Harvard Summer School

Fri Feb 16 16:00:41 UTC 1996

Harvard Ukrainian
Summer Institute
June 24 to August 16, 1996

The Program

The only program of its kind in North America, the Harvard
Ukrainian Summer Institute offers eight weeks of intensive
accredited university instruction in Ukrainian studies. The program
is run jointly by the Harvard Summer School and the Ukrainian
Research Institute and has been in existence for over 25 years.
Students have access Harvard-s many research and instructional
facilities, including the largest Ukrainian library collection outside
of Eastern Europe, museums, and language laboratory.  They may
also consult with the faculty and affiliates of the Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute, who work closely with the summer
program. In previous years participants have included
undergraduates, graduate students and professionals who have
come from North and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and
Ukraine.

Intensive Ukrainian language teaching is a central focus of the
Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute.  Instruction is proficiency-
based and aimed at developing the four skills of reading, writing,
speaking and aural comprehension.  An entry test determines
placement in each course and proficiency testing will be a
component of the final exam.  An extensive video library of over
100 films, satellite access to Ukrainian news and other TV
programs, regular language tables and other activities supplement
classroom instruction.  Every year a group of students from
Ukraine attend the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, giving
their North American counterparts the opportunity to interact with
native speakers in a near-immersion environment.

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Special Events

A full calendar of special events supplements the academic
offerings of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. The program
for 1996 will include a lecture series by prominent faculty and
guests, round table discussions on current Ukrainian affairs, a
theater and music program, literary readings, contemporary films,
and optional excursions to Tanglewood (summer home of the
Boston Symphony) and Cape Cod.

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 and written exercises complement the acquisition of oral-
aural skills.

Intermediate Ukrainian  (8 credits)
Halyna Hryn, Director and Language Program Coordinator,
Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Expansion of grammar fundamentals, preceded by intensive review
of basic structures. Emphasis placed on oral communication using
basic conversational patterns.  Readings focus on contemporary
Ukrainian affairs and are supplemented by audio-visual material.
Students are expected to keep a daily journal.

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:

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 through to the present.  Sexuality, individualism,
Europeaness, intellectualism, formalism are among the issues to be
studied.  Reading knowledge of Ukrainian 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
statebuilding.  Some of the issues considered are:  religious identity
and confessional polemics; the relationship of culture, religion and
the rise of national consciousness; and the role of underground
religious and cultural movements.  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 the
Russian Federation.

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Fees and Financial Aid

The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute offers a reduced tuition
of $1,850 for eight units of credit (full tuition through the Harvard
Summer School in 1996 will be $2,820). A number of further
tuition reduction stipends may be available based on demonstrated
need.  Graduate Students are urged to apply for summer FLAS
(Foreign Language Area Studies) funding through their home
institution.

Students accepted into the program are must register for a
minimum of 8 credit units and will be required to either provide
proof that they have health insurance from a US insurer or to
purchase coverage from the Harvard Summer School.

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Housing

Students who wish to live on campus may apply for dormitory
housing through the Harvard Summer School. Room and board for
8 weeks is $2,360.  Those wishing to live off campus will have
access to listings at the Harvard Housing Office to assist them in
their search.

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.

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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