In the summer of 2001, the theme of the Humanities in London program is London in British Culture . With its tradition of cultural leadership in Great Britain and Europe, London has served as a unique center for the free exchange of ideas through the media and in the arts and humanities. An increasingly multi-cultural city which nonetheless retains distinctive attributes of British enlightenment values and social consciousness, London presents an excellent opportunity for studying and understanding the complex new configurations of a changing world. Guest lecturers will speak each week, and field trips will be scheduled to relevant museums, art galleries, and historic sites.
Final examinations draw upon lectures and field trips.
Courses Each student takes two courses for a total of 6 semester hours of credit. English 288A 01. The Fiction of London. In this course, we will read and discuss modern and contemporary British novels, as well as poems by T. S. Eliot, that are focused on the nature of London life and the complexity of its moral and cultural demographics, from the past to the immediate present. Fine Arts 294 01.