UC Center, London

The Internship Workforce course provides students with an overview of working in the United Kingdom. The course looks at the changing organizational structures of work in Britain. It examines the social and economic changes that affect the workplace in the UK. Topics covered include: sociology of work, trade unions, 0ppression at work, generational changes at work, and the future of work. An internship while studying in London provides an opportunity to experience a “hands on” working situation and a different perspective on the workplace and working practises, while developing professional skills.
 

This course focuses on the development of ‘modern’ London (c.1800 to the present day) to explore a set of wider intellectual issues about the nature of cities and urban ways of life. It takes an interdisciplinary perspective drawing upon a range of and scholarship –including social and cultural history, art history, geography, and sociology –central to the broad field of urban studies. Three sets of interrelated themes provide a theoretical focus: modernity and the city; landscapes of power and inequality; and culture, identity and urban space. The three main sections of the course deal with key periods of in the history of modern London. The first part of the course, London: Capital of Modernity, examines the ways in which London became a ‘modern’ city in the 19th Century. The second part of the course, The Challenge of Modernity: London in the Twentieth Century, considers London in the turbulent decades of the early 20th Century and the efforts to repair bomb damaged London and the comprehensive reconstruction of some parts of the city after World War Two, The third part of the course, Global London: Transforming Society and Space,  studies in depth some of the major features of the city in the later 20th and early 21st Centuries, focusing on London’s global city characteristics and considers intellectual debates about contemporary society and culture in an urban context.