London Honors: Weekly Schedule

The week typically begins on Monday morning with a three hour lecture, or, "plenary" session. The purpose of this session is to establish a context for the primary sources that will be read or listened to and discussed that week. Students also receive their gallery/museum assignments for the week.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings the students will meet in "colloquies", or, small groups (generally 12 or 13), with one or both faculty members to discuss the readings assigned for that day.

On Friday morning, the entire group meets together again to review the major themes of the week and draw the week to a close. On most Fridays we conclude the morning with a chapel session, often involving a speaker from the British Christian community in London.

Each week, a five-page paper is due on an assigned topic that weaves together the various sources encountered during the preceding week.

Making the most of London

Plenary sessions are held in St. Peter's Church, the home of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), a study center founded in 1982 by the Rev. Dr. John R. Stott, Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church, Langham Place, and an elder statesman in the worldwide evangelical community. The LICC is situated on Vere Street, just a block from Oxford Street, and very near the Oxford Circus underground station. Colloquy sessions are held in the seminar room of the Foreign Missions Club.

The course also includes four all-day field excursions to sites outside London of particular relevance and importance to our curriculum (Bath, Canterbury, Cambridge, and Hampton Court).