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4.00 Credits
This course analyses the major principles of marketing in UK consumer, industrial and service organisations. It explores the manner in which firms can gain a competitive edge by adopting a customer orinetation. The course is taught by lecture and seminar. AUC Designation: Ss
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A series of seminar discussions of nine plays, focusing on the text, the production and the process from page to stage. In addition, there will be an accompanying series of lectures on relevant historical periods and playwrights, as well as on the artistic, financial and professional structures that shape British theatre. Some lectures complement the theatre visits by providing an historical and cultural background of the production just seen. Other lectures examine the artistic, financial and professional structures that shape the theatre, such as funding, stage and artistic direction. The course is centered on a series of nine theatre productions and the emphasis is on smaller fringe venues and theatre companies as well as one of the main subsidized institutions, the National Theatre. This allows students to see some new and innovative work as well as more traditional classic revivals. At the end of the course the student will be able to: 1) Understand the significance of some historical periods in the development of theatre; 2) Understand the structures that shape British theatre; 3) Analyze the text of a play and the theatre production of that play; 4) Analyze the process whereby a text is transformed into a theatre production; 5) Give a seminar presentation, test out ideas in debate and have respect for the ideas of others; and, 6) Think creatively in order to produce a review of an independently chosen production. (London, England, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/gbBritishStudies
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students with a means of approaching and studying Shakespeare focusing on the themes and ideas which permeate his dramatic art. Shakespeare's artistic development is explored with special emphasis placed on the dynamic relationship of the plays to 20th century society and the individual. The course is a detailed study of six representative texts which are placed in both a modern and Elizabethan social and theatrical context. Wide use is made of available recordings, films and stage productions. A combination of lectures, tutorials and seminars enables students to approach the material in a variety of ways. Lectures cover background and social and theatrical material as well as Shakespeare's biography. In general, the tutorials emphasize close textual study and the discussion of the relevance of these plays to the 20th century. (London, England, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/gbBritishStudies ) AUC Designation: Cl
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4.00 Credits
The course employs the perspectives of comparative politcal economy to address the question of whether 'BRICs' (industrial, urban states) can be created from "straw" (agricultural, rural societies), and what the human implications - in terms of power, distributions of life chances, and opportunity might be. It will use the USA as a point of introduction and a standard of comparison. AUC Designation: Ss
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4.00 Credits
The History of Modern Britain examines major historical changes that have transformed Britain from the Victorian era onwards. Its aim is to enable students to participate in a course that stimulates both intellect and imagination to provide context and background to the experience of Britain, at the same time as stirring an excitement in history. The focus is on key issues: (1) industrial and imperial power - from dominance to second rank; (2) the impact of the world wars on British society (3) making a better society - the drive to relieve poverty and create a welfare state; (4) the changing position of women; (5) the Irish and Britain. A central role in the course is played by London's historical resources: its buildings, museums and libraries, ranging from the Guildhall where the largest collection of London's primary documentary sources are held, and to the Imperial War Museum with its impressive collections from the two world wars. Seminar discussions are built round artifacts, original written material and film, as well as books and articles. The wider areas of concern to historians are raised throughout our sessions, cause and effect, the short-run and the long-run, the role of the individual, continuity and discontinuity together with the question of turning points. Students are helped to form a coherent general analysis of the period and to undertake assisted independent research in their chosen special study areas, drawn from topics that have included, for example, Victorian monarchy, the Suffragettes, the unemployed and new jobs in the 1930s, and the London Blitz of 1940. (London, England, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/gbBritishStudies ) AUC Designation: Cl
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4.00 Credits
Workshops designed to simulate a newsroom environment explore newsgathering, news writing, feature writing and interviewing. Students are introduced to a diverse range of UK publications-broadsheets, tabloids and magazines and critically assess the material and idetnify the different styles and approaches taken by different publications.
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4.00 Credits
The aim of the course is to discover how the many facets of London's cityscape have been represented by poets and novelists over the last century and a half. It is not possible to ignore Dickens whose surrealist vision of London as a presence that shaped the lives of its communities dominates all others. Some saw it as an Eldorado, some as a prison, a refuge, a vast market-place, a gigantic playground. Students will study and discuss a selection of works from writers such as: Dickens, Wordsworth, Conrad, T.S. Eliot, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Forster, Woolf, Orwell, Graham Greene, Martin Amis, Hanif Kureishi and others. (London, England, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/gbBritishStudies ) AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to contemporary novels in English by women (British and non-British) which adress issues of women's rights, feminism, femininity, homosexual love, domesticationm, ethnicity, class and economics. AUC Designation: Cl
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4.00 Credits
The purpose of the course is to study, discuss and appreciate fiction in English by and about women from different parts of the world as well as from different cultures. The course concentrates almost exclusively on fiction of the 1980s and the 1990s. The emphasis is on a comparative examination of recent fiction and of recent views of women. Topics for discussion include: women and sexuality, social class, race, motherhood, and economic exploitation. Videos and visits by the writers supplement the assigned reading. Set texts include: Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye; Atima Srivastava, Transmission; Beryl Gilroy, Frangipani House; Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine. (London, England, http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/gbBritishStudies ) AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
AUC Designation: Cl
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