Oberlin in london program

Oberlin-in-London is an Oberlin College program. Students on the program are registered at Oberlin, and their courses are Oberlin College courses, so there is no need to transfer credits or financial aid. Moreover, the Financial Aid office adjusts aid packages to take account of those living costs—mainly housing—which are higher in London.

See more testimonials. The application portal for the Fall Program is now open. Applications will close on November 8, For more information or questions about the Oberlin-in-London Program, contact Maureen Peters, Professor of Biology and chair of the London Program Committee, with academic and curricular questions; the Office of Study Away with questions regarding details of studying abroad; or Twila Colley on matters relating to application and program administration.

Peters oberlin. The Oberlin-in-London Program Welcome to the London Blogs This site allows current students and faculty of the Oberlin-in-London Program to share their experiences of the program, especially for the benefit of those who may be interested in applying for future semesters.

We encourage you to interact with us as we document our adventures. About the Program Oberlin's London Program is a life-changing experience: a chance to study with a small group of motivated students and stimulating faculty in an extraordinary city, in the presence of great museums, music, theater, history, and a thriving and diverse culture.

More information. David Walker '72 Teaching a program this intimate and intensive, you can't help getting attached. David Walker '72 The politics group visits South Tyneside. Her name's Tracy Chevalier , and you may know her as the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and other novels:.

Most serious English majors applied for it; the few who went on it felt incredibly privileged. We had studied literature among the cornfields of Ohio; now we were going to the source of the spring. I became a more informed reader while there, more sensitive to the texture of place and culture. And going to the theatre times a week opened up a whole new art form to me, as well as the critical tools I needed to analyze and discuss it. But my experience was not all intellectual. The London Program changed me in other ways too.

Before it I had not travelled a lot, nor thought much about other cultures, other histories, other perspectives. In London I had my first Indian curry. The first time I heard a person of color speak with an English accent was in London. I raised my first pint of Guinness in a pub in London, where I heard firsthand IRA sympathizers explaining their twisted logic. In London I was for the first time criticized for being American, and it made me think about my mother country's politics and my own responsibility for my actions.

None of this would have happened if I had remained in Oberlin for that semester. I fell in love with London. Afterwards I knew I had to go back, and moved to London soon after graduating in I've been here ever since.

The Danenberg Oberlin-in-London program is a mind-expanding experience for Oberlin students. It changed me permanently, opening my mind and my heart to a wider, more varied and complicated view of the world than I would have found in Ohio.

Without it I doubt I would ever have had the international perspective to write Girl with a Pearl Earring and my other novels. Not all my London students go on to become world-famous novelists--but I do believe that the London program is a life-changing experience for most of them.

Abby is going on the program next spring and will be able to blog about it, so stay tuned for details of her experience. And I'm excited that I will be teaching in London again in the spring of , along with my colleague Marc Blecher from the Politics Department.