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The Globe
During B-Term of Summer Quarter 2010, from July 26 – August 27 (note: modified B-Term dates) the Department of English will offer a five-week, summer session of its highly successful program of study in London. We have found that by keeping our numbers small, by tailoring our courses to what is immediately able to be seen in London and in England, and by asking students to actively participate, everyone emerges feeling fuller, as students, as tourists, as people. (Students should note that the program begins and ends later than B-term classes in Seattle, which run July 22 - August 20. This gives participants taking Seattle A-term courses or participating in another international study program during A-term ample time to travel to London.)
The program consists of three courses totaling 15 credits: “Shakespeare on Stage, London and Stratford,” taught by Professor William Streitberger of the UW Department of English, “Contemporary Britain,” taught by Professor Michael Fosdal, and “Art, Architecture, and Society,” taught by Professor Peter Buckroyd. Professors Buckroyd and Fosdal are both British faculty who are experienced teachers of American students. (All students will take all 15 credits.)
Students in the program will maintain their UW residency and any financial aid eligibility already established. Credits earned will be recorded on students’ UW transcripts and apply directly to UW graduation requirements. Credits earned in the English course may be used to satisfy requirements for the English major.
Housing and partial board (2 meals a day) for students will be arranged with families in London. A London Transport pass, good for travel on all underground trains, overground rail, and busses within homestay zone, will be supplied.
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taught by Professor William Stretiberger, UW English Department Faculty
For over four hundred years London has been the most important center for theatre in English, and especially for productions of Shakespeare's plays. During our five week program we will read perhaps five plays and see them performed on stage. What we will see depends on what's on during our term there, but at the moment I have planned to see one at Regents Park Open Air Theatre, two at The Globe Theatre on south bank, two during our overnight trip to Stratford Upon Avon, and perhaps one more in London.
We will study and discuss the texts of the plays, but London and Stratford are the principal classrooms. Much of our time will be spent out on the town, seeing plays, taking backstage tours, visiting sites, and walking the theatre districts in London and the Shakespeare properties in Stratford.
Requirements--an illustrated theatre notebook which includes essays on the plays we see and the sites you visit, and a concluding exam.
This course meets the "Forms and Genres" requirement for English
Majors.
Peter Buckroyd
taught by Professor Peter Buckroyd, British Faculty
This course is interdisciplinary. The material is London itself. The course is taught entirely on the streets and in buildings, ranging from medieval, Elizabethan and Jacobean to Victorian, modern and post-modern. As well as equipping students to look more carefully at buildings, pictures and sculpture, the course encourages them to do some imaginative re-creation, considering what it might have been like to have lived at different times in the past as a member of different social classes. Field trips, to locations like Stratford Upon Avon, are included, typically via chartered bus with professional drivers. Students usually stay in established B&B's for any overnight trips.
Michael Fosdal
taught by Professor Michael Fosdal, British Faculty
This course introduces students to various aspects of life in Britain, from royalty to the homeless, from politics to sport. There is a major emphasis on direct contact with the people and institutions of contemporary Britain, including meetings with homeless people and politicians, visits to Parliament and the media, and individual research projects which encourage students to follow up their own interests. The course also looks at issues such as race, crime, the family and the problems (and delights) of being young in Britain today. The course should enable students to gain a deeper understanding of contemporary Britain and equip them better to understand their own society.
