Note: This list of courses and course descriptions is provisional and subject to change.

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General London Program Requirements

All students on the London Program must register for a minimum of 15 credits. All courses are taught in London. London Program students may not take distance learning courses, e.g., courses offered via the web from the home campus. Many courses fulfil University requirements: for details, click here. Other courses can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for details, click here.

Students may arrange to take up to three credits of independent study with prior permission from the London Program and the cooperation of the appropriate department on campus. For further details, please click here. The London Program offers several internship opportunities. For further details, please click here.

Many courses involve minor charges for expenses. Courses in which fees are likely to be £5 or more include a statement indicating the probable level of fees at the end of the description.

AL 24010 : IMAGES OF BRITAIN THROUGH THE ARTS
Required of All London Undergraduate Program students
Fulfills the University’s Fine Arts requirement
3 credits

This team-taught, inter-disciplinary course presents the fine and performing arts as a lens through which students can acquaint themselves with Britain, the British people, and the British sense of identity. This is the core course of all academic studies in the London Program, and reflects the importance we place upon the centrality of the arts in a liberal education and the focus upon British Studies which permeates all aspects of our curriculum.

All students participate in an introductory series of seminars that demonstrate how the arts in Britain may be used as a lens through which to view major aspects of British culture. Each session focuses on one type of artistic or literary production – Patriotic Icons, Film, Visual Arts, Literature, Performance, and Music. Students are introduced to the fundamental tools for analyzing these artistic expressions from various cultural perspectives, including heritage, religion, gender, and ethnicity.

Building upon the methodological foundation provided by this introductory unit, students choose two particular aspects of Britain’s arts to study in greater depth in small groups, each with its own tutor.

These two units are to be selected from two of three different categories: Art & Design, Drama, and Music.

Within the category of Art & Design, the current units cover both historical and modern images of Britain, and involve visits to galleries and other places within London and the surrounding area:

* British Dress from Ceremonial to Swinging Sixties
* Britain in Portrait
* Portrayal of Royalty: Art in Tudor and Stuart Britain
* Trafalgar Square
* Art and Society in Victorian London

The units within the category of Drama focus on productions currently being staged in London, attendance at performances of which by the students in the group is an integral element: ·

* Introduction to London Theatre (2 sections)
* Alternative Theatre in Britain
* Shakespeare's Theatre

The units in the category of Music also link class study with attendance at live performances:

* Traditional English Church Music and its Influence on Worship Today
* English Composers from Handel to the Present Day
* Contemporary Music in Britain from Classical to Popular
* The Art of the Dance
* Opera in London

(For more details of the individual units, click on the links above.) Through the images of British culture that this lens presents, students examine the various and changing ways in which people living in UK see themselves and are, in turn, seen by others. It is an exercise learning how to see and hear and read the artistic representations of British culture, from its class-dominated past to its multi-cultural present.

All required reading for this course is available through the Program's Textbook Loan Scheme. A course fee of £30 will be charged to each student's account as a contribution towards the cost of photocopying, of admission to galleries, museums, etc., and of tickets for performances.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

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College of Arts and Letters
Anthropology : Art and Art History : Arts and Letters : Economics : Education, Schooling, and Society : English : Film, Television, and Theatre : Gender Studies : Hesburgh Program in Public Service : History : Institute of International Peace Studies : Irish Studies : Music : Philosophy : Political Science :Psychology : Science, Technology and Values : Sociology : Theology
Mendoza College of Business
Accountancy : Finance : Macroeconomics

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS
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ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 34751 : ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHICS
Fulfills the University’s Social Science requirement
Same as : ARHI 34523
3 credits

This class explores the ethical, legal, and practical dimensions of modern archaeology through a consideration of the following topics: archaeology as a profession; archaeological ethics; the relationship between archaeology and others (the public, ethnic groups, avocational archaeologists, collectors, etc.); international and national approaches to archaeological heritage management; the antiquities market; maritime law, underwater archaeology, and treasure hunting; cultural resource management in the United States; and archaeological education. Guest lectures and visits to archaeological sites, national heritage sites, museums, and art and antiquities sale rooms are regular features.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

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ART & ART HISTORY

ARHI 34523 : ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHICS
Majors only.
Fulfills the University’s Social Science requirement
Same as : ANTH 34751
3 credits

This class explores the ethical, legal, and practical dimensions of modern archaeology through a consideration of the following topics: archaeology as a profession; archaeological ethics; the relationship between archaeology and others (the public, ethnic groups, avocational archaeologists, collectors, etc.); international and national approaches to archaeological heritage management; the antiquities market; maritime law, underwater archaeology, and treasure hunting; cultural resource management in the United States; and archaeological education. Guest lectures and visits to archaeological sites, national heritage sites, museums, and art and antiquities sale rooms are regular features.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

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CATHOLIC SOCIAL TRADITIONS

CST 44100 : SPECIAL STUDIES : CATHOLIC SOCIAL TRADITIONS
Only by prior permission of the Program
Variable credit

Students wishing to undertake independent research while they are in London are invited to apply to the London Program to receive up to three independent study credits for their work. Click here for more information about Independent Study in London 

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ECONOMICS

ECON 34774: THE UK ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Majors only
Same as BAUG 34238
3 credits

The course provides

- a conceptual framework for assessing the policy, structure and performance of the UK economy since 1945.

- an introduction to the role and operations of the financial institutions and markets of the City of London.

- an examination of the international dimension of the UK economy, with particular reference to Britain’s membership of the Bretton Woods System, European Union and to the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the USA. 

A common thread in this discourse will be the selective use of relevant economic theory to illumine events and policies of the period.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course will not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

ECON 34950 : SPECIAL STUDIES
Only by prior permission of the Program
Variable credit

Students wishing to undertake independent research while they are in London are invited to apply to the London Program to receive up to three independent study credits for their work. Click here for more information about Independent Study in London 

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EDUCATION, SCHOOLING AND SOCIETY

ESS 34350 : DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE
Minors only, permission required
Same as : PSY 44370, SOC 24720
3 credits

In this course, students learn how knowledge and understanding of developmental psychology inform professional practice in schools for pupils with severe and profound learning disabilities. The course examines how children with severe developmental disabilities come to understand their world and how teachers and other school-based professionals devise programmes to meet children's very individual needs. The course is based at Riverside School (formerly called Rectory Paddock School), a State school for young pupils with severe learning disabilities. Each week, students spend time with pupils and professionals in classrooms. This practical focus is followed by a class that treats such topics as Severe and Profound Learning Disabilities; the Autistic Spectrum; Language and Communication, Children with Complex Health Needs; Challenging Behaviour; Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Practice; and Integration. Students have opportunities to meet with parents and families of young people with disabilities.

NB : Because the University subsidizes most of the cost of transportation to Riverside School, students' costs for train fares for this course will usually not be more than £20 for the semester. No textbook has been assigned for this class.

ESS 44351 : INFLUENCES ON EARLY SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Minors only
Same as : PSY 44350
3 credits

This course examines social and cognitive development (and more importantly, the links between them) over the first six years of life. In developing an understanding of how a young child comes to understand her world and the people in it, we will look at influences as diverse as genetics and environment, family and sibling relations, friendships and starting school. Students will have the opportunity to see videos of British children at various stages in their socio-cognitive development, and will learn about the importance of individual differences in understanding development. We will also take a brief look at development in children facing demanding social and/or cognitive challenges, such as deafness, autism, hyperactivity and giftedness.

NB : The photo-copying fee for this course will be approximately £5. No textbook has been assigned for this class.

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ENGLISH

ENGL 24325: GOTHIC LITERATURE
Fulfills the University’s Literature requirement
Same as : GSC 34500
3 credits

On Christmas Day, 1764 Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, the very first Gothic novel. The Gothic flourished especially in the nineteenth century, creating a whole vocabulary of new creatures and landscapes and two of the great books of the genre: Frankenstein And Dracula.    This course concentrates on the great works of Gothic which are central to an understanding of literature, film, early Romanticism and popular culture. Specialising on the works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we will also explore how those texts were reinvented for film and what new elements were added in the twentieth century.

Using a selection of   texts and using a variety of approaches from the historical to post modern, feminist, and queer theory we will explore the multifarious levels of meaning in Gothic texts as well as looking at narrative strategies and a variety of themes including the political and revolutionary, the erotic and the exotic, the Promethian and the undead, the role of religion, the role of women, the Wandering Jew and the ‘mock’ medieval.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course will not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme

ENGL 34111 : BRITISH LITERARY TRADITIONS II
Majors only
Fulfills the University’s Literature requirement
3 credits

This course examines the development of British literary culture from the late seventeenth century through the twentieth century.  Instead of simply offering a survey of major authors, our project conducts a broader investigation of cultural production by situating literary activity within its material historical contexts.  We combine close reading of specific texts (novels include Jane Austen, Persuasion, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations and R.L Stevenson’s Treasure Island) with detailed analysis of poetry and discussion of literary, social, political and scientific developments and preoccupations.  These include the rise of Enlightenment philosophies and science, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the 19th century women’s movement, ‘travel for travel’s sake’ (R.L. Stevenson) and the expansion of empire.  We will visit the National Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery (both galleries are close by the college) to look at paintings and photographs that relate to texts under discussion.  The class will also go to a reading, event and/or theatre production.  Details of any relevant events will be provided throughout the course and students are encouraged to draw on London as a rich resource in their studies.

Our course also focuses self-consciously on its own critical methods, engaging English majors with important questions about the theory and practice of literary studies today. Many of the terms of this debate are prefigured and explored with ‘a light literary touch’ in E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel (one of the set texts).  These questions will also be addressed in our attention to the process of writing critical papers, taking Professor Isabel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, University of London) idea of ‘language as living form’ as a starting point.

Classes will take the form of short lectures, close reading and discussion.

NB:  The cost of possible theatre performances and photocopying for this course will be approximately £35. Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme, but some titles will not.

ENGL 44320 : GLOBAL ROMANTICISMS : LAKERS, COCKNEYS, AND COSMOPOLITANS
Fulfills the University’s Literature requirement
3 credits

This course takes an interdisciplinary literary, visual, and spatial approach to the volatile interplay of regional, urban, and cosmopolitan culture in the formation of British Romanticism (approximately 1770-1830). Although British Romanticism has been traditionally characterized as an aesthetic movement celebrating nature and regional "English" values, particularly grounded in the northern Lake District, recent scholarship increasingly emphasizes the explosive artistic and political friction between this local priority and Romanticism's engagement with Britain's deepening immersion in multiple urban and global contexts, such as: the Transatlantic slave trade and abolition movement; the French Revolution and the global scope of the Napoleonic wars; the spread of empire; and the hotbed of radical culture based in London, which strategically identified with working class "Cockney" life while also affirming a revolutionary Cosmopolitanism seeking political reform on the global level.

The class will build on these new scholarly developments by exploring the ways in which British Romantic literature and painting emerged out of intense political and aesthetic conflicts associated with the affirmations of "English" rural life in Constable and the Lake School of writers (or "Lakers") headed by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey; the abolition movement, featuring the political writings of Wilberforce and the slave narratives of Mary Prince and Olaudah Equiano; the problematics of colonialism in Ireland and India examined in the works of Scott, Turner, and Lady Morgan; the emergence of "global feminism" in the writings of Hamilton, Smith, and Mary Shelley; and the rise of radical "Cockneyism" in the urban poetics of Hunt, Keats, Byron, and Percy Shelley and its transportation into a politically subversive Cosmopolitanism dedicated to the sensuous pleasures of Italy and sensitive to persisting conflicts (of high relevance to our world today) between Muslim and European culture in the Mediterranean.

NB : The cost of required visits for this course, including travel outside central London, will be approximately £25. Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme, but some titles will not. 

ENGL 44420:  LONDON WRITERS
Fulfills the University’s Literature requirement
Same as : GSC 44255
3 credits         

This course considers works by a wide range of London writers from the mid- nineteenth century to date.  The texts studied include novels, short stories, social commentary and poetry, which we will explore by reference to cultural, historical and literary contexts. The ways in which London figures in these texts as a dynamic hub of ideas, stories and histories are explored throughout the course. We will also consider the extent to which writers respond to, imagine and critique the milieu and preoccupations of a given period. Topics explored include Charles Dickens’s mapping of the metropolis, the New Woman, the ‘collisions’ between social classes in the Edwardian period, the city as machine, the Modernist ‘street haunting’ aesthetic, war and ‘shell shock’, post 9/11 anxieties, ‘multi-ethnic’ identities, migration and the ‘nocturnal city’.

The set texts studied include works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan, Meera Syal and Jean Rhys amongst others. The poetry includes a selection from New Poems on the Underground.  There will be class visits to the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery (close by the college) and we will also make short trips to relevant locations such as Covent Garden, St. James’s Park and the South Bank arts complex.  There will be visits to an event and/or play relevant to our studies and students will be kept up to date on events they might attend independently.  For example, in  Fall 2008 the class attended Speechless, a performance by a cosmopolitan group of young poets at the South Bank arts complex.

NB:  The cost of possible theatre performances and photocopying for this course will be approximately £35. Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme, but some titles will not. 

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

ENGL 44999 : SPECIAL TOPICS
Only by prior permission of the Program
Variable credit

Students wishing to undertake independent research while they are in London are invited to apply to the London Program to receive up to three independent study credits for their work. Click here for more information about Independent Study in London 

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FILM, TELEVISION, AND THEATRE

FTT 24705 : PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS : REMEMBERING THEATRE
3 credits.

This course in Performance Analysis is designed to teach the student how to watch theatre, how to delight in its expression of ideas, how to remember theatre, and how to interpret the meanings of the theatre work and relate it to their own realities and experiences. The course goes beyond text-based performances, i.e., play, and can involve confronting the different analytic components and methods of performance work and performance studies, installations, creations, movement theatre, dance theatre. The course will also involve watching theatre pieces in London, both mainstream and fringe, known and new work, and writing a review of what they have seen.

NB: Students are likely to incur a charge for the cost of tickets to attend required performances for this course. Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme, but some titles will not. 

FTT 44008 : MIGRATION ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH THEATRE : THEATRE AND SOCIAL CONCERNS
3 Credits

This course will explore dramatic text, and production as an artistic expression and social comment on social problems and issues affecting cultural conditions from the 1900's to the present. It will also highlight the context of the growing importance and size of the immigrant community in the UK and the whole of Europe as essential to the understanding of the culture in which the students will be spending their semester. These exploratory studies will be divided into three components:

1. A survey, through lectures, reports, and discussions, of the role of modern tragedy, farce, burlesque, satire, symbolic drama, religious drama, social realism, street theatre forms, chameleon plays, and performance as expressions and agents of social change;
2. A focus on contemporary British playwrights writing on issues of migration, survival, and identity;
3. An immersion and engagement in the situation of migrants and migrant workers in England, with the objective of transferring the knowledge gained from the process into a dramatic text.

NB : Students are likely to incur a charge for the cost of tickets to attend required performances for this course. Textbook(s) for this course are not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

FTT  44235 : SEEING BRITAIN ON SCREEN
3 credits

Britain has a small film industry and a complex television industry. We tend to make programmes and films differently from Hollywood, and the techniques we use are decidedly different, from the idea of lighting and cutting to the very scripts we embrace. We have made some of the most influential films with the most prestigious directors and our television wins plaudits around the world. This course concentrates on the means by which British novels are transformed into film and television, from James Bond to Bridget Jones, from Clockwork Orange to Remains of the Day and from Hammer horror to working-class realism.

Seeing Britain on Screen is aimed at students who wish to deepen and broaden their understanding of the British psyche beyond that provided in “Images of Britain Through the Arts ” course.  We return to some of the themes of that course but in greater detail. Yet we also explore History, Counter-Culture, The Empire, Class, Gender, and Film Adaptation through the films and television of the last fifty years. We will be aware of genre, especially gangster and horror; political and romance; science fiction and punk.  And we will be emphasising films that an American audience may be unfamiliar with and so “making you see like a Briton.”

NB: Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme, but some titles will not. 

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

FTT 44702: PLAYING SHAKESPEARE
3 credits

This team-taught course is in two parts. The first half of the semester will introduce  students to three Shakespeare plays and help them achieve deeper understanding of the nature of the Elizabethan stage, the significance of Shakespeare's use of genres, alert them to important moral, social and political issues within the plays and the importance language. Whilst the course places the Shakespearean text in its historical context, its major objective is to introduce students to the analysis of performance by asking questions how Shakespeare is made to ‘mean’ in the modern theatre. A unique feature of the course is that students will have seen productions of all, or most of the plays studied in class and will be encouraged to take an active position to performances by analysing them and writing reviews. Since the plays are chosen to parallel current productions in London the selection changes each semester. Multiple film versions are used to illustrate particular points of interpretation.

The second half of the course is based at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and will offer students an opportunity to work practically on Shakespeare text, exploring Shakespeare's language, his use of prose and poetry, rhythm and metre, soliloquies etc. Students will have the opportunity to work on the stage of the new Globe Theatre under a professional director to discover how the plays were influenced by the architecture of the Globe and the actors' relationship with their audience. The course will culminate with a presentation by the participants of scenes on stage at the Globe in front of the whole student body.

The course is limited to 14 places, and although open to all students, preference will be given to FTT majors and those with acting experience.

NB : Students are likely to incur a charge of around £70 for the cost of tickets to attend required performances for this course. Textbook(s) for this course are not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

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GENDER STUDIES

GSC 34500 : GOTHIC LITERATURE
Permission required  
Fulfills the University’s Literature requirement
Same as : ENGL 24325
3 credits

On Christmas Day, 1764 Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, the very first Gothic novel. The Gothic flourished especially in the nineteenth century, creating a whole vocabulary of new creatures and landscapes and two of the great books of the genre: Frankenstein And Dracula.    This course concentrates on the great works of Gothic which are central to an understanding of literature, film, early Romanticism and popular culture. Specialising on the works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we will also explore how those texts were reinvented for film and what new elements were added in the twentieth century.

Using a selection of   texts and using a variety of approaches from the historical to post modern, feminist, and queer theory we will explore the multifarious levels of meaning in Gothic texts as well as looking at narrative strategies and a variety of themes including the political and revolutionary, the erotic and the exotic, the Promethian and the undead, the role of religion, the role of women, the Wandering Jew and the ‘mock’ medieval.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course will not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme

GSC 44255:  LONDON WRITERS        
Minors only, permission required  
Fulfills the University’s Literature requirement
Same as : ENGL 44420 
3 credits                                          

This course considers works by a wide range of London writers from the mid- nineteenth century to date.  The texts studied include novels, short stories, social commentary and poetry, which we will explore by reference to cultural, historical and literary contexts. The ways in which London figures in these texts as a dynamic hub of ideas, stories and histories are explored throughout the course. We will also consider the extent to which writers respond to, imagine and critique the milieu and preoccupations of a given period. Topics explored include Charles Dickens’s mapping of the metropolis, the New Woman, the ‘collisions’ between social classes in the Edwardian period, the city as machine, the Modernist ‘street haunting’ aesthetic, war and ‘shell shock’, post 9/11 anxieties, ‘multi-ethnic’ identities, migration and the ‘nocturnal city’.

The set texts studied include works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan, Meera Syal and Jean Rhys amongst others. The poetry includes a selection from New Poems on the Underground.  We will also study Sukhdev Sandhu’s Night Haunts (2007) in which Sandhu explores the nocturnal city and the people ‘who wake, work and watch over it.’ There will be class visits to the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery (close by the college) and we will also make short trips to relevant locations such as Covent Garden, St. James’s Park and the South Bank arts complex.  There will be visits to an event and/or play relevant to our studies and students will be kept up to date on events they might attend independently.  For example, in  Fall 2008 the class attended Speechless, a performance by a cosmopolitan group of young poets at the South Bank arts complex.

NB:  The cost of possible theatre performances and photocopying for this course will be approximately £35. Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme, but some titles will not. 

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

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HESBURGH PROGRAM IN PUBLIC SERVICE

HESB 24200 : PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
Minors only, permission required.
Fulfills the University’s second Philosophy requirement
Same as : PHIL 24408
3 credits

This course introduces some central philosophical problems arising from the theory and practice of law in Britain and the USA. Special attention is given to the hard cases, past and recent, which have shaped the law as we know it today. The course starts with close analysis of the most influential legal theories, from ancient natural law to contemporary legal realism, to illuminate the framework in which modern controversies over individual liberty and rights, and the arguments for civil disobedience can be understood with more clarity. In the second part of the course, the focus will be on the principles of criminal law and the philosophy of crime and punishment, using cases to illustrate philosophical problems relating to the concepts of recklessness, murder and manslaughter, and the defences of duress and insanity. This is essentially an interactive class, in which students are encouraged to present their own insights and develop their own critical skills.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

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HISTORY

HIST 34410 : THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR (1640-1660)
Fulfills the University’s History requirement
3 credits

This course examines the most devastating civil war in England's history, one which led to the execution of the king and the establishment of a military republic. The course will follow the attempts of King Charles I to impose unpopular political and religious policies upon England, how resistance to these acts led to civil war, and how historians have interpreted these events. It will examine the battles and sieges of the war and the disruption of English society. The rise of Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army, the trial and execution of the king, and the second civil war of 1648 will all be surveyed. The course will also explore how various religious sects and political ideologies grew out of the breakdown of traditional society, 'a world turned upside down'. The establishment of military rule under Cromwell's leadership and his attempts to legitimate his regime will be looked at, while the effects of the war upon Scotland, Ireland and the colonies will also be covered. Finally, the course will examine the collapse of military rule and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course will be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

HIST 34420: TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY
Fulfills the University’s History requirement
3 credits

This course is a chronological examination of twentieth century Britain and will look at British history in its political, social, economic and cultural aspects. Various themes will be considered throughout, such as Britain's decline as a world power, the impact of two world wars on British life, the loss of empire, Britain's special relationship with the USA, and changes in state and society. The course will start with the end of the Victorian era and conclude with the downfall of Mrs. Thatcher. Topics covered will include the First and Second World Wars; the British Empire; the rise of the welfare state; and the advent of consumerism and the permissive society. Assessment will be one 4,000 word essay and end of term examination.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course will not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

HIST 34035 : GLOBAL HISTORY: THE WORLD SINCE c. 1500
Fulfills the University’s History requirement
3 credits

Overview:  we'll try to see the world whole – looking at genuinely global historical experiences of the last five hundred years. Our aim will be to take the broadest and most comprehensive perspective we can imagine; we'll look not only at every kind of human culture in every part of the planet, but also, for the sake of comparison, at the societies of other, non-human cultural creatures.  We'll focus on two stories: first, the mutual impact of human beings and the rest of nature; and, second, the effects human societies have had on each other in an era of accelerating world-wide contacts between cultures. 

The purpose of the course will be to identify and probe the main themes of the history of the world in the last half-millennium, equip students with a historically informed awareness of global connexions and inter-actions in a globalizing world, and to ask whether (and, if so, how) global history relates to current problems in social policy, international relations, and ethical debate.  In their research papers students will approach global themes and the broad historical problems broached in the course through research into particular cases, or will attempt comparisons between cases from widely separated cultural contexts. 

Additionally, students will engage in collaborative fieldwork projects, based on excursions to London locations, which students will choose, typically in pairs or groups of three, on topics of global history that feature in the course. Research can be conducted by any method, including interviews, where appropriate, with the lecturer's agreement, and, subject to the same condition, the results can be presented in any medium.  Depending on how many projects there are, some or all will be the subject of class presentations.   The suggested excursions may be made from (but are not necessarily limited to) the following topics and places:
Global migrations (Chinatown, Whitechapel Market)
Oceanic history (National Maritime Museum)
Global Enlightenments (British Museum, RSA)

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

HIST 44050 : SPECIAL STUDIES
Only by prior permission of the Program
Variable credit

Students wishing to undertake independent research while they are in London are invited to apply to the London Program to receive up to three independent study credits for their work. Click here for more information about Independent Study in London 

INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE STUDIES

IIPS 44501 : ETHNIC CONFLICT REGULATION IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Majors only, permission required
Fulfills the University’s Social Science requirement
Same as : IRST 44413, POLS 34424
3 credits

This course analyses the ways in which British and Irish administrations have attempted to resolve or regulate the conflict in Ireland and Northern Ireland. After outlining the historical, religious and political foundations of the conflict, the bulk of the course will focus on the period following partition (1920-21). Attention will be paid to the evolution of the process leading to the Good Friday Agreement (1998), including responses to political violence, negotiating tactics, and the framework of the new constitutional settlement. Students will be expected to gain an understanding of theories of conflict regulation, nationalism and political violence, as they have been applied to the study of the conflict in Ireland.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

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IRISH STUDIES

IRST 44413 : ETHNIC CONFLICT REGULATION IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Minors only, permission required.
Fulfills the University’s Social Science requirement
Same as : IIPS 44501, POLS 34424
3 credits

This course analyses the ways in which British and Irish administrations have attempted to resolve or regulate the conflict in Ireland and Northern Ireland. After outlining the historical, religious and political foundations of the conflict, the bulk of the course will focus on the period following partition (1920-21). Attention will be paid to the evolution of the process leading to the Good Friday Agreement (1998), including responses to political violence, negotiating tactics, and the framework of the new constitutional settlement. Students will be expected to gain an understanding of theories of conflict regulation, nationalism and political violence, as they have been applied to the study of the conflict in Ireland.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

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MUSIC

MUS 34900 : SPECIAL STUDIES
Only by prior permission of the Program
Variable credit

Students wishing to undertake independent research while they are in London are invited to apply to the London Program to receive up to three independent study credits for their work. Click here for more information about Independent Study in London 

MUS 14390 : MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Only by prior permission of the Program
Variable credit

Individual lessons are given in the technique and repertoire of the student's principal instrument or voice. In this Level 3 unit special emphasis is placed on the consolidation of musicianship and technique. Students must attend concert practice and repertoire classes as required. This unit includes a technical/repertoire examination.

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PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 24320 : THEMES IN BRITISH PHILOSOPHY
Fulfills the University’s second Philosophy requirement
3 credits

The course will cover some central philosophical themes in British philosophy. Readings will be drawn from mediaeval, early modern, and contemporary British philosophers, and will address epistemological and ethical problems as well as the sorts of problems that are usually thought of as belonging to “pure metaphysics”. Topics treated include Universals and Particulars (Readings: William of Ockham, Walter Burleigh among the medievals, E. J. Lowe among the contemporaries); Knowledge and Skepticism (Readings: David Hume, G. E. Moore); The Metaphysics of Goodness (Readings: G. E. Moore, J. Mackie); and Persons and their Identities (Readings: John Locke, Derek Parfit). Students will acquire a sense of the centrality of certain problems in British philosophy. For example, they will come to see the way that that mediaeval philosophers such as Burleigh and Ockham, and contemporary philosophers such as Simons and Lowe, are all trying to answer the question, “are the properties of particulars themselves particulars?” And they will see how both John Locke and E. J. Lowe are arguing for a view we might call “human person/human animal dualism” (that is, the view that no human person is identical to any human animal).

NB : The photo-copying fee for this course will be approximately £10. No textbook has been assigned to this class

PHIL 24408 : PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
Fulfills the University’s second Philosophy requirement
Same as : HESB 24200
3 credits

This course introduces some central philosophical problems arising from the theory and practice of law in Britain and the USA. Special attention is given to the hard cases, past and recent, which have shaped the law as we know it today. The course starts with close analysis of the most influential legal theories, from ancient natural law to contemporary legal realism, to illuminate the framework in which modern controversies over individual liberty and rights, and the arguments for civil disobedience can be understood with more clarity. In the second part of the course, the focus will be on the principles of criminal law and the philosophy of crime and punishment, using cases to illustrate philosophical problems relating to the concepts of recklessness, murder and manslaughter, and the defences of duress and insanity. This is essentially an interactive class, in which students are encouraged to present their own insights and develop their own critical skills..

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

PHIL 24801 : THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Fulfills the University’s second Philosophy requirement
3 credits

This course is an introduction to the philosophy of religion. Topics covered include arguments for and against the existence of God; the divine attributes (omniscience, omnipotence, eternity, simplicity); immortality and the soul; the justification of religious belief; the relation between religion and morality.

NB : The photo-copying fee for this course will be approximately £5. No textbook has been assigned to this class.

PHIL 44425 : THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Majors only
3 credits

This course is the same as PHIL 24801 but additional work will be required.

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POLS 34424 : ETHNIC CONFLICT REGULATION IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Fulfills the University’s Social Science requirement
Same as : IIPS 44501, IRST 44413
3 credits

This course analyses the ways in which British and Irish administrations have attempted to resolve or regulate the conflict in Ireland and Northern Ireland. After outlining the historical, religious and political foundations of the conflict, the bulk of the course will focus on the period following partition (1920-21). Attention will be paid to the evolution of the process leading to the Good Friday Agreement (1998), including responses to political violence, negotiating tactics, and the framework of the new constitutional settlement. Students will be expected to gain an understanding of theories of conflict regulation, nationalism and political violence, as they have been applied to the study of the conflict in Ireland.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

POLS 34440 : THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF BRITAIN
3 credits

This course covers a number of topics, including the role of the prime minister and the cabinet; executive and legislative relations, including the role and function of parliament; devolved and local government; electoral politics, parties and the party system; interest group politics; political communications and the mass media; and the impacts of membership of the European Union. It is expected that even students with no existing knowledge of British politics will develop an advanced understanding of the workings of government and politics in Britain and learn how different actors, institutions and processes help formulate public policy. The government and politics of the US will be used throughout as a means of comparison.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

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PROGRAM OF LIBERAL STUDIES

PLS 34102: GREAT BOOKS SEMINAR IV
Majors only
4 credits

The fourth in the series of great books seminars of the Program of Liberal Studies intended for Program majors. Beginning with the New Organon of Francis Bacon, the seminar explores key works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including selected writings by Descartes, Hobbes, Milton, Pascal, Swift, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Malthus and Jane Austen. The format will be seminar style, with discussion the primary mode of instruction. Special features of the London context will be emphasized where appropriate.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme, but some titles will not.

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PSY 44350 : INFLUENCES ON EARLY SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Same as : ESS 44351
3 credits

This course examines social and cognitive development (and more importantly, the links between them) over the first six years of life. In developing an understanding of how a young child comes to understand her world and the people in it, we will look at influences as diverse as genetics and environment, family and sibling relations, friendships and starting school. Students will have the opportunity to see videos of British children at various stages in their socio-cognitive development, and will learn about the importance of individual differences in understanding development. We will also take a brief look at development in children facing demanding social and/or cognitive challenges, such as deafness, autism, hyperactivity and giftedness.

NB : The photo-copying fee for this course will be approximately £5. No textbook has been assigned for this class.

PSY 44370 : DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE
Permission required
Same as : ESS 34350, SOC 24720
3 credits

In this course, students learn how knowledge and understanding of developmental psychology inform professional practice in schools for pupils with severe and profound learning disabilities. The course examines how children with severe developmental disabilities come to understand their world and how teachers and other school-based professionals devise programmes to meet children's very individual needs. The course is based at Riverside School (formerly called Rectory Paddock School), a State school for young pupils with severe learning disabilities. Each week, students spend time with pupils and professionals in classrooms. This practical focus is followed by a class that treats such topics as Severe and Profound Learning Disabilities; the Autistic Spectrum; Language and Communication, Children with Complex Health Needs; Challenging Behaviour; Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Practice; and Integration. Students have opportunities to meet with parents and families of young people with disabilities.

NB : Because the University subsidizes most of the cost of transportation to Riverside School, students' costs for train fares for this course will usually not be more than £20 for the semester. No textbook has been assigned for this class.

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SOCIOLOGY

SOC 24720 : DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE .
Majors only, permission required
Same as : ESS 34350, PSY 44370
3 credits

In this course, students learn how knowledge and understanding of developmental psychology inform professional practice in schools for pupils with severe and profound learning disabilities. The course examines how children with severe developmental disabilities come to understand their world and how teachers and other school-based professionals devise programmes to meet children's very individual needs. The course is based at Riverside School (formerly called Rectory Paddock School), a State school for young pupils with severe learning disabilities. Each week, students spend time with pupils and professionals in classrooms. This practical focus is followed by a class that treats such topics as Severe and Profound Learning Disabilities; the Autistic Spectrum; Language and Communication, Children with Complex Health Needs; Challenging Behaviour; Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Practice; and Integration. Students have opportunities to meet with parents and families of young people with disabilities.

NB : Because the University subsidizes most of the cost of transportation to Riverside School, students' costs for train fares for this course will usually not be more than £20 for the semester. No textbook has been assigned for this class.

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THEOLOGY

THEO 24205 : CHRISTIANITY IN BRITAIN - PAST AND PRESENT
Fulfills the University’s second Theology requirement
3 credits

This course has two parts. In the first we shall trace the history of the Christian Church in Great Britain from its earliest roots down to the twentieth century. In the second half we shall examine some of the challenges and changes that Christianity faces in modern Britain. Throughout the course we shall pay special attention to the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and to the interaction between religion and politics in the United Kingdom. The course will include site visits, film presentations, and guest lecturers.

NB : Expenses for this course will not exceed £20. Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Prerequisites: (THEO 10001 or THEO 100) or (THEO 13183 or THEO 180G) or (THEO 20001 or THEO 200) or (THEO 20002 or THEO 201)

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

THEO 24801 : CASE STUDIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
Fulfills the University’s second Theology requirement
3 credits

Because Christian doctrine did not arise ready-made during Jesus' lifetime, and successive generations of Christians have gradually worked out what they believed - frequently in response to situations or problems arising in the Church or claims made about Christian faith that were deemed erroneous - this course uses  test-case format to introduce some of the central theological  questions that have arisen within Christian communities, from the first century of the common era through the present day.   Assignments include reading and evaluating a variety of primary material (in translation) that present the Church’s teaching about Christ, salvation, justification, theodicy, cosmology, the interpretation of Scripture, and the Church itself.  Care is taken to distinguish what comes to be understood as "orthodox," "schismatic," or "heretical"  so that students will discern not only each side's position, but also what each objected to in their opponents' positions.  Lectures and class discussion explore contemporary and on-going implications, and hence provide the students with the means to apply their knowledge afterwards.  Theological terminology and the contributions of major figures in Church history are constantly quizzed and synthesized.  Assessment includes writing in nearly every class, participation in group and class discussion, and a final examination.

NB : The photo-copying fee for this course will be approximately £30. Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Prerequisites: (THEO 10001 or THEO 100) or (THEO 13183 or THEO 180G) or (THEO 20001 or THEO 200) or (THEO 20002 or THEO 201)

THEO 24813 : CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
Fulfills the University’s second Theology requirement
3 credits

The course will not assume prior knowledge of Islam, and offers students both an introduction to Islam and also the opportunity to reflect on the relationship between Islam and Christianity. It will cover the origins of Islam and the central religious ideas and practices of the Islamic tradition, especially as these bear on Islamic attitudes to Christianity. Central to the course will be a concern to compare and contrast Islamic and Christian doctrines and practices. The recent publication Muslims Ask, Christians Answer by Christian Troll SJ, a leading Catholic scholar of Islam, together with other works such as Kenneth Cragg’s The Call of the Minaret, will be constant reference points that will enable students to explore Christian theological responses to the challenges posed by Islam to Christian doctrine.

The differences between Christian (and especially Catholic) teaching and Muslim beliefs will be considered on a number of topics, including Prophecy, Scripture, Revelation, the nature of God, the human condition, prayer, faith and society. A mosque-visit and possibly other relevant local visits will be organized.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Prerequisites: (THEO 10001 or THEO 100) or (THEO 13183 or THEO 180G) or (THEO 20001 or THEO 200) or (THEO 20002 or THEO 201)

THEO 44402 : CHRISTIAN INITIATION AND EUCHARIST
3 credits

This course studies the rites of Christian Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and First Communion) and the Eucharistic Liturgy primarily within the Roman Catholic tradition but also in comparison with the equivalent rites in other Christian traditions and in their ecumenical context.  It explores the theology of the rites as the principal sacramental celebrations of the Church, and beginning with their biblical and anthropological foundations, traces their historical evolution and examines critically their modern forms and pastoral effectiveness.

Pre-requisite or co-requisite:  the University’s second course in Theology.

This course counts as one of the electives in the major and minor in Theology.  It also fulfils one of the requirements for the Minor in Liturgical Music.

THEO 44801 : CASE STUDIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
Majors only
3 credits

This course is the same as THEO 24801, but additional work will be required.

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MENDOZA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
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ACC 34601 : ACCOUNTANCY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
3 credits

This course will help students enhance their understanding of the accounting profession in the United Kingdom, various international accounting issues, and develop their appreciation for the world-wide accounting profession.

NB : Textbook(s) for this course are not available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

BAUG 34238: THE UK ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Same as ECON 34774
3 credits

The course provides

- a conceptual framework for assessing the policy, structure and performance of the UK economy since 1945.

- an introduction to the role and operations of the financial institutions and markets of the City of London.

- an examination of the international dimension of the UK economy, with particular reference to Britain’s membership of the Bretton Woods System, European Union and to the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the USA. 

A common thread in this discourse will be the selective use of relevant economic theory to illumine events and policies of the period.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course will not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

FIN 30600 : INVESTMENT THEORY
3 credits

This is an advanced course covering investment Theory, financial markets, and financial instruments.  The topics of security analysis, options, and futures are also introduced.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course will not be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Prerequisites: an Accounting course and a Corporate Financial Management course - details to be confirmed.

Can be applied to the International Business Certificate: for further details, click here.

FIN 34220 : MACROECONOMICS ANALYSIS
3 credits

The course addresses topics including the goals of economic policy, national income accounting, theory of income determination, the determination and behavior of economic aggregates, such as total output and the price level.

NB: Textbook(s) for this course may be available through the Textbook Loan Scheme.

Prerequisites: ECON 101, BA 230.

This is a provisional listing, and subject to change
Last updated : October 14, 2009