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Beatles’ culture spread like wild-fire all across the global community in the early 1960s. From early single releases that included “Please Please Me” and “Love Me Do”, on through album releases like “Rubber Soul,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road,” each was a successive building block that addressed and defined the historical significance of the 1960s. Each recording drew from and reflected the social and political turmoil so characteristic of the era. Whether it was psychadelic culture, the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement or the Manson Family, The Beatles’ music contributed to the soundtrack as the world watched, and listened.

This class is designed to study all aspects of The Beatles (their songs, films, album concepts, fiction, poetry, theater, essays, cartoons and more) and try to discover:

• What their impact has been on our culture and the world?
• Why this phenomenon even happened?
• How did it happen?
• What value does it have in our lives today?
• Why were they so much more important than other rock groups in the 60s or since?
• How did they help shape the sixties and an entire generation?
• Why are they just as popular in the 21st century as best selling artists as they were in the last century?

We will continue to read, listen, view and discuss The Beatles in their entirety: the history, the myths, the legends, the secrets, the lies and the reality and make believe of it all. I will supply you with many rare essays and writings and show you some previously unseen video footage.

London and Liverpool, England

WInter 2008

March 6-15, 2008, the week of Spring Break

American Studies, English

Undergraduate and Graduate

This class will become an investigative team as we dig deep into this subject to, hopefully, better understand how we got here in our culture from there. We’ll study in Detroit, and over Spring Break, we will travel and tour The Beatles’ London and Liverpool where it all began. Over Spring Break, we will fly to London and begin our first hand journey. Ready! Steady!! Go!!! Roll up for The Magical Mystery Tour through Pop Culture this Winter 2008 Term!

You can register for either English 3400, American Studies 5010 for 3 credits, or you may register for English 5990 (Independant Studies) for 1-3 credits directly through Pipeline. You may not register for these sections until after you have been accepted to the program.

$2,450 includes airfare, hotel stays, all Beatles and London Tours, Tube Day Passes, Beatles' Lectures, visits to Abbey Road Studios, WSU International Health Insurance and more.

The cost of the program does not include tuition. For more information, click here.

*Please note: If you do not own (or plan on owning) a US passport, it is your responsibility to obtain a visa to enter the country you will be visiting. Not all programs require a visa so check here for more information.

A non-refundable deposit of $500 is due within two weeks of acceptance, by November 5, 2007.

Payments of $650 are due November 5 and December 3, 2007 and January 23, 2008.

Amberly Chirolla
The Office of Study Abroad and Global Programs
5155 Gullen Mall
1600 Undergraduate Library
Detroit, MI 48202
ap8668@wayne.edu

Participants are responsible for all program fees until notification is received by Study Abroad and Global Programs.

This program is subject to minimum enrollment levels. If these levels are not reached the program will be cancelled. Enrolled participants will then have the option to transfer to another program or receive a full refund.

The Office of Study Abroad and Global Programs guarantees space on the program for participants upon receipt of the confirmation deposit. At that point, the Office of Study Abroad and Global Programs incurs non-recoverable costs. Therefore, any participant who cancels at any time after the confirmation deposit has been received will be responsible for the deposit in addition to the following, upon cancellation from the program:

Cancellation Period Refund

This program is subject to minimum enrollment levels. If these levels are not reached the program will be cancelled. Enrolled participants will then have the option to transfer to another program or receive a full refund.

November 5, 2007- however, qualified students will be accepted as they submit the applications; once the places are filled, students will no longer be accepted.

1. Fill out the Wayne State Study Abroad application, located here.

2. Submit the application along with the $25 application fee and unofficial transcripts to:

The Office of Study Abroad and Global Programs
5155 Gullen Mall
1600 Undergraduate Library
Detroit, MI 48202
Tel: 313-577-3207
www.studyabroad.wayne.edu

3. Within two to three weeks, you should be notified by letter indicating whether you have been accepted.

Students are encouraged to apply for WSU's Global Grant to offset some of their additional expenses.

Applications will be available end of October 2007.

The Office of Study Abroad and Global Programs
5155 Gullen Mall
1600 Undergraduate Library
Detroit, MI 48202
Tel: 313-577-3207

Program Application

Program Brochure

M.L. Liebler
Department of English
The Maccabees Building
10th Floor, 102.01
313.577.7713
MLLiebler@aol.com

www.mlliebler.com

Amberly Chirolla
Office of Study Abroad and Global Programs
5155 Gullen Mall
1600 Undergraduate Library
313. 577.3207
amberly@wayne.edu

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