Oxford Berkeley Program 2015 - July 20-Aug. 8 - extension.berkeley.edu/oxford
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
Oxford Berkeley Program 2015
July 20–Aug. 8
extension.berkeley.edu/oxford
extension.berkeley.edu/oxford 1
Oxford Berkeley Program
July 20–Aug. 8, 2015
Oxford Awaits!
Dear Future Oxonian,
Join us this summer, and discover firsthand why people return year after
year to enjoy the magic and tradition of Oxford.
Select one of 11 seminars to enrich your understanding of English culture
and history. In a small classroom setting, you learn from Oxford dons who
are experts in their fields and enthusiastic teachers.
Historic Setting Engaging Seminars t eachers, doctors, retirees, students,
Browse this brochure to discover the intellectual adventure you’ve been
Live and study at Merton College, one of Choose one of 11 seminars covering a homemakers and other adults. You learn waiting for. We’d love to share this experience of a lifetime with you.
the oldest colleges at Oxford and—with variety of topics that are sure to provoke in small seminars led by British university
Sincerely,
its medieval architecture, picturesque stimulating debate. During the three-week scholars who are experts in their fields.
gargoyles and mullioned windows— session, your seminar meets every week- Ramu Nagappan Christopher Day
Academic Focus
one of the most beautiful. Immerse day morning, with the afternoons kept
Experience Oxford as a student, not
yourself in the timeless daily rhythms of free for independent study. Before arriv-
a tourist. You get access to original Program Director Program Director
life at Oxford: morning seminars with ing, you receive an in-depth reading list
documents in the world-famous Bodleian
your tutor, discussions over tea with so you can prepare to participate fully.
Library. During the course of the Contents
classmates, afternoon strolls through
Like-Minded Peers and seminar, you present your research, get The 19th-Century Novel in Context,
Oxford’s botanical gardens and world-
Outstanding Faculty supportive feedback and produce a short Part One: 1837–1867 4
renowned museums, and evenings spent
Expand your friendships, and enjoy paper based on your interests. Across the Pond: Anglo-American
taking in the theater at Oxford Playhouse
the company of other intellectually Exchanges in Garden Design 4
or having a pint at the Turf Tavern.
curious adults from across the country: Art and Power in the Age of Chaucer 5
The Cotswolds 5
Did the Victors Lose the Peace?
History, Politics and Economics: 1945–2015 6
Image and Identity:
A Study of British Portraiture 6
Into the Vortex: Britain in the
Interwar Years, 1919–1939 7
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets
in Shakespeare’s Comic Worlds 7
Medicine: Ethics and Practice 8
The Spirit of Industrial and
Romantic England: 1776–1914 8
The Tudors: Myth, Performance and Reality 9
2015 Program Details 10
Enrollment Application 11
2 Oxford Berkeley Program extension.berkeley.edu/oxford 3
FIELD TRIPS
An essential part of your
seminar experience.
Your academic and social
life is enriched by trips to
various locales in and around
Oxford. If you are studying
The 19th-Century Novel in Context, Part One: 1837–1867 ENGLISH X463.2 Art and Power in the Age of Chaucer ENGLISH X463.2 the work of Shakespeare,
a trip to London’s restored
Study and discuss exciting and intellectually Field Trips The age of Chaucer was a time of kings and Field Trips Globe Theatre is a must to
stimulating works by important and popular Visits to be scheduled. Please see extension war, of priests and pilgrimages, of plagues and The course includes trips to Kenilworth Castle; understand how the Bard’s
novelists of the Victorian Age, including Charles .berkeley.edu/oxford for updates. uprisings. But it was also an age of art and the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick; Gloucester plays were experienced by
Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, Wilkie literature. Chronicle the kingships of Richard II Cathedral; and Tewkesbury Abbey. his contemporary audiences.
Collins and George Eliot. Focusing on themes Tutor and Henry V and the influence of the aristocracy Great houses underline
such as class, gender, empire, religion and art, you Dr. Emma Plaskitt is a graduate of McGill and the gentry on their reigns. Focus on the rise Tutor the power and influence
understand how writers used the novel to address University and Merton College, Oxford, where of the great churches and monastaries and the Gillian White, Ph.D., is a tutor in the Department of England’s ruling families
the day’s chief issues: the individual in society, the she wrote her doctoral thesis on female sexual lure of the stained glass of York Minster, The for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and expose you to a wealth
“woman question,” industrialism, the public versus reputation in the novels of Eliza Haywood, Samuel Sherborne Missal monastic service book and the and a teacher in the Centre for the Study of of art and architecture that
the private sphere, the crisis of faith, aestheticism Richardson and Frances Burney. While completing Luttrell Psalter to pilgrims across the country. the Country House, University of Leicester. She informs your studies.
and decadence. her doctorate, Plaskitt worked as an editor on the Study the depiction of women in art and its formerly worked for the National Trust. You typically take three
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, where semblance to real life.
field trips during your
she was responsible for writing many articles stay. These are led by the
on 18th-century women writers, in addition to seminar tutors and linked to
teaching for a variety of Oxford colleges. In 2010, the particular seminar you
she received Stanford University’s Annual Bing attend. Oxford, of course,
Overseas Studies Program Teaching Award for contains its own trove of
excellence in teaching. history and beauty, and you
are encouraged to spend
your afternoons in more
Across the Pond: Anglo-American Exchanges in Garden Design HISTORY X428 The Cotswolds HISTORY X422 leisurely investigations of the
local scene.
The special relationship between America and Field Trips The Cotswolds is one of the best-known and Field Trips
England is apparent when viewing garden and Visits to be scheduled. Please see extension distinctive regions of England, characterized The course includes trips to Cirencester;
landscape design. Consider the first English .berkeley.edu/oxford for updates. by its rolling landscape and mellow limestone Chedworth Roman Villa; Hailes Cistercian
settlers transporting native English plants to buildings. Begin your journey by tracing the Abbey; Snowshill Manor and Garden; and the
the New World. Envision John Tradescant the Tutor area’s geological origins in the Jurassic era to Cotswold wool towns of Burford, Northleach
Younger combing the 17th-century Virginia Richard Bisgrove, M.L.A., studies landscape present day. Re-create a timeline of the area and Chipping Campden.
landscape to outfit his London nursery. Reflect architecture at the University of Michigan. He by focusing on prehistoric humans and their
on the American prairie planting that would later has written seven books on garden history and monuments, the Romano-British impact on the Tutor
inform the 2012 London Olympic Park. Explore garden design. Recently retired as course director Cotswolds, medieval towns, wool churches and Trevor Rowley, M.A., M.Litt., FSA, Emeritus
the reciprocal relationships between these two for landscape management at the University of the importance of sheep, the Black Death and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford University, is an
countries in terms of creating gardens and parks Reading, Bisgrove received the Landscape Institute’s deserted villages, the rise and fall of the textile archaeologist and landscape historian. His books
from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Address Peter Youngman Award in November 2010. industry, the Arts and Crafts movement, and include Villages in the Landscape, Norman England
the thorny question, “Is the English cottage an the area’s revival in the 20th century. Focus your and The English Landscape in the 20th Century. View additional seminar details,
American invention?” learning with specific case studies. Rowley has directed excavations on a wide range including reading lists, at
of Romano-British and medieval sites in Britain extension.berkeley.edu/oxford.
and Europe. He has taught and directed at Oxford
University summer schools for many years and
was former deputy director of the Department
for Continuing Education.
4 Oxford Berkeley Program extension.berkeley.edu/oxford 5
LIVING IN MERTON
An essential part of your
seminar experience.
Immerse youself in college
life with your stay in the
halls of residence. Merton
was one of the first colleges
Did the Victors Lose the Peace? Into the Vortex: Britain in the Interwar Years, 1919–1939 HISTORY X422.3 to house students on site,
History, Politics and Economics: 1945–2015 ECON X404 though the accomodatons
Learn about the critical period between the Field Trips have been updated since the
Have Britain and Russia lost their empires? Is Field Trips armistice of 1919 and the outbreak of World Visits to be scheduled. Please see extension 13th century!
Europe under German control? Are China and War II. You focus on the turbulent politics, .berkeley.edu/oxford for updates.
Visits to be scheduled. Please see extension Typically, you live in a historic
Japan on a renewed collision course? Does economy and society of the United Kingdom and
.berkeley.edu/oxford for updates. hall with simple student
the “almighty dollar” still dominate? Trace the Ireland, as well as other European and imperial Tutor
furnishings. Most rooms have
changing fortunes of the four powers that were Tutor matters. Make connections between domestic Martin Meenaugh, M.A., Ph.D., Balliol College, Oxford, shared bathrooms, though a
present at the Yalta Conference (the United Richard G. Smethhurst, M.A., was most recently and foreign developments in the realms of has taught extensively for the University of Oxford few feature bathrooms
States, the United Kingdom, USSR and China), the provost of Worcester College, Oxford. He has intellectual and social movements or in politics and has lectured at the University of Chicago; the en suite.
of their main opponents (Germany and Japan) served in Her Majesty’s Treasury and in the prime and economics. Newberry Library; the Kessel Institute in Mankato,
and the territories over which World War II was minister’s Policy Unit. Previously, he was director Minn.; and Oxford University Department for Your breakfast and lunch are
fought. Were such outcomes inevitable, or were of the Department for External Studies at Oxford, Continuing Education. He currently lives and included, as are dinners in
they the result of good and bad political and co-directing the Oxford Berkeley Program. teaches in London and Bath, England. the magnificently appointed
economic decisions? By disentangling the political, Hall. These shared meal
social and economic factors that have shaped times are an excellent
the post–World War II global scene, you create an opportunity to get to know
image of what the world will look like when Yalta your fellow students better,
turns a century old. particularly those in different
seminars, so you can
exchange stories and expand
your circle of friends.
Image and Identity: A Study of British Portraiture HISTORY X422 Lunatics, Lovers and Poets in Shakespeare’s Comic Worlds ENGLISH X478.2
Portraiture is the quintessential British Field Trips Comic confusions ending in unity and marriage Field Trips
contribution to art, much to the consternation Visits to be scheduled. Please see extension are the backbone of Shakespeare’s comedies. The course includes trips to performances at
of the European academies that dismiss it as an .berkeley.edu/oxford for updates. The stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre the Royal Shakespeare Company; Stratford-upon
inferior art form. Gaze into the history of the was a playing field on which all things became Avon; and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London.
British portrait from its early origins in stained Tutor possible: boys-playing-women-dressed-as-boys,
glass and tomb sculpture, through the heyday of Martin Stiles, M.A., has worked with historic enchanted lovelorn suitors, rulers in disguise. It’s Tutor
Anthony van Dyck, Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller and properties and their families during his career. where dazzling wordplay darted across the stage, Lynn Robson, Ph.D., is a graduate of University of
Joshua Reynolds to the popular photographic He spent 12 years working for the Walpoles at honeyed phrases in speech and song entranced Oxford and a tutor in English literature at Regent’s
images of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. You Wolterton Hall, their ancestral home in Norfolk, the ear, monsters spoke poetry and those who Park College, where she teaches and researches
study the artists, patrons and collectors to shed before moving to Petworth House in Sussex and were lost were always found. Travel back to the 16th- and 17th-century literature. In 2013, she
light on the depiction of British society and then Knole in Kent, both now run by the National Renaissance with Shakespeare works such as The was named Most Acclaimed Lecturer in the View additional seminar details,
customs through the ages. Trust. He is currently working for English Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. including reading lists, at
Heritage at the Wellington Arch and at Apsley Ado About Nothing (or Love’s Labour’s Won?), A dedicated theatergoer, Robson is still in pursuit extension.berkeley.edu/oxford.
House, London, home to the Duke of Wellington Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure. All the of her ambition to see all of Shakespeare’s plays—
and his family. world’s a stage, and you’re in the next act. she’s one short!
.
6 Oxford Berkeley Program extension.berkeley.edu/oxford 7
WHAT STUDENTS
SAY ABOUT
THE PROGRAM
Medicine: Ethics and Practice HISTORY X426 The Tudors: Myth, Performance and Reality HISTORY X427
KATIE FORSYTH
With new developments in science, technology Field Trips Have you ever watched a film or read a novel Field Trips
“Getting to be a student at
and medicine comes an increase in developing Visits to be scheduled. Please see extension about the Tudors and thought that it might not Visits to be scheduled. Please see extension Merton College is something
and expanding ethical principles. Historical .berkeley.edu/oxford for updates. be entirely accurate? Discuss your concerns by .berkeley.edu/oxford for updates. that so few people have the
medical cases—such as those performed during focusing on the accuracies and inaccuracies
Tutor Tutor chance to do, and I loved
World War II, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment of Tudor representations in film, fiction,
being able to live in dorms
by the U.S. Public Health Service and Dr. Walter Willem Hackmann, M.A., D.Phil., is emeritus historical buildings and other media. Explore the Janet Dickinson, Ph.D., researches and writes on and actively be a part of a
Freeman II’s psychosurgical lobotomies—inspired senior assistant keeper, Museum of the History of contemporary and historical contexts surrounding the political and cultural history of 16th- and early campus that is hundreds of
novelists, musicians, filmmakers and painters, who Science; reader at the University of Oxford; and the portrayal of the Tudors. Why was Richard III 17th-century England. She has held posts at the years old. I feel so fortunate
reflected on the advancement of medical ethics. Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. presented so negatively by his Tudor successors? universities of London and Warwick and currently to have met such inspiring
Analyze works such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New What kind of man was Sir Thomas More? Was teaches for the Open University, the University people from across the
World, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Mary Tudor a bad queen? View these depictions of Reading and the University of Oxford. Her U.S. who have already
Dog in the Night-Time and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never through the lens of a present-day audience: Why publications include a number of book chapters accomplished so much in
Let Me Go. Understand how advances in medicine are people still so fascinated with Elizabeth I as the on Elizabeth I and the nobility and gentry. Her their lives.”
inspired these works and how these works, in turn, Virgin Queen, Henry VIII as a six-time husband and first book, Court Politics and the Earl of Essex,
affected the evolution of medical ethics. Shakespeare’s biographical identity? 1589–1601, was published by Pickering and Chatto
in 2011.
The Spirit of Industrial and Romantic England: 1776–1914 HISTORY X425
English culture of the later-18th and 19th centuries Field Trips
was marked by not only a rise to imperial, This course includes trips to Whitchurch Silk Mill SCOTT SHRINER
commercial and industrial influence but also the and Jane Austen’s Chawton, Hampshire; London “The academic experience
flowering of a romantic spirit in response to such Museum of Water and Steam; Linley-Sambourne is the reason that I plan on
rational expressions of power. Beginning with and Leighton Houses, London; Charles Darwin’s furthering my education at
the American Revolution, you look at this period Down Housen, Kent, Standen, Sussex; and a Oxford. The teachers were
of economic, technological and social change. walking tour of Victorian Oxford. first rate and an honor
Examine the effects of an industrial concentration to work with in class. The
of capital and labor on the art of the time: Jane Tutor
social interaction was a
Austen novels, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Anthony Buxton, M.A., D.Phil., lectures on the lot of fun and added to
Gainsborough paintings, and William Wordsworth history of furniture and the domestic interior the overall educational
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems. Understand for the University of Oxford Department for experience, both on and
how expressions in architecture, decoration, art Continuing Education and other institutions. He off campus.”
and music articulated a Romantic reaction to the is engaged in research into historic furnishings
emphasis on industry. and the domestic culture of historic homes. View additional seminar details,
including reading lists, at
extension.berkeley.edu/oxford.
8 Oxford Berkeley Program extension.berkeley.edu/oxford 9
Oxford Berkeley Program
Enroll by phone: 2015 Enrollment Form
(510) 642-3824
Use Visa, MasterCard or American Express. July 20–Aug. 8, 2015
Enroll by mail (return this entire page to):
UC Berkeley Extension
Oxford Berkeley Program
1995 University Ave., Suite 110
Berkeley, CA 94704-7000
PLEASE PRINT For my permanent student record, the address below is my ❏ home ❏ business.
2015 Program Details ❏ Mr. ❏ Ms.
Name
Last First Initial
Oxford Berkeley Program dates Cancellation
Three-week seminars run July 20–Aug. 8, 2015. UC Berkeley Extension reserves the right to cancel any program due to Address
insufficient enrollment or other circumstances, in which case all program Number Street Apt. no.
Academic credit (optional) fees are refundable. UC Berkeley Extension is not responsible for non-
Three semester units (upper-division undergraduate or professional credit) refundable air ticket costs or any other travel or accommodation costs not
included in the program fee. City State Zip+4
may be earned in each seminar. Note: If you plan to apply the credit toward
a degree, you must check with your institution to confirm that it will accept Daytime Evening
transfer credit from UC Berkeley Extension. Physical requirements phone phone
Ext.
Participants must be in good physical and mental health and be able to
How to enroll keep up with the pace of the group on field trips and while navigating the Fax Email
You may enroll by phone, mail or in person. A deposit of $500 must be medieval halls and steps of Merton. You should be able to climb at least
included to reserve your space; early enrollment is advised. Confirmation of one flight of stairs and walk a half-mile. Program participants requiring
assistance must be accompanied by someone who can and will provide all UC Berkeley Extension will use the contact information you provide to notify you of program changes and other UC Berkeley Extension information.
enrollment will be determined by March 1, 2015, and will be sent to you. Call
(510) 642-3824, or use the form provided, listing your choice of seminars. required assistance. If you have any questions about the pace of a particu-
The University is required by federal law to report your Social Security number and other pertinent
Mail the form along with payment to the address listed. lar program, please contact our office for more information. information to the Internal Revenue Service pursuant to the reporting requirements imposed by the
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. Social Security number disclosure is mandatory. This notification is pro-
Please note Social Security number vided to you as required by the Federal Privacy Act of 1974.
Fees
The $6,325 program fee includes seminar fee, single room, all meals UC Berkeley Extension reserves the right not to accept any person as
Monday–Friday, Saturday and Sunday breakfast, Sunday dinner, general a participant in the Oxford Berkeley Program or to require any partici- Facilities preference: ❏ shared bath ❏ private bath ❏ double room with
lectures and receptions; it does not include field trips or travel to and from pant to withdraw from the Oxford Berkeley Program when such action There are a limited number of private baths and a very limited number of double rooms (all with private bath) available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Oxford. A limited number of rooms with private bathrooms are avail- is determined by a UC Berkeley Extension representative to be in the
able for an additional $945. The fee for field trips ranges from $120 each best interests of the health, safety or general welfare of the individual or Indicate your seminar choice below. View complete seminar descriptions at extension.berkeley.edu/oxford. You may copy this form as needed.
to $320. Field trip fees will be paid directly to UC Berkeley Extension. A program participants.
$500 deposit is due with enrollment; the balance is due April 3, 2015. You Seminar title and course number
may pay by check, payable to the UC Regents, or use Visa, MasterCard or Prerequisite
American Express credit cards. There is a $25 service charge for checks You must be at least 19 years of age to participate in the Oxford Berkeley
returned due to insufficient funds. Program. We recommend that you have completed at least two years of ❏ Check enclosed (payable to UC Regents) Deposit or full fee payment ❏ $500 deposit ❏ $6,325 program fee
college. For important information about your enrollment and student ❏ Visa ❏ MasterCard ❏ American Express Refund policy on previous page ❏ $5,825 remaining program fee after deposit
Enrollment deadline record, visit extension.berkeley.edu/info.
❏ Other amount
Enrollments can be accepted up to eight weeks prior to the program start
date, space provided. Please call (510) 642-3824 for availability. Contact information Field trip fees will be paid directly to UC Berkeley Extension.
UC Berkeley Extension
Refund policy Oxford Berkeley Program
A refund less $200 is granted if requested in writing prior to F eb. 13, 2015. 1995 University Ave., Suite 110 Account number Exp. Authorizing signature
There is a $500 service charge for refunds requested on or after Feb. 14, Berkeley, CA 94704-7000
Credit card holder’s name and billing address (if different from above):
2015, until April 3, 2015. No refunds are granted on or after April 3, 2015. UC (510) 642-3824
Berkeley Extension cannot make exceptions to the program refund policy; oxford@berkeley.edu
Name
we strongly recommend the purchase of vacation cancellation insurance. extension.berkeley.edu/oxford Last First Initial
UC Berkeley Extension is not responsible for nonrefundable air ticket costs Billing
or any travel or accommodation costs not included in the program fee. address
The University of California, in accordance with applicable federal and state law and the University’s nondis-
Number Street Apt. no.
crimination policies, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including
Vacation cancellation insurance sexual harassment), gender identity, pregnancy/childbirth and medical conditions related thereto, disability,
age, medical condition (cancer-related), ancestry, marital status, citizenship, sexual orientation, or status as
Vacation cancellation insurance can protect against nonrefundable a Vietnam-era veteran or special disabled veteran. This nondiscrimination policy covers student admission, City State Zip+4
costs incurred when travel must be canceled on short notice. Infor access and treatment in University programs and activities. Campus Climate & Compliance (CCAC) responds
mation is available from Clark Schafer at Travel Insurance Company, 610 to questions about prohibited forms of discrimination or will refer you to a more appropriate campus
resource. (See the CCAC website at http://ccac.berkeley.edu.) CCAC may be contacted at tixco@berkeley.edu.
16th St., Suite 508, Oakland, CA 94612; (800) 540-3366; or from your Specific questions about sexual/racial harassment may be directed to the Title IX/VI Compliance Officer in
own travel agent. CCAC at (510) 643-7985.
I was referred by
Principal photography: Keith Barnes, Photographers Workshop and Oxford School of Photography Last name First name
10 Oxford Berkeley Program extension.berkeley.edu/oxford 11
7PB569 Nonprofit Organization
UC Berkeley Extension U.S. Postage
1995 University Ave. PAID
Suite 110 University Extension
Berkeley, CA 94704-7000 University of California
Oxford Berkeley Program 2015
July 20–Aug. 8
extension.berkeley.edu/oxford
You can also read
