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WINDSOR INTERNSHIP OPTION CASTLE Emma Savage (’19) undertook a five-week internship at Whitestone Barrister’s Chambers. During the internship, Emma was invited to attend the Inner Temple Women’s Forum Garden Party, a cross- profession opportunity for women barristers, solicitors, judges, legal academics, and students to share career development experiences. INNER TEMPLE GARDENS The Political Science Summer in London Program is an opportunity to spend five weeks living and studying in the heart of one of the world’s greatest cities. With apartments in the West End and a classroom adjacent to the British Museum, students have the perfect location to explore all that London has to offer. Participants study contemporary British politics by combining classroom discussion with sites visits and meetings with politicians LONDON PROGRAM CONTACT INFORMATION UT DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE and others. London is not just the location – it’s a course resource. Ian Down, [email protected] Program Director and Associate Professor Optional internships immediately following the program are available for students Department of Political Science seeking a longer time in London and a deeper cultural immersion. Arranged in conjunction polisci.utk.edu/london.php Summer in with Anglo-educational, the provider organization, internship placements are geared towards student’s interests and career goals and last five weeks. The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic (pictured) London program students meet The Lord Paul Tyler, Liberal Democrat, information, veteran status, and parental status. JOB 19-146 London Program Constitutional Affairs Spokesperson, in the House of Lords. Prime Meridian Of The World: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_Meridian_Of_The_World_(0%C2%BA_0_0).jpg, Andres Rueda [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/2.0)], London Map: MRSC [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_street_map_central_london.svg polisci.utk.edu/london.php HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WhyWhy studystudy abroad?abroad? Every student should take the opportunity to study abroad at least once while an undergraduate. » You will learn about the place you visit, but you will also learn what you really value about the US. » It will enhance your sense of independence and capacity for self-actualization as you learn you are more capable and able than you might currently give yourself credit. » It will be an unforgettable experience that you will remember long after you have forgotten most of everything else from your “I’ll never forget thinking how cool it was that we had been in Parliament undergraduate years. PRIME Straddling the Prime Meridian the day that Theresa May decided to resign… there’s nothing like being able to watch history unfold around you.” » It shows prospective employers, law schools, business schools, MERIDIAN UT London program students stand in both -Emma Savage (’19) and graduate schools a raft of desirable qualities, such as the Western and independence and maturity. It also highlights your curiosity Eastern Hemispheres. about the world and pursuit of new challenges. Why the London Program? Program site visits include: Through site visits and meetings This program provides an opportunity to become immersed in London to a degree not possible through a self-organized visit. The people you meet » Westminster Abbey with politicians and others, the and the places you visit are all connected with a program of study that » Banqueting House makes the overall experience incomparably richer and more rewarding. program connects and infuses the » Hampton Court Palace You will do things not open to most tourists, such as entering the Tower of » Windsor Castle course with London — the people London for the Ceremony of the Keys, before the tourist hordes arrive. You and the place.” will also see some of London’s quirkier offerings, such as the 19th century » Churchill War Rooms » Stonehenge - Ian Down political philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who (stuffed!) sits in the entrance to » Bath Program Director and Associate Professor University College London. Department of Political Science » Houses of Parliament “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; » Royal Courts of Justice for there is in London all that life can afford.” UT students, Makenzie Thomas and » Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Madison Jones, visit the National -Samuel Johnson, Author of A Dictionary of the English Language Army Museum..