This coming fall term (September 16-November 30, 2001)
Michael Toth, Professor of Sociology at Portland State University, will be
teaching in London with the Northwest Council Study 
Abroad
(NCSA) program. He will be offering two courses especially designed to
take advantage of the resources of London—The
Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Great War (300 level) and Studies
in Charismatic Leadership: Winston Churchill
and Adolf Hitler (400 level). In addition to lectures,
discussions, and videos, both classes will also include local field trips and
longer excursions. Visits will be made to such relevant sites as the House of
Commons, the Underground Cabinet War Rooms, the Imperial War Museum, the
Battle of Britain Hall at the Royal Air Force Museum, Chartwell (Churchill’s
home on the outskirts of London), and the University and City of
Cambridge.
Other courses, offered by British faculty permanently
located in London this fall, include 19th and 20th Century English Novels
with Susan Thomas, Professor of English Literature, Art and Architecture in
London from the Norman Conquest to the Victorian Period with Carole Machin,
Professor of Art History, and London Theatre with Vesna Goldsworthy,
Professor of Theatre. Each of these courses is designed to take the students
out of the classroom into the neighborhoods, museums, theatres, or other
cultural opportunities available in this great British metropolis.
PSU/NCSA offers courses all three terms of the 2001-2002
academic year. In addition to the London progarm, courses are offered at these
locations in Europe and South America: Angers, France; Oviedo, Spain; Vienna,
Austria; Siena and Macerata, Italy; Athens, Greece; and Valdivia, Chile. With
the exception of the Chilean program, which requires a working knowledge of
Spanish, all classes are conducted in English. However, most sites provide
intensive language learning opportunities as well.
All of the courses offered in this program earn regular
Portland State University credit.
For further information on the London program, go directly
to the
London
Program Overview
For information on the program in general or the other
locations, go to the
Full Program Description.
Please feel free to contact Professor Toth if you have any
questions.
He may be reached by phone at: (503) 725-3620 or via email at: tothm@pdx.edu.
You may also call directly to the Northwest Council Study
Abroad program
here on campus and talk with a Study Abroad Advisor, either
Anne Bender at: (503) 725-5076 or Ron Witczak at (503) 725-8246.