Courses Offered	Professor(s)
BIOL 104: Infectious Disease and Its Affects on History Fulfills Life Science (without a lab) Core requirement	Dr. Terry Bird
BUSN 377: Negotiations in a Global Business Environment Pre-requisite: must have completed at least 60 units	Professor Linda Barkacs
COMM 494: British Cultural Studies Fulfills Social Science Core requirement	Dr. Esteban del Rio
ENGL 494/THEA 494: London Plays in Production ENGL- fulfills Literature Core requirement; THEA- fulfills Fine Art Core requirement	Dr. Cynthia Caywood Dr. David Hay
ETLW 302D: Business and Society Pre-requisite: MGMT 300	Professor Craig Barkacs
MATH 494: Cryptography & War: How Mathematicians Saved Democracy Fulfills Social Science Core requirement	Dr. Cameron Parker
THRS 112: World Religions in the United Kingdom Fulfills Lower Division Religion Core requirement	Dr. Lance Nelson

Biology 104: Dr. Terry Bird (3 units). This course will consider the social impact of periodic outbreaks of pestilence that have devastated London throughout its history.  An important cultural and economic center that has long drawn people from across Europe and around the world, London has been vulnerable to sweeping epidemics of infectious disease brought to the shores of the British Isles by these visitors.  We will examine how specific microbes responsible for the bubonic plague, cholera and influenza evolved to cause disease while rapidly spreading through crowded populations.  We will also discuss how physicians treated various types pf plague to understand how our perception of disease and the role of microbes have evolved with time.  Our studies will be greatly enhanced by visits to ancient graveyards that contain the remains of plague victims, the Museum of London, the Science Museum, and to the district of Soho where the last deadly cholera epidemic led scientists to a final acceptance that microbes are indeed responsible for many human scourges.

Business 377: Professor Linda Barkacs (3 units). In an increasingly interdependent world, the ability to negotiate with people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds and in different regions of the world is crucial for managers and leaders.  This course offers skills and knowledge for becoming an effective negotiator through lecture, class discussion, and experiential exercises. This course includes several negotiation simulations and exercises that incorporate cross-cultural and international components. 

Communication Studies 494: Dr. Esteban del Rio (3 units). In this course, we take culture seriously - not as an expression of who we are, but generative of who we are.  By examining British punk, London museums and memorials, two-tone, cinema, television, shopping, squatters, and sneaker collectors, we can understand why the British cultural historian Raymond Williams defined culture as "a whole way of life," characterized by a particular engagement with Marxism.  This theoretic interrogates the tension between structure and agency that holds the possibilities for social change, revolution, and ultimately, emancipation. 

English 494/Theatre 494: Dr. Cynthia Caywood and Dr. David Hay (3 units in either area). Be immersed in the greatest theatre city in the world, read and see 8 to 10 plays, and visit a range of venues, from the Royal National Theatre to abandoned subway tunnels. Enjoy a "season" that includes classical, modern, multicultural and experimental plays and musicals. Past productions have included such award winning shows as War Horse, Waiting for Godot (with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart), Propeller Theatre's Richard III, and Elton John's musical Billy Elliot. Field trips related to the plays will provide context and background. This course fulfills the GE fine arts or literature requirement as well as major/minor upper division elective requirements in both disciplines.  Enrollment is limited.

ETLW 302D: Professor Craig Barkacs (3 units). Business & Society (ETLW 302) is being offered in London this summer. That's right: a required course, but in London! Learn about business ethics, diversity, globalization and much more in one of the most amazing cities in the world. Talk about business and government while touring Parliament; discuss the media and consumer protection during a visit to the Museum of Branding and Advertizing; get insight into ethical decision making by watching a play in the West End. Business & Society + London = Awesome.  Seats are limited so sign up now!

Mathematics 494: Dr. Cameron Parker (3 units). This course will cover the exciting field of creating and breaking ciphers, from its early war time origins through its current everyday use in the internet age.  Our focus will include number theory, group theory, probability, statistics and information theory.  We will take several excursions around the London area, focusing on World War II and the devastating effects it had on the city and its citizens.  This will remind us that the problems we are working on are not just interesting abstract questions, but were solved by people under great stress at a time when their very way of life was being challenged.  One of the highlights will be a trip to Bletchley Park, where the German codes were first broken using methods and machines that laid the ground work for modern programmable computers. 

 Theology & Religious Studies 112: Dr. Lance Nelson (3 units). Among its other exciting features, London is a city of colorful religious diversity and thus an ideal place to explore the wide range of human religious experience.  We'll start by discovering the ancient religions of Britain and the (somewhat) more recent Celtic and Roman experience.  In the process, we'll visit Stonehenge and the beautiful and historic city of Bath, as well as the famous university town of Oxford.  We'll look, of course, at Christianity and its fascinating, though often conflicted, history in England.  Also of great interest will be Hinduism and Islam.  Both traditions are well-represented in London by large and culturally rich immigrant communities, along with interesting neighborhoods, places of worship, and (not the least) restaurants.

 

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