Potential Ukrainian Language Courses at the UW

[Stephen Bobick]

             Learn Ukrainian at the University of Washington

    Dr. Iryna Kinyon , who taught intensive Ukrainian this summer
(UKR401,402, 403), would like to offer 401 fall quarter, 402 winter and 403
spring. This might be possible, if we can recruit enough interested students
for Slavic L & L to get funding for it. She has experience teaching Russian
at an advanced level in Kyiv in adition to teaching beginners Ukrainian here,
but she has an enthusiasm for teaching at the beginning level. You can tell
from the way she talks about her class this summer. Her summer-quarter
students have encouraged her to make available to other students the same
opportunity, that they have had.
    She doesn't expect students to have any previous knowledge of Ukrainian
(or of any Slavic language), but would also welcome students, who already know
some.
    The world is changing! People in Kyiv and the rest of the Ukraine are not
speaking Russian much any longer. There are more speakers of Ukrainian
(approximately 50 million), than of any other Slavic language, exept Russian.
If students are looking (as more of them should be) for a language not many
Americans will know, that will be useful in international commerce and
foreign relations in the first few decades of the next millenium, they could
go far worse, than choose Ukrainian. If you add to that the fact, that it
would be taught in a small class by an excellent  instructor, it should be
possible to recruit enough students to get it off the ground.
    Students, who are interested, should contact Dr. Iryna Kinyon at
irikin at aol.com and the Department of Slavic languages and literature at UW
tel. (206) 543-6848.