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IWU London Program IWU London Program Prof. Edgar Lehr Join us in London! Illinois Wesleyan University established its London 2018 London Director Program to provide students with a chance to study abroad in the first Illinois Wesleyan University is pleased semester of the sophomore or junior year while earning credit toward four to announce that Dr. Edgar Lehr, General Education requirements. The IWU London Program offers you a Professor of Biology, will direct the 2018 IWU London Program. close connection to an IWU faculty member, who acts as the program A specialist in the biodiversity of director, and to a cohort of IWU students while you pursue the General amphibians and reptiles in the Education goals of independence, critical thinking, imagination, social neotropics (Peru). Professor Lehr has awareness, and sensitivity to others. Specifically, a semester abroad will extensive experience living and working abroad and has taught in the US, prepare you for responsible citizenship and leadership in a global economy. Germany, Hong Kong, and Peru. In London, Prof. Lehr will offer London, the City “Understanding Evolution” (LSI, London is one of the world’s greatest Global Diversity). As he says, the course is “a perfect fit for London, where cities. With a history that spans Darwinian evolution had its origins.” centuries, London offers students the As part of the course, students will visit opportunity to visit Roman ruins, the Natural History Museum and medieval religious structures, a Museum of Science, the Darwin House reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Museum, the London Zoo, and Kew Globe Theatre, Winston Churchill’s Botanical Garden. In addition, Prof. Lehr will take students on an extended Cabinet War Rooms, and modern excursion to Iceland to explore its institutions of finance and dramatic landscapes, geological government. The city also boasts processes, and biodiversity. world-class educational and cultural institutions, art galleries, museums, and theatres, Prof. Lehr earned his doctorate from all of which offer students exceptional opportunities for academic and cultural doctorate from Johann Wolfgang Goethe enrichment. Whether strolling through Hyde Park, exploring Brick Lane’s University Frankfurt am Main, multicultural history, wandering the galleries of the British Museum, or shopping at Germany. He is a Research Affiliate of the famous Portobello Road Market, you will find the sights and sounds of the city as the Natural History Museum (U Kansas) exciting on your last night as on your first. and a Research Associate of The Field Museum (Chicago). You will find yourself in a bustling and vibrant city where every street scene, every street name, seems to come with a history attached to it, with hours of pleasure to be had just poking down backstreets and finding your own favorite corners. Despite its busy streets, London is also one of the world’s greener cities, with more open spaces than you might expect. Some of them are well-kept, tame city-centre parks, while others are wild expanses of heath and woodland where you can roam for hours through landscapes that inspired the likes of John Keats, Charles Dickens, and Virginia Woolf. You might also run into any number of present-day celebrities out and about. Previous groups have encountered Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who), Chris Pine (Star Trek Beyond), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Mark Gatiss (writer and actor on Sherlock), Academy-Award-winner Mark Rylance, and Harry Potter actors Matthew Lewis and Helena Bonham-Carter. London’s rich cultural heritage offers great diversity: Asian, Afro-Caribbean, Indian, Irish, Middle Eastern, and many other cultures have left an indelible mark on the city and resonate in the voices and music that you hear everywhere. The IWU faculty invites you to be a part of this unforgettable place and to learn all that you can from it. Academic Program Housing London offers a number of distinctive opportunities Students live in fully furnished apartments in central for students to enhance their intellectual lives and to London. Apartments house up to 6 students each and become more aware of the greater international offer convenient access to public transportation, banks, community. grocery stores, and other amenities. Students will be Like students on the IWU campus, the 24 students responsible for preparing their own meals and will participating in the London Program will enroll in four receive a weekly meal stipend to help defray the costs. courses. Each London Program course will meet one Classroom facilities are within easy travel distance of the requirements outlined in the IWU General using public transportation (students will receive Education Program: travel cards good for all public transport within the city for the duration of the program). Arts Literature Eligibility Contemporary Social Institutions Participation is open to IWU students of all schools and Cultural and Historical Change majors who are in good standing, have at least 4 units Global Diversity of credit toward graduation, and who have completed Intellectual Traditions at least one semester of study on campus. All students will take the director’s course, which Costs varies from year to year, depending on the interests IWU tuition, room, and board + a program fee of and expertise of the director. In 2018, this course will approx. $6000. Included in these costs are be “Understanding Evolution,” which fulfills the General Education Life Science Issues and Global • 4 IWU courses Diversity requirements. In addition, students will • Housing choose three courses taught by British faculty. Courses • Weekly food stipend that have been offered in the past include • Roundtrip airfare from Chicago O’Hare “Shakespeare and Others on the London Stage” • London Travel Card good for unlimited travel (Literature), “British Art History” (Arts), “The History within the city for the duration of the program of London” (Cultural & History Change), and • Pre-departure orientation at IWU “London, World City” (Contemporary Social • 3-day orientation in London Institutions). The IWU London Program now also • Transportation for all program excursions offers credit-bearing internships to interested students. • Entrance fees and tickets for all required program events Classes meet Monday through Thursday, generally for • Opening and closing banquets two hours twice a week. Some Fridays will also be • Use of a cell phone used for out-of-class field studies—daytrips or weekend excursions to sites associated with the APPLICATION & DEADLINE students’ courses. Students may apply to the program regardless of their The London Program offers a structured curriculum, major. Applications are available in the International while also leaving room to explore the unique Office and are due by March 1, 2018. opportunities that England’s intellectual and cultural For further information, please contact resources have to offer. To enhance their learning experience, students will receive a guided tour of Prof. Edgar Lehr Stacey Shimizu London as part of the multiday orientation and will CNS C108B International Office travel outside the city on daytrips and several long Phone: 556- 3399 Phone: 556-1096 weekends as a part of the program. [email protected] [email protected] Academic highlights of the IWU London Program [email protected] include the following: A pre-departure orientation on campus A multiday orientation in London 4 course units of credit toward your IWU degree Several course-related excursions outside of London, including an extended trip to Iceland as part of the Director’s course. .
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