AIFS Partnership Programs: Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs

Courses

Required course:
C/LA 305: British Life & Culture (3) CR/NC
British Life and Culture includes guest lecturers and field trips to the British Museum, National Gallery, & Houses of Parliament, plus weekend field trips. The lectures & visits provide students with a background for British culture & civilization—from examining traditions to understanding contemporary British lifestyle.

CSUF course selections:
ART 201A: Art and Civilization (3 units) [GE, Arts]
Professor Angela Della Volpe
Ideas, forms and styles of the visual arts as they developed in various cultures from prehistoric time to the present.

ENGL 331: Shakespeare on Film (3 units) [GE, Arts/Humanities, capstone]
Analysis of representative Shakespeare plays, along with viewing and analyzing several film versions of each play. Uses literary and film technology to write critical responses to drama and film, develop storyboards and conceptualize a Shakespeare play adaptation to "pitch" with set, costume design and marketing strategy.

CSULB course selections:

HIST 300: The United States Past and Present: America in the World (3 units) [GE, D1a]
Professor Hugh Wilford
A critical examination of U.S. history focused on the comparisons, contrasts, and connections between the U.S. and the rest of the world, in particular, Great Britain and the British empire.

UNIV 301: The "Special Relationship": Anglo-American Relations from the Colonial Era to the Present (3 units) [GE, global issues, capstone]
Professor Hugh Wilford
An historical survey of all aspects of Anglo-American relations—political, social, cultural, and even romantic/sexual—from the era of colonzation to the present day.

Optional courses:

I/ST 492: INTERNSHIP Unpaid (3 units)—requires UK student visa (approx. $489)
Requirements are regulated by your major department.

DIRECTED STUDY 498/499
Contact your own Department Advisor to see if it is possible to do a Directed Study course in London in your specific major, while being supervised on-line.