SAVE Slavic-OSU

[Rosa-Maria Cormanick]

Below some general facts about the Department of Slavic & East European
          Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University

...  is one of 26 Slavic Ph.D. granting programs in the United States, and is
     the ONLY ONE in the state of Ohio.
...  has pioneered foreign study in Russia, Romania, and other East European
     nations since 1960.
...  in addition to its comprehensive offerings in Russian has taught Albanian,
     Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian,
     Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.
...  pioneered individualized, self-paced language instruction which has served
     as a model for many other language programs at Ohio State and across the
     country for nearly two decades.
...  was the first to introduce courses in any foreign culture at The Ohio
     State University.
...  is pro-active in the business community (where many of our alumni are
     now working).  Members of the faculty have taken numerous business
     delegations to and regularly host groups from Russia and Eastern Europe.
...  in the past 15 years has placed all but two of its Ph.D. recipients in
     university positions (despite the current heavy competition), and several
     students nearing completion of the Ph.D. have already secured tenure -
     track positions.
...  takes pride in its outstanding faculty, staff, and students, among whom
     are the recipients of numerous international, national, and university
     awards for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and administration.
...  sponsors an annual Russian language camp for undergraduate and graduate
     students from across the state and beyond, and conducts an annual
     competition for high school students of Russian in Ohio.
...  offers a wealth of educational activities and workshops for students
     of Slavic and East European studies under the auspices of the OSU Russian
     and Romanian Clubs, the Russian Choir, the OSU Slavic honorary society
     Dobro Slovo, and, last but not least, its own Russian House, in which
     students of Russian may choose to live in an immersion environment.
...  established OSU's Center for Slavic and East European Studies, one of
     9 fully-funded National Resource Centers for Slavic and East European
     Studies in the nation.
...  established the Hilandar Research Library, the largest repository of
     medieval Slavic Cyrillic manuscripts on microform in the Western
     Hemisphere, attracting scholars from across the globe.
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Very soon we will be posting additional statistical information about our
department.  Thank you.