The University of Greenwich

Southern Utah University Visit 15 May 2014

Welcome to London!A Student City

• 40 Higher Education institutions

• Around 390,000 students

• A Cosmopolitan City

• 10.00am – 10.15am - Refreshments Queen Mary 068• 10.15am – University of Greenwich Introduction

and British Identity and culture (Aisling Conboy, Study Abroad Coordinator)

• 11.00am – 11.50am - Campus Tour (Student Ambassador Michael Browne, International Business student at Greenwich from the USA)

• 11.50am – 12.00pm - Return to Queen Mary 068 for Recap and Farewell – best photo prize!

Today’s schedule

Aisling Conboy, Study Abroad and Exchange Coordinator (3 years at Greenwich!)

• Born in Donegal, Ireland

• Studied Politics & History

• Lived in US for 2 years (Penn State and Central Michigan University)

• Enjoy concerts, vintage fashion and galleries in London

• Identity? Irish

Who am I?

About the University of Greenwich• 23,757 students in the UK• 14,200 students studying wholly

overseas• Vice Chancellor David Maguire

(President)• The university has three campuses:

Avery Hill, Greenwich and Medway• Greenwich - largest campus is centred

on three baroque buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren at the end of the 17th century (formerly a naval college)

Study at Greenwich• Students from over 140 countries

worldwide • Students Union - Over 50 clubs and

societies including American Football• Masters degrees in UK are 1 year

(undergraduate 3 years) - tuition fees approx. $19,000, all new students guaranteed university accommodation

• Faculties of Business, Architecture, Computing & Humanities, Education & Health, Engineering & Science

Brief History of Greenwich• Set on the banks of the River Thames just four miles

downstream from Tower Bridge Greenwich is particularly noted for its magnificent architecture, beautiful parkland and a lively town centre.

• Since its earliest days, the town of Greenwich has changed and evolved to meet the changing needs of its people.

• Since the Romans settled here, it has been shaped by seafaring, industry, the arrival of the railway and higher education, as well as by Royalty and the Navy.

• The Royal Observatory, home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian line, is one of the most important historic scientific sites in the world.

• Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site• World Heritage Site status was awarded to 'Maritime

Greenwich’ by UNESCO in 1997

UNESCO World Heritage Site

• The design of the US White House is based on the Palladian style of the Queen’s House in Greenwich, which now exhibits a selection of the National Maritime Museum’s vast art collection

The Queen’s House

• The Trafalgar Tavern on the waterside, one of the most historic pubs in the area, was once frequented by Thackeray, Dickens and friends who all enjoyed the tavern’s most famous dish – whitebait caught straight from the Thames!

Charles Dickens

• Charles Dickens b. 1812. Dickens had a great love for Greenwich. This is revealed particularly in essays such as Greenwich Fair (Sketches by Boz, Vol.1, 1836). His late-in-life novel Our Mutual Friend (1864) has Bella Wilfer marrying John Rokesmith in St Alfege's Church and the wedding breakfast being held, apparently, in the Trafalgar Tavern. (Source)

• This was the very same inn, indeed, to which his many friends invited Dickens for a whitebait dinner before his departure to the States on his last reading tour in 1867.

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British traditions at Greenwich

Daniel Defoe is an English novelist known as the author of Robinson Crusoe

New Greenwich student accommodation ‘Daniel Defoe House’

Is This The Most Popular Filming Location In The World? • Empire Magazine - Greenwich ‘taking over Hollywood’• The Dark Knight Rises, Les Misérables, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On

Stranger Tides, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Gulliver's Travels, The Wolfman, The Golden Compass, Skyfall

• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Sense And Sensibility, Shanghai Knights, The Young Victoria, Dorian Gray, Revolver, The Mummy Returns, Vanity Fair, Quills, Amazing Grace, The Four Feathers, Charlotte Gray, The Bounty, The Oxford Murders, Stage Beauty, The Madness Of King George, Garfield 2, The Wings Of The Dove, King Ralph, Anne Of The Thousand Days and more, all the way back to Stanley Donen's Indiscreet in 1958, with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

• Daniel Day Lewis (here in Lincoln) was born in Greenwich

• Les Miserables

• Four Weddings and a Funeral – second wedding

The London Marathon

Map of ‘Britain’• Terminology can be

confusing, different meanings

• Great Britain• Britain• The United Kingdom• The British Isles• The Commonwealth• England, Scotland, Wales,

Northern Ireland

‘In recent times the British state’s thinking has been federal, multicultural, and free market – a soft Thatcherite mix which, according to the last five prime ministers at least, was more befitting the minimum process known as ‘Europe’ and the maximum process known as globalisation. Our current predicament is that none of this thinking has been sympathetic to the principle and the practice of British national identity.’Source – History Today

British National Identity

British Literature – traditional or modern?

• Literature is Great - Part 1- British Council• Literature is Great – Part 2 – British Council

Modern British Identity?UK Muslims feel 'more British' than whitesResearch study says UK citizens of Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage rate "being British" as key to their identity.

Source – Al Jazeera

London 2012 Olympics – celebrating British identity

Interesting recent features on British Identity and ‘Britishness’• Scrambling for Identity in Britain – NY Times Article• Britain and Europe- An Identity Crisis – Channel 4 News • Scotland and devolution from the UK - Reuters• British and English Poll – BBC News• David Beckham and Prince George give our luxury brands a

helping hand: 'Britishness' cited as a reason to buy by global shoppers – Daily Mail

• As inclusive Britain becomes more multi-ethnic, what will happen to 'Englishness'? – The Telegraph

Aisling ConboyStudy Abroad and Exchange CoordinatorE-mail: a.conboy@gre.ac.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/studyabroadlondonInstagram: #studyabroadgreenwichTwitter: @GreenwichAbroad

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