London July Program
London July students will have the opportunity to live in a city that is vibrant, diverse, and full of history. Classes range covering Great Books or Nutrition. Students in both tracks will have educational opportunities unique to London. NUTR210, 'Contemporary Issues in Nutrition', allows students to complete their Science GE requirement in the most cosmopolitan city in the world; if all the world's cuisines are to be discovered in London, which nutritional issues also await discovery?
Program Dates
July 5 - July 31, 2026
*Dates above indicate a planned departure date from the US and in-country return departure date.
Costs
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Course Requirements and Offerings
Refer to the academics page for details on the minimum unit requirements and class pre-requisites for the program. Textbook lists will be provided by the program staff.
Faculty-in-Residence
Loan Pham Kim
Professor of Nutritional Science & Public Health
Loan Kim is a Professor of Nutritional Science at Seaver College and teaches a wide range of courses in Nutritional Science and Public Health. Dr. Kim received her bachelor's degree in Clinical Dietetics from UC Berkeley, master of science degree in Nutritional Science from San Jose State University, and PhD in Public Health from UCLA. Her husband, John, has worked as a mechanical engineer, financial auditor and now leads HR and finance for a non-profit in LA. Together with their daughters, Joy and Elizabeth, they love to travel, try new foods, and spend time together. They have led the Kenya MITS summer program since 2014 and the July London nutrition program in 2024. They are excited to explore more of London in 2026 with a new group of students. As a class, we will explore London’s culinary scene, which offers an eclectic mixture of British classics and also more modern multicultural cuisine. In this nutrition GE course, we will study the impact of culture on food practices & policies, and how these ultimately affect our long-term health and well-being.
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jessica.Hootenwilson@pepperdine.edu
Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books
Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University. She is the author of several books, most recently Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. Her book Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov received a 2018 Christianity Today book of the year in arts and culture award and The Scandal of Holiness received a 2022 Award of Merit. In 2019 she received the Hiett Prize for Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Other awards include a Fulbright Fellowship to Prague, an NEH to study Dante in Florence, a Biola University sabbatical fellowship funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and the 2017 Emerging Public Intellectual Award. She is a Senior Fellow at The Trinity Forum.