The London Program next fall will be directed by Professor McNees from the English Department. Students who have already completed Core requirements may receive English II and English III credit for the 8 credit London Core course. In addition, students may take a 4 credit hour course in Shakespeare’s plays taught at the new Globe Theatre or a 4 credit art history course that meets weekly at London museums. Students will also take one course at City University where they will have Student Union and e-mail privileges.

Now in its fourth year, the program has a limit of 22 undergraduates. It lasts 14 weeks from approximately Labor Day to the third week in December. Students live in flats in the north London area, receive tube and bus passes, meal allowance and University of London Library cards. While the focus is largely in history, literature and art history, students have opportunities to take a wide variety of other courses at City University and, occasionally, at the Guildhall School of Music.

The 8 credit course, London Culture: Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, forms the academic heart of the program. Designed to use the city of London as a lab, the course meets once a week in the classroom and once a week on site. Students are responsible for researching and conducting tours of the sites. Following is a tentative syllabus with some readings for next fall. Please contact the Study Abroad Office for an application. If you have further questions about the curriculum, please contact Professor McNees at 871-2861 or e-mail: emcnees@du.edu.

September

Week One: The England of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
  Shakespeare play at the Globe Theatre
  Site Visit: National Portrait Gallery

Week Two:  Porter, Social History of London (Porter lecture)
  Site Visit: Hampton Court

Week Three: John Donne’s London
  Donne’s poetry & prose
  Site Visit: St. Paul’s Cathedral

October

Week Four: Pepys’s London: The Plague & Great Fire
  Pepys’s Diary; Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year
  Site Visits: Museum of London & Monument

Week Five: Restoration & 18th Century London
  Readings by Samuel Johnson, E.P. Thompson
  Site Visit: Johnson’s House, Wren churches, Hogarth’s House

Week Six: Regency London
  Readings by William Blake
  Site Visits: Kenwood House, Apsley House (Wellington), Tate Gallery

Week Seven: Romantic & Victorian London
  Readings by Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth
  Site Visits: Keats’s Museum, St. Michael’s Church, Highgate
  Highgate Cemetery

November

Week Eight: Victorian London
  Readings by Engles, Carlyle, Dickens
  Site Visits: Dickens’s House, Ragged School Museum, Carlyle’s House

Week Nine: Victorian London
  Readings by Tennyson, Rossetti, Ruskin
  Site Visits: Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Gallery, Morris’s House

Week Ten: Late Victorian London
  Readings by Kipling, Conrad
  Site Visits: Leighton House, Commonwealth Museum

Week Eleven: London & the Great War (World War I)
  Readings by Pat Barker, Sassoon, Owen
  Site Visit: Imperial War Museum

December

Week Twelve: London Between the Wars
  Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Readings by Bloomsbury Group
  Site Visit: Somerset House, Freud Museum

Week Thirteen: London & the Blitz (World War II)
  Readings: Churchill, Auden, Spender, Bowen
  Site Visits: Cabinet War Rooms, Blenheim Palace

Week Fourteen: Final Exam Week
   Site Visit: Geffrye Museum