Southeastern Louisiana University

Join us in Edinburgh, Scotland!

This program is going again in 2010!  Contact Dr. Jeffrey Bell or Dr. Peter Petrakis in the Department of History and Political Science for more Information and don't forget to start your application process in the Fall of 2009! 

Edinburgh, a name derived from "Eiden's Burgh", meaning Eiden's Fort, is located in the South East of Scotland.  Edinburgh has been the capital city of Scotland since replacing Scone as the capital in 1437. 

The city, led by the University of Edinburgh, was one of the major cities of the Enlightenment.

"Edinburgh has a long literary tradition, going back to the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh's Enlightenment produced philosopher David Hume and the pioneer of economics, Adam Smith. Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh. J K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, is a resident of Edinburgh. Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin; and the work of Leith native Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots. Edinburgh is also home to Alexander McCall Smith and a number of his book series. Edinburgh has also been declared the first UNESCO City of Literature."

"Edinburgh is home to a large number of museums and libraries, especially ones that are considered the main national institutions, the most important are the Museum of Scotland, the Royal Museum, the National Library of Scotland, National War Museum of Scotland, the Museum of Edinburgh, Museum of Childhood and the Royal Society of Edinburgh."

The above is a quotation from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh

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 Program Dates:

July 5th - August 9th, 2010

Trip Dates:

July 10th- July 31th, 2010

Program Cost:

$3,740 per student

(subject to change)

Tentative Courses:

Humanities 200 Cultural Studies of Scotland

Political Science 480/580 Special Topics: Comparative Law

Political Science 400 Independent Study

Philosophy 417/517 Intellectual History

Philosophy 314 Special Topics:  Scottish Enlightenment

History 498/598 Special Topics in History

History 439/539 Hanoverian and Victorian Britian