |
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The course provides an intensive introduction to the principal institutions, parties and ideologies in British politics. It will also focus on prominent issues in British political debates. The emphasis will be contemporary but extensive use will be made of historical explanations. The course introduces competing analytical and political interpretations, drawing in particular on the fields of comparative politics and public policy. The course aims to evaluate key institutional developments and place them in the context of analytical debates and is therefore interested in conceptual debates, for example, ‘How can we explain party competition in Britain?’ or ‘Are British elections based on class-voting?’ The course aims to cover the ground that a British undergraduate might travel in his or her first year at university. We also aim to use the location of London as Britain’s political capital, by organising some excursions (such as the London Assembly). Students who undertake this course and participate fully can expect to gain a thorough knowledge of the country’s political process. The key to this course is to conceptualise the United Kingdom as a political system and its relationship to other aspects of Britain’s national life, society and history. |
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20th Century London Novel Susie Thomas, literature professor and author Timetable: Syllabus |
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London is the most ethnically diverse city in the world, with over 7 million inhabitants, three hundred languages and at least fourteen faiths. It has become a world city, semi-detached from the rest of England, with a unique and rich literary heritage. This course focuses on the 20 th century London novel and questions of race, gender, class and culture. We begin after WW1 with Virginia Woolf’s feminist exploration the city in Mrs Dalloway. The docking of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury in 1948 is the background to Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, the classic post-war novel of West Indian immigration. Like The Lonely Londoners, Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen explores the colonial’s arrival at the Imperial centre, but from the contrasting perspective of a wife and mother from Nigeria. Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia is narrated by ‘a new breed of Englishman’ (with an Indian father and English mother) and is a 1970s rites-of-passage novel, journeying from the suburbs to the city. Hanan Al-Shaykh brings The Arabian Nights to the Edgware Road in a comic exploration of sex, culture and Islam. The experience of living and studying in London will greatly enhance your understanding of these diverse London novels. We shall explore Mrs Dalloway’s London and visit Leighton House, which is the setting for Only in London. In addition we shall see examples of contemporary London film. |
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The English Landscape: Forests, Farms, and Villages Thomas Harvety , Department of Geography, Portland State University Timetable: Syllabus |
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| Please Note: course offerings are subject to change at any time without notice, due to on-site availability and total program enrollment. All syllabuses may change due to new material or excursions. |
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