COURSES
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COURSES

Nearly all courses in the London Program are taught in Notre Dame's London Centre, which is located in the heart of London, by Trafalgar Square. To learn more about the excellent facilities provided for students in the London Centre, please go to the London Centre website, which contains Virtual Tours of the building and useful information on its Recreational Facilities, Computing Resources and Opening Hours, as well as important information on Health and Safety.

At the heart of our curriculum is a three-credit course entitled Images of Britain through the Arts, which all students on the Program are required to take. This inter-disciplinary course, which fulfils the University's Arts requirement, presents the arts as a lens through which students can examine British culture. As the core course of all academic studies in the London Program, it reflects the emphasis we place upon “British Studies” in our curriculum. For further details of this course please click here.

Students can then continue their exploration of British culture by selecting from a large number of courses which deal with various aspects of British society in both its historical and contemporary manifestations. For details of all courses currently on offer, please see our Course Descriptions.

Classes in the London Program are carefully designed to help students make appropriate progress towards graduation in their chosen field of study in accordance with departmental requirements. Our courses have departmental listings for the following majors: Aerospace Engineering, Anthropology, Art, Art History and Design, Biology, Business Administration, Computer Science and Engineering, Economics, Electrical Engineering, English, Film, Television and Theater, Finance, Gender Studies, History, Mechanical Engineering, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Program of Liberal Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Theology. We also offer courses specifically designed to meet the needs of students in interdisciplinary minors and concentrations such as HESB, ESS, IIPS, IRST, PPE, and STV.

In cases where we offer a course that is required for your major, you are assured of a place in that course. In cases where we offer courses that count as electives towards your major, you should be able to secure a place in at least one of these courses.

Some of our courses fulfil university and college requirements in the areas of Literature, History, Social Sciences, and the Arts. We also offer classes that fulfil the second required course in both Philosophy and Theology. Subject to limitations imposed by scheduling conflicts, students who need to fulfil these two requirements should be able to secure a place in at least one qualifying Philosophy or Theology course, but not necessarily in both.

Some of our courses are offered only in one semester but not the other.  For example, the following three courses, which are intended for pre-professional students (SCPP and ALPP) and Biology majors, are offered only in the fall semester:

• Physics
• Human Physiology
• Medical Practice and Policy in the UK

Likewise, our engineering courses and our course in Medieval Art are offered only in the fall semester. Similarly, our Great Books Seminar, which is intended for PLS majors, is offered only in the spring semester. This means that most pre-professional and engineering students go to London in the fall semester, whereas PLS students usually go in the spring. Nevertheless, it is possible for students to go in the other semester for their major. Those wishing to do so should talk to staff in the London Program Office on campus.

We strongly encourage students to undertake co-curricular activities for academic credit while they are in London to deepen their experience of British culture, expand their intellectual horizons, and develop their career prospects. Such activities may include:

• Internships. For further details of our internship program, please click here.
• Independent Study Projects. These projects give students the opportunity to investigate London's unrivalled intellectual, artistic, and cultural resources. They may subsequently form the basis of a term paper or a senior honours thesis once the student has returned to campus. They can also help students with their applications for post-baccalaureate grants such as the Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright and Gates scholarships, as well as graduate school applications. For further details on how to apply to undertake independent study projects in the London Program, please click here. In support of these projects, we offer a limited number of grants to fund undergraduate research in the London Program. For further details, please click here.

• Each student takes a minimum of fifteen credit hours while on the London Program.
• All the courses taught in the London Program are Notre Dame courses and so credit hours are recorded on students' transcripts and points are applied to their cumulative average in the usual manner.
• Students should confirm with their departmental advisers that their schedule of required courses can accommodate a semester abroad.
• Before departing for London, students should consult with their advisers or with staff in the London Program Office on campus to ensure that their London courses fulfil the requirements of their majors, minors, concentrations and programs, as well as university and college requirements.
• Students should secure a faculty director for any senior thesis or project they intend to undertake upon their return to campus before they depart for London.
• Foreign language requirements cannot be fulfilled in the London Program. For this reason, we recommend that students complete their language requirement before their semester in London.
• ROTC students are welcome to participate in the Program so long as they have the permission of their commanding officer.
• Students register for courses in the Program on arrival in London. To ensure that students are able to get into the courses they need for their degrees, they must ensure that both the London Program and the Registrar have an accurate record of their majors and minors before they depart for London. Otherwise, the system will not let students access restricted course sections, and they may not be able to take the courses they need.
• After registering for courses in London, students are given one week to adjust their schedules

FACULTY

Most of our courses are taught by British scholars, artists, and writers whose work is internationally recognized. Many hold faculty positions at major British universities. Others, especially members of our fine arts faculty, are noted experts in their field, working as composers, critics, and curators in the disciplines within which they teach.

Many members of the Notre Dame faculty also want to spend time in the London Program, and so our faculty is supplemented each semester by one or two Notre Dame professors from campus who come to teach in the Program.