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AIFS Study Abroad in London: Summer Globe Education Theater Program
(Outgoing Program)
Spend a summer in the buzzing city of London, England with AIFS! Study on-site at Shakespeare’s Globe, learning from professional actors, directors and other theater practitioners. A reconstruction of Shakespeare’s open-air theater, the internationally renowned entertainment center is located on the cobbled streets of Bankside by the River Thames.
You’ll earn 3 credits with Shakespeare’s Globe Education Theater Program.Transcripts are issued by Fairfield University. Students will also receive a Certificate of Attendance from Shakespeare’s Globe.
Live in a shared rooms in residence halls or apartments in the Kensington area. Enjoy 5 meals per week in the student cafeteria.
Cultural and social activities include:
Guided city tours
Ballet and theater performances
Guided tour of the Globe theater
Day trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, home to the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s houses
Day trip to Oxford
An optional, 3-day excursion to Paris, France is available to students as well.
Over 50% of students receive financial support from AIFS!
AIFS is recognized as a premier provider of study abroad programs. All-inclusive program fees cover tuition, housing, a meal plan, tours and excursions, insurance and 24-hour emergency service. Since 1964, more than 1.5 million students have traveled abroad with AIFS.
Instruction will take place at Richmond, The American International University in London. Richmond is a highly-respected academic institution offering fully accredited BS, BA and MA programs, taught by outstanding British and international faculty, many of whom are leading experts in their field. Richmond is an independent, co-educational, non-profit international liberal arts and professional studies university with a student body of around 1,000.
The program consists of one three credit course entitled All the World's a Stage: Audience, Architecture and Action at Shakespeare's Globe. This course will focus on the material and cultural contexts of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and on the history and process of construction of both the original and the reconstructed Globe Theatres. Practical classes will be enhanced by workshops with actors and directors participating in the Summer Season of plays at the Globe. The course will examine the historical and current value of Shakespeare’s plays through a practical examination of text and language, performance space, the materials of theater practice and the unique relationship between actors and audience at the Globe. By the end of the summer course, it is hoped that students will have attained a new appreciation of theatrical processes and have developed their own understanding of Shakespearean drama through performance.
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