Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute

[Ksenya Kiebuzinski]

 Program Announcement

1996 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute

June 24 to August 16, 1996


The Program

The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute is a rigorous eight-week
academic program offering accredited university instruction in
Ukrainian studies. The program is organized by the Harvard
University Summer School and the Ukrainian Research Institute.
Students are also encouraged to take advantage of Harvard-s many
research and instructional facilities, including the libraries, museums
and language laboratory. In previous years participants have
included undergraduates, graduate students and professionals who
have come from North and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe,
and Ukraine.

Special Events

A full calendar of special events supplements the academic offerings
of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. The program for 1996
will include contemporary Ukrainian films, readings by Ukrainian
authors, guest lectures by prominent faculty and guests, and round-
table discussions on current events in Ukraine.

Admission Policy

Applicants must be at least 19 years of age or have completed one
year of college to be admitted to the program. Admission is based on
the applicant-s academic record, a letter of recommendation and an
essay. The application deadline is June 1, 1996.


Ukrainian Language Courses:

Beginning Ukrainian  (8 credits)
Natalia Shostak, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Modern
Languages and Comparative Studies, University of Alberta.
Intensive course for students with little or no knowledge of the
language. Elementary grammatical structures will be presented
through an active oral approach. Reading and discussion of simple
texts along with written exercises complement the acquisition of
oral-aural skills.

Intermediate Ukrainian  (8 credits)
Halyna Hryn, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures, University of Toronto, and Director, Harvard
Ukrainian Summer Institute.
Expansion of grammar fundamentals, preceded by intensive review
of basic structures. Emphasis on oral communication using basic
conversational patterns.  Mastery of basic grammatical structures
will be reinforced through written drills.

Advanced Ukrainian  (8 credits)
Taras Koznarsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
Intensive course for students who wish to develop their mastery of
the language. Grammar work includes comprehensive review of
difficult concepts and introduction of more complex structures.
Readings include annotated belles lettres and journalistic pieces.
Written compositions will be assigned on a regular basis. Classes
conducted largely in Ukrainian.

Literature, History and Politics Courses:

Modernism, Feminism and Their Reception in Twentieth-Century
Ukrainian Literature         (4 credits)  Solomea Pavlychko, Senior
Research Fellow, Department of Literary Theory, Institute of
Literature, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
This course will focus on the major conflict within Ukrainian
literature of the twentieth century, namely, that between populism
and modernism.  The development of modernist and feminist
discourses and their cultural reception will be examined by looking
at major fin de si(cle writers, writers from the 1920s, 1940s and
1960s, and contemporary writers.  Sexuality, individualism,
Europeaness, intellectualism, formalism are among the issues to be
studied.  Reading knowledge of Ukrainian is desirable but not
required.

Modern Ukrainian History:  Culture, Church and Society (4 credits)
Borys A. Gudziak, Director, Institute of Church History, Lviv
Theological Academy.
A survey of Ukrainian history from the turn of the 17th century to
the present, with special emphasis on the role of the Church, its
impact on Ukrainian culture, politics and society.  The course
explores the main turning points in the cultural and religious life of
Ukraine from the early modern crisis and transformation of
Ukrainian society to the present process of independent state
building.  Some of the issues considered are:  religious identity and
confessional polemics; the relationship between culture, religion and
the rise of national consciousness; the role of underground religious
and cultural movements in opposition to totalitarianism.  The course
will close with a discussion of post-modern phenomena in
Ukrainian cultural and spiritual life.  Slides, musical recordings, and
oral depositions will serve to illustrate lectures.

Ukrainian Politics in Transition (4 credits)  James I. Clem, Post-
Doctoral Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University.
This course will analyze the process of democratic state-building in
post-Communist Ukraine.  Using the Soviet period as a point of
reference, the course will highlight the conflicting themes of
continuity and change in this transitional period.  Issues that will be
covered include:  the transformation of political and economic
institutions; the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in Ukraine; the
politics of regionalism in Ukraine; and Ukraine-s position in the
international system, particularly its relationship with Russia.

Fees

The fee for the 1996 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute is $1,850
for eight units of credit (full tuition through the Harvard Summer
School for 8 credits in 1995 was $2,650). A limited number of
financial aid awards will be available to students who can
demonstrate need.  Students accepted into the program are required
to register for a minimum of 8 credit units and may register for up to
12 credit units within the Ukrainian Summer Institute program.

Students must register through the Harvard Summer School and will
be required either to provide proof that they have health insurance
from a US insurer or to purchase coverage from the Harvard
Summer School.

Housing

Students who wish to live on campus may apply for dormitory
housing through the Harvard Summer School. Room and board for
8 weeks in 1995 cost $2,175.

For application materials contact:
Administrator, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute,
1583 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA  02138
Telephone: 617/495-7833;  fax: 617/495-8097
e-mail:  hryn at fas.harvard.edu