Yale in London

The 2019 summer term was covered in the annual report for 2018–2019.

Spring Term

13 January–24 April 2020

There were five students enrolled on the 2020 spring term. Three students were from Yale and two from Yale–NUS, Singapore. Students were housed in Porter’s Edge in Canada Water. The programme offered the following courses: ‘Queen Victoria and Royal Representations’ and ‘Virginia Woolf’s London’ by Margaret Homans (Yale University), ‘Modern British Theatre’ by Mark Wheatley (freelance), and ‘The Golden Age of British Painting’ by Mark Hallett (PMC).

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns across most of the world, students and US faculty were asked to return to their home countries in the tenth week of the programme. Spring break was extended by an additional week (Yale in London spring break is ordinarily one week, unlike in New Haven) in order to allow faculty and administrators to plan the transition to online teaching and scheduling across five different time zones. Courses resumed in the eleventh week of term and teaching continued via Zoom. The programme was unable to replicate visits to sites and the theatre; however, digitised museum and gallery collections and online offerings from theatres were used in lieu of in-person learning experiences in London. Final examinations for all of the courses consisted of end-of-term papers and written responses, and therefore required no adjustments. The summer sessions were cancelled due to the pandemic.