Center for Global Studies
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 3707
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 1-307-766-3889
Email: cgs@uwyo.edu
By spending time with international experts and visiting relevant locations in Scotland, London, Amsterdam, and Paris, students analyzed the different forms of theft that directly impact museums: cultural, fraudulent, and physical. Students were introduced to the laws of governing and the circumstances behind topics regarding visual arts as cultural goods, international theft and smuggling of works of art, forgery, art museums, architectural preservation, and related matter.
Students immersed in Scottish rural culture, weaving together themes from economics, business, food science, marketing, tourism and entrepreneurship, with subthemes from music, history, literature and art.
Students took a tour in time from 1750-2050. Back to the future they went, beginning with the premier storyteller of his time, Walter Scott, at his “flibbertigibbet of a house,” Abbotsford. There are stories of coalmines and salt pans, technological innovation and invention, tales of forests lost and regrown. This class traveled from crofter’s field to church crypt, from river path to mountain top to ask, “What happened here?” And how is this political and physical landscape in flux? The course explored the cultural and environmental histories and futures of Scotland, with emphasis on contemporary energy and sustainable systems from the community to the national scale.
Center for Global Studies
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 3707
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 1-307-766-3889
Email: cgs@uwyo.edu