enrollments query

[Lilya Kaganovsky]

And it used to be that people would read Dostoevsky in high school and
fall in love...
Here I thought there was nothing worse than all those seamen singing
"Soiuz ne rushimyi..." in heavily accented Russian.

-Lilya Kaganovsky
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign



On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 09:03 AM, Cosentini, Mary Anne wrote:

> Ben,
> These are the results that I got from my first year students (12) at
> Connecticut College.
> 1. The department ran a strong publicity campaign; seven out of 12 said
> that
> they had seen the ads.
> 2.  None said that the language or course had been recommended to
> them.  One
> student said she had heard that the course was challenging, and that
> motivated her to take it.
> 3.  Of the 12 students, half had taken some sort of related course
> (history,
> literature, or Russian politics)
> 4.  Most interesting were the reasons why each student decided to study
> Russian. One said that it was because her father was Russian, another
> said
> that the country and culture fascinated him, others believed that
> fluency in
> Russian would be needed in the future, that it would be an asset to a
> major
> in International Relations.  Some said that they wanted to study a less
> common language, that they wanted to study in Russia and they wanted to
> be
> able to read Russian literature in the original. Finally, one student
> (and
> not the first in my career) said that he decided to study Russian after
> watching "The Hunt for Red October."  I think that we'll be showing that
> movie on campus more frequently.
> Regards,
> Mary Anne Cosentini
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
>   options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
>                   http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>

*         *         *         *         *         *         *         *

Lilya Kaganovsky, Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Program in Comparative Literature & World Literature
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
Unit for Cinema Studies

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                  http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------