Enrollment figures

[Vakareliyska]

        The following are the official third-week enrollment figures for
Russian Department language classes at the University of Oregon this year
and last year. Since our academic year starts around October 1, these
figures have just been issued now:


                                1995-96         1994-95
        Russian
           First year              59              66
           Second year             25              27
           Third year              14              18
           Fourth year              6              10

        Bulgarian (first year)      8            (not offered)

        Polish
           First year               1               6 (winter term)
           Second year              3            (not offered)

        Old Church Slavonic       (not offered)    10


        The drop in enrollments in the upper-level Russian courses is
partly a result of the summer language program initiated by the department,
since some of the second- and third-year students in our program last year
took the following year of Russian during summer 1995 instead of during the
1995-96 academic year.
        Interestingly, most of the students enrolled in the biennial
graduate Old Church Slavonic course last year took the course as an
elective: of the ten students enrolled as of the third week of classes,
only four were M.A. students in the department, for whom the course is
required.

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Cynthia Vakareliyska
vakarel at oregon.uoregon.edu

Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics                 tel: (503) 346-4043
Department of Russian                                     fax: (503) 346-1327
University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403-1262