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Globe Education’s mission is to inspire teaching and learning through an exploration of the sprit of Shakespeare’s Globe and to celebrate the crafts and disciplines that inform the making of a play. Globe Education currently provides classes for over 90,000 people at the Globe every year and for many more thousands via distance learning and outreach programmes.
Globe Education and the USA
Globe Education has been offering lectures and courses for US students in London since 1989. The opening of the Globe in 1997 resulted in a steady increase of visits from high school and university students, teachers and scholars. Globe Education soon began to offer distance-learning programmes via the web and to send outreach projects to the USA.
Globe Education and STAA
Shakespeare’s Globe is a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America. The Director, Globe Education is currently Chairman of the STAA Education Committee.
High School Courses
Globe Education provides bespoke short courses ranging in length from 2 – 5 days for several high schools. Short courses include a variety of workshops (voice, verse, movement, swordsmanship) music and design master-classes, question and answer sessions with actors/directors and scene work with Globe Education Practitioners.
Short courses for US high schools are currently provided annually for: Episcopal High School (VA), Perry Mansfield Performing Arts Camp (CO), Hunter High School (NY) and Canterbury High School (CT).
Undergraduate Courses
Globe Education provides courses for a number of US universities. Students work with Globe Education Faculty and Theatre Artists and benefit from guest lectures from leading international Shakespeare scholars. Students attend Shakespeare productions at the Globe and at other theatres. Courses for all students, whatever their major, culminate in directed scene work that usually takes place on the Globe stage. In most cases, Globe Education provides one of the four courses that a student will be taking in London. Students from Rutgers University, however, take all their courses at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Shakespeare: Language in Play - a semester course for liberal arts majors
Globe Education also offers semester and one-year courses for Theatre Majors and BFA Theatre students. Students work with Globe Education Faculty and Theatre Artists towards scene presentations and full productions.
Partnership with King’s College, London
Undergraduates – Jacobean Shakespeare
Globe Education provides a two week intensive course for 20 US students from Ivy League schools who study in the English Department at King’s College London during their Junior Year Abroad. The course focuses on Jacobean Shakespeare and complements the King’s Shakespeare courses.
Graduates - Shakespearean Studies: Text and Playhouse
Globe Education offers two MAs in conjunction with King’s College, London. One is part-time for employed teachers and does not attract US students. The second, Shakespearean Studies: Text and Playhouse, is shared between Globe Education and the English Department at King’s and attracts c.3 graduates from US universities every year.
Partnership with the Drama Centre, University of the Arts
Graduates – European Classical Acting
C. 8 students from the USA participate in the Drama Centre’s one-year intensive MA in European Classical Acting. Globe Education provides an intensive six-week module at Shakespeare’s Globe for the students prior to a further six-week module provided by the Vakhtangov Institute in Moscow.
Partnership with University of California at Davis
Graduates: Residency at Shakespeare’s Globe
Two PhD students from UC Davis spend their fall quarter at Shakespeare’s Globe, researching in the Globe Research Library and attending lectures, symposia and staged readings.
Internships
Undergraduates from a number of US universities apply to the Globe for three-month internships that provide students with the experience of working in different departments of a leading arts organisation. An average of six US students are offered internships each year.
Courses for High School Teachers
Globe Education seeks to promote practical and active approaches to the teaching of Shakespeare in the classroom and inspire teachers to include the creative arts across the curriculum.
Shakespeare Lives! – North Carolina and New York
This programme began 7 years ago in North Carolina in association with the North Carolina School of the Arts. 12 teachers from the immediate community are engaged in the programme for a year through a mixture of in-state workshops led by Globe Education Practitioners and NCSA staff, distance learning initiatives and a two week intensive summer course at Shakespeare’s Globe. The year culminates with a festival stateside with a performance of a Shakespeare play presented in 12 “chapters” by the teachers’ students.
A second Shakespeare Lives! programme has been established in Buffalo, New York in association with the Kenan Center and Shakespeare in Delaware Park.
Globe Education Teachers Academy at UC Davis
Globe Education is currently helping to establish an academy for teachers at UC Davis that will combine courses in California with workshops and courses at the Globe.
Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance
25 teachers from across the USA spend three weeks at Shakespeare’s Globe every summer and work with Globe Education Practitioners and members of the Globe Theatre Company. The course culminates with scene work on the Globe stage at midnight. Teachers are selected and funded by local English Speaking Union branches in the USA.
Teaching Shakespeare in Baton Rouge
In summer 2007 Globe Education will be sending practitioners to support the University of Louisiana’s initiative to promote the teaching of Shakespeare in local high schools.
For further information about courses for high school students, undergraduates and graduate students, please contact: Alexandra Massey (Courses Manager, Globe Education)
Tel: 0044 207 902 1436
Email: alex@shakespearesglobe.com