M.A. program in Slavic lgs and lits

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Please announce to interested students:


             M.A. Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures
                         University of Oregon
                             Eugene, Oregon


       Application deadline: April 15. Late applications will be considered
subject to availability of spaces.


Graduate Program: The University of Oregon offers a comprehensive M.A.
program in Slavic linguistics and Slavic literatures (see course list
below). Upon successful completion of the program, graduates may apply to
continue on at the Ph.D. level in the Department of Linguistics, with a
specialization in Slavic linguistics, or in the Department of Comparative
Literature.

Language: Courses are available in all levels of Russian, and in first- and
second-year Bulgarian and Polish. Instruction in Czech, Macedonian,
Serbocroatian, and Romanian are available for credit on a tutorial basis.
M.A. students are required to pass a proficiency test in either French or
German, and are strongly encouraged to complete two years of a second
Slavic language.

Financial Aid: Teaching fellowships and research assistantships are
available to qualified graduate students.

Visiting Professorships: The Marjorie Lindholm Professorship in Russian
Language, Literature and Culture provides regular visiting professorships
in the Department of Russian by distinguished scholars. Short-term
minicourses and workshops are also frequently available with visiting
scholars from other institutions.

Russian and East European Studies Center (REESC): M.A. candidates in Slavic
Languages and Literatures are eligible to earn a certificate in the Russian
and East European Studies Program, upon completion of required coursework
in language, culture, and history. The REESC program has strong focuses on
both Balkan studies and Russian studies.

For further information and application materials, contact the Department
of Russian, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, or
msherw at oregon.uoregon.edu.

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                             M.A. Courses

Language:

Fourth-Year Russian; Russian Phonetics; First- and Second-Year Bulgarian;
First- and Second-Year Polish; other modern Slavic languages and Romanian
available on a tutorial basis


Practica:

- Humanities Computing/SGML (medieval Slavic menology database);
- Medieval Manuscript Studies (Church Slavonic textology project);
- Student Market Survey (enrollment-boosting strategy study);
- Colloquium on Current Slavic Research (Slavic literatures and
        linguistics)


Linguistics:

Old Church Slavonic; History of the Russian Literary Language; Russian
Phonology and Morphology; Russian Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse;
Introduction to the Slavic Languages; Gender Issues in Russian


Literature:

Old Russian Literature; Russian Folklore; Modern Russian Poetry;
20th-Century Russian Literature; Contemporary Russian Literature; Russian
Prose Classics; Pushkin; Dostoevsky; Tolstoy


Culture:

Russian Culture and Civilization; Balkan Cultures; Slavic Civilization