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United Kingdom: London Course DescriptionsThese are representative courses currently approved for UC credit for EAP’s London Fall Semester Program. London Fall Semester Program1. LONDON AND THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE: ART AND ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM This course uses the rich holdings of the British Museum to examine the ways in which ancient societies of the Mediterranean and Near East expressed themselves through material culture, especially art and architecture; the impact of these societies’ artifacts, images, and ideas on European and in particular British society from the Renaissance onward; and contemporary political and ethical debates regarding the appropriation of the material past. Judith Toms is an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford. Her publications include Sacred and Profane: Proceedings of a Conference on Archaeology, Ritual and Religion (1991). 2. BRITISH CINEMA This course examines a wide range of issues in connection with the evolution of cinema in the British cultural context, especially in contrast to the cinema of Hollywood. Focusing on the social semiotics of films from a variety of genres, including comedy, the crime thriller, and historical drama, it explores representations of class, gender, ethnicity, politics, national identity and other concerns of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century British society. Phillip Drummond teaches film, media and communications for the London-based programs of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, New York University, and the University of North Carolina. His publications include National Identity and Europe: The Television Revolution (1993) and High Noon (1997). 3. LONDON: SOCIETY AND SPACE This course focuses on the development of metropolitan London from the early nineteenth century to the present day, seeing in London a crossroads of larger technological, economic, social, political, and cultural forces at play in British history and in modern urban ways of life. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives central to the broad area of urban studies, including the theoretical issues emerging from the interrelated themes of modernity and the city, landscapes of power and equality, and cultural and identity in urban space, the course treats key periods in the history of modern London and examines in depth some of the major features of the contemporary city, including London’s characteristics as a global city. Alastair Owens lectures in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, where he won the Drapers’ Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003. His publications include Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town (2000), City Spaces: A History of Modern Urbanism 1780-1960 and Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe (forthcoming). 4. DRAMA IN LONDON: ANCIENT, SHAKESPEAREAN, MODERN: TEXT AND PERFORMANCE This course takes advantage of London as one of the world’s pre-eminent theatre capitals. It provides an opportunity for students to study closely the published texts of a series of plays being staged in London during the Fall of 2006 and to attend and analyze performances of those plays. The course will be anchored in several plays by Shakespeare, but will also include productions of a Greek drama and of a major modern play. These plays will be examined in their historical and generic contexts and through the prism of modern critical approaches to the moral, social, political, and linguistic issues within the plays. The course will also draw on a limited number of film versions of relevant dramas. Boika Sokolova is a Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her publications include Shakespeare’s Romances as Interrogative Texts (1992) and Painting Shakespeare Red: An East European Appropriation (2001).
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