Schedule

Note that scheduling a study-abroad class entails more uncertainties than usual. I will try to stick as closely as possible to the schedule below, but the class will be most successful if we all strive to be flexible.

Regarding trips, the class will gather in the lobby of our dorm and leave promptly at the departure time. If you oversleep or otherwise miss a departure: 1) don’t panic and 2) don’t feel ashamed. Text, call, or email me as soon as possible. If time allows, try to catch up with us or find your own way to the site or back home to the dorm. If everybody wants to change the time of a class, let me know and I will accommodate if possible.

Schedule of Classes and Activities

For the first three days, the class will meet on Zoom. Class times for those days are EST.

T May 31
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Class 10a: Course introduction
Class 2p Austen, Northanger Abbey (complete novel beforehand)
Writing: NA LitClit blog post before class.

W June 1
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Class 10a Austen, Northanger Abbey
Class 2p Bronte, Wuthering Heights (complete novel beforehand)
Writing: finish WH LitClit blog post before class.

R June 2
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Class 10a Bronte, Wuthering Heights 
Class 2p  Bronte, Wuthering Heights

F June 3
Departure: enjoy the flight.

Sa June 4
Arrive in London.
Neighborhood Tour (time tba)

Su June 5
Morning tba: Orientation
Afternoon tba: London Explore

M June 6
Travel: 8a departure for 9:03 train to Strawberry Hill (Waterloo sta)
Reading: Chap. 1 of Castle of Otranto (on blog page for Strawberry Hill)
Writing: litcrit post beforehand; site blog post to follow
5p: Opening Reception

T June 7
Travel: 7:30a departure for Bath. 10:30a tour of Roman Baths. 2p Walking tour of Assembly Rooms, Royal Crescent, The Circus, Pulteney Bridge, etc.

W June 8
Activity: 9a departure for Museum of London, Monument, St. Dunstan’s in the East (150 London Wall; St. Paul tube)
Class: 2p “Goblin Market”
Performance: 6:30p departure for Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre (Haymarket; Piccadilly tube)
Writing: site report blog posts to follow

R June 9
Class: 10a Great God Pan
Class: 2a Great God Pan
Writing: litcrit blog post beforehand

F June 10
Travel: 8:30a departure for 9:24a train to Tring (Euston sta)

Sa June 11
Non-academic day

Su June 12
Activity (extra-credit) 4:30p departure for London Explore Mudlarking on the Thames
Writing: site report blog post to follow

M June 13
Class: 10a 19c Visual Images of Femininity
Activity: 3:30p departure for Sex and the City walking tour (Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, St Andrews Place)
Writing: site report blog post to follow

T June 14
Activity: 9a departure for Tate Britain (Millbank; Pimlico tube stop)
Class: 1p Jekyll and Hyde (complete novel beforehand)
Activity: 3:15p departure for Operating Theatre (9a St Thomas Street)
Writing: litcrit blog post beforehand; site report blog posts to follow

W June 15
Activity: 9a departure for Freud Museum
Class: 1p Jekyll and Hyde and Freud, “The Uncanny” (read essay beforehand)
Performance: 6p departure for 7:30 curtain, King Lear at the Globe Theatre (Bankside, Southwark tube)
Writing: site report blog post to follow

R June 16
Class: 12p Conan Doyle, “Lot 249” (complete story beforehand)
Writing: litcrit blog post beforehand

F June 17
Travel: 8:30 departure to Oxford (Paddington sta). Ashmolean Museum, Magdalene College, Boating on Cherwell.
Writing: site report blog post to follow

Sa / Su June 18-19
Non-Academic days

M June 20
Travel: 8:30a departure for Kew Gardens
Class (tba): Research Project
Writing: site report blog post to follow

T June 21
Class: 10a Dracula (complete novel beforehand)
Performance: 5:30p departure for 7p curtain, My Fair Lady at London Coliseum (St Martin’s Ln, Charing Cross tube)
Writing: litcrit blog post beforehand

W June 22
Class: 10a (in classroom tba) Dracula
Activity: 1p departure for Highgate Cemetery. 4p Walk across Hampstead Heath to The Spaniards.

R June 23
Class: 9a Dorian Gray (complete the novel beforehand)
Activity: 12:30p departure for British Museum
Writing: site report blog post to follow

F June 24
Class: 9a Dorian Gray

Sa / Su June 25-26
Non-Academic days

M June 27
Class: 3p Dorian Gray
Writing: site report blog post to follow

T June 28
Research presentation and final exam
Performance: 6:30p departure for 8p curtain, The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre (Russell St, Covent Garden tube)
Writing: site report blog post to follow

W June 29
Research presentation and final exam

R June 30
Research presentation and final exam
Closing Reception

F July 1
Return flight