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Spring Quarter in London
London - the heart of British history, government and culture - offers Oregon students not only access to the theater district and the riverside lifestyle, but dozens of museums, cathedrals, and historical sites, such as Oxford and Stonehenge, to enrich their study abroad experience. With the 3-zone London Transport pass, all these sites are only a quick underground or bus ride away.
This opportunity is available to all students who have earned at least 12 college credits with a GPA of at least 2.5. Applicants must also be 18 years old by March 25, when the program begins. You will earn MHCC transferable credits while studying in London.
London program application deadline December 9, 2009.
Gilman International Scholarship Program
Up to $5,000 is available to students who are currently receiving a Pell Grant for their education at MHCC. Application deadline for the Spring 2010 program in London is October 6, 2009, with notification in early December.
AIFS $2000 Scholarship.doc (click for details) Deadline October 30. Questions? See David Wright or attend meeting announced on campus bulletin boards.
Basic Information for Spring Quarter in London
 Mt. Hood Community College is one of seven community college members belonging to the Oregon International Education Consortium (OIEC), which sponsors the Spring Quarter in London program. The OIEC accepts up to 30 students for the program from the member colleges in Oregon.
Space, therefore, is limited and students are accepted on a first-come basis. American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) is our partner institution that makes all program arrangements, from travel to insurance to housing. All program costs and payments are made to AIFS. The OIEC makes all academic arrangements, including course offerings, grade reporting and faculty selection you are taught by Oregon instructors who accompany you to London. All credit fees and tuition costs are paid to MHCC and you register as usual at MHCC from the courses listed on the COURSE OFFERINGS.
10 Week Program: March 25 June 4, 2010
- Open to students of all ages (18 minimum) who have earned at least 12 college credits with a GPA of 2.5 or higher.
- Students pay tuition for 12-15 credits through MHCC in addition to program fee.
- Program fee includes shared bedroom in a British family home with continental breakfast five days weekly and full kitchen access, cultural activities and museum visits, guided day trips to Oxford and Stonhenge/Salisbury, three theater performances, a soccer match, computer and internet access, unlimited-travel London Transport pass for underground and buses, medical and program fee refund insurance.
- Financial aid can be applied to program (apply as soon as possible)
- All students enroll in a 2-credit British Life and Culture course taught by London Faculty
- All students enroll in other academic courses to total at least 10 more credits.
- Courses available will be selected from: History of the British Empire, Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Women in European History, English Literature, Drama, and World History. All courses are fully transferable to your Associate of Arts Degree.
- PRICE $6,195 + MHCC tuition (12 credits minimum) + $675 roundtrip airfare (Portland-London-Portland) + fuel surcharges (estimated at $222)
Steps to London
Read EVERYTHING!
- Look over the course offerings and discuss plans with advisor.
- Decide if you are interested in the courses offered.
- Determine your needs and discuss any optional course options with David Wright.
- Look over the Basic Information Sheet .
- Plan financial resources: loan, grant, scholarship, financial aid, parents, etc.
- Contact David Wright with your questions.
YOU WISH TO APPLY?
- Pick up an application form from David Wright (available beginning of Fall Quarter)
- Read the application form carefully cover to cover
- Take passport size pictures. (Youll need 4 for the application, 2 more for a passport, if you dont already have one.)
- Bring completed application from to David Wright by December 9; include pictures and deposit check (or credit card info.)
- David Wright will sign application and make copies for file
- Mail your application to: AIFS /Partnership Programs, College Division, River Plaza, 9 West Broad Street, Stamford, CT 06902
- Get a passport application and order your passport
- Secure finances
- Fill out all paperwork that AIFS sends you in a timely fashion
- Keep communication open with David Wright so that you are kept abreast of all issues related to the Spring Quarter in London program
- Ask questions, questions, questions until you are confident you know all the answers regarding your exciting study abroad program!
MHCC London Course Offerings, Spring 2010
Students must choose a minimum of 12 credits from among the following course options. Note that Humanities 106 is a required course that comprises part of a students full load.
HUM 106, British Life and Culture, 2 Credits
All students are required to take this interdisciplinary course taught by AIFS faculty in London. Two hours per week feature either lectures on British culture and civilization or field trips to historic and artistic sites in and around London. Topics include such subjects as the history of London, language differences, British theater, and the Thames River; and field trips to the Museum of London, the National and Tate Galleries, and the Houses of Parliament.
Patricia ONeill, Central Oregon Community College, poneill@MHCC.edu
At MHCC since 1985, Patricia is now Professor of History, as well as adjunct professor for the University of Oregon at Bend, teaching such courses as Western Civilization, World History, East Asian History, Culture of the Enlightenment and Historiography. She earned a Masters in Asian History from SUNY, Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in Comparative History (Europe & China) from the University of Washington. After her schooling, she lived in Taiwan, studying Chinese and teaching English to Chinese businessmen. Patricia met her Dutch husband on Christmas Eve in the hot springs of a Catholic missionary's hostel in the Swiss Alps. They traveled together for several years, through Asia, the Middle East and Europe, and then rambled across the U.S. until they found Bend and decided to stay. Last fall she was on a another adventure, teaching for the Semester at Sea program. See the link: http://www.semesteratsea.org/ (Fall 2008 voyage) for details about how she taught and led field trips around the world.
History 112: World History, 4 credits
Surveys world civilizations and their historical interactions during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries through 1960. The course highlights the impact of industrialization and imperialism in both Western and non-Western contexts: the modern period of world history with a focus on WWI, WWII and the post-war reordering of world civilizations, such as communism, decolonization and the global economy.
History 225: Women in Twentieth Century European History, 4 credits
An introduction to European womens history in the twentieth century, focusing on a number of selected topics: the changing meanings and understandings of gender, family, motherhood and marriage; demographic changes and shifts in female employment; women's involvement in political movements and women's relationship to the state; and women and popular culture. The course readings will provide an overview of women in many European societies, but they will particularly focus on Britain. Students will examine the ways in which gender shaped the religious experiences, family life, economic roles, and political and legal status of women in Europe over the last century.
History 298: The Legacy of the British Empire, 4 credits
At its height, the British empire encompassed one quarter of the earth. The history of the British Empire reveals the roots of globalization, and the Pax Britannica is the immediate predecessor of contemporary Anglobalization. The course will outline the British imperial century and the consequences of colonial policies in such areas of the world as Palestine and India, and it will explore the post-colonial legacy that continues to shape these former imperial possessions, now known as the British Commonwealth. We will focus on the remarkable way in which different post-colonial communities have integrated within a multicultural British society, particularly in terms of language, religion and transcultural identity.
Melissa Manolas, Portland Community College, melissa.manolas@pcc.edu
Melissa earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. She has lived in New Orleans and in France and is writing a doctoral dissertation (at LSU) on Displacement and Creolization in Writings of the American South and the French Caribbean. She has also taught public speaking, debate, and dramatic performance skills at educational camps at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. She has traveled extensively, spending six months in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia; and two years traveling through England, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Melissa currently teaches literature and composition courses at Portland Community College, Rock Creek.
WR 240, Creative Writing: Nonfiction, 4 credits
Focuses on the writing of essays which use creative writing techniques. The context of study abroad in London offers students the opportunity to explore the genre of travel writing in particular; by reading travel writers and working on their own travel narratives, students would gain an understanding of ways to process other cultures, to interpret their experiences as foreigners, and to translate their travels into real knowledge through writing. Some themes would include concepts such as the self and other, national versus cultural identity, and writing in exile.
ENG 205, Survey of British Literature, 4 credits
Students will read literature of the British Isles: seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth-century selections, including such authors as William Blake, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Mary Shelley. Students will be able to explore the city of London and its literary past and to visit the countryside in order to witness firsthand the landscape and towns that were home and inspiration to so many novelists and poets.
ENG 105, Introduction to Literature: Drama, 4 credits
This course enhances enjoyment of plays as literature; increases understanding of the conventions of drama and the theater; and considers the relationships between culture, historical context and drama. It will be an amazing experience for students to experience plays in London, arguably the heart of modern theater. We will read such playwrights as William Shakespeare, William Wycherly, and Oscar Wilde.
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