Coastal Carolina University · International Programs

Jesus College, Oxford · July 1-14, 2006
London· July 14-18, 2006

The Program

Dr. Eliza Glaze (History), Dr. Maggie Ivanova (English), and Dr. Shannon Stewart (English) will lead a group of about 30 students through two weeks of instruction in residence at Oxford and five days in London

Take a tour of historical and present-day Jesus College by visiting its web site: http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/

Course Offerings (Summer II):
HIST 101: Foundations of Western Civilization
HIST 302: Medieval Europe
ENGL 288: Major Writers of British Literature
ENGL 300: Critical Conversations

Honors component may be added to any of these classes, depending upon student need.

Approximate Cost:
$3,495 (Price calculated at exchange rate as of 10/25/05; contingency included.

What is included in the Program’s price?

• Airfare: Myrtle Beach—London, Gatwick
• Accommodation:
  13 nights at Oxford’s Jesus College
  4 nights in London, Commonwealth Hall (Cartwright Gardens, Bloomsbury)
• Local transportation:
  Gatwick—Oxford
  Oxford—London
  London—Gatwick
• London train/subway passes for 4 days
• Two meals a day: breakfast & dinner
• Two plays:
  Stratford-upon-Avon: Julius Caesar
  Oxford: Open-air theatre, play TBD
• Five Oxford trips via private coach:
  Henry VIII’s Hampton Court
  Stonehenge
  Winchester & Jane Austen’s House
  Bath
  Mary Arden’s House & Warwick Castle
• Four London trips:
  Tower of London
  Greenwich
  River Thames boat trip
  Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

Academic Highlights

• To complete their research projects students will gather raw material utilizing the resources of the Bodleian, Duke Humphreys, and other Oxford collections, as well of the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, the British Library, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• Upon returning to Coastal on July 18th, students will launch themselves full-scale into assessing their new-found knowledge, and will draw upon their Oxford and London experiences to complete their written assignments.

What to expect:

• Students and faculty will reside in historic Jesus College, founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1571. Jesus college lies at the heart of Oxford, England’s most charming university city.
• Students will utilize the regional resources both in Oxford and London to help them gain a better, more contextualized understanding of their course material.
• Issues such as landscape, city lay-out, architecture, climate as well as food all help to make sense of key literary and historical issues students will be examining.
• Prior to departing from the U.K., we will spend several days in London, exploring the contexts of British history and literature, and enjoying the many cultural offerings of England’s vibrant capital city.
• In addition to the two theater productions that we will attend in Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford, there will be optional theatrical or musical offerings in London.
• We will “touch” Britain’s past and present by visiting the British Museum and Library, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Greenwich Observatory, the Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the River Thames; we might also delve into the rich collections of the Victoria and Albert and the National Maritime Museums.

Course Descriptions

HIST 101: Foundations of Western Civilization
Dr. Eliza Glaze, History (fglaze@coastal.edu, 234-3462)
History 101 analyzes the cultural, political and economic developments that distinguished the rise of the West to the seventeenth century. We will examine the origins of civilizations and the transmission of cultural ideologies from the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, Greece and Rome to medieval and early modern Europe. In addition to explicating the written primary sources that illuminate these developments, students will examine pertinent sites and artifacts across Britain. These include Neolithic & Bronze Age Stonehenge; Near Eastern, Egyptian & Greco-Roman monuments at the British and Ashmolean Museums; Roman Imperial Bath; medieval Winchester, Oxford, Warwick and London; Renaissance & Reformation sites at Hampton Court, Protestant Oxford and Tudor-Stuart London.

HIST 302: Medieval Europe
Dr. Eliza Glaze, History (fglaze@coastal.edu, 234-3462)
History 302 examines the forging of a distinctly European culture from the decline of the Roman Empire to the fourteenth century. Beginning with the Germanic invasions that precipitated Roman withdrawal, we will analyze the blending of traditions from Germanic/Greco-Roman/Judeo-Christian roots that distinguish this era. Students will problematize the emergence of a complex, highly diversified civilization through the analysis of key documents, artifacts and geographical sites, ranging from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Beowulf & the Life of Alfred, to the Bayeux Tapestry, Magna Carta, Guildhall & Tower of London.

ENGL 288: Major Writers of British Literature
Dr. Maggie Ivanova, English (mivanova@coastal.edu, 349-4155)
Designed for English and non-English majors, this Core Curriculum course emphasizes critical thinking and textual analysis as the foundations of studying British literature and culture. The texts are connected by a common topic—the British Isles, the British Empire, varieties of British identities—and are directly related to the sites we will visit. For instance, we will read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and will see the play performed at Stratford-upon-Avon; we will read Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey as we explore Bloomsbury and Austen’s country.

ENGL 300: Critical Conversations: Imperial Places, “Marginal” Spaces
Dr. Shannon Stewart, English (sstewart@coastal.edu, 349-2475)
ENGL 300 explores British imperialism and focuses on the rhetoric of empire. Using post-colonial theory as a critical framework, the course examines how Australian and Irish post-colonial writers re-write and undermine that rhetoric, creating in this way sites of post-colonial resistance. Being in England will afford students direct immersion in the critical conversation in the field by providing a connection to the history against which post-colonial studies is juxtaposed. This immersion at once creates and allows for critical distance. Prerequisite: Copletion of English 275, 276, 287, or 288.

For more information contact:

Dr. Eliza Glaze (History): 234-3462
fglaze@coastal.edu

Dr. Maggie Ivanova (English): 349-4155
mivanova@coastal.edu

Dr. Shannon Stewart (English): 349-2475
sstewart@coastal.edu