Academics

Faculty      Courses

Core Phase: Required Courses

Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations
COM CM 521 British and European Marketing Strategy
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Arts and Arts Administration
CAS AH 320 Modern British Art and Design
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Business and Economics
CAS EC 364 Economic Policy: A British Perspective
(Prerequisite: CAS EC 101 or equivalent)
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Journalism
COM JO 358 British Journalism, Culture, and Society
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Politics and International Relations
CAS PO 360 British Political Institutions
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Prelaw
CAS PO 534 The British Legal System
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Psychology and Social Policy
CAS PS 365 Psychology Applied to Social Issues
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Core Phase: Elective Courses

British Painting from Holbein to the Twentieth Century
CAS AH 388
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European Capital Markets
CAS EC 346
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Introduction to Modern British and Irish Literature
CAS EN 310
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Anglo-American Legal Tradition
CAS HI 357
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Britain and Europe: A New Beginning
CAS PO/IR 335
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Contemporary Issues in British Welfare
CAS SO 321
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Advertising in the UK
COM CM 334
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The Foreign Correspondent: International Reporting
COM JO 416
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Internship Courses
Course numbers depend on the field of specialization in which the student completes his or her internship. Placements are contingent on the student’s past experience, professional interests, and available opportunities in any given summer, so flexibility is essential.

CAS AH 505 Internship in Arts and Arts Administration
CAS EC 497 Internship in Business and Economics (Note: This course number is also
   assigned to students in marketing.)
CFA DR 527 Profesional Internship
CAS PO 451 Internship in Politics
CAS PO 453 Internship in Comparative Law
CAS PO/IR 455 Internship in International Organization
CAS PS 495 Internship in Health and Human Services
COM CM 471 Internship in Advertising or Public Relations
COM JO 411 Internship in Journalism

The internship course has two major components:
a) the internship itself (evaluated by the placement supervisor and the work placement team)
b) an extensive internship portfolio comprising daily reports, field research, analysis, and
conclusions (evaluated by the resident director and senior faculty in London).

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Faculty

Courses are taught by British faculty and visiting Boston University faculty who are experts in their fields. For a complete listing, please refer to the London-maintained website, www.bu-london.co.uk.

British Programs Faculty

Mark Allen has taught modern British literature for Boston University’s Oxford Honors Program since 1987. He holds an ma in English literature from mansfield College, Oxford. He has lectured at various English universities and has held teaching posts at the University of Venice and, most recently, at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has published reviews and articles on Romanticism in several academic journals and also works for the Oxford English Dictionary as an historical reader specializing in the works of Coleridge

Jacqueline Bishop, MA, marketing management, Manchester Metropolitan University; post-graduate Certificate in education from Oxford Brookes University. She currently runs her own marketing and management company that designs and delivers marketing and management training and development called Bishop Training. Her clients include Merrill Lynch, Nestlé, and some government departments. Previously she has lectured in marketing and management while she was the program manager of Croydon Business School. She is the chief examiner in marketing for the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply and chief examiner in retail merchandise management for the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. She has written four books: Marketing, Marketing Explained, Marketing Study Guide (for CIPS), and Retail Study Guide (for CIPS)

Andy Charlton holds a L.L.B (Honours) Degree from University College London, after which he qualified and practised as a solicitor. In 1998 he qualified as a (London Tourist Board) Blue Badge Guide and now lectures on many aspects of Britain for various colleges and organisations. He works regularly in sports tourism and events, including work for the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, for Princeton University Hockey Club and for a number of years for Arsenal Football Club. He qualified as a Parliament Guide in 1999 and takes lecture tours of the Palace of Westminster and regularly guides the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tate Britain and the British Museum. He is a member of the Association of Professional Tourist Guides and a founder member of the Institute of Tourist Guiding, for whom he has written their published booklets on British Sport and British Popular Music. In 2003 he wrote and set up a guided tour for members of the public for the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill and in 2004 he did the same thing for the Imperial War Museum in London. Also in 2004 he set up and ran walking tours of the Bankside area in Southwark, London, for the new Tourist Information Centre on Bankside for Southwark Council. Since 2005 he has worked with the Aspire project through South Bank University, working with school children who might not necessarily choose further education, the aim being to inspire them through tourism opportunities to see if further education might be for them after all. Since 2007 he has lectured at and offered guided walks to the public through the National Portrait Gallery. In 2008 he was commissioned to write the guidebook for the Horniman Museum, set up and ran a series of rock n roll Soho walks, wrote and delivered various lecture programmes including British Multiculturalism, the British Peerage, British Prime Ministers, the Victorians, Shakespeare, Britain in World War 2, the Bloomsbury Group and the Edwardians, and the British Museum, in particular focusing on the acquisition of the treasures of that museum, amongst other subjects. Since 2006 he has lectured on Olympic Sport for the Blue Badge Guide London 2012 Olympic Accreditation Course and continues to lecture on the Blue Badge Guide training course.

Stephen Clift, PhD, University of Aston, Birmingham, has been a visiting professor at Boston University since 1994 and is a professor of health education at Canterbury Christ Church University College. He works in the field of health promotion, and has undertaken practical projects and academic research in a wide variety of areas including: sex and HIV/AIDS education for young people and international travel and health. His current area of interest is the contribution of the arts and music to health, with particular reference to the health benefits of singing.

Paul Cousins, holds a PhD from the University of London. He has previously taught Management and Public Administration at Kingston University, The University of Kent at Canterbury, The Open University, South Bank Polytechnic and Canterbury Christ Church University College. He is the former editor of the London Review of Public Administration and has published extensively on the roles of the public services and on local government. Dr Cousins is a member of the Executive Committee of Boston University British Programs and he has worked with Boston University's International Program Center in Paris, Dublin, Sydney, and Geneva.

Mo Dodson, PhD candidate,Goldsmiths College; MPhil, Goldsmiths College; Diploma, Art and Technique of Film from the London International Film School; Diploma, Modern Social and Cultural Studies, University of London. He is principal lecturer in Cultural History and Media Studies at London Guildhall University. He is a regular contributor to the New Statesman and other journals on contemporary British culture and has collaborated on two books in the field.

Caroline Donnellan, BA, MA & MPhil in History of Art, University College London. Caroline is also presently teaching at University College London and Birkbeck, Faculty of Continuing Education. She has also worked as a freelance lecturer in London galleries. She has published articles on ‘Patrons and Propaganda’ in Prints and Propaganda: The German Reformation, 1999 and ‘Hoogstraten's House’ in Object 5, 2002. Her main areas of academic interest include Northern European, as well as British art and architecture.

Robin Evans, MA, Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin; M.Phil., University College, London; Diploma, Advertising. He has lectured on marketing, advertising, and consumer behavior at London Guildhall University and Boston University. He has a wide range of practical experience in the production of TV and video materials for advertising purposes. He is the author of Production and Creativity in Advertising and is a partner in Evans Communications, an advertising consulting firm.

Helen Evenden, writer, curator and lecturer specializing in architecture and design. Helen is currently a lecturer and Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art. She has lectured on architecture and design - particularly urban development - at a number of institutions, from Kent State University, Ohio to Goldsmiths College, London. Her main areas of academic interest include architecture for the motorcar and parliament buildings.

Dr. Christine Fanthome began her career at Thames Television, where she worked in a variety of positions including senior researcher, associate producer, reporter and continuity scriptwriter. After taking an MA and a PhD in media and communication at London University, she is now a writer, consultant and lecturer. In addition to teaching at B.U.-London, she runs a media audiences course for postgraduates at City University, London.

Nicholas Haeffner, D.Phil., Media Studies, MA, English Literature, University of Sussex; ba, University of East London. He has been a lecturer in Communications Studies at London Guildhall University since 1990 as well as teaching at several other London-based universities and has published several articles about British cinema and culture.

Dr. Helena Hammond, D.Phil, History of Art, University of Oxford; ma, History of Art, Yale University; BA, History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art. Helena has previously taught at mansfield College, Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, Yale University and the Courtauld Institute of Art and she has worked as Interim Education manager at English National ballet. Her main areas of research and teaching are in European and British visual culture spanning the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, and in dance history. She is currently preparing her doctoral thesis for publication and has contributed to The Oxford History of Western Art edited by martin Kemp (OUP 2000) and to the Royal Academy of Dance’s Dance Gazette.

Nigel Knight, is a lecturer in British Government at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He formerly taught at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Governing Britain Since 1945, and has also worked in national politics, both advising and writing policy.

Dr. John Lang holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College & Judge Business School.  He currently lectures at the University of Hertfordshire School of Management and the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School in various International  Business, Strategic Management and Project Management programmes.  He has previously taught at a number of other US study abroad programmes and US institutions based in London, including; Richmond, The American International University in London and the Drexel University programme in association with the Foundation for International Education where he wrote and ran the International Business MBA programme and several BA Business programmes. Dr. Lang has published in academic journals and has a forthcoming text in Project Management.

Miranda Leslau, BA, modern languages, The University of the West of England. Since 1993 she has worked in international marketing, public relations, communications, and conference organization in the UK, Continental Europe, and the USA. She has coordinated the global What Women Event at The Royal Festival Hall, and has coordinated and managed photo shoots, marketing campaigns, and TV appearances for Jean-Claude Van Damme and Claudia Schiffer. Currently, she is a freelance marketing and public relations consultant representing Reliv (US Health Drink), Alison Roberts (Personal Development Trainer), Susannah Hall Bespoke Tailors, London, and People2People, part of the Boston-based Telepublishing Group.

Alexander MacLeod, BA (Hons), University of New Zealand. He has had 40 years of practical experience in broadcasting and print journalism. In New Zealand he was Editor-in-Chief of the NZ Listener and President of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. In Britain he has served as Foreign Editor of The Sunday Times (London), Diplomatic Editor of The Scotsman (Edinburgh), and British Isles correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor (Boston). For five years he was Editor of the London-based Round Table Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. He has more than 20 years of experience as a news presenter on BBC Radio, including nearly 10 years as presenter on Twenty-Four Hours for the BBC World Service, and for fifteen years he anchored BBC Radio Four's World Tonight program. As a roving documentary-maker in the United States, Europe and Asia he has made many programs for the BBC.

John Macnicol (CAS SO 321, SO301) is Visiting Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Previously, he was Professor of Social Policy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on social policy, and has given papers at numerous international conferences. Recent publications include The Politics of Retirement in Britain 1878-1948 (Cambridge University Press, 1998; second edition, 2002), (editor) Paying for the Old: Old Age and Social Welfare Provision (Thoemmes Press, 7 volumes, 2000), and Age Discrimination: an Historical and Contemporary Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2006) (winner of the Social Policy Association’s prize for ‘Best New Publication, 2006-7’). During 2005-8, he was in receipt of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which included two periods of research in the USA as a Visiting Fellow at Boston University (2006) and at New York University (2007).

David McNeil was a Foreign Correspondent for the BBC for twenty-one years.  He was based in Beirut, New York, Johannesburg, Jerusalem and Washington and has reported for the BBC from forty-six countries covering some of the great political developments of the time along with numerous wars and insurrections. He has also presented news programmes on BBC Radio and is currently a news presenter on BBC Radio 3.

Keith Pilbeam holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence. He is a Professor of International Economics and Finance at City University, London. He is an Examiner for a number of institutions and acts as a consultant to the Foreign Office on international economic issues. He is the author two widely used books, International Finance (2006) and Finance and Financial Markets (2005). He is President of the International Economics and Finance Society (UK), (http://www.iefs.org.uk) and Treasurer of the European Economics and Finance Society (www.eefs.eu). He has published research papers in leading economics journals such as Oxford Economic Papers, the International Journal of Finance and Economics, Applied Economics and the Journal of Economic Integration.

Alan Read, PhD, University of Washington (Seattle); BA, Exeter University (UK). He has lectured in the United States and in Britain, has written and produced three original plays in London, and is widely published in Britain and in the United States. He is currently a professor and the chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at University of Surrey, Roehampton and his latest book Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture, and the Everyday was recently published.  He has recently been awarded a 5-year research grant from the AHRB to develop a Web-based research project entitled Performance Architecture Location.

Alek Sierz holds a first-class honours degree in Politics and Modern History from Manchester University, an MA in Arts Criticism from City University, London, and a PhD from Westminster University. He has spent all his working life in the fields of academia and journalism. He is currently the theatre critic of Tribune and The Stage. He is Visiting Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College and has previously taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at Westminster University. He is also a freelance arts journalist for The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Telegraph. He is a former Hon Sec of the Drama Section of the Critics' Circle, and the proud author of the bestselling In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (Faber, 2001), The Theatre of Martin Crimp (Methuen Drama, 2006) and, most recently, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (Continuum, 2008).

Terry Sullivan (MSc. London School of Economics) recently retired as Head of Politics at Kingston University. He is one of the longest serving members of the London Faculty having worked on the London Internship Program since 1985. His major teaching commitments are Issues in Contemporary Politics and British Politics on the Internship Program. He is senior tutor and teaches the History of Western Ethics for the College of General Studies.

Michael Thornhill gained a D.Phil. in Modern History from St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1995 at which point he began teaching for Boston University British Programmes. His research interests include British and American foreign policy, the politics of the Middle East, and the history of popular music. He has written numerous scholarly articles, as well as contributing pieces for the Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine, the (London) Times, and Egypt 's Al-Ahram Weekly. His first book Road to Suez was published in 2006 and his latest research project is on King Farouk.

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