program survival

[Renee Stillings]

If to take what feedback I have heard from my students (during their study
abroad to Russia) I have to say that I have heard consistently the most
comments from University of Denver students who felt their program (while
small) was pretty progressive. I believe Dr. Luc Beaudoin still heads up
that department and the students mention that he encourages quite strongly
that they combine their Russian Studies with such areas as economics. I
don't know how that has reflected overall on DU curriculum for Russian
Studies, but I'm sure you can see what they are offering at their web site
(www.du.edu) and contact that department through it.

I would also recommend contacting Monterey Institute of International
Studies (www.miis.edu I believe). They are doing area studies relative to an
MBA or Public Admin degree, along with being a top translation school. While
their programs are at the graduate level, I believe it is still possible to
apply the structure of their program to the undergrad level very
successfully.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Devin Browne" <dpbrowne+ at PITT.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: program survival


> Renee did a great job at summing up a number of reasons to develop Russian
> Studies programs.  She even mentioned that technical translation is
another
> area that is rarely offered (I'd add "usually shunned" to that as well)
and ...

> So now I'm wondering if anyone is already doing this as an undergraduate
> major?  Has anyone been seeing any success?  Please share.
>

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