Academic Program and Courses
FALL 2001
The London Semester Fall 2001 begins September 5 and ends December 14, 2001, a 14 week semester. Join us for the Fall 2001 London Semester program along with your fellow students and Professors as well as students and Professors from CSU Long Beach and CSU Fullerton.
Courses
Students
will enroll in a minimum of 12 units, six of which must be SDSU courses.
Students will select at least three courses and in addition, they will
enroll in General Studies 450: British Life and Culture ** which is required
of all students participating in the London Semester.
Literature & Cultural Studies Courses
1.
e301/e547
A UK Literary
Primer: Mad, Neurotic & Sexy (3 units)
This hybrid course
folds together a course on the psychological novel with a survey of British
literary shenanigans from just after the first World War up through the
1950s. While in London, we will try to take advantage of our locale
with field trips to sites mentioned in the novels. The course is
open to ALL majors, and no expertise in madness, neuroses, sexiness or
literature is expected!
PLEASE NOTE: this course is crosslisted. Students may sign up for and receive credit for this course either as: English 301: The Psychological Novel or English 547:British Literature 1918-1950 or English 499/Comparative Literature 499 Special Study depending on their needs and consultations with their departmental adviser.
Books include:
James Joyce
Dubliners
Virginia Woolf
The London Scene: Five Essays
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
George Orwell
1984
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger
Films include:
Alfred Hitchcock
Rope
Tony Richardson
Look Back in Anger
2
e493/e549/complit595
Lights Camera
London: Versions of England in Fiction and Film
This multimedia
class will try to take advantage of the dynamic and lively film and arts
scene in London. Both the Hollywood and New York City of Europe,
London is a center for both film and publishing and we will do our best
to swim in its many diverse offerings.
Books include:
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
JG Ballard Crash
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Nick Hornsby
High Fidelity
Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary : A Novel
Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia
Films include
Michael Powell
Peeping Tom
Stanley Kubrick's
A Clockwork Orange
PLEASE NOTE:
this course is crosslisted. Students may sign up for and receive credit
for this course either as: English 493: Literature and Film, 549: Topics
in English Literature, Comparative Literature 595 Literature and Aesthetics
or English 499/Comparative Literature Special Study depending on their
needs and consultations with their departmental adviser.
Psychology
Courses
Psychology 230/331:
(3 units) Developmental Psychology/Psychology of Infant and Child Development.
GE
[Dr. Marilyn Borges, SDSU]
e-mail: Marilyn.Borges@sdsu.edu
web site: http://rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/mborges/
Required Texts: LeFrancois:
Of Children, 6th Edition, w/Info Trac and Study Guide
[Wadsworth, ISBN 0-534-86620-4]
Psychology 211/380:
(3 units) Learning/Cognitive Psychology. GE
[Dr. Marilyn Borges, SDSU]
Required Texts: Omrod:
Human Learning, 3rd Edition, w/Simulations in Education Psychology
and Research CD
[Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-057835-5]
Communications Courses
***Communications 426: (3
units) Global Media Systems. GE [Dr. Ed Trotter, CSU Fullerton]
e-mail: etrotter@fullerton.edu
web site:
Required Texts: tba
Political Science Courses
***Political Science 315:
(3 units) American Policy-Making Processes. GE [Dr. Ed Trotter, CSU
Fullerton]
Required Texts:TBA
| CLASS
SCHEDULE
[schedule numbers will be posted for regline when available] WEEKS 1 THROUGH
6
All classes will be held in Foundation House. -Mid Semester break from October 20 through 28. *Two Fridays will be designated as required academic visit days as part of the British Life and Culture course. "Management 405 is an SDSU course - International Business Strategy and Integration '"Theater 460A is an SDSU course - History of the Theater ** The British Life and Culture course is taught by British guest lecturers and includes field trips to various places such as the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Gallery, and the House of Parliament. The lectures are planned to give students an understanding of British culture and civilization and emphasize a social, historical, and cultural approach to contemporary British Society by examining British traditions and institutions. |