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English and Literature CISaustralia is a leading provider of overseas study, intern, and volunteer programs for Australian university students. We pride ourselves in providing personally and academically engaging programs in each of our carefully chosen overseas locations. CISaustralia is committed to working closely with partner universities in Australia and providing students with academic credit towards their degree for any overseas study, volunteer or intern experience. Over 98% of CISaustralia participants receive academic credit from their Australian university for their CISaustralia study, volunteer or intern program. Please find the following subjects and associated programs related to English and Literature: (Please note: For exact program dates and subject offerings for programs with multiple sessions, please visit the specific program web pages).

July in Aix-en-Provence, France (Click to view course and program details)

CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING IN PROVENCE: Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced Level - ART 275B/375B – 3 credits The study and practice of creative nonfiction writing in relation to the study abroad experience. Techniques of writing creative nonfiction and development of the creative process are covered, including writing exercises, workshop and final essays. WRITING IN PROVENCE: Literature And Regional Culture - FRE/LIT 383A – 3 credits Conducted in French. How writers whose subjects celebrate Provence and the interactions between its inhabitants and its visitors help students better comprehend their own immersion in the region and in the language. This course will guide students to analyze and write their own personal reflections inspired by regional writers such as Marcel Pagnol, Jean Giono, René Char, Maylis de Kérangal, Stendhal and others.

July in Chicago, IL, USA (Click to view course and program details)

EXPLORING POETRY - ENGL 271 – 3 US Credits Requirement: UCLR 100 for students admitted to Loyola University for Fall 2012 or later. No requirement for students admitted to Loyola prior to Fall 2012 or those with a declared major or minor in the Department of English, Department of Classical Studies, or

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Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. In this introductory course we will read a wide and varied selection of poetry, with a focus on major poets in various—but clearly defined-- time periods and genres in order to introduce to students a broad range of poetic expression. Our selections will include, among others, some early medieval lyrics, selected sonnets by Shakespeare, and a special concentration on some of the great English Romantic and Victorian poets: Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Browning, and Tennyson. WRITING CREATIVE: NON-FICTION – ENGL 319 – 3 US Credits Creative nonfiction is today's most popular genre. In this class, students will study and write creative nonfiction of different forms (e.g., memoir, travel writing, personal essay, literary journalism, the lyric essay). By reading and analyzing published models, students will deepen their learning of traditional and innovative creative nonfiction methods. Students will then write creative nonfiction pieces and participate in workshops of their classmates' writing. EXPLORING FICTION - ENGL 273 – 3 US Credits This course will include works of fiction that are particularly concerned with the themes of crime and punishment. Students will shuttle between short stories, novels, and a film or two that examine the nature of crime and criminality, as well as questions about punishment, guilt, forgiveness, morality, and knowledge. Readings will cover both classic and popular works and will include fiction by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Raymond Chandler, Patricia Highsmith, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ursula LeGuin. There will be two essays of modest length, a midterm and a final. Grading will be based primarily on papers and exams but will also include class participation, quizzes, and informal written exercises. CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY - CLST 271 – 3 US Credits This course focuses on Greek and Roman literature involving myth and how ancient and modern peoples use traditional narratives, characters, images and conceptions to explore, explain, and experiment with ideas about themselves and their surroundings in their historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental myths of the ancient Greek and Roman world, their language and possible meanings, and how myth reflected important collective and individual concerns, values, beliefs, and practices then, even as modern myth does now. HEROES & CLASSICAL EPICS - CLST 272 – 3 US Credits This course centres upon the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil’s Aeneid and endeavours to place these epic poems into their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Students will learn the definition of epic as a literary genre and discover how this genre evolved to reflect audiences and times. You will learn the components of epic language, in particular, literary devices and structural features (e.g., formulas, nested stories, epic similes). Students will be able to describe the plots of the three epics and know the main- and mid-level human characters, gods, and goddesses. In addition, students will be able to define and better understand the meanings of “hero” and “heroism.” Learning how the epics are variously

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interpreted as well as basic methods of literary criticism (e.g., analysis of language, content, structure, etc.), students will employ these as ways to understand and interpret the poems.

July in Cusco, Peru (Click to view course and program details)

LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE – 3 Credits (48 hours) Taught in Spanish. This course offers a journey through Latin American literature, from the earliest works of the pre-Columbian age to our own time. It invites students to delve into the magic of Latin American culture and traditions through their reading and critical analysis of some of the continent’s most representative examples of poetry and prose. Students attend literature related events and experience direct contact with the local literary scene.

July in Florence, Italy (Click to view course and program details)

DANTE ALIGHIERI’S FLORENCE: READINGS AND CULTURAL WALKS – ISISDF340 – 3 semester credits This course will examine excerpts of Dante Alighieri’s greatest passages from the Divine Comedy and other works in relation to the space and history of Florence. Textual analyses will be performed, unpacking the dense symbolism and motifs reflective of the intellectual and moral climate during 14th century Florence. Students will visit churches, piazzas, and palaces within the city and will examine these locations in the context of Dante’s life and surrounding controversy, the accusations and denunciations in his writings, the physical descriptions of the city and the characters and historical figures present in his works. This course includes an Italian language component for beginning-level students. TRAVEL WRITING - CPJLTW290 – 3 semester credits The basis of this course is the development of creative writing skills by focusing on the genre of travel writing. Students will read and discuss extracts from the great classics of travel writing as well as current travel journalism published in newspapers, magazines, and online. Assignments will focus on developing an individual voice, and honing ideas through revision and drafting. Topics will cover how to write for different audiences and publishing formats. Course projects and activities will interact with the journalism activities of Blending, the magazine and newsletter of FUA's campus press Ingorda. This class includes experiential learning with CEMI.

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July in London, England (Click to view course and program details)

SHAKESPEARE: THEMES AND PRESENTATIONS - 4ELIT015X – 20 UK Credits Examination of a range of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare and of other poetry and drama of the English Renaissance. Considers the context of Shakespearean drama from the sixteenth century to its interpretation and dissemination in the present day, from theatrical practice, the playhouses, acting companies and royal patronage of the Renaissance through to twenty-first century film and television adaptations. JANE AUSTEN: FROM THE PAGE TO THE SCREEN - 4ELIT014X – 20 UK Credits Screen adaptations of Jane Austen novels. Jane Austen is one of the most important writers in the history of the novel and she remains extremely popular. This module examines her complex legacy through consideration of her six major novels, with a specific focus on her first three published works and their screen adaptations – Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey. Students will examine Austen’s place in literary tradition, engaging with debates about her style and the way in which her texts respond to a wide range of social and political issues including class relations, education, gender, the family, ‘improvement’, religion, social mobility, war, revolution and national identity. Informed by an understanding of Austen’s work on the page, and the contexts of its creation, ‘re-writings’ of Austen through screen adaptations and mashup/parody novels will be considered and critiqued, underpinning analysis and discussion of Austen’s continuing relevance to our own time. COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR THE WORKPLACE – 4COMM001X – 20 UK Credits This course is for non-native English speakers only. English is the key language for communication in the global workplace. Acquisition of communicative competence and the range of linguistic and intercultural skills necessary to perform in international business will provide students with a competitive edge when entering the job market. This course will focus on language as a tool for communication in international business rather than general language knowledge. It will enable students from a range of backgrounds to develop both spoken and written skills in a globalised business environment through task-based activities using authentic materials and case studies. WORKING ACROSS CULTURES IN A GLOBAL WORLD – 4CLST001X – 20 UK Credits This course is for non-native English speakers only. The course provides a student-centred understanding of the intercultural competencies needed in the professional world of the 21st century. It starts by supporting students in analysing their chosen career, identifying the challenges inherent in performing in a professional multicultural environment. It continues by developing, through interactive activities, skills such as recognising, acknowledging, mediating and reacting to a variety of cultural expectations and norms of behaviour. The course contains throughout a reflective strand which encourages students to reflect on their internalised culture, unconscious bias and preferred social positioning, and how this might impact their work relations.

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PRINT JOURNALISM: THE LONDON EXPERIENCE – 4JRNL008X – 20 UK Credits This module uses London as the focus for a journalism project that explores one of the world’s great capital cities from the perspective of an international student and introduces students to the modern magazine business. During this module, students work in groups to develop an idea for a magazine about London, which they then research and write stories for, before going to edit and lay out stories. They end the module by creating a digital dummy of their title. Students learn how to research and write a range of stories and copy for magazines. They develop basic page design skills, coming up with layouts for their own magazine. The magazines they create are print titles – but students will also be encouraged to investigate tablet-based publications, apps and online editions too and to consider the role social media plays in modern magazines.

July in Los Angeles, CA, USA (Click to view course and program details)

ASIA AM 30W. ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE – 5 US Credits Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 30. Multidisciplinary introduction to Asian American literature and cultural production, with examination of some combination of novels, short stories, poetry, drama, performance, fil, visual art, music and/or new media. Satisfies Writing II requirement. CLASSIC 20. DISCOVERING ROMANS – 5 US Credits Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Latin not required. Study of Roman life and culture from time of city's legendary foundations to end of classical antiquity. Readings focus on selections from works of ancient authors in translation. Lectures illustrated with images of art, architecture, and material culture. CLASSIC 185. ORIGINS AND NATURE OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY – 5 US Credits Lecture, three hours. Origins and nature of English vocabulary, from Proto-Indo-European prehistory to current slang. Topics include Greek and Latin component in English (including technical terminology), alphabet and English spelling, semantic change and word formation, vocabulary in literature and film. COM LIT 1E. SOCIAL MEDIA AND STORYTELLING: COMPARING CULTURES – 5 US Credits Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Study of social media as platform for storytelling, with core focus on three distinct cultures: U.S., China, and Russia. History, form, and various functions of social media. Examination of how we tell stories about ourselves and how we interpret digital narratives we see, hear, or read from organizations near and far. Analysis of networked narratives encountered online.

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COM LIT 4DW. LITERATURE AND WRITING: GREAT BOOKS FROM WORLD AT LARGE – 5 US Credits Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1D or 2DW. Study and discussion of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts from at least three of following areas read in any given term: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. Texts may include works by authors such as Ngugi, Desai, Kincaid, Emecheta, El Saadawi, Achebe, Pak, Can Xue, Neruda, and Rushdie. Satisfies Writing II requirement. COM ST 1B. LEARNING AMERICAN ENGLISH AND CULTURE FROM MOVIES – 4 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Advancement of students' fluency in conversational English while increasing their awareness of American popular culture. Primer on American-style colloquial English and nuances of contemporary customs and values offered through guided immersion in popular cinema. P/NP or letter grading. DIS STD M121. TOPICS IN GENDER AND DISABILITIES: DISABILITY, SEX AND CONSENT: YES MEANS YES, RIGHT? – 4 US Credits Lecture, three and one half hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Ways in which issues of disability are affected by gender, with particular attention to various roles, positions, and concerns of women with disabilities. Approach is intersectional, exploring how social categories of class, race, ethnicity, religion, age, sexuality, nationality, and citizenship affect and are affected by gender and disability. Topics may include law (civil rights, nondiscrimination), representation (arts, literature), education, public policy, health. Examination of legal issues at play concerning complicated 2015 legal case of disabled man. 30-year-old DJ has cerebral palsy with muscle spasms that prevent him from communicating through spoken words. In 2009, Rutgers ethics professor Anna Stubblefield began working with man with goal of helping him express himself in ways other than speaking. Using method called facilitated communication, Stubblefield supported man's ability to express himself by physically supporting his elbow as he pointed at images, and later at letters. Over course of two years and through facilitated communication sessions, Stubblefield fell in love with DJ. According to Stubblefield, DJ reciprocated and their relationship became sexual. When DJ and Stubblefield told DJ's family, his mother and brother sought criminal charges. From critical disability studies perspective, exploration of broad and individual meanings of autonomy, sex and sexuality, consent, and deviancy. ENGL 4W. CRITICAL READING AND WRITING – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Introduction to literary analysis, with close reading and carefully written exposition of selections from principal modes of literature: poetry, prose fiction, and drama. Minimum of 15 to 20 pages of revised writing. Satisfies Writing II requirement.

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ENGL 20W. INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement, English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 20. Designed to introduce fundamentals of creative writing and writing workshop experience. Emphasis on poetry, fiction, drama, or creative nonfiction depending on wishes of instructor(s) during any given term. Readings from assigned texts, weekly writing assignments (multiple drafts and revisions), and final portfolio required. Satisfies Writing II requirement. ENGL 70. MEDIEVALISMS: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; Requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to English majors or students with credit for any course in the 140 series. Introduction to medieval texts juxtaposed with modern texts and media to analyze how and why the medieval (in form of crusade, quest, romance, world-construction, etc.) is continually reproduced and transformed in large scale popular productions, novels, film, and television. Textual focus on medieval works in comparison to analysis of 20th- and 21st-century works may include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte Darthur, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Harry Potter. ENGL M107A. STUDIES IN WOMEN’S WRITING AND FAIRY TALE TRADITION – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Focus on women writers that may include historical, regional, national, or thematic emphasis, with possible topics such as authorship, self-writing, sexuality, gender, and genre. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. Using selection of literary fairy tales composed by French female storytellers (conteuses) such as Madame d'Aulnoy and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, examination of how these tales address questions of agency, voice, representation, and creativity. Often overshadowed by collections of fairy tales compiled by Charles Perrault, Grimm brothers, and Joseph Jacobs, these 17th- and 18th-century women writers created vibrant tradition upon which later female artists would build. Focusing on poetry, short fiction, and criticism written by 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American authors, examination of ways in which these descendants of conteuses incorporate fairy-tale motifs, themes, and plotlines into their writings; destabilize messages inculcated by classic fairy tales through subversive retellings; argue merits of fairy-tale genre as vehicle for achieving women's liberation; and pay homage to literary foremothers. ENGL 119. LITERARY CITIES: LOS ANGELES PHASE – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Exploration of place of literary imagination in making of cities, with focus on questions of cultural exchange, development, migration, urban rebellion, and style. Topics may include meaning of urban space and time, city as urban village or cosmopolitan hub, segregated dystopia or postmodern future, and impact of exile, tourism, and migration in making of cities. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change.

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Many great minds of 20th century had Los Angeles phase. They came, they saw, they thought, and left. Pattern fits literary personalities ranging from novelists and culture-critics to essayists and activists. Long-term resident writers also seem, sometimes surreptitiously, to share interest in form of phase. It may even be productive to read work of writers who do not come and go, but stay and build, like poet Wanda Coleman and rapper Kendrick Lamar, in cycles; as positively resisting stories with phase shape. Study combines formal and historical approaches as it track responses to question of how rhythm of loving and then leaving expresses itself, beautifully and variously, in literature of Los Angeles. ENGL M138. TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING: Three Act Screenplay – 5 US Credits (Formerly numbered 138.) (Same as English Composition M138.) Seminar, three hours. Requisite: English Composition 3 or 3D or 3DS or 3SL. Introductory workshop in genre(s) of instructor choice, that may include mixed genres, playwriting, screenwriting, literary nonfiction, or others. Enrollment in more than one section per term not permitted. May be repeated for maximum of 10 units. May not be used to satisfy workshop requirements for English creative writing concentration. P/NP or letter grading. Students learn art and practice of screenwriting. Students develop original feature screenplay, learning how to craft story, plot, character, dialog, and theme. Each student produces full three-act outline and polished first act of screenplay. ENGL 139. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Specialized study of work of one single Anglophone poet, dramatist, prose writer, or novelist. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. ENGL M149. MEDIEVALISMS – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Exploration of postmedieval production of Middle Ages as period for scholarly study, tactical premodern other to modern and contemporary, and commodity continually reinvented by postmedieval writers, artists, and popular media. Topics may include 19th-century production of medieval studies and its links to nationalism, notable medievalists and their work, and uses of Middle Ages in popular culture from Umberto Eco to Tolkien, Robin Hood, Arthur, and Merlin. ENGL 150C. TOPICS IN SHAKESPEARE – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Introduction to or advancement of student knowledge of Shakespeare's works through broad or specific topics set by instructor. ENGL 163B. TRANSATLANTIC ROMANTICISM – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Transatlantic studies have been central in generating new conceptual frameworks for thinking through complex issues related to interconnectedness of Atlantic rim cultures. With focus on ways in which cultures, ideologies, and political identities are

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reworked and reinscribed by transatlantic movement of peoples, ideas, and cultural artifacts, expansion of notions of Romanticism to include transoceanic perspectives that understand early 19th-century Romantic literature as transatlantic phenomenon. May not be repeated for credit. ENGL 166C. AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1832-1865 – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Historical survey of American literatures from Jacksonian era to end of Civil War, including emergent tradition of American Romanticism, augmented and challenged by genres of popular protest urging application of democratic ideals to questions of race, gender, and social equality. ENGL 179. TOPICS IN LITERATURE, CIRCA 1850 TO PRESENT: CALIFORNIA FOOD CULTURES – 5 US Credits Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B, 10C. Examination of literatures from or about this time period. Consult "Schedule of Classes" for subject to be studied in specific term. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. Comparison of writers, filmmakers, artists, chefs, and activists who have taken California's food cultures and systems as their subject, and have shaped contemporary movements ranging from environmental justice to modernist cuisine. Materials include cookbooks, menus, restaurant reviews, literary fiction, documentary film, public art projects, and popular science writing. ESL 20. CONVERSATION AND FLUENCY – 4 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Emphasis on speaking fluently in English by examining rules of conversation, participating actively in class discussions, making group presentations, and completing out-of-class assignments designed to promote interaction with native speakers and familiarize international students with UCLA campus and local community. ESL 21. PRONUNCIATION – 4 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Designed to improve clarity, accuracy, and understanding of spoken English through study and practice of pronunciation features as they occur in real speech, using models from television, movies, and online talks. Emphasis on individualized feedback through audio recording and video recording technology. ESL 22. PUBLIC SPEAKING – 4 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Emphasis on making presentations, interacting with audience members, and leading group discussions. Video recording of student performances to allow students to improve through self and peer evaluation, as well as through individualized instructor feedback.

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ESL 23. AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH FILM – 4 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Designed to improve listening comprehension and discussion skills by viewing and analyzing variety of American films. Emphasis on understanding and using idiomatic language, expanding vocabulary, recognizing dialect differences, and reflecting on cultural similarities and differences. ESL 25. ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING – 4 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Designed to improve reading speed, comprehension, and knowledge of academic writing conventions. Emphasis on synthesizing information from sources, providing proper citations, and avoiding plagiarism. Focus on development of ability to revise and edit one's own writing. ESL 105. ADVANCED GRAMMAR AND STYLE FOR MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS -4 US Credits Lecture, four hours. Review of form and use of common grammatical structures found in academic discourse. Analysis of stylistic function of certain structures and practice in self-editing strategies. FILM TV 33. INTRODUCTORY SCREENWRITING – 4 US Credits Lecture, one hour; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course C132/C430. Structural analysis of feature films and development of professional screenwriters' vocabulary for constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing their own work. Screenings of films and selected film sequences in class and by assignment. FRNCH 41. FRENCH CINEMA AND CULTURE – 5 US Credits Lecture/screenings, five hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to French culture and literature through study of films of cultural and literary significance. SCAND 50/50W. INTRODUCTION TO SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES – 5 US Credits Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for students in general and for those wishing to prepare for more advanced and specialized studies in Scandinavian literature and culture. Selected works from literatures of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland, ranging from myth, national epic, saga, and folktale through modern novel, poem, play, short story, and film, read in English and critically discussed. S ASIAN 155. TOPICS IN SOUTH ASIAN CINEMA AND LITERATURE – 4 US Credits Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Hindi/Urdu not required. Critical analysis of language and culture in South Asian diaspora as represented in films and/or literature. THEATER 30. DRAMATIC WRITING – 4 US Credits Studio, three hours. Intended for Theater minors and other nonmajors. Exploration and development of creative writing skills for one or more of various forms of entertainment media.

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July in San Jose, Costa Rica (Click to view course and program details)

SELECTED TOPICS IN AFRO-CARIBBEAN STUDIES - ETH3100 – 3 Credits This course will examine a specific topic, theme or issue related to ethnically black communities in Costa Rica and Central America. Examples include:

Central America and ethnic politics in history and culture

Blacks in Central American governments

Contemporary black literature

History of the black experience in Costa Rica

July in Stirling, Scotland (Click to view course and program details)

MONSTERS AND VAMPIRES: THE IMPACT OF BRITISH GOTHIC ON CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE Focusing on key texts from the nineteenth century, this course aims to explore the ways in which Gothic tropes established during this period recur throughout contemporary popular culture. We will discuss the representation of monsters and vampires as they appear in the British nineteenth-century Gothic texts Frankenstein, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Dracula and their influence on popular narratives such as those found in fiction, film, tv and music video. Assessment will be through presentation and essay. This course will also include a tour around The Edinburgh Dungeon and a visit to the Gothic theme bar The Jekyll & Hyde. On this excursion we will explore ideas of Gothic tourism, Gothic marketing, and the end of Gothic. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO WRITING SHORT STORIES This module has been designed to help students realise their creative potential by producing original and stimulating short fiction. Teaching will consist of specialist workshops conducted by an expert in the field. In addition to engaging with practical aspects of craft and technique, students will learn how to create believable, compelling characters and how to make them live (and die!) on the page. They will also have the opportunity to visit sites of historic importance and natural beauty to inspire their writing. The course will culminate in a live ‘reading’ at a leading local arts centre when students will have the chance to share the stage with a prominent Scottish writer. SCOTLAND THE WHAT? CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH LITERATURE & IDENTITY The only requirement is interest in Scottish writing and culture. This course examines the literary and political currents shaping contemporary Scottish identity, introducing students to key twentieth- and twenty-first century texts. We encounter and explain a range of cultural debates concerning language, class, democracy and nationhood in Scottish writing. With attention focused on the question of independence, recent debates concerning Scottish culture and identity gain a heightened political charge. Literature has not only

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reflected but actively shaped such debate. What role has writing played in political change, and to what extent has Scottish culture escaped its own stereotypes?

January in Dunedin, New Zealand (Click to view course and program details)

THE CLASSICAL WORLD IN MOVIES - CLAS240 Prerequisite: 18 CLAS, GREK or LATN points or 54 points

This paper is a study of the mythology, history, warfare, literature, art, archaeology and

culture of ancient Greece and Rome in ancient literary and artistic evidence, as depicted in

movies and on television.

Since the advent of motion-picture technology, filmmaking has drawn upon Classical history

and recreated Classical myth to entertain modern audiences. Adapting to a new medium

invariably involves changes to the original sources, and yet some changes result from the

decision to focus upon different themes or characters, reflecting modern tastes and

revealing our own cultural concerns. This paper navigates the use of the original Classical

material in modern cinema and television, from the 'sword-and-sandals' films of the 1950s

to the digitally enhanced Hollywood blockbusters of the 2000s.

Assessment

Essay (2000 words) 20%

In-class test 20%

Final examination (3 hours) 60%

EFFECTIVE WRITING - ENGL127 Clear, powerful communication is a prerequisite of success in the academic or business

world. More than ever in the internet age, communication takes place in a written form

with speech, gesture, expression or body language providing fewer clues to meaning. ENGL

127 will introduce students to, or perhaps refresh their memory of, key concepts in effective

written communication. We will study practical aspects of grammar, punctuation, style and

mechanics at the level of the sentence, paragraph, essay and beyond. We will emphasise

practical work and teach you skills which you can transfer to your own academic or

professional writing projects.

Please note: Students for whom English is a second language should have attained an

overall score of 7.0 in IELTS academic band or the equivalent

Assessment

Summary test 10%

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FANTASY AND THE IMAGINATION - ENGL223/323 Prerequisite: One 100-level ENGL paper or 36 points OR 18 200-level points

Fantasy seems to have become the pop - or even “pulp” – literary genre of the 21st century,

almost sidelining modernist realism. Its ascendency or resurgence has drawn attention to

the fact that, in the tradition of European and English-language literature, it is realism that

is the anomaly. By way of background to the multi-volume “world-building” adult fantasies,

this paper will examine texts illustrating the literary uses of fantasy, chronologically from

the most ancient text in English, Beowulf, to the great children’s publishing phenomenon

for the present day, Harry Potter.

The texts selected do not so much represent hardcore “genre” fantasy, but fantasy as it

manifested in mainstream literature at the time. The study will also consider the perceived

relation of the real and the visual imagination, by way of illustrations and dust jackets, stage-

plays, videogames, TV and movies.

Assessment

1,500 word essay 10%

1,500 word essay 15%

3,000 word essay 20%

Final examination 55%

January in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Czech Republic (Click to view course and program details)

THEMATIC STUDIES: THE EUROPEAN CITY IN LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS

European Studies 303: Europe and the Urban Space

Anthropology 301: The Artist and the City

Literature 375: The European City in Literature

Communications 375: The European City in the Visual Arts

Geography 201: Europe and its Cities The Great Cities: Exploration of the rise and the establishment of the urban setting as the nexus of contemporary European culture and civilisation through cinema, the novel, poetry, music and paintings. The course will explore the rise and the establishment of the urban setting as the nexus of contemporary European culture and civilisation. The main genres will be the novel and cinema but will not exclude poetry, music or painting. Students in the various sections of the course will attend the same meetings but will have different syllabi for readings, papers, discussions and examinations.

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January in London, Stratford and Oxford (Click to view course and program details)

SHAKESPEARE AND THE THEATRE

Theatre 385: Shakespeare

Literature 385: Shakespeare

English 385: Shakespeare Shakespeare and the Theatre: The purpose of this course is to provide a college level introduction to Shakespearean drama that will be stimulating, challenging and enjoyable. Special emphasis will be placed on close reading, character development, poetry and major themes. You will also visit key historical sites in order to greater understand the political and intellectual circumstances in which Shakespeare was writing. Special attention will be paid to Shakespeare as a writer for the stage and a man of the theatre, with visits to theatres to hear and see plays, backstage tours and critical discussions of directorial, design and acting choices.

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