Help Fuel Edgar's Academic Adventure in the UK
My Travel Story
It's been my dream to travel to Europe for the longest time, but I never really had the opportunity to do so. Growing up, my family's financial situation wasn't the best and traveling was something I always yearned. Now, I finally have a wonderful opportunity to travel and get ahead in my schooling at the same time. This study abroad program will count towards two upper-division English courses, as I'll be doing actual classes and extracurriculars pertaining to the courses (which the professor has set up) in London.
This is where it gets kinda muddy. The overall cost for the program is $6,944.29 as tuition is $2,482.92 and the remaining cost covers housing accommodations, classroom fees, and program excursions. In addition, the program doesn't include international airfare, so that's one cost I had to pay out of pocket. I had enough saved up to pay for my round-trip airplane ticket, which was $1.2K, and I have enough to cover the $2,482.92 for tuition... I'm just short of the remaining program fees, which is about $4,461.
I know this seems kinda pricey, but it's worth it! Not everyone can say they had the opportunity to study abroad in the UK, haha, and I definitely don't wanna pass it up. Anything helps, really. I greatly appreciate it, thank you so so much.
Here's the official program description from UCR if anyone's interested:
"Austen and the City" offers students the opportunity to experience the cultural transformation of Romantic-era revolutions by connecting the groundbreaking works of authors like Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, Percy Shelley, Friedrich Engels, and more to the places that inspired them. Students will learn how these authors were awed, disgusted, amused, or motivated by the people and places around them.
Bath was a holiday town where fashionable society came to mingle, and Jane Austen was right there to document their human foibles with acerbic wit and moving characterizations, especially in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Although we'll be based in London, we will take a trip to Bath to see how the landed gentry lived it up in the southern English countryside, away from the urban noise of London. With walking tours, a visit to the Jane Austen Centre, and a bus trip to Chawton House, students will see how an industrializing empire tried hard to maintain fictions of gentility, picturesque gardens, and bucolic bliss. In addition to English 128J's focus on Jane Austen, students will also experience in English 166T the darker urbanity of Romantic literature with the work of someone like William Blake. There will be a hands-on tutorial with Blake's unique printmaking process that allowed him to meld visual and verbal art into idiosyncratic expression and revolutionary mythmaking. Michael Phillips has recreated Blake's copper plates, ink blends, and even his star press so that students can experience first-hand how Blake had to create his own printing process to do justice to his anti-industrial, anti-capitalist, and anti-establishment verse.
This program exposes students to these generative contradictions of Romantic-era England to show how this era dealt with issues that we're still grappling with today. In the ruptures of these contradictions, these authors dared to envision a world without perpetual war, the abolition of the slave trade, the flourishing of professional women writers, and the world-shaking agency of the human imagination.
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