England Courses
Mechanical Engineering - Jonathan Raush
ENGR 400/ MCHE 470– Energy Systems & Sustainability
Come get a global perspective on energy and sustainability. Geaux and see for yourself how countries and continents are handling the impact of global policy on one of the most important and pressing issues of our generation - right where the action is - Brexit, the Paris Climate Accord, and more! This course is set in the context of UK and EU efforts in sustainability and includes excursions to engineering projects including a British wind farm, a solar power plant, and an optional trip through the Chunnel to a tidal power plant in northern France, along with efforts in green product production and sustainability. This course will explore the impact of Energy Production and Consumption utilizing British and other European models as a case study. Students will learn how to analyze macro energy systems utilizing engineering principles in the framework of policy structure and study the effects of those policies using real world examples. Visits to several local museums will be incorporated to display technical advances and societal changes in perspective and policy, including the world-class Science Museum of London, which will provide insight into the inventions that drove the industrial revolution, the engineering works of the Victorian era Tower Bridge, the Imperial War Museum Duxford, which CNN voted #2 aviation museum in the world, showcasing the byproduct of the development of thermodynamic principles, and the Royal Institution, founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, where Michael Faraday’s discoveries lead to the development of modern electric motors.
**Students must have achieved a grade of C in ENGR 301
ENGR 400/ MCHE 470 - Evolution of Engineering Design - A Modern Approach with Historic Perspective
Join us in learning principles of modern engineering design near the institutions and laboratories where those principles were first applied, thus driving the Industrial Age, including modern developments in power, energy, transportation, and communication. For this course, we will utilize European engineering projects a sour laboratory, both historical and ultra-modern. While experiencing all the trappings of European living, study in the surroundings of the birthplace of the industrial revolution and the technological revolutions brought with it. For example, students can explore the laboratory of Lord Kelvin and the legendary workshop of engineer James Watt, preserved as it was when he died in 1819, who developed the practical steam engine.That invention provided the impulse that drove the development of the engineering profession. Venture through the British countryside to Cambridge, or to a modern renewable energy power plant, supporting current sustainability developments. In this course students will learn to analyze engineering projects through a modern lens incorporating concepts such as sustainability and resilience. Utilize Europe as the laboratory while seeing first-hand how fundamental principles were developed and applied with visits to laboratories and industry sites, while enjoying the accoutrements of UK living.
**Pre-requisites include MCHE 201 or equivalent (CHEE 201).
Civil Engineering - Mohammad Jamal Khattak
CIVE 400/ CIVE 438/- Design of foundations and retaining structures
Join us to experience new engineering perspectives, learn how to navigate different cultures, and work with diverse peers by studying abroad in London, UK, this summer. This is the place where you can observe and learn about historical and modern civil/architectural structures, including the Thames River Barrier, an innovative way of controlling floods, and the Tower Bridge, a historical structure that posed challenges to underlying foundations and construction in flowing water. You'll also visit modern buildings such as The Shard, a 72-story skyscraper, considered one of the modern marvels, and take a tour of the Museum of London, which showcases historical and modern advances in science and technology. You will discover how to navigate through one of the busiest cities in the world using the most modern transportation systems (Tube lines, double-decker buses, etc.).
Prerequisite: CIVE328 - Geotechnical Engineering or equivalent.
CIVE 400/ CIVE 497 - Sustainability of Urban Infrastructural Systems
Join us to experience new engineering perspectives on infrastructure systems. Immerse yourself in a new culture and gain diverse experiences by studying abroad in London, UK, this summer. This is the place where you can observe and learn about historical and modern civil/architectural structures, including the Thames River Barrier, an innovative way of controlling floods, and the Tower Bridge, a historical structure that posed construction challenges and serves as a great example of sustainability and resilience. Visits to modern buildings such as The Shard, a 72-story skyscraper, considered one of the modern marvels, and an energy-efficient building, the Gherkin, are included. The tour of the British Museum in London displays historical and modern advances in science and technology. You will discover how to navigate through one of the busiest cities in the world using the most modern transportation systems, including an integration of Tube lines, buses, and double-deckers. Visits to old historic sites such as the London Wall and the old London Fort will allow you to connect infrastructure advancements from the past, present, and future smart cities.
Prerequisite: Completion of all 300-level courses.
Nursing - Tricia Templet
NURS 397/ HUMN 300 - History of Healthcare
This course will evaluate the history of healthcare and innovation through the exploration of British and European influence on science and medicine. We will utilize resources such as museum and hospital tours, conversations with nurses, physicians and/or pharmacists to explore British/European approaches to medicine and healthcare. Students will evaluate historical perspectives ofBritish/European health practices and medical advances by visiting a variety of medical museums including but not limited to the London Science Museum, the Florence Nightingale Museum, the Francis Crick Institute and the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret. We will discuss differences and similarities of healthcare between European countries and compare and contrast British/European healthcare to American healthcare delivery. Students will have opportunity to interview and/or observe healthcare professionals and tour hospital/medical history museums. Finally, students will explore origins of modern pharmacology with a garden experience with medicinal plants/botany.
NURS 397/ HUMN 300 - British Pop Culture Influence on Health
This course will review recent pop culture in the UK, with a focus on TV and movies of Call the Midwife and Doctor Who; movie/book focus on the Harry Potter franchise, and review of other impactful British literature and their impacts on physical and mental health, health understanding, and health literacy. Review of recorded media and visiting filming locations will pair to promote discussion of the impact these media types have had throughout the past few decades.
Online MBA - Miguel Orta
BLAW 515(G)/ BLAW 415/ HUMN 487 - International Law
Come to London to study international law! Become familiar with the legal ramifications and pitfalls of international business.
Interact with British legal and business practitioners and become immersed in the practical aspects of international business.
Whether you are thinking of pursuing a legal education or becoming a business person, this study abroad course is for you! You will be immersed in the practical aspects of international business and how to avoid the legal pitfalls of global business. The emphasis of this course is to become familiar with the legal aspects of doing business internationally and in the UK.
You will see the Magna Carta, the basis of our US legal system. Visit "Old Bailey" the Royal Court of Justice. The House of Parliament as well as the London Court of International Arbitration. You will also have the opportunity to interact with legal and business attaches at the US embassy in London as well as Americans doing business in England at the American Chamber of Commerce in London.
BLAW 540(G)/ BLAW 330/ HUMN 487 - Employment Law
Come to London to immerse yourself in the study of Employment Law, gaining insights into the legal intricacies of international and UK business environments.
Interact with British legal and business experts to explore the practical aspects of employment law within the global context. Whether you're interested in a legal career or business pursuits, this study abroad course offers a deep dive into the complexities and challenges of employment law on an international scale.
Psychology - Brooke Breaux
PSYC 305/ HUMN 300/ HONR 385 - Death and Dying: A British Perspective
This is your chance to think about death in a different way . . . through the lens of British culture. Psychological, social, cultural, and historical factors will be considered. Get exposed to a British perspective of death, dying, and bereavement through the literature of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling as well as British poetry, such as that of John Keats, and British plays, such as those of William Shakespeare. You will also read first-hand accounts of the Black Plague and the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper. Personal experiences of death and bereavement related to the royal family will also be explored. Death is a part of life, and understanding death through the lens of a different culture can help us to understand and experience life more fully.
PSYC 305/ HUMN 300/ HONR 385- London on My Mind: Cognition Through a Cross-Cultural Lens
Much of what American students know about how the mind works comes from research conducted by Americans on Americans. But, how different is seeing, hearing, understanding, and remembering across different cultures . . . even when the cultures appear on the surface to be very similar? Let’s find out by comparing our own cognitive experiences to those of Londoners. You may be surprised to find that although some cognitive experiences are very similar across cultures, others are quite different.
English - David Squires
ENGL 370/ HUMN 300 - Museums & Libraries of London
When Harry Potter sneaks into the Restricted Section of Hogwarts Library in The Sorcerer’s Stone because he can’t get “a specially signed note” of permission, readers get a vision of the library as arcane, old, off-limits, magical, and powerful. Hogwarts Library is, of course, a fiction. But Virginia Woolf famously suggested something similar about the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge (arguably the models for Hogwarts). As a woman, she noted in A Room of One’s Own, she would need “a letter of introduction” to enter. Some of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious libraries remain off-limits to the public. Since the eighteenth century, however, Britain’s cosmopolitan center in London has led the world in building public educational institutions such as museums and libraries. This course will take advantage of London’s rich landscape of museums and libraries—well over 200 with public exhibits in the metropolitan area—to explore the city’s public culture, ask who has access to it, and what social values these diverse institutions celebrate. In addition to visiting some of the city’s grandest examples, such as the Tate, we will check out lesser-known examples, such as Pollock’s Toy Museum. We will prepare for our visits by reading fictional and historical works that ask, aside from their collections, what’simportant about museums and libraries? We’ll learn that, although not magical like Hogwarts Library, they are indeed powerful cultural institutions.
ENGL 342/ HUMN 200 - The Public and Its Performances
What if we went to the theaters of London and demanded actors replay our favorite scenes? What if we hurled rotten cabbages at actors we didn’t like? Today we might be arrested for such riotous interruptions. But in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such disruptive behavior was part of the regular theater experience. Recent scholarship suggests, in fact, that audience engagement made up a crucial part of theatrical performance and, more importantly, a crucial part of negotiating a modern world where the ideal of freedom ran up against the reality of enslavement, disenfranchisement, and impoverishment. The theatre was as much a stage for public performance as it was for plays. This course asks how those early dramas of the modern world continue to influence our contemporary experience. We will address that question by attending several performances in London, from new productions of old works to first-time productions of fringe theater and even stand-up comedy. To get a better sense of London’s leading role in staging public performances, we will explore the city’s famous busking scene as well as Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. And to prepare for the unsettling experience of entering the performative commons, we’ll review some basic theatrical conventions before leaving Lafayette.
Visual Arts - Daniel DiCaprio
VIAR 309/ HUMN 300 /HONR 365 - Metalsmithing Design
This course will look closer at the aesthetic and technological development of Metalwork available in London museums. From jewelry to arms & armor, and metal sculpture, London will serve as our classroom with some of the largest collections of contemporary and historic metalwork in the world. Your firsthand experience of this work along with the contextual information provided through the course will provide a deeper understanding of Metalsmithing’s legacy in history, art, and design.
VIAR 321/ HUMN 300 /HONR 365 - Art: Past, Present, Future
London is one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities for art. Globally it is a field that is continually evolving, while there remain “classics” that have remained inspirational for centuries. London will be our reference library with access to art and architecture. You will have the opportunity to experience the history of art firsthand, attend contemporary exhibitions, and translate this knowledge into your own work through drawings, photography and writing. We will visit the Tate Modern, the British Museum, the National Gallery and Saatchi Gallery to name a few.