Russian Studies Majors

[Jolanta M. Davis]

Dear Professor Rifkin,
This is Jolanta Davis, publications coordinator and NewsNet editor at
AAASS. Please let me know when you are planning to start admitting students
to this new track of studies. Would you (or anyone else from the new
program) be willing to write some time in the future (perhaps a year after
the program has started) an article for NewsNet about the process of
setting up this program?
Sincerely,
Jolanta Davis
p.s. If I may ask - what made you decide not to renew your membership with
AAASS for this year? As I am fairly new in my position I have been trying
to figure out how to serve AAASS members and NewsNet readers the best I can
and I would appreciate any comments from you regarding this matter.

At 12:50 PM 4/19/00 , you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UW-Madison is
>considering opening up another major track, in addition to an existing
>major in Russian language and literature.  This new track would be in
>Russian Studies or Russian Language and Civilization, and would allow
>students to take courses toward the major in area studies disciplines.
>
>If you teach in a Slavic Department, Russian Department, or Modern Language
>Department, and have an undergraduate major or major track that allows
>students to take area studies courses (not exclusively courses in Russian
>literature), please write me off-list to let me know how your majors are
>configured.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Ben Rifkin
>
>
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof. of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
>Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction
>1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706
>voice:  608/262-1623; fax:  608/265-2814
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
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Jolanta M. Davis
Publications Coordinator
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
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Cambridge, MA 021238, USA
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