England - Contemporary British Theatre

Location: London, England

Dates: July 13 - August 10, 2024. Dates will be confirmed in Spring 2024. Students should NOT purchase flights until receiving instruction from our office to do so.

Credits Offered: 6 credits

• Undergraduates: ENGL 388.62 (3 credits) or THEA 397.47 (3 credits), and ENGL 352 (3 credits) or ENGL 355.66 (3 credits)
• Graduates: ENGL 780.51 (3 credits) or THC 710.56 (3 credits) and ENGL 715.68 (3 credits)

Application Deadline:
We will continue to consider applications until March 15, 2024 OR until the program fills.
Due to housing constraints, applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. The program may be filled before the deadline, so we encourage you to apply early!

Program Fee: $3,900 (estimate; will be confirmed late March 2024 with applicants). This information will be updated in January 2024.

The fee will include: housing, welcome/farewell meals, events/activies (including theater tickets), one day trip (transportation and cultural event), one overnight trip (transportation, housing, and cultural excursions), and international health and travel insurance. TUITION and AIRFARE are NOT included in the program fee. All students are responsible for arriving at their study abroad location by the first day of the program; this may mean flying the day before.

Payment Schedule: $350 program deposit is due on or before April 1, 2024. Do not submit your deposit until you have applied and been officially accepted to the program! You will receive an acceptance email from our office to confirm next steps.

$3,550 (program fee balance; estimate) is due on or before April 15, 2024. Payments must be made with certified check or money order. No cash, personal checks, or credit cards. Payments should be made at the Office of Education Abroad during office hours.

Students are responsible for meeting the payment deadline regardless of funding source, i.e. Macaulay Opportunities Fund, scholarships, loans, or any other type of financial aid. Late fees will be applied to all delayed payments.

Financial Aid: Please be sure to meet with the Financial Aid Office to discuss your particular financial aid package.

Scholarships: In addition to applying for the Gilman Scholarship,* students should visit our Scholarships Page for more opportunities.

*Students interested in applying for the Gilman scholarship should email Stephen Lassonde at ops@hunter.cuny.edu.

In recent years, students have seen productions of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello; Webster's Duchess of Malfi; a two-part marathon of Poulton’s Imperium; modern plays about class and gender, such as Stenham's Julie and Raines's Consent; a joyful musical by MacRae and Sells, Everybody's Talking About Jamie; two experimental productions, The Jungle by Murphy and Robinson; and an immersive Dutch production of Lies. Upcoming performances should be as exciting as in previous summers. The schedule will be finalized in late March of the program year.

To supplement the performances, we’ll take a walking tour of Shakespeare's London, an overnight trip to his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, and a day trip to one of the most impressive royal Tudor residences, Hampton Court Palace. We'll also begin and end the program with festive meals, a welcoming get-together and a farewell dinner, at local London restaurants. Our typical schedule includes morning classroom meetings and performances on three or four evenings each week. Classes will be held in the University of London’s International Hall, also the student residence. It is located in fashionable Bloomsbury, one of the ancient areas of London, and dates from before the thirteenth century!

Even with all of these activities, our schedule builds in plenty of time for individual travel and exploration. By the end of the program students will be well acquainted with both London theater and London itself. Long ago, Samuel Johnson said that those who are tired of London are tired of life. You’ll get a chance to see how true that is today.

Syllabus

• Syllabus will be updated in December 2023.

Prerequisites

For undergraduates: ENGL 220; for English majors, also ENGL 252. If the required prerequisites do not appear on your transcript, you may contact the faculty member for a waiver form, which should be submitted with your transcript as part of your application to the Office of Education Abroad.

All applicants must fulfill the general eligibility requirements along with this program's prerequisites.

Credits & Grades

Students in this program will receive both credits and letter grades. Grades will count toward their Hunter GPA.