The London Study Abroad Program, a one-semester experience, allows students the opportunity to explore the rich culture and history of Britain while earning credit to advance their undergraduate degree.
Students enroll in four courses. Upon successful completion of the program, students earn 16 Boston University credits.
Requirements & Considerations
- All students must enroll according to, and remain in compliance with, the Boston University Study Abroad Course Load Policy.
- All students must complete the full 16-credit program, enrolling in four academic courses
- Some courses carry prerequisites; course schedules may conflict and students need to remain flexible
- Admissions requirements for all programs
Curriculum
Note: Syllabi are for course approval and reference only. Students will receive up-to-date syllabi when their courses begin.
Advertising and Public Relations
- COM CM 334 Advertising in the UK (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
- Focuses on London’s stellar reputation for creative and production excellence in advertising; examines how the advertising is shaped by the anti-sell, irony-modulated consumer culture, and emphasizes the way that deifying research risks diluting creative.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- COM CM 335 Seminar in Advertising Strategy (4)Effective
Fall '24- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Oral and/or Signed Communication
- Creativity/Innovation
- Recommended elective for Advertising & Marketing, Public Relations Tracks
- Introduces advanced advertising and media theory, focusing on the role of advertising and its integration within contemporary marketing communications. To define the advertising management process, messages, media, measurement, and assess creative work critically in terms of strategy, objectives, and execution.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- COM CM 413 Planning and Strategy in British Public Relations (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry I
- Digital/Multimedia Expression
- Creativity/Innovation
- This course explores the background, context, theories, practices and functions of PR in Britain, analyzing the environment of British organizations and its impact on PR planning and strategy, including the corporate, governmental and non-profit sectors.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- COM CM 447 Strategic Brand Management in the UK Context (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry I
- Oral and/or Signed Communication
- Critical Thinking
- This course develops theoretical and working knowledge of how brands create value for organizations, consumers and society at large. It develops theoretical and practical knowledge of how brands can be managed to help organizations achieve their marketing and strategic goals.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- COM CM 457 Seminar in Global Promotional Strategies (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Critical Thinking
- This course develops both conceptual knowledge and practical skills to identify the most appropriate and cost-effective global promotional strategies and develop and implement successfully such a strategy in an increasingly competitive and volatile global environment.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- COM CM 521 British and European Marketing Strategy (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry I
- Oral and/or Signed Communication
- Introduction to the strategic marketing concepts, tools and frameworks that underlie consumer marketing strategies. Analysis and assessment of companies operating in British and European markets that face increased global competition, demanding consumers and fast-evolving technologies. Examples used are updated to reflect current events.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
Computer Science
- CAS CS 330 Intro to Analysis of Algorithms (4 credits)
- Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCS112, CASCS131, and CASCS132; or CASCS235 or CASCS237
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Quantitative Reasoning II
- Critical Thinking
- Examines the basic principles of algorithm design and analysis; graph algorithms; greedy algorithms; dynamic programming; network flows; polynomial- time reductions; NP-hard and NP-complete problems; approximation algorithms; randomized algorithms.
- CAS CS 411 Software Engineering (4)
- Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCS112
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Introduction to the construction of reliable software. Topics may include software tools, software testing methodologies, retrofitting, regression testing, structured design and structured programming, software characteristics and quality, complexity, entropy, deadlock, fault tolerance, formal proofs of program correctness, chief program teams, and structured walk-throughs.
Economics
- CAS EC 322 The Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Social Inquiry II
- This course provides an analytical framework for understanding the structural characteristics of the countries in the MENA region in the context of their human and natural resource availability and historical development.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EC 330/CAS IR 336 European Business Environment: Institutions and Enterprise (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Provides learning and skills at the interface between international business, international relations, and other disciplines, through studying the system of EU “Competences” that provides comprehensive rules of conduct for firms. Includes Briefings by officials from EU Institutions, designed to build/test research/teamwork skills.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EC 346 European Capital Markets (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Quantitative Reasoning I
- This course examines global and European financial markets. Students learn about the foreign exchange market, Eurocurrency, Eurobond and derivative markets. In addition, students study a range of financial instruments, such as bills and bonds, forwards, futures and options.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EC 360 Macroeconomics in Contemporary Europe (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- This course covers central theoretical concepts and models aimed at understanding key topics in macroeconomics. At the end of this course you will be able to master fundamental macroeconomic concepts as well as understand key macroeconomic processes in Europe.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EC 364 British Economic Performance: A Comparative Perspective (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Prerequisite: CAS EC 101, or the equivalent.
- Recommended: CAS EC 102, or the equivalent.
- An economic analysis of UK government policy relating to economic performance. It explores in particular market-oriented economic reform since the 1980s designed to reverse long-term economic decline in the United Kingdom relative to the EU and USA. These reforms include privatization, deregulation, labour market reform, trade, UK economic relations with the EU, and Brexit.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
English
- CAS EN 145 Introduction to Performance (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
- Creativity/Innovation
- This course uses performance as a critical lens to think about agency, the body, knowledge, (in)visibility, community, ephemerality, documentation, accessibility, disability, audience, participation, medium-specificity, formal experimentation, and identity. With a focus on 20th and 21st-century performance in a visual and live art context, we will examine the multi-media, interdisciplinary work of the historical avant-gardes (such as Dada, Bauhaus, and Futurism) and performance as it appears in dance, live poetry readings, theatre, videos, and digital work, drawing on feminist, queer, and intersectional perspectives. Further, we will consider the differences between performance art and theatre as well as performative writing on the page. The seminar hopes to foster a critical sensibility through close reading, close listening, and attentive viewing of performance.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EN 310 The Waste Land: British and Irish Writing since 1900 (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Crossing TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, both figuratively and literally, we make an intensive study of significant works of major poets and writers who both helped to create and were created by the Modern Age, and of those they influenced.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EN 357 Modern British Drama: A Critic's Perspective (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical Reasoning
- Offers a broad critical study of the major developments in British drama over the past 50 years. Through the eyes of a leading theater reviewer, the work of specific playwrights is analyzed in detail, and students are expected to produce written and oral critical analyses of plays read and observed during the course. Sierz.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EN 368 Seminar in Shakespeare Studies (4)
- This course aims to provide the student with an appreciation of the nature of Shakespeare’s achievement through the study of four plays in class sessions and the option of reading one other play that the student may choose for his or her directed study. The sessions will naturally involve some discussion of the general background of Shakespeare and his works, with time being devoted to the various thematic, structural, and historical issues that arise from a study of his plays. For the greater part of the course, however, time in class will be devoted to a close critical reading of various sections of the plays in order to give the student the opportunity to gain an intimate understanding of the verbal and dramatic qualities of Shakespeare’s genius, and of the myriad ways in which meanings are expressed through the language, imagery, structure, and dramatic possibilities of the works themselves.
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- CAS EN 387 The Writer In The World: Meet the Writer (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Creativity/Innovation
- This course blends two complementary areas of study: the critical analysis of post-2000 literature (comprising mainly but not exclusively British literature) alongside the opportunity to conduct in-depth, wide-ranging interviews with a group of contemporary novelists, poets, dramatists, and non-fiction writers.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS EN 388 Historical Fictions: Retrospection in Contemporary British Literature (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Historical Consciousness
- An introduction to the psyche, culture, history, and writers of 21st century British literature, confronting aspects of the human condition. Students will enter the historical consciousness of contemporary British writers who look to the past to understand the present.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
Film, Radio & Television
- COM FT 316 British Film and TV since 1960 (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Historical Consciousness
- Students will explore the evolution of British Film and Television from the 1960s to the present day through a case study approach organized by genres and/or styles, affording an analysis of changes to production, aesthetics and representation over time.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- COM FT 318 British Television History and Genre (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Historical Consciousness
- This course traces the historical development of British television from the BBC monopoly in 1936 to today’s multichannelled environment. It evaluates key influences, analyses the impact on British culture, examines industry change and identifies and deconstructs key programme genres.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- COM FT 344 Curating Contemporary European Cinema: Film Festivals and Film Culture (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Students will explore how Contemporary European Cinema is curated through film festivals and further curated for wider exhibition. The course combines analytical approaches to the study of cinema with creative responses to key debates in Contemporary European Cinema.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
History
- CAS HI 243/IR 392 Crises and Readjustments in Post-War British Foreign Policy, 1945-1990 (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Social Inquiry I
- Research and Information Literacy
- In this course you will investigate Britain’s relative decline as a world power, focusing on a succession of crises, small wars, and policy readjustments in the context of end of empire, the Cold War, and European integration.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS HI 246 London Since 1666: Imperial Capital to World City (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Research and Information Literacy
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Social, economic, and cultural history of London since 1666. How London developed from the modest-sized capital of England to the capital of the British Empire and the world's largest city, then to the modern multicultural city of today's globalising world.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS HI 249/WS 310 London Women’s Social History: From Aphra Behn to the Blitz (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Research and Information Literacy
- Students on this course will analyse London women’s social history in this time period through primary source materials in archives and specialist libraries, museums and galleries, and guided walks through relevant public sites.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS HI 250 British Youth Culture from 1950 to the Present (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Social Inquiry I
- How is generational identity created and maintained? Through the prism of youth movements in the United Kingdom, you will investigate how underground cults become mainstream culture in the context of changing attitudes to nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS HI 251 Cultural Capital: The History of Popular Culture in London (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Critical Thinking
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Historical Consciousness
- Prerequisite: completion of one university-level History course.
- Traces the historical development of popular culture in London from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Concerned with texts (visual, aural, written) and sites. Organised chronologically and thematically, engages with theoretical perspectives. Engages with wider history of Britain.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS HI 252 Class, Politics and the Making of British Identity (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- This course explores shifts in power over a 500-year period, and considers the cultural effects of these changes. The impact of empire is also assessed. An understanding of the ‘invented’ and contested nature of British identity is the outcome.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS HI 253 London at War: From the Home Front to the Frontline (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Social Inquiry I
- This chronologically structured course draws on theoretical understanding of historical development to inspire and enhance students’ critical engagement with ways in which the two world wars historically refashioned notions about gender, race/ethnicity, class and social identity, thereby transforming London.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
History of Art and Architecture
- CAS AH 319 Arts and Media in Britain: Decades of Culture (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Social Inquiry I
- This course offers a historical and sociological understanding of post-war and contemporary British arts (visual arts, performing arts, pop music, literature and architecture) and media (BBC, newspapers and the commercial broadcasters), plus practical knowledge of journalistic reviewing skills.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS AH 320 Modern and Contemporary British Art and Design (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Historical Consciousness
- The course provides an overview of Modern and Contemporary British Art and Design through the critical historical and aesthetic evaluation of art works and the institutions that house them within London’s permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS AH 381 London Architecture & Urbanism (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Historical Consciousness
- This course introduces the history and development of London and its buildings. It is aimed at a wide audience, not architectural specialists. Different styles of architecture and their origins will be explored through a combination of lectures and walking tours.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS AH 388 British Painting 1500-1900: From Holbein to the Pre-Raphaelites (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Historical Consciousness
- The course provides an overview of ‘British Painting 1500-1900: From Holbein to the Pre-Raphaelites’ through a critical, aesthetic and historical exploration of selected art works and the institutions that house them within London’s permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS AH 411 Exploring Art and History in London: The Value of Art (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Aesthetic Exploration
- Creativity/Innovation
- Recommended elective for Arts & Arts Administration Track
- Art has many values: aesthetic, commercial, social, personal, and our responses depend on our own culture, education and life experience. Is art necessary? This course examines these and other topics whose common focus is the relationship between art and society.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
International Relations
- CAS IR 335/CAS PO 220 Britain and Europe—A New Beginning? (4 credits)Effective
Fall '22- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Examines the changing social, cultural, political, and economic structures of Britain at the end of the twentieth century. Introduction to current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in its relationship with Europe.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS IR 336/CAS EC 330 European Business Environment: Institutions and Enterprise (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Provides learning and skills at the interface between international business, international relations, and other disciplines, through studying the system of EU “Competences” that provides comprehensive rules of conduct for firms. Includes Briefings by officials from EU Institutions, designed to build/test research/teamwork skills.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS IR 359/PO 221 British Political Institutions in Theory and Practice: A Comparative Perspective (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry I
- Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy
- Critical Thinking
- Our course examines British political institutions’ layers of governance and actors with positive and normative reference to American and other political systems and equips you with a wide range of cases and concepts for critical analysis and constructive evaluation.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS IR 361/PO 225 Understanding British Foreign and Domestic Policy Processes (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry I
- Ethical Reasoning
- This course introduces students to the various processes, arrangements, and networks through which policy is made in the UK government for both the domestic and international spheres. There is a focus on foreign and defence policy.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS IR 392/HI 243 Crises and Readjustments in Post-War British Foreign Policy, 1945-1990 (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Social Inquiry I
- Research and Information Literacy
- In this course you will investigate Britain’s relative decline as a world power, focusing on a succession of crises, small wars, and policy readjustments in the context of end of empire, the Cold War, and European integration.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS IR 427 International Business in a European Framework (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Students enrolled in Questrom IM 345 are not permitted to take CAS IR 427.
- You will understand the importance of strategic management in international business, primarily across the United Kingdom and Europe, as it relates to innovation, competition, differing business cultures, policy-directed systems of regulation, financial market shocks and shifting corporate ethics.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
Journalism
- COM JO 358 British Journalism, Culture, and Society (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Creativity/Innovation
- Covers the workings of the British State and the obsessions and quirks of British culture so students can understand UK newspapers, and helps students build upon their own feature writing output from conception to completion.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
Management
- Questrom IM 345 International Management Environment (4 credits)
- Prerequisites: CAS EC 101 and CAS EC 102, or the equivalent (prereq only required for BU Questrom students).
- Students enrolled in Questrom IM 345 are not permitted to take CAS IR 427.
- This course has been designed to appeal to students who wish to gain an international perspective on the environment faced by business organizations. In today’s business environment, with the pressures of an evolving global economy, managers must take into account the many ways in which differences are apparent when compared with the domestic scene. Managers must adapt their approaches to take account of the strong international competition, which is increasingly apparent and which is critical to successful business performance. They also need to be informed as to how firm strategies may be developed. It is a must for business students to learn the international dimensions of business activities in order to be successful in today’s business world.
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- Questrom FE 449 Corporate Finance Management (4)
- Prerequisite: FE 323 Financial Management, or the equivalent
- Covers the financial manager's role in obtaining and allocating funds. Includes topics such as cash budgeting, working capital analysis, dividend policy, capital investment analysis, and debt policy as well as their associated risks. Valuation of companies, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy are covered. The course requires using financial models and spreadsheets. Applications are made to current events and everyday business finance problems.
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- Questrom MK 467 Global Marketing Management (4)
- Prerequisite: Questrom MK 323, or the equivalent.
- Develops a critical appreciation of both the opportunities and challenges associated with the increasing globalization of markets. Students will learn about the key environmental forces shaping the needs and preferences of the global consumer and the impact of foreign, political, and economic factors on the marketing mix.
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Mathematics and Statistics
- CAS MA 113 Elementary Statistics (4 credits)Effective
Fall '18- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Critical Thinking
- Quantitative Reasoning II
- Priority will be given to Sargent College students enrolled in the Psychology & Health Sciences Track.
- Basic concepts of estimation and tests of hypotheses, ideas from probability; one-, two-, and multiple-sample problems. Applications will be in social sciences and students will be able to understand the basics of using a sample to predict uncertainty. CAS MA 113 may not be taken for credit by any student who has completed any MA course numbered 300 or higher. Students may receive credit for not more than one of the following courses: CAS MA 113, MA 115, or MA 213. Carries MCS divisional credit in CAS.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
Politics
- CAS PO 220/CAS IR 335 Britain and Europe—A New Beginning? (4 credits)Effective
Fall '22- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
- Examines the changing social, cultural, political, and economic structures of Britain at the end of the twentieth century. Introduction to current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in its relationship with Europe.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS PO 221/IR 359 British Political Institutions in Theory and Practice: A Comparative Perspective (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry I
- Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy
- Critical Thinking
- Our course examines British political institutions’ layers of governance and actors with positive and normative reference to American and other political systems and equips you with a wide range of cases and concepts for critical analysis and constructive evaluation.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS PO 222 The English Legal System (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Social Inquiry I
- Explores the historical development and current iteration of the English common law and the English legal system. Traces evolution from 11th century origins to present day. Examines in depth contemporary aspects of the legal professions, judiciary and legislatures of England.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS PO 223 Issues in Contemporary Politics and Ethics (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Historical Consciousness
- Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
- Critical Thinking
- This course examines the historical origins of and diverse philosophical positions on various contentious political and ethical issues today. Through reading, writing, exhibition or theatre visits and discussion, students will be encouraged and guided to foster a critical stance.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- CAS PO 224 Current British Legal Issues (4)
- This course will examine a range of important, controversial issues in contemporary British law. As the aim is to relate to current matters, the issues will vary each semester, but are likely to include such topics as the law and terrorism; law and morality; the new British Supreme Court; and the Right to Know. Cousins, Sullivan.
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Psychology & Health Sciences
- CAS PS 365 Psychology and Social Issues: British Perspectives (4 credits)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- Individual in Community
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- This course will consider the value of contemporary theories and research in social psychology for understanding and addressing a number of current issues facing Britain today: violence and social disorder, immigration and asylum seeking; attitudes to gender and sexual diversity.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- SAR HP 522 Health and Wellbeing across the Life Course (4)
- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
- Social Inquiry II
- Ethical Reasoning
- Critical Thinking
- Priority will be given to Sargent College students.
- The course considers British perspectives on major challenges to health and wellbeing facing individuals and communities over the life course. You will develop skills in critical thinking about research and ethics in addressing such challenges through policy and practical initiatives.
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- This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
Housing & Student Services
- Accommodations for the Fall and Spring semester London Programs are residence hall style suites in BU’s own housing. Bedrooms consist of doubles, triples, and quads and all bedrooms come with an en suite bathroom. Please note that housing for the Summer London Internship Program is in a variety of locations in central London, and Summer London Internship students commute to classes and to internships.
- Limited single rooms may be available for an additional charge.
- Fully equipped kitchens are available within BU housing. Kitchens are shared between approximately 6-14 students.
- Board is not included in this program. Students are responsible for budgeting their own cost of meals.
- BU London does not have dining hall facilities, but there are ample grocery stores, restaurants, and other amenities in the immediate areas surrounding the residences.
- All buildings are within walking distance to local transportation, including the London Tube and bus systems. Students commute to their internships using public transportation.
- Card-operated laundry facilities are located in the basements of all residences. Cost of laundry is not included in the program fee.
- Students have access to the BU London Library for research and printing purposes. For recreational and social activities, students may take advantage of the BU London Social Programme as well as the clubs and societies of Imperial College London.
- Wi-Fi is available throughout all the BU buildings.
Program Dates
- Fall Semester: late August to mid-December
Application Timeline
This program follows rolling admissions and may fill before the official deadline.
Fall Semester
- Applications Open December 15
- Applications Deadline March 15
This program is rolling admissions; applications are reviewed once all application materials are received, prior to all deadlines. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that all required materials are received by the BU Study Abroad office. Students are encouraged to apply as early as possible as some programs and internship tracks have limited space and may fill up before the deadline. Submitting a complete application prior to the application deadline, does not guarantee acceptance. Students will be emailed an admissions decision within three weeks of a completed application.
Information for BU Students Awaiting an Admissions Decision and exceptions to the standard admission calendar for all students can be found here.
Cost & Financial Considerations
- 2024/2025 Tuition and Fees: $40,434
Cost includes tuition, housing, program related activities, administrative fee, overseas medical insurance, and emergency evacuation coverage. - Estimated program budget, including cost of living expenses
- Grants and Scholarships available