BCLA Global Immersion Courses are on-campus classes, which each include a week-long abroad trip. With a Global Immersion Course, you can get out of the classroom to study a topic in-depth at the source with faculty experts. Most classes are open to all students, many fulfill at least one core requirement, and need-based financial assistance is available to help you go. If you want an abroad experience but cannot commit to a full semester program, or you want an international perspective on your major course of study, a BCLA Global Immersion Course is a great way to grow your global imagination.
DETAILS
- Courses are 1 to 4 units, like standard BCLA courses.
- Most course trips take place over spring break.
- A lab fee covers airfare, lodging, and activities for the trip. Financial assistance is available, and an application to apply for scholarships will be available in November. Questions regarding financial aid can be directed to Jasmine.Hamm@lmu.edu.
HOW TO REGISTER
- Register through PROWL as you would for a typical course.
- Reach out to the professor directly to ask questions about the course content or trip details.
SPRING 2024 GLOBAL IMMERSION COURSES
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Immersion to: Oxford and London, United Kingdom
Trip Dates: February 23 – March 2, 2024
Course Meeting Times: MW 1:45 - 3:25 p.m.
Professor: Amy Woodson-Boulton
Prerequisites: N/A
Core: Engaged Learning (LENL), Interdisciplinary Connections (IINC)
History Concentration: HIST: Public & Applied History (HPAH)
Lab Fee: $1,950
Financial assistance availableCourse Description: Museums are very weird places. If you don’t think so, you haven’t thought about or visited them enough. What are they supposed to do, and what did the people who built them hope to achieve? What strange power do they have that makes us quiet when we walk into them? Art and artifacts represent or evoke places, bringing landscapes into cities, or introducing you to entirely different ways of relating to nature and the world. At the same time, our landscapes have become museums, embedded with ruins and markers, street signs and names, monuments and historic sites. In other places, people have gone to great lengths to forget, erasing particular histories from public memory. Some landscapes get used for mines, plantations, or industry; others get set aside for exclusive or public use. This course will tackle these issues (and more!) by thinking about museums, landscape, and empire together, in the context of modern Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire. We will have the opportunity to travel to London and Oxford during Spring Break, in order to see some of these places in person. At the end of the semester, HIST 3910 students will put on a pop-up exhibition, so you will put your studies into practice, including audio guides/podcasts, publicity/posters, content creation, and exhibition design.
Questions? Email Amy Woodson-Boulton at amy.woodson-boulton@lmu.edu
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Immersion to: Oxford and London, United Kingdom
Trip Dates: February 23 – March 2, 2024
Course Meeting Times: MW 11:50 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Professor: Elizabeth Drummond
Prerequisites: N/A
Core: Engaged Learning (LENL)
History Concentration: HIST: Public & Applied History (HPAH)
Lab Fee: $1,950
Financial assistance availableCourse Description: Has the sun set on empire? In Empire, Migration, and Reparations, we will explore the history of European empires and their legacies. We will discuss the "new imperialism" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including imperial ideologies, structures of empire, the experiences of both imperialists and colonial subjects, and anti-imperialist resistance, with a focus on the British, French, and German empires in Africa and Asia. We will also examine one of the major legacies of empire, migration from the colonies and former colonies to Europe, including the recent histories of Black and Muslim European communities and how European countries have grappled with postcolonial multiculturalism. Throughout the course, and especially during the immersion trip to Oxford and London, we will grapple with issues related to public history – questions of representation and commemoration, analyzing how these histories of empire and migration have been told and engaging the many and vibrant debates about representation, reparations, and the repatriation of colonial artifacts.
Questions? Email Elizabeth Drummond at elizabeth.drummond@lmu.edu
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Immersion to: Bali, Indonesia
Trip Dates: May 9 - 18, 2024
Course Meeting Times: TR 1:45 - 3:25 p.m.
Professor: Bernadette Musetti
Prerequisites: Liberal Studies majors only
Lab Fee: $3,850
Financial assistance availableCourse Description: In this course students examine global issues in the context of education and educational institutions with an emphasis on ecological literacy. The focus of this course is on how our educational institutions prepare students to understand, critically evaluate, and act on complex issues in immediate, local contexts, as well as in the larger global context of an increasingly interconnected world, where disparities of many types continue to grow. Students address critical questions such as: What does it mean to be an aware and responsible local and global citizen and how can education promote such? How can education become a more powerful vehicle for promoting greater peace, justice, equity, and resilience in our world?
Questions? Email Bernadette Musetti at bernadette.musetti@lmu.edu