A learning adventure in English and Scottish Children's Literature
Instructor: Dr. Fran Bender

CCSA Campus Representative for The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga:
Hugh Prevost

A summer course in Scotland and England offered through the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad

Course Overview

The group of young literature scholars was in England and Scotland for eighteen days in June of 2006.

Photographs of the adventure are posted through the following link:

http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Fran-Bender/potter/


The class at Beatrix Potter's Hilltop Farm in England's Lake District

The photographs will remain on this website until the middle of August, 2006. We will significantly reduce the number of photographs after the first week or two of August.

"From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter," was a survey children's British literature from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. The course included readings from Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, Mollie Hunter, J. K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, and other English and Scottish authors.


The class on the London Tube, perhaps, discussing Christopher's tube ride from Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night

The course itinerary included visits to London, Oxford, Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Lake District, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and York.

Websites of each of the places our group lodged during the June 2006 expedition include:


The Great Dining Hall, Christ Church College, Oxford,
The inspiration for the Harry Potter Hogwarts Dinning Hall

Syllabus, Itinerary Cover Letter, Itinerary

Reading list

The materials under study included the following:

  • Beatrix Potter, The Tales of Peter Rabbit
  • C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • Mollie Hunter, The King's Swift Rider or You Never Knew Her As I Did
  • Roald Dahl, Matilda
  • Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford
  • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • Rudyard Kipling, "If"
    and three stories from the "Just-So Stories" (available online)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses (available online)
  • J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


Robert the Bruce - King of the Scots

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