International Programs

• School of Architecture
• College of Engineering, Alcoy Program
• College of Engineering, London Program
• Keough Institute of Irish Studies/The Irish Seminar, Dublin
• Phoenix Institute
• Law School, London Law Program
• International Study Programs Office

School of Architecture

Dean: Michael N.Lykoudis
Dept. Tel.: (574) 631-6137

Summer programs offered through the School of Architecture offer unique learning opporunities for students to apply what they are learning to a real world context. Recent foreign studies programs have taken place in China, Japan, Cuba, Portugal, Greece, Ialy, and the United Kingdom. In 2012 there will be a China program.

For further information, contact Cindy DuBree (574) 631-8437 or Barbara Panzica (574) 631-4699, 110 Bond Hall.

College of Engineering, Alcoy Program

Director: John Brauer
On-Site Directors: Daniel Costello, Yih-Fang Huang

Location. The program is conducted at the campus of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Alcoy (UV-A), with field trips to sites of engineering importance.

Course of Study. The six-week program (May 21-June 29) will consist of two three-credit courses. Students register in the University of Notre Dame summer session for EG 34440 Probability and Statistics, and EE 34001, Electronic Communications and The Smart Grid. Both courses will take advantage of the locale and include topics related to Spanish and European Professional practice.

Field Trips. Field trips to sites of Spanish engineering and cultural significance such as the World Expo in Zaragosa, the Alhambra in Granada and Barcelona are included in the program. Specific projects visited will vary from year to year.

Housing and Meals. Students will be housed in dormitories for international students at the UV-A, and will have a dormitory meal plan.

Cost. The cost of the program is $6,500. This includes round-trip airfare between New York/Chicago and Madrid, tuition, room and board and required field trips. Participants are responsible for recreation and any extra travel.

Eligibility. The program is open primarily to qualified engineering students of the University of Notre Dame. Applicants from outside the University are welcome and will be considered on a space available basis.

For further information and an application packet, write to:
John Brauer
Director, University of Notre Dame International Summer Engineering Programs
224 Cushing Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

College of Engineering, London Program

Director: John M. Brauer
On-Site Directors: John Brauer, Robert Alworth

Location. The program is conducted at Notre Dame's London Centre in central London, with field trips to sites of engineering importance.

Course of Study. The six-week program (May 22-June 29) will consist of two three-credit courses. Students register in the University of Notre Dame summer session for AME 54591, Failure and Risk in Engineering, and EG44421, Integrated Engineering and Business Fundamentals. Both courses will take advantage of the locale and include topics related to British Professional practice.

Field Trips. Field trips to sites of British engineering projects such as the Thames Flood Barrier, Rolls Royce factory in Derby, Astrium, and Ironbridge are included in the program. Specific projects visited will vary from year to year.

Housing and Meals. Students will be housed in flats at Conway Hall, 51-55 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TX in the South Bank area of London's West End. Each flat has bath and cooking facilities. Flats vary somewhat in size, typically housing six to ten students each. Students are responsible for their own meals.

Cost. The cost of the program is $6,500. This includes round-trip airfare between New York/Chicago and London, tuition, housing and required field trips. Participants are responsible for meals, recreation and any extra travel.

Eligibility. The program is open primarily to qualified engineering students of the University of Notre Dame. Applicants from outside the University are welcome and will be considered on a space available basis.

For further information and an application packet, write to:
John Brauer
Associate Director
Integrated Engineering and Business Curriculum
College of Engineering
University of Notre Dame
224 Cushing Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Telephone (574) 631-2950

Keough Institute of Irish Studies/The Irish Seminar, Dublin

Director: Christopher Fox
Institute Tel.: (574) 631-3555

The Keough-Naughton Institute was established in 1993 and is directed by Christopher Fox. The institute hosts invited lectures, supports graduate studies in Irish literature and culture, and expands Notre Dame’s research capabilities in Irish studies. It also sponsors various publications, including the book series under the general editorship of Seamus Deane, Critical Conditions: Field Day Monographs, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in conjunction with Field Day. Students in the graduate program in Irish studies pursue the Ph.D. in English or history. They are encouraged to study the Irish language, which is offered regularly, and there are funded opportunities to study Irish abroad through a joint program with the University of Galway.

THE IRISH SEMINAR, Contemporary Irish Theatre

Dates: 06/11/2012 - 06/29/2012

Great theater frequently emerges during periods of significant cultural shift, political disruption and social upheaval. The last 30 years in Ireland has witnessed such a remarkable period with turbulent and historic changes: The Troubles, the Peace Process, mass emigration and immigration, the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger, Ireland's enchantment and disenchantment with the European Union, the property explosion and implosion, the Catholic Church's ignominy, the financial crises, rapid globalization as well as triumphs on the sporting, cultural, literary and artistic stage. Ireland, as it underwent significant and substantial changes, offered insights on human frailty and vice, tragedy and triumph, loss and exclusion, survival and success. Such events afforded Irish playwrights, directors and actors abundant material Playwrights and directors have responded with powerful plays and dramatic productions that challenge and confront audiences both at home and abroad. As a result a significant number of canonical plays have emerged from Irish playwrights that probe shifting identities, changing loyalties and emerging consciousnesses as individuals, communities, landscapes, institutions and history itself are sorted and distorted.

Beginning with Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Tom Murphy, and continuing with Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Anne Devlin, Declan Hughes, Marie Jones, Robert Massey, Martin McDonagh, Sean McLoughlin, Conor McPherson, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Micheál Ó Conghaile, Ursala Rani Sarma, Christina Reid, Alan Titley and Enda Walsh, Irish drama has produced an astonishing varied, complex and successful corpus of dramatic work. The best of which has garnered critical recognition and popular acclaim not only on stages in Ireland, London, New York but globally. Irish dramaturgy, like Irish identity, can no longer be defined in static monolithic terms: consequently there are as many theatres as there are national identities. Is Irish theatre currently undergoing a crisis drawing it away from the traditional well-wrought literary stage play toward a more visually rich abstract spectacle? How is Irish theatre responding to the recent past? How will Irish theatre function in a public and highly political global space. Among the topics to be discussed are: patterns of history and memory, use of meta-theatre, the enabling and disabling uses of myth, and the role of narrative and monologue in contemporary Irish theatre.

The 2012 University of Notre Dane Irish Seminar convenes a sterling cast of international experts, scholars and practitioners to explore the contemporary Irish dramatic and theatrical landscapes and discern current patterns of dramaturgy in culturally and theatrically significant plays written in and about Ireland since 1980. This three-week series of presentations, seminars and workshops offers participants an opportunity to partake in seminars, lectures and workshops with world renowned academics, scholars, directors, actors, critics and reviewers.

For additional information, contact:
The Irish Seminar 2012
Eimear Clowry
Keough-Naughton Notre Dame Centre
O'Connell House
58 Merrion Square South
Dublin 2
Ireland
eclowry@nd.edu
T: 00 353 1 611 0611
F: 00 353 1 611 0606

Phoenix Institute

The Phoenix Institute is an international educational organization that seeks to promote a deeper understanding of Western civilization. Since 1991, the institute has held its annual summer program at the University of Notre Dame.

The 2012 Notre Dame Summer Seminar for the Study of Western Institutions has been designed to foster a better understanding of the Western intellectual tradition among European, Pan-American, and Asian students. These summer programs bring together students and professors from 14 countries to explore the enduring ideas of Western civilization through the disciplines of political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, ethics, literature, and Law. Additional details about the Phoenix Institute can be found online at the following Web address: thephoenixinstitute.org/seminars/seminars_notre_dame.htm

Questions about the Phoenix Institute program at Notre Dame should be directed to the Office of the Summer Session by calling 574-631-7282.

Democracy in America has been described as the greatest book ever written on democracy and the greatest book ever written on America. In it, Tocqueville perceives nearly all of the important issues related to modern liberal democracies and contextualizes them in his interpretation of the American experience. The book was written to convince Europeans that democracy was inevitable and to prepare them for it, so that the transition might be peaceful, moderate, and just. Among the issues treated are the rule of law, the relationship between church and state, the activities of civil associations and local government, and the importance of culture and institutions in political life. This course will take Tocqueville’s book as its main text, supplemented by some more recent articles that develop Tocquevillian themes related to politics and society.

Law School, London Law Program

Director: Prof. Geoffrey Bennett

Program dates: July 2 - August 8

CORRESPONDENCE: All applications, forms, and correspondence concerning our summer law program should be directed to:

Notre Dame Law School
Summer London Law Program
Admissions Office
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel.: 574-631-6626
Fax: 574-631-5474
Email: lawadmit@nd.edu

All correspondence will be mailed to the student’s permanent address unless another address is specifically indicated by the student.

ON THE WEB: law.nd.edu/london/summer

BACKGROUND:Notre Dame Law School began its Summer London Law Program for American law students in 1970 to provide students an opportunity for deepening their understanding of our own legal system through comparing it with British legal institutions; for studying common law subjects at their place of origin; and for learning comparative and international law at a leading center of those disciplines.

The Notre Dame program is the oldest American summer law program conducted in London. In recent years, slightly more than a third of enrolled students were from Notre Dame Law School; a number were from Australia; the remainder were from some 20 different law schools in the United States. Based on past experience, it is expected that a similar number of students from an equally diverse group of schools, from both the United States and Australia, will participate in the 2012 program. The curriculum emphasizes courses in the comparative and international law fields taught largely by British faculty. Students have found that the opportunity to study law in such a program not only facilitates their obtaining a law degree but enables them to learn about and enjoy the rich legal and cultural heritage of Britain.

London itself offers theaters, museums, and numerous sightseeing opportunities, as well as the Royal Courts of Justice, the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey), the Inns of Court, and the Houses of Parliament. Places such as Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Canterbury, Stratford, Windsor, Brighton, and Winchester are a short train journey away. An added pleasure comes from getting to know students from a variety of law schools located in all parts of the United States and abroad.

FACILITIES:The Notre Dame London Law Centre is at 1 Suffolk Street on the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square in central London. The Law Centre is next to the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, on the edge of theatreland, and only 10 minutes walk from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street to the west and legal London to the east. Public open areas such as St. James Park, Waterloo Gardens, Embankment Gardens, and the River Thames are less than five minutes walk, while King's College, the London School of Economics, and the Royal Courts of Justice are nearby along the Strand.

The Law Centre has a core collection of American law books in its library, as well as a small collection of comparative and international law materials. More extensive legal research may be done in the American and European collections of the Middle Temple Library.

The Law Centre also has a number of modern computers, which are available to all students and which provide access to Email, the Internet, and computer-assisted legal research.

ACADEMIC INFORMATION:Notre Dame Law School is fully accredited. Although other law schools have regularly approved transfer of credits, all students should ask their home schools about credit prior to registration in London.
It is expected that 7 courses providing a total of 14 hours of academic credit will be offered in the summer of 2012. A student may enroll in courses up to a maximum of six hours of credit. Auditing of courses is allowed with the permission of the particular faculty member and with the written approval of the director. The program runs for six weeks. Classes begin on Monday, July 2, and end on Friday, August 3. Examinations are scheduled between Aug. 6 and Aug. 8. All courses comply with the standards of the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools.

Credits are calculated on a semester basis. Students attending law schools using a quarter system can convert the credits obtained by applying a 50 percent plus factor (i.e., two credit hours on a semester basis are equivalent to three credit hours on a quarter basis). It is unlikely that participation in a foreign summer law program may be used to accelerate graduation. Students interested in acceleration are referred to their home schools to review this point in light of the ABA Standard for Approval of Law Schools 304, Interpretation 4.

Credit for courses taken will be given in the same manner as for courses taken at Notre Dame's home campus, and grades received will be reflected on standard Notre Dame transcripts. The grading system used at Notre Dame Law School and in effect for the summer program is as follows: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D, F. F is a failing grade.

QUALIFICATION FOR ADMISSION:Any student in good standing at a law school who will have completed one year of academic work prior to June 1, 2012, is eligible for the program. A completed registration form will be construed as a certification that the applicant meets the requirements and will advise the program director of any change in academic status. To be officially enrolled in the Notre Dame Summer London Law Program, each student is required to submit to the Admissions Office a letter of good standing from the student's law school.

Applications must be received no later than April 15, 2012. Because enrollment in the program is limited, students should apply as soon as possible. Spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

TUITION AND FEES: SUBJECT TO CHANGE - Registration fee is $50 (nonrefundable unless rejected due to full enrollment). The following is a budget for the 2012 Summer London Program. This budget represents the expected costs for tuition, living expenses, and transportation. This budget also represents the maximum amount of loan assistance available for the Summer London Program. Tuition $3,500; Transportation (Roundtrip airfare: Chicago to London) $1,300; Transportation: U.K. $1,000; Room $1,800; Food $645; Books and Supplies $240; Entertainment and Personal $300; TOTAL $8,785.

Tuition is nonrefundable unless failure to attend is for verified reasons of illness, military obligation, or if the U.S. Department of State issues a travel warning for England. The Summer London Law Program has never been canceled. In the unlikely event that the program is canceled, a full refund of tuition will be made.

Questions concerning financial aid may be directed to the Office of Financial Aid at (574) 631-6436 or via email at finaid.1@nd.edu.

Students attending from other institutions are encouraged to work directly with their home institutions using consortium agreements regarding their financial aid opportunities. Loan assistance can usually be obtained for the full cost of the program, including living expenses and transportation. Students must, however, enroll on at least a half-time basis to receive loan assistance.

PAYMENT SCHEDULE: Registration fee ($50) with application due by April 15, 2012. Tuition ($3,500) due by 5/13/12.
Participants in the program who are relying on loan assistance to meet the costs will be exempted from the tuition payment deadline if evidence of a loan commitment is provided by the deadline dates.

ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY: Prof. Geoffrey Bennett, Notre Dame Law School, is the director of the Summer London Law Program. Other faculty members are expected to be as follows: Prof. Stephen J. Cribari, St. Lawrence University, B.A. Catholic University, J.C.L., J.D.; Prof. David Gregory, Kingston University Law School, South London; Prof. Susan Hawker
Guildhall University, London; Prof. Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law (UMN); Prof. Gabriel Moens
Dean of Law Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia; and Prof. Katherine Reece-Thomas, City University, London

HOUSING:A number of single rooms are reserved for summer London participants in the university's recently opened Conway Hall. Conway Hall is a listed building that was acquired and completely refurbished by the university in 2010. It is situated a twenty minute walk away from Suffolk Street on the south bank of the Thames close to Waterloo Station.

Each student has his/her room furnished with a bed, chair, desk and wardrobe; bedding and towels are provided. The rooms are arranged in separate flats which have shared bathroom and kitchen facilities. The residence complies with current UK law regarding access for persons with disabilities. In addition, the student housing is monitored by the Notre Dame Facilities manager to ensure that it continues to comply with both disability and related health and safety requirements. Meals are not included in the price of the room as the accommodation is self-catering. There are a wide range of shops and restaurants nearby. The building is equipped with Wi-Fi.

Because the number of rooms in Conway Hall is limited, and because we will assign rooms on a first-come first-served basis, we encourage you to submit payment as soon as possible after you receive your billing statement. A room in Conway Hall will be assigned to you only after full payment has been received by the University Office of Student Accounts. Regrettably, no exceptions can be made to the policy requiring full payment. All housing payments are non-refundable unless it is possible to reassign the room. If the program were to be cancelled before its commencement, housing payments would be refunded. If it was cancelled after commencement, for reasons beyond the control of the University, a refund would be made on a pro rata basis.

Summer London participants residing in Conway Hall may check in on Saturday, June 30. Students must vacate their rooms by noon on Thursday, August 9.

INSURANCE:Participants in the Notre Dame Summer London Law Program are required to have medical insurance coverage. For more information on this, please review the website: law.nd.edu/ london/summer/index.html.

TRANSPORTATION:Students attending the Summer Law Program are expected to make provisions for transportation to and from London. Notre Dame cannot assume any responsibility for your transportation.

Scheduled airlines provide a variety of reduced-fare plans. Your local travel agent should be helpful in this regard. Because summer flights to Europe are filled quickly, we suggest making your travel arrangements as soon as possible.

PASSPORTS: Passports are required for travel to England and are your responsibility. We recommended applying for your passport early. Contact the nearest State Department Office or Post Office for further information, especially regarding travel in other countries. A visa is not required for the U.K. but may be necessary for travel to other countries.

TRAVEL WARNINGS: The latest information and warnings about travel overseas can be obtained on the State Department’s website at travel.state.gov/.

COURSE MATERIALS: Casebook and textbook materials for all courses will be available for purchase in London bookshops and at the Law Centre.

UPDATED INFORMATION: These details are subject to alteration. For the most current information about the London Program, please consult the website at law.nd.edu. Questions regarding registration procedures and deadlines may be directed to the Notre Dame Law School Admissions Office: lawadmit@nd.edu, or (574) 631-6626.

APPLICATION: The application for the Summer London Program is available on the web at law.nd.edu/london/summer/#APPLICATION

DIRECTOR Prof. Geoffrey Bennett
Notre Dame London Law Centre
1 Suffolk Street
London SW1Y 4HG ENGLAND
+44-207-484-7822
+44-207-484-7854 (FAX)
Email: Bennett.24@nd.edu

International Study Programs Office