{"id":2563,"date":"2025-07-22T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/?post_type=bu-program-page&#038;p=2563"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:06:11","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"bu-program-page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/degree-program\/london-history\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"London History Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/wp-content\/plugins\/bu-front-end-library\/js\/collapsible.js?ver=5.4.2\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<nav class=\"toc-wrapper\" id=\"toc\" aria-label=\"Page Section Navigation\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"toc-heading toc-nav-toggle\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle Page Contents Navigation\" aria-expanded=\"true\">Page Contents<\/span><\/nav>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2>Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students have one required class and one research seminar. They will also&nbsp;take two electives,&nbsp;for a total of 16 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are required to take the following class and research seminar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Required Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS HI 246<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"course-title\">London: Imperial Capital to Globalised City (1666- present)<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n\r\nThis course covers the social, economic and cultural history of London since 1666; how it developed from a modest-sized English capital to capital of the British Empire, before being eclipsed by non-European cities, and then emerging as a multi-cultural global city.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Research and Information Literacy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS HI 432<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"course-title\">Research Seminar and Tutorial in English History<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n\r\nLearn how to research and interrogate primary and secondary sources while attending small seminars and personalised, specialist meetings with your instructor. You will research and write a 5,000 word British history paper on a topic of your own choosing.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Writing Intensive<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Critical Thinking<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"--height_percent: 0%;\" data-height=\"0%\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Students choose one &#8220;Elective A&#8221; course for the first part of the term, and one &#8220;Elective B&#8221;\u00a0course for the second part of the term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Elective A Course List<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS AH 319<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Arts and Media in Britain<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>This course is designed as an introduction to the arts in Britain. The course should serve to widen specialists\u2019 knowledge, and to provide non-specialists with an overview. The course should cover core elements on such subjects as funding, institutions, accessibility, and value of British Arts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Social Inquiry I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS AH 388<\/span>\n<span class=\"course-title\">British Painting 1500-1900: From Holbein to the Pre-Raphaelites<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n\nThe course provides an overview of \u2018British Painting 1500-1900: From Holbein to the Pre-Raphaelites\u2019 through a critical, aesthetic and historical exploration of selected art works and the institutions that house them in London\u2019s permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.\n<ul>\n \t<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n \t<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EC 322<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">The Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Social Inquiry II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EC 330\/CAS IR 336<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">European Business Environment: Institutions and Enterprise<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>Provides learning and skills at the interface between international business, international relations, and other disciplines, through studying the system of EU \u201cCompetences\u201d that provides comprehensive rules of conduct for firms. Includes Briefings by officials from EU Institutions, designed to build\/test research\/teamwork skills.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Inquiry II<\/li>\n<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\n<li>Teamwork\/Collaboration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EC 346<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">European Capital Markets<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Quantitative Reasoning I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EN 310<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">The Waste Land: British and Irish Writing since 1900<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><em>Recommended elective for all tracks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crossing TS Eliot\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EN 387<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">The Writer In The World: Meet the Writer<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n<li>Creativity\/Innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS HI 249\/WS 310<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">London Women\u2019s Social History: From Aphra Behn to the Blitz<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>Students on this course will analyse London women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Research and Information Literacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS HI 250<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">British Youth Culture from 1950 to the Present <\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Inquiry I<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS HI 252\/WS 310<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Class, Politics and the Making of British Identity<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>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 \u2018invented\u2019 and contested nature of British identity is the outcome.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS MA 113<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Elementary Statistics<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>Basic concepts of estimation and tests of hypotheses, ideas from probability; one-, two-, and multiple-sample problems. Applications in social sciences. Primarily for students in the social sciences who require a one-semester introduction to statistics; others should consider CAS MA 115 or MA 213. Please note that students cannot get credit for both CAS MA 113 and CAS MA 115. Carries MCS divisional credit in CAS.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Quantitative Reasoning II<\/li>\n<li>Critical Thinking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS PO 220\/IR 335<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Britain and Europe\u2014A New Beginning?<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n<p>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.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\r\n<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CFA TH 508<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Theatre Capital: Performance in London\/London in Performance<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n<p><em>Enrollment limited<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Provides students with access to contemporary British theatre and the critical tools to understand and enjoy theatre from the perspectives of the playbooks and the productions themselves. This course surveys and offers explanation of the major developments that have taken place in British theatre since 1956. Coursework focuses on students&#8217; theatre visits, which occur once every week and include both mainstream and fringe theatre productions. The plays are discussed prior to attendance, and students are expected to provide a critique of the works they have seen.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\r\n<li>Philosophical Inquiry and Life\u2019s Meanings<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">COM CM 334<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Advertising in the UK<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n<p><em>Recommended elective for Advertising, Marketing &amp; Public Relations.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Focuses on London\u2019s 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.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Creativity and Innovation<\/li>\r\n<li>Digital\/Multimedia Expression<\/li>\r\n<li>Teamwork\/Collaboration<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">COM CM 457<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Seminar in Global Promotional Strategies<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Inquiry II<\/li>\n<li>Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy<\/li>\n<li>Critical Thinking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">COM FT 318<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">British Television: From the BBC to the Streaming Age<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n<p>Examines the content and form of British television programs, contrasting it with American programming. Special emphasis is placed on the study of genres and conventions. Genres will focus on drama, news, comedy, consumer affairs, children\u2019s television, sports, and others, and these are explored in the light of Britain\u2019s cultural and political identity.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\r\n<li>Creativity\/Innovation<\/li>\r\n<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">QST FE 449<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Corporate Finance Management<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n<p><em>Prerequisite: FE 323 Financial Management<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Covers the financial manager&#8217;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<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Elective B Course List<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS AH 381<\/span><br \/><span class=\"course-title\">London Architecture &amp; Urbanism<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p><em>Recommended elective for Arts &amp; Arts Administration Track<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Historical Consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EN 357<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Modern British Drama: A Critic&#8217;s Perspective <\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<li class=\"hub-course\"><strong>BU Hub areas:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Critical Thinking<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic Exploration<\/li>\n<li>Ethical Reasoning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EN 368<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Seminar in Shakespeare Studies<\/span><\/h6>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<p>This course aims to provide the student with an appreciation of the nature of Shakespeare\u2019s 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\u2019s genius, and of the myriad ways in which meanings are expressed through the language, imagery, structure, and dramatic possibilities of the works themselves.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Units:<\/strong> 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container course hub\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\r\n<h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"button\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"course-code\">CAS EN 388<\/span><br><span class=\"course-title\">Historical Fictions: Retrospection in Contemporary British Literature<\/span><\/h6>\r\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\r\n<p>An introduction to the psyche, culture, history, and writers of 21st century British literature, confronting aspects of the human condition. 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