NSU's 11th Annual Shakespeare Trip
July 27 - August 3, 2018
July 27 - August 3, 2018
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Group Leader, Course Instructor, and Shakespeare Enthusiast:
Dr. John Mercer
(918) 449-6541
[email protected]
https://mercer-nsu.weebly.com/
Dr. John Mercer
(918) 449-6541
[email protected]
https://mercer-nsu.weebly.com/
Sponsors:
Northeastern State University’s College of Liberal Arts & Dept. of Languages and Literature
Term:
Summer 2018 (after regular 8-week Summer term)
Dates:
Required pre-trip class session: Saturday, July 21, 2018, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., NSU-BA campus
Trip to Oregon: Friday, July 27, through Friday, August 3, 2018
Place:
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, surrounded by the spectacular beauty of the Cascade Mountains and the Rogue Valley
Purpose:
Study plays by Shakespeare and modern playwrights through exciting stage productions.
Earn 3 hours undergraduate credit in English, Theatre, or Humanities, or 3 hours graduate credit in English.
Plays:
See 8 amazing productions by the largest professional rotating repertory company in the U.S.
Instructional activities:
Trip cost
$1625 ($1475 for the first 12 students who pay deposit and take course for credit) includes:
Payments
(payable to NSU Business Office cashier after you submit Study Away form to group leader):
$300 deposit due by March 30, 2018 (fully refundable if you cancel by April 26)
$300 due by April 26, 2018 ($200 cancellation penalty after this date)
$300 due by May 31, 2018
$725 ($575 for first 12 students) due by June 20, 2018 (nonrefundable after this date)
Tuition:
Students may enroll for 3 hours of undergraduate or graduate credit. Tuition and fees are in addition to cost of trip. A limited number of non-students may go on trip without enrolling for academic credit.
Scholarships:
5 scholarships of $1125 each are available, plus 3 scholarships of $200 each for van drivers.
All scholarship recipients must travel with the group and take the course for credit.
Ask to be added to the e-mail distribution list for trip information updates.
Visit our website for trip documents and scholarship applications: www.nsu-osf.weebly.com
Northeastern State University’s College of Liberal Arts & Dept. of Languages and Literature
Term:
Summer 2018 (after regular 8-week Summer term)
Dates:
Required pre-trip class session: Saturday, July 21, 2018, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., NSU-BA campus
Trip to Oregon: Friday, July 27, through Friday, August 3, 2018
Place:
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, surrounded by the spectacular beauty of the Cascade Mountains and the Rogue Valley
Purpose:
Study plays by Shakespeare and modern playwrights through exciting stage productions.
Earn 3 hours undergraduate credit in English, Theatre, or Humanities, or 3 hours graduate credit in English.
Plays:
See 8 amazing productions by the largest professional rotating repertory company in the U.S.
- Four beloved classics by Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and Henry V
- A new stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill
- World premiere of Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Manahatta, in which a Native American woman in the present comes to grips with her ancestors’ loss of Manhattan Island to Europeans in the 1600s
- World premiere of the latest play in the American Revolutions series about pivotal events in U.S. history: Idris Goodwin’s The Way the Mountain Moved, set in the 1850s during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad
- Rodger and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! with a modern twist
Instructional activities:
- Participate in discussions with your peers before and after you see each play.
- Take a backstage tour of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s three beautiful theaters.
- Participate in question-and-answer sessions with Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors.
Trip cost
$1625 ($1475 for the first 12 students who pay deposit and take course for credit) includes:
- Round-trip airfare between Tulsa and Medford, Oregon (deduct $629 from trip cost if you wish to arrange your own transportation to Oregon)
- Ground transportation by van in Oregon, including day trip to Crater Lake National Park (deduct $165 from trip cost if you wish to provide all your own ground transportation in Oregon)
- Housing at Southern Oregon University (7 nights, double occupancy, private bath, shared living room and kitchenette in a new suite-style dorm; add $140 for single occupancy, shared bath; add $350 for “super single,” private bath; add $54.25 for 7 breakfasts at Southern Oregon Univ.)
- Tickets to all 8 plays, backstage tours, and discussions with actors
Payments
(payable to NSU Business Office cashier after you submit Study Away form to group leader):
$300 deposit due by March 30, 2018 (fully refundable if you cancel by April 26)
$300 due by April 26, 2018 ($200 cancellation penalty after this date)
$300 due by May 31, 2018
$725 ($575 for first 12 students) due by June 20, 2018 (nonrefundable after this date)
Tuition:
Students may enroll for 3 hours of undergraduate or graduate credit. Tuition and fees are in addition to cost of trip. A limited number of non-students may go on trip without enrolling for academic credit.
Scholarships:
5 scholarships of $1125 each are available, plus 3 scholarships of $200 each for van drivers.
All scholarship recipients must travel with the group and take the course for credit.
Ask to be added to the e-mail distribution list for trip information updates.
Visit our website for trip documents and scholarship applications: www.nsu-osf.weebly.com