Program Overview
Study environmental politics and policy and art and architecture in London, a city known for its rich history as a center of government and commerce, museums and monuments, and contemporary cultural venues. Students will enjoy the cultural diversity characterizing modern London and the easy access it affords to the rest of Great Britain and Europe.
Classes are held at the University of Delaware’s London Centre, a beautifully restored Georgian townhouse next door to the one-time home of novelist Charles Dickens. The London Centre is walking distance to the British Museum, enabling students to leisurely explore its many treasures. Students will have easy access to the London Underground (the “Tube”), shopping, and markets. Course offerings allow students to explore London and various locations in the surrounding countryside. Students will visit many museums and historical sites while studying art and architecture. They will be able to compare and contrast U.S. and British approaches to environmental issues such as global warming, sustainable development, water pollution control, and countryside preservation.
Excursions include attending the theatre and visits to the New Forest (an area with some of the richest and most extensive wildlife habitats in Europe and where a system of land ownership and communing formalized in the 11th century is still practiced. Recently designated as a national park, the New Forest has a newly developed sustainable management plan), Kew Gardens at Wakehurst Place (site of the Millennium Seed Bank Project, an international biodiversity conservation and seed banking program), the university city of Cambridge (where we’ll go punting on the Thames) and a long weekend to Scotland’s historic capital of Edinburgh and nearby highlands. The program also allows time off for independent weekend travel, with the opportunity to explore more the United Kingdom and Europe.
Students reside in apartments where they will be able to prepare their own meals.
Whether you’re interested in the built or natural environment or their interaction, the city or the country, Summer Session in London 2005 has something to offer you.
UD students pay all program fee deposits by direct bank transfer via this website: http://www.udel.edu/studyabroadpayments. Non-UD students should send a check, payable to the University of Delaware, to CFIS, Elliott Hall, 26 East Main Street, Newark, DE 19716. Credit card payments are not accepted.
