Info Session_CEHS Study Abroad London 2024

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Nebraska Abroad: Exploring Children's Literature in London (http://https://unl-global-experiences.via-trm.com/program_brochure/18829) Program dates: May 22 - June 12, 2024

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[00:00:01.860]So we are, so the study abroad that we are talking about
[00:00:09.750]is the Exploring Children's Literature Study Abroad
[00:00:11.970]happening this summer 2024 in London, England.
[00:00:17.070]And the focus is on exploring children's literature.
[00:00:21.180]If you are an undergraduate in elementary education,
[00:00:25.020]this is TEAC 302 is that course,
[00:00:28.320]it fits within your program of study as a required course.
[00:00:32.970]So that's really helpful that way.
[00:00:36.900]And so in this first couple of minutes,
[00:00:39.030]I really want to go over kind of give you an idea of who is,
[00:00:43.020]who am I
[00:00:43.853]and why would you maybe want to go to London with me?
[00:00:47.310]Why children's literature?
[00:00:49.530]What is this class gonna be like,
[00:00:51.600]what is London like, what's the timeline?
[00:00:55.110]So we're gonna go over a lot of those questions
[00:00:58.110]in this kind of 15 to 20 minute brief overview.
[00:01:03.690]So this is our agenda.
[00:01:05.440]Let's get going.
[00:01:08.760]There's gonna be two of us on this trip,
[00:01:12.060]assuming that it makes, I'm Nick.
[00:01:14.610]I am an Associate Professor
[00:01:16.170]of Elementary Literacy Education here at UNL.
[00:01:20.100]And I've loved London, I love children's literature.
[00:01:24.150]I love that London offers us
[00:01:27.480]such a rich opportunity to study children's literature.
[00:01:30.720]It's the home of Randolph Caldecott who really is credited
[00:01:34.680]with the first children's picture books,
[00:01:39.990]really the guy who started children's literature.
[00:01:42.960]I'm gonna be joined by Shawna Newman,
[00:01:44.910]who's an Academic Advisor here
[00:01:46.590]in the College of Education and Human Sciences.
[00:01:49.470]And we're going to be your team when we're over there.
[00:01:57.420]I have been to London,
[00:02:00.510]I think it's eight times now, seven times now.
[00:02:03.480]And it never gets old ever.
[00:02:08.820]London is just a magical city.
[00:02:12.030]It's always surprising.
[00:02:15.000]I love London in late May in particular,
[00:02:19.020]which is when this trip would be,
[00:02:20.790]late May through early June,
[00:02:22.890]the weather is kind of chef's kiss perfect.
[00:02:26.760]And you miss the rainy season,
[00:02:30.180]like the rainy season ends in around April.
[00:02:32.670]You'll still occasionally get a shower,
[00:02:34.500]like what's a trip to London
[00:02:36.900]without a little bit of London rain?
[00:02:39.150]But the weather typically tends to be fairly temperate,
[00:02:42.480]which makes it great walking and just a delightful time.
[00:02:48.971]Some of the things that I truly love about London are one,
[00:02:52.770]the people are super welcoming.
[00:02:54.600]It's just such a delightful city to be in.
[00:02:59.430]People are friendly.
[00:03:00.840]There's something for everyone to do
[00:03:04.290]whether you love art or you really love to window shop
[00:03:10.650]or you really love to spend time in a park.
[00:03:14.010]Like there are so many things
[00:03:16.835]that you can do within London that are walkable and doable.
[00:03:21.930]And I have not been disappointed
[00:03:25.230]by a trip to London yet.
[00:03:27.683]So London is really magical.
[00:03:29.700]And one of the things
[00:03:31.620]that I am personally most excited for here
[00:03:34.080]is I am excited to see folks
[00:03:39.990]who have not yet been to London,
[00:03:41.820]get to experience it for the first time
[00:03:43.500]because it was so magical for me the first time
[00:03:47.820]10 years ago, stepping off the plane going,
[00:03:49.717]"Oh my gosh, I'm in London"
[00:03:52.380]and I'm super excited to see
[00:03:54.570]and be with you to experience that,
[00:03:56.940]like it's just such a different vibe.
[00:04:00.660]It's such a different like place.
[00:04:03.120]There's, yes, they speak English.
[00:04:06.300]So like the language thing isn't a problem,
[00:04:17.090]but like my biggest concern for all of us
[00:04:19.860]is not to get hit by a car
[00:04:21.180]'cause they drive on the opposite side of the road,
[00:04:23.700]and so crossing the road is actually kind of tricky
[00:04:27.570]'cause you have to retrain yourself
[00:04:29.821]to look the opposite direction.
[00:04:34.080]So that's one of my big,
[00:04:37.483]that's like probably my biggest concern.
[00:04:39.450]But London is magical
[00:04:41.850]and I'm so excited to explore that with y'all.
[00:04:46.860]So in London, like I said,
[00:04:49.470]it's the birthplace of children's literature.
[00:04:51.240]So how can you not have a study abroad to London?
[00:04:55.830]And so I wanna give you a little bit
[00:04:58.530]of a sense of what this is gonna be like.
[00:05:01.620]One of the things that I love about a study abroad trip
[00:05:06.060]is you are there long enough
[00:05:09.540]that you can start to take the city
[00:05:11.430]or this space a little bit for granted
[00:05:13.200]'cause we would have three weeks,
[00:05:15.090]we have about 21 days in the city,
[00:05:17.850]which gives us a chance to kind of slow down
[00:05:22.050]and pretend that we live in the city.
[00:05:24.300]And so I've really designed the course
[00:05:27.720]in such a way that helps us dig into the city
[00:05:30.870]to understand London a little bit differently
[00:05:34.290]while also coming to understand children's literature.
[00:05:37.830]So I'm gonna show you some book selections
[00:05:45.809]'cause I'm gonna show you
[00:05:47.940]the overall structure of the class.
[00:05:50.370]And then we'll talk about some of the connections
[00:05:52.740]that we'll foster with London
[00:05:54.810]through children's literature while we're there.
[00:05:58.590]So in terms of this class,
[00:06:01.800]really this class is about helping you
[00:06:03.840]explore the elements of children's literature
[00:06:06.960]in order to create motivation within students
[00:06:13.020]to read and find books that speak to them,
[00:06:17.220]that help them do work in the world.
[00:06:20.220]And so in London
[00:06:21.930]we're gonna be thinking about
[00:06:23.760]three different kinds of books, really, picture books,
[00:06:26.550]and we're gonna be thinking about both the text
[00:06:29.100]and how text tells a story as well as art
[00:06:32.280]and how illustrations tell a story.
[00:06:35.070]And we're going to pull on
[00:06:37.170]a lot of different institutions in London
[00:06:40.620]to help us do that.
[00:06:42.150]So when we are talking about how do authors
[00:06:45.750]create a story through text,
[00:06:48.000]we're going to leverage the resources
[00:06:49.710]at the British Library
[00:06:51.030]where J.K Rowling's original manuscript
[00:06:53.640]for "Harry Potter" is housed.
[00:06:55.560]To see how that functions,
[00:06:56.880]we're gonna look at some
[00:06:57.990]of the original Beatrix Potter kind of stuff
[00:07:00.289]that is also housed there.
[00:07:02.010]The same thing with art.
[00:07:03.660]We're gonna leverage some of the art museums in London
[00:07:08.070]to look at how children's illustration
[00:07:11.040]for picture books has changed over time,
[00:07:13.320]what it looks like now,
[00:07:15.270]while also thinking about what's popular here in America
[00:07:20.400]versus what's popular across the pond as they say.
[00:07:25.980]So thinking about how childhood
[00:07:29.220]is different based upon where we live.
[00:07:32.880]And because children's literature
[00:07:35.220]came about to respond to child readers,
[00:07:39.900]we're gonna spend some time thinking about
[00:07:42.360]how an English childhood is slightly different
[00:07:45.180]from an American childhood.
[00:07:47.100]We're also gonna spend time with some middle grades novels,
[00:07:50.880]thinking about particularly genre
[00:07:53.385]and how we can come to understand genre a bit better
[00:07:58.920]through connections with London-based physical spaces.
[00:08:03.990]We're gonna do the same with informational texts,
[00:08:05.940]which help us learn about the world.
[00:08:07.770]And we're going to specifically
[00:08:09.990]talk about "Pandemics and Plagues,"
[00:08:12.090]which I know everyone loves.
[00:08:13.753]But London is not only the home of children's literature,
[00:08:17.970]but it's also the home of epidemiology,
[00:08:20.328]which is the study of how pandemics and plagues spread.
[00:08:25.710]So we can't not, right?
[00:08:28.230]We just can't not.
[00:08:30.281]So let me talk you through a little bit about
[00:08:32.640]how this is going to work,
[00:08:35.849]because we're going to be in London
[00:08:38.850]and I wanna make sure that we are as tied
[00:08:41.700]to this city as we possibly can be.
[00:08:43.770]Because three weeks in London is such a gift.
[00:08:48.450]Like it is gonna be an amazing time.
[00:08:52.110]So as I said earlier,
[00:08:54.060]we're going to utilize a lot of the institutions
[00:08:57.540]within the city of London.
[00:08:58.950]The British Museum is up top.
[00:09:00.690]It's that very modernist building
[00:09:02.490]with all of the straight lines.
[00:09:05.100]That's where we're going to be looking
[00:09:06.420]at some manuscripts for children's literature
[00:09:09.090]works that were in process.
[00:09:11.010]The Young V&A is a great museum
[00:09:14.520]that chronicles kind of the materials
[00:09:18.210]of childhood of a British childhood in particular.
[00:09:21.180]So thinking about toys, thinking about books,
[00:09:24.810]thinking about play things.
[00:09:26.280]How have those things changed over time?
[00:09:28.590]Because in order to understand children's literature,
[00:09:31.470]we have to understand what resonates with kids now,
[00:09:35.970]what resonates with readers right now.
[00:09:38.460]And so we'll leverage the Young V&A
[00:09:41.910]in order to get a sense of things
[00:09:44.310]are different here and here's why.
[00:09:45.660]Here's some of the cultural experiences
[00:09:47.250]that are in England that we don't have in America.
[00:09:52.130]I'm gonna focus really in on the middle grades novels
[00:09:55.410]that we're going to be playing with.
[00:09:57.690]This is "Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times"
[00:10:00.930]and it's the science fiction texts
[00:10:02.730]that we're gonna be reading.
[00:10:04.200]And one of the things that's fascinating about this book
[00:10:07.590]is it pictures London in a steampunk fashion.
[00:10:12.810]So when we're thinking about science fiction,
[00:10:15.960]the thing about a science fiction novel
[00:10:17.790]is it takes a science element
[00:10:19.890]and extends it to the nth degree.
[00:10:22.920]And there's high science fiction
[00:10:24.840]like "Aliens and Spaceships"
[00:10:26.850]and that's not this book.
[00:10:28.530]This book is really grounded in steampunk
[00:10:31.140]and how steam has impacted and really shaped London.
[00:10:36.480]And so we'll read "Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times"
[00:10:40.170]and then we'll go to the science museum
[00:10:43.380]and we'll interrogate how steam has impacted London
[00:10:48.990]through their exhibitions around steam.
[00:10:52.647]"Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times"
[00:10:54.810]is gonna pull on some of that science
[00:10:57.000]and it's gonna give us an opportunity
[00:10:59.430]to think about how does science fiction
[00:11:03.030]pull on actual science?
[00:11:05.190]Where does the science begin and end?
[00:11:07.230]And where does the fiction begin?
[00:11:09.990]So again, we're gonna leverage these cultural institutions
[00:11:14.550]to help us think about understanding the books
[00:11:18.360]that we're reading more deeply
[00:11:20.430]and also understand London a bit better.
[00:11:25.590]Another example is we're going to read a fantasy novel.
[00:11:29.010]I'm between two, so don't pick up, if you're like,
[00:11:31.299]"I'm gonna buy all these books now,"
[00:11:32.880]don't pick them up yet
[00:11:33.713]'cause I haven't figured out which one I want yet.
[00:11:36.630]I've read them both,
[00:11:37.463]I'm gonna read them both one more time.
[00:11:39.090]The first is "Splendors and Glooms."
[00:11:40.590]The second one is "The Hatmakers."
[00:11:42.360]Both of these are fantasy novels.
[00:11:44.250]And one of the important things about fantasy novels
[00:11:46.890]is the rules of magic,
[00:11:49.710]within a fantasy novel there has to be rules of magic.
[00:11:53.340]And in order to help us understand that
[00:11:55.620]we're going to use the making of "Harry Potter,"
[00:11:57.900]the Warner Bros. Studio Tour up in London to help us,
[00:12:02.220]or Northern London, North of London,
[00:12:04.410]to help us think through both how systems of magic
[00:12:09.360]are conveyed in settings,
[00:12:11.310]while also thinking about
[00:12:13.950]how these entire fantastical worlds get created
[00:12:18.390]and how sometimes books end up being transmedia.
[00:12:22.650]They become movies.
[00:12:25.470]So the Warner Bros. Studio Tour is very much focused
[00:12:29.490]on how they created those systems of magic
[00:12:33.360]and we can compare and contrast that
[00:12:35.700]with either "Splendors and Glooms,"
[00:12:37.830]which takes place in Victorian England,
[00:12:39.630]Victorian London, or "The Hatmakers"
[00:12:41.820]which is more contemporary London.
[00:12:44.070]I'm trying to figure out which way to go there.
[00:12:46.104]So again, we're going to be leveraging
[00:12:49.050]a unique London-based cultural activity
[00:12:54.000]in order to help us understand
[00:12:55.950]both the book and the genre better.
[00:13:00.780]I talked a little bit about "Pandemics and Plagues,"
[00:13:03.577]"History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics"
[00:13:05.670]is gonna be one of our core informational texts
[00:13:08.550]for this trip.
[00:13:09.870]It's a great book by Kate Messner
[00:13:12.630]that looks at the ways in which plagues and pandemics
[00:13:17.250]have happened across history.
[00:13:19.500]And the great cholera outbreak,
[00:13:22.860]which was really the kind of heart of epidemiology
[00:13:27.000]or the study of the spread of disease,
[00:13:29.550]happened at that fountain or the water pump
[00:13:32.130]that you see in the top picture,
[00:13:34.500]which is in Soho in London.
[00:13:37.504]That is where that first cholera outbreak happened
[00:13:42.450]and made everyone sick and Dr. John Snow
[00:13:46.020]was the one to figure all that out.
[00:13:48.480]And because he was able to figure that out,
[00:13:50.700]London was able to make a bunch of changes
[00:13:53.940]to how their system,
[00:13:55.560]how their city functions
[00:13:57.870]in order to stop the spread of the disease.
[00:14:02.100]So we'll utilize that informational text
[00:14:04.980]and a couple of other informational texts
[00:14:07.170]to help us think through
[00:14:08.610]and about how the cholera outbreak really did shape
[00:14:12.960]a lot of how London looks now,
[00:14:16.290]while also working with the historical fiction novel,
[00:14:19.237]"The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London,
[00:14:21.570]the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel."
[00:14:23.820]So we're gonna come at this in a variety of different ways,
[00:14:27.540]utilizing a variety of different books.
[00:14:31.740]So the course is really going to be set up in such a way
[00:14:35.010]that we are not gonna be able to get away from London.
[00:14:37.830]Every book that we are going to encounter,
[00:14:39.840]particularly within our middle grades novels,
[00:14:42.090]are going to be London-based,
[00:14:45.180]and are gonna help us really dig in
[00:14:48.240]to what happens when the city is a setting
[00:14:51.600]as well as a character.
[00:14:53.624]It's gonna help us understand
[00:14:56.708]even the way that the Thames runs,
[00:14:58.920]the river that flows through London,
[00:15:01.560]that was impacted by the cholera outbreak, right?
[00:15:04.470]So we're going to build up our understandings
[00:15:07.350]not only of genres of books, but of the city itself.
[00:15:12.373]But there's going to be lots of time for exploration
[00:15:16.200]and I am super excited to be in these experiences with you
[00:15:21.360]as we explore these books together
[00:15:23.520]and we explore London together
[00:15:25.170]and put those two things into conversation.
[00:15:27.720]But there's going to be times to do things
[00:15:30.750]other than either read or explore things
[00:15:34.770]that are connected to reading.
[00:15:36.210]So we've built in a fair amount of free time
[00:15:42.330]to give you an opportunity to explore the city.
[00:15:45.000]And so just wanna highlight a couple of my favorite things.
[00:15:49.080]I can go on forever.
[00:15:51.030]If you are into thrifting,
[00:15:52.440]if you love to go and see what people are wearing
[00:15:57.047]and find some cheap clothing
[00:16:01.410]with a London flair on the left,
[00:16:04.740]that is Shoreditch.
[00:16:06.480]It is a neighborhood in London
[00:16:08.250]where it is just thrift shop after thrift shop
[00:16:12.330]after thrift shop,
[00:16:13.769]we also are able to go to Portobello Road.
[00:16:18.090]If you ever watched the "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" as a kid,
[00:16:21.690]they all go to Portobello Road.
[00:16:23.460]That's a place, that's a thing.
[00:16:25.110]It's a market on a Sunday.
[00:16:26.790]It's a really fun experience.
[00:16:30.450]But Shoreditch is open all of the time
[00:16:32.790]and it's a great place to snag
[00:16:36.420]some reasonably priced Londoner clothing.
[00:16:40.800]In the bottom picture, that is the Tate Modern,
[00:16:43.822]that is one of the preeminent museums
[00:16:48.090]in the world for modern art.
[00:16:49.950]Even if you aren't an art person,
[00:16:53.580]I recommend the building
[00:16:55.320]'cause the building is just stunning in terms of walking in
[00:17:00.300]and you walk into this big open space,
[00:17:03.540]it used to be the electricity generator plant
[00:17:07.410]for the city of London.
[00:17:08.370]They used to burn coal in this building
[00:17:11.160]and they've retrofitted it to be a museum.
[00:17:14.430]And the building itself is just stunning
[00:17:16.650]and the artwork is just top notch.
[00:17:21.090]It's also free.
[00:17:22.200]So there's a lot of free things in London to do,
[00:17:25.093]which is helpful.
[00:17:27.360]The picture to the right, that's Liberty of London,
[00:17:31.320]it is one of the namesake shops within the city itself.
[00:17:38.850]It's been there for hundreds of years.
[00:17:40.980]And it is not free.
[00:17:44.160]I mean, you can go into it, it's free that way.
[00:17:47.100]But it is, I'm trying to think of like the equivalent,
[00:17:52.290]they sell Prada, right?
[00:17:54.000]Like that's, I'll give that as a qualifier.
[00:17:57.750]However, the building is beautiful.
[00:18:01.650]Like it's simply gorgeous.
[00:18:03.600]It's worth walking into.
[00:18:05.220]It was built in the Tudor era
[00:18:08.894]and the woodwork, the gorgeousness,
[00:18:11.940]and it's just an experience to go in.
[00:18:17.021]There are things that are affordable,
[00:18:18.900]but I really love it for the ambiance.
[00:18:22.080]I just like to go and say hi every time I'm in the city,
[00:18:26.490]just like a, "Hey Liberty, how's it going?"
[00:18:29.092]Other things that I really love,
[00:18:30.900]if you're not into any of that, Hyde Park is beautiful.
[00:18:36.060]The place that we would be staying
[00:18:38.842]is somewhat close to Hyde Park within walking distance.
[00:18:43.050]Hyde Park is this massively huge park
[00:18:45.600]that is gorgeous in late May, early June,
[00:18:50.659]I would warn you to be careful about,
[00:18:54.540]they will have lawn chairs set out across the park
[00:18:58.830]and they do charge by the hour, just FYI.
[00:19:03.300]So that's one thing.
[00:19:05.910]But if you're looking for a place to soak up some sun,
[00:19:08.962]Hyde Park is beautiful,
[00:19:11.130]there's several other parks throughout the city
[00:19:13.522]that are just lovely to take a middle grade novel
[00:19:18.810]and go read for a little while
[00:19:20.175]'cause you're in London.
[00:19:22.080]When are you gonna get a chance
[00:19:23.130]to read in London again, right?
[00:19:25.350]Buckingham Palace is delightful.
[00:19:27.030]I am not gonna lie,
[00:19:27.870]I have actually not been to Buckingham Palace yet,
[00:19:30.221]so this may be the trip that I go.
[00:19:33.030]I've been inside of the gift shop.
[00:19:34.564]My friend Mitchell wanted a postcard,
[00:19:36.600]got him a postcard, and then I was out.
[00:19:38.280]So maybe this is the trip
[00:19:39.780]where I get inside of Buckingham Palace
[00:19:41.633]and then just the shore of the Thames,
[00:19:47.610]whether you're on north side or south side,
[00:19:50.100]Big Ben is on the north side.
[00:19:52.020]One of my favorite parks
[00:19:53.490]is actually behind Parliament and Big Ben.
[00:19:56.730]So on the exact opposite side of what you're seeing.
[00:20:00.600]But once you cross that bridge,
[00:20:02.100]you come into a really cool eatery area,
[00:20:07.800]some fun shops.
[00:20:08.820]There's often live music.
[00:20:10.320]Oftentimes that's where you will more than once
[00:20:15.960]and more than twice,
[00:20:16.980]I've seen like TV people filming there.
[00:20:19.620]So that's kind of cool too.
[00:20:21.662]But you can take tours of Parliament,
[00:20:23.940]you can take tours of the tower, which are all super cool.
[00:20:30.360]So those are just some of the things
[00:20:32.550]that are there in terms of available for us to explore,
[00:20:36.750]for you to explore.
[00:20:38.430]So let's talk a little bit about timeline.
[00:20:42.810]So you wanna, oh, Sook Young, do you wanna tackle these?
[00:20:48.090]Yes, sure.
[00:20:49.620]Hi everyone, my name is Sook Young,
[00:20:51.360]I'm CEHS Global Experiences Coordinator
[00:20:54.120]and I'll be assisting you along the way
[00:20:57.030]to make sure that you are not missing out any steps.
[00:21:00.780]First of all, I wanted to remind you of your passport.
[00:21:04.980]Some of you may or have already have your passport,
[00:21:08.640]some of you may not.
[00:21:10.650]If you are considering this program for summer of 2024,
[00:21:16.020]now is the time to apply for your new passport.
[00:21:20.790]Usually when it's not busy season,
[00:21:23.220]it takes eight to 11 weeks.
[00:21:27.300]But this is based on my past experience,
[00:21:33.120]some students think that it's okay to wait
[00:21:37.440]until the application deadline
[00:21:39.990]and then they're saying, "Oh, I don't have passport,
[00:21:42.360]I'm gonna apply for it now."
[00:21:44.250]Which puts us in a very vulnerable situation
[00:21:48.690]for many reasons.
[00:21:51.150]A, it really makes us nervous to book a flight
[00:21:57.270]without having the passport in hand.
[00:21:59.610]And B, sometime in spring of before summer,
[00:22:05.550]there's so many people who want to apply for passport.
[00:22:08.760]So this summer, the departments,
[00:22:13.110]I always forget the name of the departments
[00:22:15.780]that make passports.
[00:22:17.430]They were announcing, oh, now the expected timeline
[00:22:23.880]is 14 weeks or longer.
[00:22:26.100]So it can be really stressful.
[00:22:29.790]So now is the time to apply or renew your passport.
[00:22:36.750]Next slide.
[00:22:38.100]Oh, and one more.
[00:22:39.600]There's UNL Passport Office at the union.
[00:22:44.220]So go ahead, search for UNL Passport Office
[00:22:49.320]and you can make an appointment there.
[00:22:51.870]A lot of students are wondering
[00:22:53.970]about scholarship opportunities.
[00:22:56.850]The first thing is on your application,
[00:23:00.000]on your Via application,
[00:23:01.740]you'll see MAPS Summer Scholarship Application form,
[00:23:06.240]which is due February 15th.
[00:23:08.460]So after your final, whenever you have time,
[00:23:12.031]I'll give some thought into it and write the essay
[00:23:16.320]because yes, it'll be nice
[00:23:18.420]to have two to $3,000 scholarship for that program.
[00:23:25.470]But one thing that I want you to remember
[00:23:27.780]is every study abroad scholarship is very competitive
[00:23:32.790]because we have a lot of students
[00:23:35.250]who want to get the scholarship,
[00:23:37.680]but we have limited funding.
[00:23:39.330]So please put a lot of thought into it
[00:23:42.840]when you write the essay,
[00:23:44.774]because that would be important.
[00:23:48.690]When you write an essay for scholarship,
[00:23:50.970]try to make meaningful connections
[00:23:53.310]between your academic goals and the program itself.
[00:23:58.740]I wouldn't write about,
[00:23:59.820]oh I always wanted to go to Europe, so I really needed,
[00:24:03.450]that doesn't mean anything to us.
[00:24:06.000]I would read the brochure, if possible,
[00:24:09.750]ask Dr. Husbye for syllabus, read the syllabus,
[00:24:14.280]and try to make the meaningful connections.
[00:24:17.640]Next slide, please.
[00:24:20.490]Another opportunity you can have
[00:24:22.640]is CEHS Ready/Set/Go Seminar and Scholarship.
[00:24:26.160]This scholarship comes from the Dean's Office
[00:24:30.420]and you have to be a CEHS degree-seeking undergrad student.
[00:24:35.430]The thing is, you have to attend this six-week seminar
[00:24:38.910]in person for all six sessions.
[00:24:43.290]That's a condition.
[00:24:44.763]And in spring 2024,
[00:24:47.510]it will take place on Tuesdays 3:30 till 5:00
[00:24:52.047]here at Louise Pound Hall on City Campus.
[00:24:56.040]So check your schedule
[00:24:57.960]and see if you can accommodate this six-week seminar.
[00:25:01.560]And if you can, please sign up for it now
[00:25:05.337]because those students who are going to this program,
[00:25:11.580]you will be prioritized for the limited spots we have,
[00:25:16.140]we only have 25 spots for the seminar
[00:25:18.840]and I'll make sure
[00:25:20.280]that you will be the first ones on the list
[00:25:24.750]because this is a very expensive program
[00:25:27.060]and I want to do everything I can to help you.
[00:25:32.190]Next slide, please.
[00:25:33.930]So those of you whose family, expected family contribution,
[00:25:41.880]EFC below $1,500, sorry, $15,000,
[00:25:50.040]you get to apply
[00:25:51.630]for Commitment Deposit Payment Deferment plan.
[00:25:55.680]Oh, it's a long name.
[00:25:56.790]And also Airfare not assistance,
[00:26:00.480]it's also Airfare Deferment Plan program,
[00:26:04.710]meaning once we hit the application deadline,
[00:26:10.020]which is February 1st,
[00:26:12.420]I'm gonna set the deadline as February 1st
[00:26:15.600]because in order to make sure
[00:26:17.070]that I'm not missing out anything.
[00:26:19.487]Once we hit the deadline,
[00:26:22.710]we will select the final list of students
[00:26:26.370]who will be participating in this program
[00:26:30.480]and those students,
[00:26:32.400]and then you'll be asked to make a commitment
[00:26:35.910]by paying $500 commitment deposit.
[00:26:40.260]Some students would feel, "Oh, I don't have $500 now,
[00:26:45.180]but I can pay it later through MyRed."
[00:26:49.770]So it's basically you can pay that fee later
[00:26:53.940]through MyRed instead of paying it upfront.
[00:26:56.940]Same for airfare deferment program.
[00:27:01.470]Airfare is one of the biggest chunks of the program cost.
[00:27:06.450]And those students who are eligible for this program,
[00:27:11.997]I will help you book your flight
[00:27:14.550]through the UNL Partnered Travel Agency,
[00:27:19.020]which is Fox World Travel.
[00:27:21.150]And so that you wouldn't have to pay that fee upfront.
[00:27:25.320]But again, it'll be billed to MyRed later.
[00:27:32.550]So yeah, these are the big deadlines to keep in mind.
[00:27:36.810]The Ready/Set/Go Seminar and Scholarship registration
[00:27:39.870]is January 16th,
[00:27:41.970]and then February 1st is program application deadline.
[00:27:46.110]So those are the two big things
[00:27:48.660]to keep in the back of your mind.
[00:27:52.650]So I've worked through kind of my presentation.
[00:27:57.788]Now it's time for questions.
[00:28:00.416]What questions do you have?
[00:28:09.062]Okay, I guess I can ask this now.
[00:28:12.450]So because like that deadline is in February to sign up,
[00:28:17.962]just like hopefully there are enough people
[00:28:20.010]to go on the trip.
[00:28:20.850]When will we know for sure by,
[00:28:22.830]when we should actually start like buying the flights
[00:28:25.110]and like really planning for it.
[00:28:26.310]When do you think that would be by?
[00:28:28.680]So once we hit the deadline,
[00:28:31.860]we'll see the number of students.
[00:28:34.260]We need the minimum of 12 students I believe to go
[00:28:41.038]and then we'll select the number first.
[00:28:43.890]And then again,
[00:28:45.330]students will be asked to pay the commitment deposit.
[00:28:49.200]Again, we need 12 students
[00:28:51.510]who actually pay the commitment deposit.
[00:28:54.390]Then we know for sure that it's going.
[00:28:57.180]And the next step will be,
[00:28:58.770]we'll coordinate Dr. Husbye's flight itinerary first
[00:29:06.000]and then we'll share that itinerary with the students.
[00:29:10.170]But it's student choice whether to book the same flight
[00:29:15.990]from Omaha to London or for some students
[00:29:19.783]whose hometown is in Chicago
[00:29:23.700]and they're like, "Oh you know,
[00:29:25.440]I wanna go visit my family first.
[00:29:27.180]Can I fly out of Chicago?"
[00:29:29.340]And the answer is yes, as long as students arrive
[00:29:35.340]at Heathrow Airport at a certain time,
[00:29:38.700]the designated time, students can fly by themselves.
[00:29:42.960]But those students who've never been abroad
[00:29:45.990]who want to fly with Dr. Husbye,
[00:29:51.540]we will share that information
[00:29:52.860]so that they can book the same itinerary.
[00:29:58.320]Perfect. Thank you.
[00:30:00.270]So once we hit the deadline,
[00:30:04.380]students will not be due anything on their own.
[00:30:08.932]Students will be following the steps
[00:30:11.400]'cause we want to make sure
[00:30:12.990]that we are not going too ahead or too late.
[00:30:17.970]So we will be communicating very, very frequently by emails.
[00:30:31.920]I have a quick question as well.
[00:30:36.030]So I was wondering, if we apply for the scholarships
[00:30:42.720]and the EFC and the airfare
[00:30:47.820]and we don't get like any of it for some reason,
[00:30:53.077]are there other ways that we could fundraise for the costs?
[00:31:03.750]I don't have a good answer.
[00:31:10.080]I sometimes come across students who are saying,
[00:31:13.320]I really want to go,
[00:31:16.380]but if I don't get the scholarship, I cannot go.
[00:31:19.830]Then the advice is, I'm sorry,
[00:31:24.540]but I'm afraid there's nothing else I can do
[00:31:28.110]because that math scholarship
[00:31:32.190]will have to be considered bonus.
[00:31:35.640]Whereas Ready/Set/Go it's guaranteed,
[00:31:37.830]if you sign up for it
[00:31:38.910]and if you attend the six seminars,
[00:31:40.980]you will get $1,000.
[00:31:42.870]But math scholarships also,
[00:31:46.200]if you are a Pell Grant recipient,
[00:31:48.660]you can also apply for Gilman Scholarship,
[00:31:51.210]which is also very competitive.
[00:31:54.150]Those will have to be considered bonus.
[00:31:57.540]In terms of fundraising,
[00:32:00.735]I know CEHS has tried fundraising for study abroad,
[00:32:06.570]but I don't know how successful it was in the past.
[00:32:10.800]But that's, yeah.
[00:32:15.417]And there are definitely some ways
[00:32:17.040]to be thinking about,
[00:32:18.900]ways to keep costs down, right?
[00:32:21.120]Like part of part of the trick
[00:32:23.160]about this particular study abroad is we're in London,
[00:32:26.701]it's one of the most expensive cities in the world.
[00:32:32.381]But as we're thinking about
[00:32:35.250]like as we were building the budget,
[00:32:37.440]there were certain things that we tried to keep in mind.
[00:32:42.030]So like in that price tag
[00:32:45.180]where we budgeted $1,500 for flight, right?
[00:32:49.800]And there's a chance that if you're willing to think through
[00:32:53.520]which city you fly out of
[00:32:56.550]that you might be able to find a cheaper flight.
[00:32:59.190]I was looking at flights going outta Chicago
[00:33:01.380]that are running around 800 now that are round trip.
[00:33:05.784]You have to figure out the getting to Chicago,
[00:33:10.500]but that might be a way to build up some cost savings.
[00:33:15.570]The other thing that, the other way to think through
[00:33:20.490]and about the cost of the program
[00:33:28.470]is in the lodging,
[00:33:31.440]we'll have access to kitchens.
[00:33:34.260]We're within, one of the things that I'm most excited about
[00:33:38.580]is, believe it or not, the grocery stores.
[00:33:42.870]Okay, so like you're gonna see
[00:33:45.420]sandwiches like this everywhere
[00:33:47.670]and in America we are like, this is disgusting,
[00:33:51.090]this is gas station food.
[00:33:52.320]We do not eat this.
[00:33:53.884]You'll want to eat this in England.
[00:33:57.330]Like their prepackaged sandwiches are amazing, amazing.
[00:34:03.990]Like I dream about the M&S sandwiches,
[00:34:07.560]I dream about the Tesco sandwiches.
[00:34:10.350]So like, so there's ways to be frugal around that.
[00:34:18.480]We're still gonna make sure that you eat, right,
[00:34:20.940]but you don't have to eat at a restaurant every single day.
[00:34:26.460]And I can direct you to like where the street food is,
[00:34:29.640]which is super tasty.
[00:34:32.880]I can direct you to where the local Tesco is,
[00:34:37.080]which is my favorite grocery store.
[00:34:41.280]It's kind of like trying to think through
[00:34:44.880]like what the M&S is up here.
[00:34:48.360]Tesco is when you got a budget, but it's still good.
[00:34:51.630]So like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, that's how that works.
[00:34:56.220]Whole Foods, Trader Joe's.
[00:34:59.130]So there's some ways to be thinking about that as well.
[00:35:05.280]So yeah, yeah, thinking through that flight
[00:35:10.320]tracking kind of what are some possibilities
[00:35:13.710]might be one way.
[00:35:15.390]And then having some realistic expectations
[00:35:19.350]about I don't need to eat out every single day
[00:35:22.560]while I'm there.
[00:35:24.330]The budget is I think $75 a day.
[00:35:27.510]How can I make that stretch a little bit more?
[00:35:29.640]I don't think I've ever,
[00:35:31.620]I'm six foot four and like of size.
[00:35:36.900]And I don't think I've ever,
[00:35:38.280]I don't think I've ever spent that much money
[00:35:40.380]a day in London.
[00:35:41.700]And I like to eat, I like to eat, in fact, like digestives,
[00:35:47.820]I eat a tube of them every day I am there.
[00:35:50.640]So I'll introduce you to those as well.
[00:35:54.000]We will get them at Tesco, not M&S,
[00:35:56.279]'cause they're cheaper by like half a pound.
[00:36:00.280]Okay, and then I also have
[00:36:02.747]two other questions if that's okay.
[00:36:05.160]Yes.
[00:36:06.030]That's what we're here for.
[00:36:07.830]Okay.
[00:36:08.962]So my first question is, during the trip,
[00:36:12.639]what we do like the class throughout the trip?
[00:36:18.176]Hmm-mm.
[00:36:19.320]Okay.
[00:36:20.153]And then, we'll do it as a group, right?
[00:36:23.940]We'll do what?
[00:36:25.110]Will we do it as a group?
[00:36:26.490]Like read the books and stuff?
[00:36:28.350]Yes.
[00:36:29.659]So the ways that the class is set up
[00:36:32.760]is we fly in on a Wednesday.
[00:36:36.960]We leave on a Wednesday
[00:36:38.310]and I did that specifically to give you solid weekends.
[00:36:42.810]I didn't want you to fly in on a weekend
[00:36:44.460]and leave on a weekend
[00:36:45.520]because I wanted you to have those weekends
[00:36:47.640]to explore the city.
[00:36:49.320]And so also flights tend to be cheaper on Wednesdays.
[00:36:55.230]So I try to keep your weekends as free as possible
[00:37:01.140]for you to do that exploration.
[00:37:02.760]And so during the week we would be reading books,
[00:37:06.750]engaging in book clubs,
[00:37:08.790]and then going off to our connected experiences
[00:37:13.200]and then debriefing those things.
[00:37:16.110]So that would be like the Monday through Friday
[00:37:20.070]kind of bit of it.
[00:37:21.360]And then during the weekends
[00:37:23.700]I'd pull together some suggestions for folks,
[00:37:27.030]but it would be really your time to go off
[00:37:30.780]and explore the city.
[00:37:32.130]And I'd be more than happy
[00:37:33.180]to give pointers or help construct itineraries
[00:37:37.590]or I will have stuff that I'll be doing
[00:37:39.120]that I will be more than happy
[00:37:40.410]to have people come do with me.
[00:37:42.870]So that's kind of how I'm thinking about it.
[00:37:46.770]Okay, and then my second question was,
[00:37:51.060]will we have an opportunity to be in a classroom
[00:37:54.960]and see how they run it there?
[00:37:58.050]So we won't have opportunities to be in classrooms.
[00:38:03.210]We're there right around the times
[00:38:05.190]that schools are getting out.
[00:38:07.320]So there's not really classrooms to visit,
[00:38:13.980]but we will have opportunities to be inside of libraries,
[00:38:17.400]we will have time to be inside of bookstores
[00:38:19.950]'cause the larger purpose of the course
[00:38:25.350]is to be thinking about children's literature
[00:38:27.360]and how we can think about children's literature
[00:38:29.970]as ways to motivate kids to read.
[00:38:33.210]So you'll be able to put those kinds of things into practice
[00:38:37.800]when we come back.
[00:38:38.670]But in terms of like direct classroom experience,
[00:38:41.640]we won't have that on this trip.
[00:38:45.178]Okay.
[00:38:49.320]I have three questions.
[00:38:52.113]I was curious if you could talk a little more
[00:38:54.570]about like the lodging situation.
[00:38:56.640]Are we sleeping in rooms with other people?
[00:38:58.980]Do we get our own rooms?
[00:39:03.210]Sook Young, correct me if I'm wrong,
[00:39:04.320]but I believe it's partners, roommates, yes?
[00:39:07.290]Yes, roommates.
[00:39:09.030]Yes, and so it's hotel accommodations, we're in,
[00:39:17.880]oh why can't I think of the neighborhood?
[00:39:19.980]Shoot,
[00:39:24.210]it's North Thames, it's a great area
[00:39:28.230]in terms of being able to hop on and off of the tube.
[00:39:32.190]We're within walking distance
[00:39:34.830]of like five different grocery stores.
[00:39:38.280]But yes, it would be a roommate situation.
[00:39:41.220]You would have access to kind of a kitchenette facility,
[00:39:46.830]your Oyster card,
[00:39:48.210]which would allow you to ride the public transit
[00:39:50.070]is included in the cost.
[00:39:51.840]So that allows us to hop on and off of things
[00:39:54.480]really, really easily.
[00:39:57.840]But I mean, location-wise, it's a great location.
[00:40:01.710]It really sets us up to be able
[00:40:03.180]to do a ton of stuff in the city.
[00:40:08.190]And then is that optional?
[00:40:10.290]Like, I understand it would probably cost more
[00:40:13.110]to room by myself,
[00:40:14.400]but if I prefer to have a room to myself, is that an option?
[00:40:20.010]I will take a look and get back to you.
[00:40:24.240]Do you mind sending me another email about it please?
[00:40:27.240]Sure, I will.
[00:40:29.730]And then I was curious like what the perspective is
[00:40:34.470]if I'm over there for this three weeks
[00:40:36.717]and a friend of mine wants to join
[00:40:38.940]and like stay with me for a week in the hotel
[00:40:43.590]and that they're doing their own thing
[00:40:44.760]while I'm with you guys.
[00:40:45.870]But then on the weekends I have a friend
[00:40:48.330]to explore the city with or a family member.
[00:40:53.250]I will need to double check on that.
[00:40:55.440]But something tells me it's probably not an option.
[00:40:58.980]But again, could you please add that to your email?
[00:41:02.190]I'll double check with the director here.
[00:41:06.483]Okay.
[00:41:07.470]And then as far as the coursework,
[00:41:10.560]is this just geared
[00:41:12.990]towards like using already written children's literature
[00:41:17.520]or is there anything geared towards
[00:41:19.710]like how to be a writer of children's literature
[00:41:24.472]or anything of that nature?
[00:41:27.240]So, I mean, if you wanted to be thinking
[00:41:28.770]about how to write children's literature,
[00:41:31.590]a lot of what we focus on in this course
[00:41:34.290]is understanding the techniques, the literary devices,
[00:41:38.040]the structures of genre within children's literature.
[00:41:42.000]So it's not necessarily a writing course specifically,
[00:41:46.470]but if that's a goal of yours,
[00:41:48.540]it would give you an understanding
[00:41:50.250]of how those genres are structured
[00:41:53.460]and what the common literary devices are
[00:41:56.430]within each of those,
[00:41:57.944]which would help you provide nuance
[00:42:01.560]to the stuff that you are working on,
[00:42:03.270]whether it be a picture book
[00:42:04.380]or a middle grades novel or a transitional chapter book.
[00:42:07.800]Okay, great, thank you.
[00:42:09.930]No problem, great question.
[00:42:19.830]Anything else?
[00:42:37.220]All right.
[00:42:38.340]Did you all start your application on Via?
[00:42:47.850]Do I have you all on my list?
[00:42:49.650]I just wanna double check.
[00:42:53.250]Is that the application to this program?
[00:42:55.920]Yes. Okay, yes.
[00:42:58.110]Okay, good.
[00:42:59.760]If you haven't, even if you're not 100% sure, please start,
[00:43:05.940]at least start the application
[00:43:07.410]so that I have your contact information on my end
[00:43:11.370]so that whenever there's new information comes up,
[00:43:13.560]I can just share it with you through Via messages.
[00:43:18.150]And also in the meantime,
[00:43:19.950]please feel free to email me with any question you have.
[00:43:25.800]I may not have the answer always, but I will look into it
[00:43:29.670]and I always get back to you as soon as I can.

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