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Summer Session
June 23 – July 18, 2008
Global Seminar at the University
of London’s Queen Mary College
The program will take place over a four-week
period (4 credit course). It will commence with an
intensive one-week preparatory segment to be
held at Ramapo College, during which students
will become familiar with the evolving status of
London as an imperial capital and as Britain’s
commercial, political, cultural, and population
center. Students will also gain a basic
understanding of research methods in history and
the social sciences and begin to choose their
research topics.
The program will be based at the University of
London’s Queen Mary College, one of the United
Kingdom’s leading higher education institutions
Located in East London, in the Borough of Tower
Hamlets, it is in the midst of a multicultural and
socially diverse area that is one of the most rapidly
developing parts of London. Housing an Institute
on London as a Global City, having new residence
facilities, and being only a short subway or bus
ride from London’s West End makes Queen Mary
College an ideal location for this program.
Course (4 Credits)
London as a Global City
The course looks at London as a product of
worldwide transformation. The course’s several
components examine the development of London
from an English to a global epicenter. It looks at
the dynamics of migration and economic change
that involve class and ethnic conflict, as well as
cultural adaptation. The curriculum encompasses
London’s unique cultural institutions -- theatres,
museums, restaurants, and community
organizations. Students will also examine London
through reading, lectures, walking tours, field trips,
and original research involving data gathering,
analysis, and expository writing.
Location
The program will place special emphasis on
London’s East End (which includes London’s docks
and Docklands development), the first home to
successive generations of new immigrants and an
area of continual re-vitalization.
Accommodations
Accommodations will be located on the Queen
Mary College campus and will consist of newly
refurbished single-rooms with shared bathroom
facilities.
Excursions and Site Visits
- Walking Tour of London’s East End
- Visit to central London sites
- Tours of London’s many kinds of housing
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Trip to Leicester City and the Peak District
- Visit to Headquarters of Amnesty International
- Theatre party
- Saatchi Gallery on the South Bank
- Visit to Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugees,
Holloway Road
- Tours of Docklands development
- Tour of West India and Millwall Docks
Program Cost: $4,300
Program Cost Includes:
- Lodging
- Tuition and fees
- Preparatory costs and administrative costs
- Excursions and site visits
- (Program cost does not include roundtrip airfare
and meals)
Eligibility
All Ramapo College students in good academic and
judicial standing with a minimum G.P.A of 2.75
(those below will be assessed on a case by case
basis) are eligible. Students of other U.S. colleges or
universities, alumni, teachers, and members of the
community are also eligible.
For further information, contact
The Roukema Center
for International Education
RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 07430
Attn: Susi Rachouh
Tel: (201) 684-7533
E-mail: srachouh@ramapo.edu
For in-country or academic questions contact:
Dr. Michael Riff
Tel: (201) 684-7409
E-mail: mriff@ramapo.edu
Dr. Ellen Ross
Tel: (201) 684-7641
E-Mail: eross@ramapo.edu
Seminar Leaders
Dr. Michael A. Riff has been
director of the Center for
Holocaust & Genocide Studies at
Ramapo College since 1996,
where he also teaches Modern
Jewish and Central European
History. For many years, he was
director of Ramapo College’s study abroad
program to Prague, Czech Republic.
Riff, who holds a Ph.D. from the School of
Slavonic and East European Studies of the
University of London, is an historian and writer
on the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. He has
held appointments at New York University and
Hunter College in New York, and the London
School of Economics, Queen Mary College, and
the University of Leeds in England.
He is the author of The Face of Survival-Jewish Life
in Eastern Europe-Past and Present. Dr. Riff has
written numerous essays and reviews on the
history of Central European Jewry, and he was
general editor of The Dictionary of Modern Political
Ideologies and Movements. His current research
concerns the return of Jews to Czechoslovakia
following World War II.
Ellen Ross is professor of History
and Women’s/Gender Studies at
Ramapo College. Her Ph.D., in
history, is from the University of
Chicago. She has taught at the
University of Chicago,
Connecticut College, Ramapo,
and London Metropolitan University. Her
specialty is the history of women in nineteenthand
twentieth-century Britain, but she also offers
courses in many areas of modern European and
British history. The articles she has written in
numerous journals deal with London’s workingclass
neighborhoods, motherhood and family life
among London’s poor, female missionaries, “slummers,” and women’s settlement houses after
World War I. Books: Love and Toil: Motherhood in
Outcast London, 1870-1918 (Oxford University
Press, 1993), and (edited with introductions) Slum
Travelers: Ladies and London Poverty, 1860–1920
(University of California Press, 2007). She has
been the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship, the National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers
(twice), and a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship
at London Metropolitan University (now the
University of North London).
Location and Contact Information
The Office of Study Abroad is located in the Anisfield School of Business, room ASB-123. Our phone number is (201) 684-7533. E-mail - goabroad@ramapo.edu
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