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LOCATION

CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge is a picturesque city on the River Cam about ninety miles northeast of London. The city itself has a long and eventful history and has been famous as a university city since 1231. Its thirty-plus colleges provide a magnificent historic and architectural backdrop to the study of medieval and Renaissance culture. Cambridge is on a main train line, and London, Bath, Edinburgh, York, and other fascinating cities are easily accessible. Students will have ample opportunity to travel on their own throughout the British Isles and/or other European destinations.

ST. CATHARINE'S
St. Catharine's ("Catz" for short) was founded in the 15th century and is situated on King's Parade, in the center of town and close to everything. Students lodge at Catz or St. Chad's residence (about a 15-minute walk from Catz).

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ELIGIBILITY/FINANCIAL AID

General Information:

There is a minimum GPA requirement. To view complete program details and requirements, please see the ACMRS Cambridge Summer Study Program brochure on the ASU Study Abroad website. Preference is given to students taking courses for credit or taking research hours. If more applications are received than there is space to accommodate, selection will be based on additional criteria including the student's class level and grade point average

ASU Students
Open to all ASU undergraduate and graduate students, regardless of major.

Non-Degree Students, including U of A and NAU Students
Open to non-degree students (proof of measles immunization required). Before applying to the Cambridge Study Abroad program, a prospective student must apply to ASU as a non-degree student, either graduate or undergraduate depending on student status, and be accepted.

Out-of-State Students
Open to students from other universities (proof of measles immunization required). Before applying to the Cambridge Study Abroad program, students from out of state must apply to ASU as a non-degree student, either graduate or undergraduate depending on student status, and be accepted. Tuition and fees are calculated based on the out-of-state rates. Please see the non-ASU student guidelines on the Study Abroad website.

Special Considerations:

Students should be aware that many of the mandatory excursions will involve vigorous walking, sometimes on uneven ground, climbing stairs, and negotiating crowded cobbled streets or the London Underground. Participants should be willing and prepared to adapt to a different environment and culture.

Financial Aid and Scholarships:

Financial aid may be used for overseas study. Students must apply through their own university.

ASU Center for Global Education Services offers a number of scholarships to Study Abroad students based on merit and need. Apply directly through the CGES Sessions office.

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ACADEMIC PROGRAM

Download the Current Program Flier

Courses are offered to undergraduates and graduates and are cross-listed in several departments. You may choose two of the courses offered for a total of six credits. Independent study and research options are also available. Graduate students in all disciplines are encouraged to register for Research Hours through the program, to take advantage of the great British research libraries and archives. Classes will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

2010 SUMMCER COURSES

Shakespeare in Performance
offered for English and Theatre credit:
ENG, THE 494 or 598
Paul Hartle, St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge

As much fun as, and more accurate than, Shakespeare in Love, this course will involve the study of three to four Shakespearean plays, focusing on the performance of these plays during Shakespeare’s time as well as our own. Students will read and perform a selection of plays and all students on the program will attend a Royal Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It in Stratford-Upon-Avon, as well as a performance of Henry IV, Part I at the Globe Theatre in London.

Pirates, Poets, and a Preacher:
Renaissance English Exploration
offered for English, History, and Cultural Geography credit:
ENG, HST, GCU 494 or 598
James Helfers, Grand Canyon University

Pirates, entrepreneurial traders, insecure courtiers, and a Christian minister—an unlikely alliance to inaugurate English colonial expansion, yet the story of the early days of British colonial exploration brings them together. This course will focus on the important players in colonization and exploration and will open a window into the texts and concrete artifacts of the movement. The course will also include relevant, hands-on activities and a field trip to the National Maritime Museum for experiential learning about instruments and methods of navigation, shipbuilding, and mapmaking.

Man-Eating Monsters and Marvel-Filled Maps
offered for Art History and History credit:
ARS, HST 494 or 598
Asa Mittman, California State University, Chico

Headless men, man-eating monsters, dragons, serpents and basilisks—wherever we cast our gaze in the corpus of medieval visual culture—on maps, in Bibles, the facades of castles and cathedrals, on clothes and candlesticks—we find monsters. England, the place where the majority of monster-filled maps was produced, is the ideal setting in which to consider the constructed identities of the medieval English (who saw themselves as inhabiting the edge of the world) and their image making practices. The course readings are drawn from art history, primary sources in translation, and theoretical texts, enhanced by manuscript viewing when possible. The course excursion is to Ely where students will witness, first-hand, the “monsters” in the historic Norman cathedral.

Crossing Borders: Medieval and Renaissance Travelers and Travel Narratives
offered for English, History, and Cultural Geography credit:
ENG, HST, GCU 494 or 598
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

Travelers criss-crossed Europe and bordering countries throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern age. Crossing borders and boundaries forced travelers to confront and interact with what was to them, “the other,” such as countries, languages, religions, cultures, and individuals who represented these differences. This course explores medieval and Renaissance worlds as seen and experienced through the eyes of those travelers. The course texts are interdisciplinary, ranging in history from late antiquity to the late fifteenth century, from fictitious narrative to sober eye-witness accounts, and they represent a broader, global perspective while simultaneously taking advantage of the local setting at Cambridge. This course excursion will be a trip to York.

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LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS

Students lodge in private dormitory rooms at either St. Catharine's College or its annex, St. Chad's.

St. Chad's Dorm (left) & Hobson Hall, St. Catz (right)

Dormitories have shared bathrooms and limited kitchen facilities where students may prepare their own meals. Monday through Friday the College bedmakers will tidy each room and make up the bed.

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COST OF THE 2010 PROGRAM

Note: Program costs for 2010 are in the process of being determined. Please use the 2009 program costs below as an estimate only and check back here for more details to be announced.

Students may select one of the housing and meal options:

2009 Housing and Meal Plan A: $2,810
Chad's Suite Room
Breakfast included, 2 formal dinners, no extra meals

2009 Housing and Meal Plan B: $3,759
Catz Dormitory Room
Breakfast included, 7 dining hall meal tickets per week, and 2 formal dinners

Other meal plan options may be available.

Costs (subject to change) include program fees, housing, opening/closing formal dinners, and course excursions including local travel, entrance fees, and special event tickets. Not included: ASU tuition and fees, airfare (recommended flight on British Airways), passport, books, additional meals, independent travel, and other personal expenses. All fees are subject to change.

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INFORMATION MEETINGS, Spring 2010

Please continue to refer to this Web page for details and updates.

Friday, February 5, 2010, 10:30 AM
ASU Tempe campus, Coor Hall, Room 4403

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TO APPLY

Cambridge Program Application The application deadline is 1 March 2010. A non-refundable deposit is required with application. If more applications are received than there is space to accommodate, selection will be based on additional criteria including the student's class level and grade point average. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the program is full.

Contacts: If you have any questions regarding program content, cost, or the application process, contact:

Emilie Roy, ACMRS
Lattie F. Coor Hall
Box 874402
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-8097
Fax: (480) 965-1681
Email: Emilie . Roy @ asu . edu

OR

Professor Jim P. Helfers
Grand Canyon University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Bldg. 6, Room 127
3300 W. Camelback Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85017
Phone: 602-639-6092
Fax: 602-639-7823
Email: jhelfers @ gcu . edu

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USEFUL LINKS TO CAMBRIDGE
AND GREAT BRITAIN

Program Related

General Sites on Britain

England

English Heritage
National Trust
Historic Houses
British Tourism Authority

Southern & South East England

Brighton
Canterbury
East Sussex
Hampshire
Kent
Rochester
Salisbury
South East England
Surry
West Sussex
Wiltshire
Winchester
Windsor

South West England

Bath
Bristol
Cornwall
Devon
Somerset
South Somerset
South West England

Central & Southern England

Gloucestershire
Herefordshire
Nottinghamshire
Oxford
Oxfordshire
SW Lincolnshire

Northern England

Carlisle
Cheshire
Chester
County Durham
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Hadrian's Wall
Herriot Country
Isle of Man
Lake District
Liverpool/Merseyside
York
Yorkshire Dales

Scotland

Aberdeen
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Highlands
Historic Scotland
National Trust Scotland
Stirling

Wales

CADW Welsh Historic Monuments
Mid Wales
North Wales
South Wales
Wales Tourist Board

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