Off-Campus Studies – English

The Carleton English Department offers off-campus study programs in London every year, in Ireland every other year, and in California occasionally. A recent addition is the program to Mumbai and Seoul.

Visit the program pages to learn more about these popular programs, including interviews with the faculty directors, information on upcoming programs, and archives from past programs. For a student perspective, visit The Second Laird Miscellany to see past editors’ reflections on their off-campus study in London. Jess Knachel ’27 traveled with the Living London program in Winter 2025 and shared the experience in this blog post. For a glance into the sights and sounds Mumbai and Seoul from Winter 2024, read this blog post by Joanne Chung ’26.

Recent and upcoming programs include:

Living London: London Lives (Winter 2026)

London has been the vibrant nurturing ground of creative lives and communities for over two millennia. A multiethnic metropolis, it is a dynamic international hub for the arts. We will explore the city as home and inspiration for the creators of brilliant art, music, film, theater, and literature as we visit their studios, study and attend their works, and engage with their lives and creative processes.

Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul (Spring 2026)

Mumbai and Seoul are both centers of global finance and industry and also two of the most culturally vibrant cities in the world. The Hindi cinema industry centered in Mumbai is massively popular both within India and outside. Korean cinema and popular culture in turn may have been a later to arrive on the global scene but is now arguably even more significant in its global reach, popularity and influence, not least in India. On this off-campus study program students will explore various cultural facets of both cities and study their representations in and contributions to film, popular culture and literature. We will examine the connections and differences between the globally popular productions of these two cities and the cultural and historical contexts they emerge from.

Living London: Reading London, Writing London (Spring 2027)

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