Summer School

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Summer School
School of Arts Social Sciences
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Summer Art/Humanities ProgrammeSummer Media
Production Programme

• The School of Arts and Social Sciences is
  offering two intensive summer programmes in the
  Arts/Humanities and Media Production this summer.
  This is an accredited programme delivering in
  total 6 semester hours, and is suitable for all
  students requiring elective credits in the arts
  and humanities. Teaching will be a combination of
  lectures, seminar sessions and site visits
  locally and throughout the region, and will be
  undertaken by members of the Northumbrian
  Faculty.

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Summer Art/Humanities Programme The
Romantic North? Literature and Society in the
North of England in the 19th Century. Week 1
- History theme, Industry, Culture and
SocietyWeek 2 Literature theme, Wordsworth
and Dickens Week 3 Art and Architecture,
landscape and beauty
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WEEK ONE The Birthplace of the Industrial
Revolution Carboniferous Capitalism and the
North East of England
In week 1 the programme will provide an
historical perspective on the development of the
19th C North East. The rapid growth in the
region in this period will be located within an
understanding of the development of
carboniferous capitalism a closely
interlocked cluster of industries centrally
comprising coalmining, iron and (later) steel
making, shipbuilding, heavy engineering
(including the manufacture of railway
locomotives, bridges and armaments).
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• The region became a leader in the technologies of
  the steam age throughout the 19th century by
  the end of that century fully one quarter of the
  global output of the shipbuilding industry was
  produced on the banks of the regions three
  principal rivers, the Tyne, Wear and Tees.

The consequences of the rise of an industrial
society on social class, politics, and culture
will be examined, as will the long shadow cast
by the 19th Century on the subsequent
development of the modern North East.
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• Course outline
• Day 1 The Rise (and Fall) of Carboniferous
  Capitalism
• Day 2 Industrial Tyneside and the Age of the
  Victorian Entrepreneur
• Day 3 Visit Beamish Open Air Museum
• Day 4 Culture and Society in the 19th C North
  East
• Day 5 Summing up and Writing up.

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• WEEK TWO
• The Romantic North? Literature in the North of
  England in the 19th Century.

The Literature strand will look at a series of
writing to examine the representation of the
North of England in some representative texts
from the first half of the nineteenth century.
Wordsworth and Coleridge published the second
edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1800. This poetry
comments on the impact of agricultural change and
is a product of various responses to the
Industrial and French Revolutions. Hard Times
focuses on life in an industrial, northern town
offering a critique of the social concerns of the
day as they appear to Charles Dickens.
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• Wuthering Heights reinforces the myth of the
  Romantic Hero and offers a vision of changing
  class and gender relations. North and South
  delineates the perceived differences between the
  north and south of England and again interrogates
  contemporary attitudes to sexuality and class.

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• Day 1 Lyrical Ballads
• Topics to be discussed will include poetic
  language, agricultural change, the French
  revolution, charity, authority.
• Day 2 Hard Times
• Topics to be discussed will include the
  industrial north, the city, class education.
• Day 3 Wuthering Heights
• Topics to be discussed will include
• Romantic Hero, class, gender.
• Trip to the Lake District.

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• Day 4 North and South
• Topics to be discussed will include masculinity
  and femininity, north and south,
  industrialisation, class.
• Day 5 The final day
• Draws together the emerging themes and
  conclusions
• from the weeks findings.

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WEEK THREE Nature and history the romantic
vision, the North of England and the visual arts

• The North of England, and particularly the
  North-East of England, was a key site of the
  romantic imagination in art.. This series of
  lectures and associated visits will show how
  artists and architects took inspiration from the
  wildness and beauty of the local landscape and
  the traces of earlier, pre-industrial, society
  in the many historical monuments of the region.

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• Day 1 The picturesque and the sublime in
  landscape art.
• Images of the north as a wild unstable location,
  a borderland between states of order and chaos,
  in Romantic painting. J.M.W.Turners visits to
  the castles, priories and rugged

coastline of the North East in search of Romantic
subject-matter.
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• Day 2 Recovering the past- medievalism in
  architecture and design in the North.
• A study of nineteenth-century buildings in
  Newcastle and the region, particularly those
  linked with the Arts and Crafts movement.

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• Day 3 Visit Wallington Hall,
• Alnwick Castle and Cragside
• Three contrasting stately homes in the beautiful
  Northumberland countryside. Wallington has links
  with John Ruskin Cragside was built for the
  Newcastle industrialist William Armstrong
  Alnwick castle is the ancestral home of the dukes
  of Northumberland,

and is also famous as the setting for that key
Romantic text of our own times, the Harry Potter
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• Day 4 Re-imagining the Romantic North

In the late nineteenth century Winslow Homer and
the Cullercoats Artists reinvented the Romantic
North in contrast to the popular rhetoric of a
desolate industrial landscape.
In our own time a number of photographers,
painters and video-makers have produced work that
suggests that the idea of Northumberland and the
Borders as strange, enchanting and in a sense
Romantic places lives on.
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• Day 5 The final day draws together the emerging
  themes and conclusions from the weeks findings.

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Summer Media Production Programme
The Summer School in Media offers the opportunity
to write, shoot and edit your own film under the
guidance of members Northumbria faculty. Using
professional, industry standard equipment, you
will experience the film-making process from the
conception of the idea to the final cut.
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• WEEK ONE
• Working in small groups you will spend the script
  week working on developing your initial concepts
  for stories. To stimulate this process you will
  be provided with a number of objects around which
  to build your story and develop your characters. 
  You will then proceed to prepare a short outline
  story treatment, which will then develop into a
  step by step sheet.  From this you will write the
  script.

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• WEEK TWO
• In the second week of the school, those scripts
  will be put into production. Again working in
  your groups you will learn how shoot on
  professional equipment and will be able to
  experience the different roles that make up a
  film crew.

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• WEEK THREE

In week three your film will go into
post-production. You will be able to work
together to edit your work on the latest industry
standard equipment. At the end of the week you
can burn your own DVD ready for your own very
special premiere!
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How to find us.

• Whether travelling by air, sea,
• rail or road, Northumbria University
• is easily accessible.

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