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Fall 2011 - Dates of Term: 5th September to 9th December Mid-Term Break: 15th - 23rd October Please note that 2011's Fall Quarter Programme will be combined with our Fall Semester Programme. To see all available courses for this period, click here. (Below you will see examples of courses that have previously been on offer when the Quarter Programme has run independently.)
COURSES
		British Art and Architecture in the Age of Elegance, 1715 -1815 Carole Machin, art historian
Discover how the art and architecture of the 18th century is a reflection of the society from which it sprang. This age of prosperity fuelled much urban and rural building in the elegant and fashionable Palladian style, and the mercantile middle classes emerged for the first time as a wealthy art buying public with a demand for new art.


		Modern Britain Andreas Staab, constitutional consultant
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.


		20th Century British Novel Susie Thomas, literature professor and author
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.


Inter Cultural Experience (ICE) class led by Dr. Martin Upham is mandatory for all students.
Please Note: course offerings are subject to change at any time without notice, due to on-site availability and total programme enrolment. All syllabuses may change due to new material or excursions.
EXCURSIONS Past excursions have included: Theatre and other activities Students will see As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Thanksgiving feast at the London Centre Field trips Weekend trip to Scotland Bath day trip Oxford day trip Hampton Court Palace Blackbeard and The Rite of Spring Inherit the Wind

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