UMUC to offer courses in Dublin, Venice Published Sept. 21, 2009 HEIDELBERG, Germany -- University of Maryland University College Europe will offer two undergraduate field study courses, Dublin, Ireland: A Brief Literary History and Expatriate Writers in Venice: 1800 to Present, offered this October in Dublin, Ireland, and Venice, Italy. Each course is worth three credits. The registration deadline for both courses is Oct. 2. In Dublin, Ireland: A Brief Literary History, scheduled for Oct. 17-24, students will be introduced to the literary history of Ireland, emphasizing poets, dramatist, and fiction writers of the 20th century, such as James Joyce, Lady Gregory and W.B.Yeats. Students will attend several evening theater performances in Dublin and also visit various sites, to include the James Joyce Museum and Tower, the Old Parliament, Trinity College and St. Patrick's Cathedral. In Expatriate Writers in Venice: 1800 to Present, scheduled for Oct. 18-25, students will explore romantic Venice and the influence it had on world-renowned writers like Ernest Hemingway and Henry James, and on major poets such as George Gordon Byron and Robert Browning. Students will combine the visual influences of Venice -- architecture, art works and picturesque landscapes -- with the study of literature produced there. Additionally, students will participate in literary walks with on-site readings of significant passages, which provide a living sense of the writers' purposes and an appreciation of their powers of description. For more information, visit www.ed.umuc.edu/fieldstudy, call the Spangdahlem UMUC field representative at DSN 452-7552 or e-mail edfieldsty@ed.umuc.edu.