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Study Abroad in EnglandPark University invites you to spend June 27-July 8, 2011 in St. Ives, Cornwall, and London, England, with Dr. Lolly Ockerstrom
Cornwall, Woolf and To the Lighthouse EN304: Special Topics in Language & Literature Program fee: $3,200 (subject to final arrangments) Includes airfare, lodging, 2 meals/day and ground transportation. Does not include 1 meal/day, tuition, passport, visa and insurance. Financial aid may be available. Please visit or contact Mililani Hayselden in the Office of Financial Aid to verify availability. Modernist writer and author of To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary on 11 August 1905: “It was with some feeling of enchantment that we took ourselves yesterday in the Great Western train. This was the wizard who was to transport us into another world, almost into another age. We would fain have believed that this little corner of England had slept under some enchanters spell since we last set eyes on it ten [eleven] years ago, & that no breath of change had stirred its leaves, or troubled its waters. There, too, we should find our past preserved….” Woolf spent thirteen summers in her youth at Talland House in St. Ives on the Cornish coast of England. Her novel, To the Lighthouse, plays out in fictional form her memories of her parents, her early life in St. Ives, and the devastating experience of the Great War of 1914-1918. This study abroad course will focus on Woolf’s novel, her life, and the Cornish coast in southeast England. Students will fly directly to Cornwall. There the class will spend seven days at or near Talland House overlooking Carbis Bay, where Woolf spent her early years, and which still has remnants of the garden left behind by the family. In addition, students will learn about English life and culture. Activities will include exploring the ancient town of St. Ives, where Godrevy Lighthouse hovers in the bay, a testimony to Woolf’s novel. Students will explore the coastal paths (now maintained by the National Trust), where Woolf walked, on rocky cliffs high above the Atlantic Ocean, and hike to such towns as Zennor and to Trencrom Hill, where Woolf often walked. We will also travel north to Tintagel, where King Arthur is thought to have been born, and visit the Old Post Office, located in a 14th century manor house. Other short day trips will include Land’s End, a windy and dramatic outpost on the most southwesterly tip of England; Penzance, where pirates once roamed; and St. Michael’s Mount, an 8th Century Celtic island monastery that remains today a place of pilgrimage, and the home of the Duke of Cornwall. Finally, students will spend two nights in London, exploring Bloomsbury and Monk's House in Sussex. Your time in London also includes a free day to explore the city on your own. Readings
Requirements: A love of reading, a journal and a rucksack, and a good pair of hiking boots. Course assignments will include a critical project, which will incorporate personal reflections on your experiences in these varied landscapes. Students will also maintain a reflective travel journal throughout their travels in England For more information, please contact Dr. Lolly Ockerstrom, Assistant Professor of English, at lolly.ockerstrom@park.edu. You can also stop by her office at 321 Copley Hall, or call (816) 584-6371. Application for the Summer 2011 Program Application deadline is 3:00 p.m., Thursday, March 30, 2011. Please contact Angie Peterson at apeterson@park.edu/(816) 584-6510 to see if you can still submit your application.
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