UW in Scotland: Past Courses

Utilizing Scotland and England as a setting and construct, this adventure involves meaningful discussion of Enlightenment philosophy, visual art, and architecture.  Earlier monuments, such as castles and cathedrals, as emblems of power and authority, will be explored to contextualize the history of this region. In Edinburgh, visits to museums will prompt consideration of the plasticity of identity in 18th-century portraiture. Participants will also stay at Abbotsford in the bucolic Lowlands to further understand Sir Walter Scott as an agent of change in Scottish history. In London, lavish palaces, Enlightenment-era homes, and museums will facilitate further engagement in this potent time period.

Courses:

• POLS 2460: Intro to Political Thought
• POLS 47104: Topics: Scottish Enlightenment
• ART 3002: Topics
• HP 4152

Faculty:

• Brent Pickett
• Valerie Innella Maiers

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.

Courses:

• LAW 6915: The Intersection of Criminal Law and Museum Studies in Europe
• HP 4152: Criminal Law in Europe
• HP 4152: Museum Studies in Europe

Faculty:

• Darrell Jackson (Law)
• Nicole Crawford (Art Museum)

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.

Courses:

• 4152-01: Marketing the Land and Selling the Brand
• 4152-02: Succeeding in Scottish Rural Development and Tourism

Faculty:

• Mariah Ehmke (Agricultural Economics)
• Cole Ehmke (Extension)

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.

Courses:

• 4152-01: Inspiration, Imagination, Innovation
• 4152-02: Earth, Energy, and Culture in Scotland