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Where you go!
Every summer, rising junior UNC Asheville Teaching Fellows participate in
a 4-week travel and study abroad program. Destination: Lucy Cavendish
College at the prestigious Cambridge University.
What You'll Do!
The Junior Enrichment Experience includes three weeks of classes with a
long weekend and one full week of independent travel and experiences with
new and old friends. Travel the whole island, hit some neighboring spots
in the water, or go mainland on your 3 day weekend and one week of travel.
Why It Is So Fantastic!
Before they ever come to Asheville, many Teaching Fellows are already
dreaming of their trip to England. Sponsored by UNCA as a part of the
Teaching Fellows Junior Enrichment activities and partially funded by UNCA
endowments, the Cambridge Experience takes students to Lucy Cavendish
College in Cambridge for three weeks of study and cultural exchange. UNCA
Teaching Fellows are awarded $1,500 scholarship to use toward this
program.
Participants receive up to seven hours of university honors credit in arts
and humanities. "What better way to focus on issues and ideas in art than
to use the museums, theaters, concerts, and architecture of England as a
major resource and laboratory?" said Brenda Hopper, Director of UNCA
Teaching Fellows Program. "And, while on site, students become
familiarized with the history of western civilization with emphasis upon
Britain's role in the world community."
In addition to course work in Honors Arts 310 and Honors Humanities 324,
taught by UNCA professors, students are given opportunities to visit
public and private schools. There they study the difference between American and
British educational systems and discuss issues mutually important to
American and British education. Learning continues outside of the
classroom as students take side-trips to places such as Canterbury, Dover,
Bury St. Edmunds, Ely Cathedral, Lincoln Castle, Stonehenge, Blenheim Castle,
Bath, London and the Globe Theater to attend a performance by the Royal
Shakespeare Company. These excursions give students the opportunity to
tour cathedrals, castles, historic sites and to visit museums such as the
Fitzwilliam, the British Museum and the Tate Gallery.
After three weeks of formal classroom study, students are able to continue
their travels independently. Many students remain in Great Britain to
explore Scotland, Ireland, or Wales, while others cross the channel to
visit countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and the
Netherlands.
Additional multi cultural opportunities are offered to the UNCA Teaching
Fellows in annual trips to national and international cities. Aside from
Cambridge, England, these Teaching Fellows have visited and toured schools
in New York, New Orleans, Savannah, Atlanta, San Francisco, and
Washington, DC.
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