England London Internship: Theater Studies

Students must enroll in the required core course:

• CFA TH 440 Experiencing London Theatre in the Postwar World (4) - spring only
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Historical Consciousness
  • This course offers an aesthetic and historical understanding of contemporary London theatre, as well as the interpretation of controversies in postwar British theatre history, plus knowledge of evaluative tools — including journalistic skills — for the analysis of current shows.
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• CAS AH 388 British Painting 1500-1900: From Holbein to the Pre-Raphaelites (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Historical Consciousness
  • Recommended elective for Arts & Arts Administration.
  • The course provides an overview of ‘British Painting 1500-1900: From Holbein to the Pre-Raphaelites’ through a critical, aesthetic and historical exploration of selected art works and the institutions that house them within London’s permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.
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• CAS EC 322 The Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Social Inquiry II
  • This course provides an analytical framework for understanding the structural characteristics of the countries in the MENA region in the context of their human and natural resource availability and historical development.
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• CAS EC 330/CAS IR 336 European Business Environment: Institutions and Enterprise (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Social Inquiry II
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Teamwork/Collaboration
  • Provides learning and skills at the interface between international business, international relations, and other disciplines, through studying the system of EU “Competences” that provides comprehensive rules of conduct for firms. Includes Briefings by officials from EU Institutions, designed to build/test research/teamwork skills.
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• CAS EC 346 European Capital Markets (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Quantitative Reasoning I
  • This course examines global and European financial markets. Students learn about the foreign exchange market, Eurocurrency, Eurobond and derivative markets. In addition, students study a range of financial instruments, such as bills and bonds, forwards, futures and options.
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• CAS EN 310 The Waste Land: British and Irish Writing since 1900 (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Recommended elective for all tracks.
  • Crossing TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, both figuratively and literally, we make an intensive study of significant works of major poets and writers who both helped to create and were created by the Modern Age, and of those they influenced.
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• CAS EN 387 The Writer In The World: Meet the Writer (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Creativity/Innovation
  • This course blends two complementary areas of study: the critical analysis of post-2000 literature (comprising mainly but not exclusively British literature) alongside the opportunity to conduct in-depth, wide-ranging interviews with a group of contemporary novelists, poets, dramatists, and non-fiction writers.
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• CAS HI 249/WS 310 London Women’s Social History: From Aphra Behn to the Blitz (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Research and Information Literacy
  • Students on this course will analyse London women’s social history in this time period through primary source materials in archives and specialist libraries, museums and galleries, and guided walks through relevant public sites.
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• CAS HI 252 Class, Politics and the Making of British Identity (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • This course explores shifts in power over a 500-year period, and considers the cultural effects of these changes. The impact of empire is also assessed. An understanding of the ‘invented’ and contested nature of British identity is the outcome.
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• CAS MA 113 Elementary Statistics (4)Effective
  Fall '18
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Critical Thinking
    • Quantitative Reasoning II
  • Priority will be given to Sargent College students enrolled in the Psychology & Health Sciences Track.
  • Basic concepts of estimation and tests of hypotheses, ideas from probability; one-, two-, and multiple-sample problems. Applications will be in social sciences and students will be able to understand the basics of using a sample to predict uncertainty. CAS MA 113 may not be taken for credit by any student who has completed any MA course numbered 300 or higher. Students may receive credit for not more than one of the following courses: CAS MA 113, MA 115, or MA 213. Carries MCS divisional credit in CAS.
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• CAS PO 220/CAS IR 335 Britain and Europe—A New Beginning? (4)Effective
  Fall '22
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Recommended elective for all tracks.
  • Examines the changing social, cultural, political, and economic structures of Britain at the end of the twentieth century. Introduction to current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in its relationship with Europe.
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• CFA TH 508 Theater Capital: Performance in London/London in Performance (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meaning
  • Enrollment limited
  • Provides students with the critical, philosophical, aesthetic and historical perspectives necessary to understand and enjoy performance in the West End/Fringe, theatre, the urban realm, and cultural site visits to the Royal Courts of Justice, the Freud Museum, and Tate Modern.
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• COM CM 334 Advertising in the UK (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • Recommended elective for Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations.
  • Focuses on London’s stellar reputation for creative and production excellence in advertising; examines how the advertising is shaped by the anti-sell, irony-modulated consumer culture, and emphasizes the way that deifying research risks diluting creative.
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• COM CM 457 Seminar in Global Promotional Strategies (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Social Inquiry II
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Critical Thinking
  • This course develops both conceptual knowledge and practical skills to identify the most appropriate and cost-effective global promotional strategies and develop and implement successfully such a strategy in an increasingly competitive and volatile global environment.
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• COM FT 318 British Television History and Genre (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Historical Consciousness
  • This course traces the historical development of British television from the BBC monopoly in 1936 to today’s multichannelled environment. It evaluates key influences, analyses the impact on British culture, examines industry change and identifies and deconstructs key programme genres.
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• Questrom FE 449 Corporate Finance Management (4)
  • Prerequisite: FE 323 Financial Management, or the equivalent
  • Covers the financial manager's role in obtaining and allocating funds. Includes topics such as cash budgeting, working capital analysis, dividend policy, capital investment analysis, and debt policy as well as their associated risks. Valuation of companies, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy are covered. The course requires using financial models and spreadsheets. Applications are made to current events and everyday business finance problems.
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• CFA TH 543/544 Professional Theater Initiative Internship - spring only (4)
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Internship Components

• The student's performance at the internship (evaluated by the supervisor)
• An internship seminar and related assignments (graded by BU London faculty)

Please note: The final internship course grade is determined solely by the coursework submitted for the internship seminar.

• CAS AH 381 London Architecture & Urbanism (4 credits)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Historical Consciousness
  • Recommended elective for Arts & Arts Administration Track
  • This course introduces the history and development of London and its buildings. It is aimed at a wide audience, not architectural specialists. Different styles of architecture and their origins will be explored through a combination of lectures and walking tours.
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• CAS AH 411 Exploring Art and History in London: The Value of Art (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Creativity/Innovation
  • Recommended elective for Arts & Arts Administration Track
  • Art has many values: aesthetic, commercial, social, personal, and our responses depend on our own culture, education and life experience. Is art necessary? This course examines these and other topics whose common focus is the relationship between art and society.
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• CAS EC 360 Macroeconomics in Contemporary Europe (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Social Inquiry II
  • Recommended elective for “Economics & Finance and Management Tracks
  • This course covers central theoretical concepts and models aimed at understanding key topics in macroeconomics. At the end of this course you will be able to master fundamental macroeconomic concepts as well as understand key macroeconomic processes in Europe.
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• CAS EN 145 Introduction to Performance (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
    • Creativity/Innovation
  • This course uses performance as a critical lens to think about agency, the body, knowledge, (in)visibility, community, ephemerality, documentation, accessibility, disability, audience, participation, medium-specificity, formal experimentation, and identity. With a focus on 20th and 21st-century performance in a visual and live art context, we will examine the multi-media, interdisciplinary work of the historical avant-gardes (such as Dada, Bauhaus, and Futurism) and performance as it appears in dance, live poetry readings, theatre, videos, and digital work, drawing on feminist, queer, and intersectional perspectives. Further, we will consider the differences between performance art and theatre as well as performative writing on the page. The seminar hopes to foster a critical sensibility through close reading, close listening, and attentive viewing of performance.
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• CAS EN 357 Modern British Drama: A Critic's Perspective (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Critical Thinking
    • Ethical Reasoning
  • Recommended elective for Journalism Track
  • Offers a broad critical study of the major developments in British drama over the past 50 years. Through the eyes of a leading theater reviewer, the work of specific playwrights is analyzed in detail, and students are expected to produce written and oral critical analyses of plays read and observed during the course. Sierz.
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• CAS EN 368 Seminar in Shakespeare Studies (4)
  • This course aims to provide the student with an appreciation of the nature of Shakespeare’s achievement through the study of four plays in class sessions and the option of reading one other play that the student may choose for his or her directed study. The sessions will naturally involve some discussion of the general background of Shakespeare and his works, with time being devoted to the various thematic, structural, and historical issues that arise from a study of his plays. For the greater part of the course, however, time in class will be devoted to a close critical reading of various sections of the plays in order to give the student the opportunity to gain an intimate understanding of the verbal and dramatic qualities of Shakespeare’s genius, and of the myriad ways in which meanings are expressed through the language, imagery, structure, and dramatic possibilities of the works themselves.
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• CAS EN 388 Historical Fictions: Retrospection in Contemporary British Literature (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Historical Consciousness
  • An introduction to the psyche, culture, history, and writers of 21st century British literature, confronting aspects of the human condition. Students will enter the historical consciousness of contemporary British writers who look to the past to understand the present.
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• CAS HI 243/IR 392 Crises and Readjustments in Post-War British Foreign Policy, 1945-1990 (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Historical Conscious-ness
    • Social Inquiry I
    • Research and Information Literacy
  • Recommended elective for International Relations and Politics Tracks
  • In this course you will investigate Britain’s relative decline as a world power, focusing on a succession of crises, small wars, and policy readjustments in the context of end of empire, the Cold War, and European integration.
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• CAS HI 250 British Youth Culture from 1950 to the Present (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Social Inquiry I
  • How is generational identity created and maintained? Through the prism of youth movements in the United Kingdom, you will investigate how underground cults become mainstream culture in the context of changing attitudes to nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.
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• CAS HI 251 Cultural Capital: The History of Popular Culture in London (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Critical Thinking
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Historical Consciousness
  • Prerequisite: completion of one university-level History course.
  • Traces the historical development of popular culture in London from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Concerned with texts (visual, aural, written) and sites. Organised chronologically and thematically, engages with theoretical perspectives. Engages with wider history of Britain.
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• CAS HI 253 London at War: From the Home Front to the Frontline (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Social Inquiry I
  • This chronologically structured course draws on theoretical understanding of historical development to inspire and enhance students’ critical engagement with ways in which the two world wars historically refashioned notions about gender, race/ethnicity, class and social identity, thereby transforming London.
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• CAS IR 427 International Business in a European Framework (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Social Inquiry II
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Teamwork/Collaboration
  • Recommended elective for Advertising & Marketing, Economics & Finance, Management, and Hospitality & Tourism Tracks
  • Students enrolled in Questrom IM 345 are not permitted to take CAS IR 427.
  • You will understand the importance of strategic management in international business, primarily across the United Kingdom and Europe, as it relates to innovation, competition, differing business cultures, policy-directed systems of regulation, financial market shocks and shifting corporate ethics.
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• CAS PO 223 Issues in Contemporary Politics and Ethics  (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
    • Critical Thinking
  • Recommended elective for International Relations and Politics Tracks
  • This course examines the historical origins of and diverse philosophical positions on various contentious political and ethical issues today. Through reading, writing, exhibition or theatre visits and discussion, students will be encouraged and guided to foster a critical stance.
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• CAS PO 224 Current British Legal Issues (4)
  • Recommended elective for Pre-Law Track
  • This course will examine a range of important, controversial issues in contemporary British law. As the aim is to relate to current matters, the issues will vary each semester, but are likely to include such topics as the law and terrorism; law and morality; the new British Supreme Court; and the Right to Know. Cousins, Sullivan.
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• COM CM 335 Seminar in Advertising Strategy (4)Effective
  Fall '24
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Oral and/or Signed Communication
    • Creativity/Innovation
  • Recommended elective for Advertising & Marketing, Public Relations Tracks
  • Introduces advanced advertising and media theory, focusing on the role of advertising and its integration within contemporary marketing communications. To define the advertising management process, messages, media, measurement, and assess creative work critically in terms of strategy, objectives, and execution.
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• COM CM 447 Strategic Brand Management in the UK Context (4 credits)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Social Inquiry I
    • Oral and/or Signed Communication
    • Critical Thinking
  • Recommended elective for Advertising & Marketing, Public Relations Tracks
  • This course develops theoretical and working knowledge of how brands create value for organizations, consumers and society at large. It develops theoretical and practical knowledge of how brands can be managed to help organizations achieve their marketing and strategic goals.
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• COM FT 317 British Cinema and Society (4)
  • Recommended elective for Film, Radio & Television Track
  • This course offers a combined social history and technological survey of British film making since World War II. The selected films provide vivid points of departure for an understanding of how British society has evolved. The course surveys the changing nature of modern British culture and society, using the products of the British movie industry as the main source of evidence. Most films fall outside of the category of British films that have made an impact in the United States market. Students will witness the cinematic version of the "other side" of Britain. One of the main themes of this "other side" is social class, which sets the agenda for most of the themes explored in the class. Special attention is also given to the differences between cinematic and historical versions of such themes. Dodson.
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• COM FT 344 Curating Contemporary European Cinema: Film Festivals and Film Culture (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Recommended elective for Film, Radio & Television Track
  • Students will explore how Contemporary European Cinema is curated through film festivals and further curated for wider exhibition. The course combines analytical approaches to the study of cinema with creative responses to key debates in Contemporary European Cinema.
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• Questrom MK 467 Global Marketing Management (4)
  • Recommended elective for Management Track
  • Prerequisite: Questrom MK 323, or the equivalent.
  • Develops a critical appreciation of both the opportunities and challenges associated with the increasing globalization of markets. Students will learn about the key environmental forces shaping the needs and preferences of the global consumer and the impact of foreign, political, and economic factors on the marketing mix.
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• SAR HP 522 Health and Wellbeing across the Life Course (4)
  • This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
    • Social Inquiry II
    • Ethical Reasoning
    • Critical Thinking
  • Recommended elective for Psychology & Health Sciences Track
  • Priority will be given to Sargent College students.
  • The course considers British perspectives on major challenges to health and wellbeing facing individuals and communities over the life course. You will develop skills in critical thinking about research and ethics in addressing such challenges through policy and practical initiatives.
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