revised hours survey

[Stuart Goldberg]

Hey, Ben,

Should have written you earlier, but here are Georgia Tech's numbers
(which sink your revised average even further).  2 fifteen-week
semesters.  1st year -- 3 hrs. 2nd year 3 hrs.  No third or fourth year.


I am not sure about your methodology.  Is it really fair or telling, for
instance, for our lack of a third-year course to enter a zero into the
average number of course hours per week for third year courses?  The
information about average total number of hours in the program is
definitely useful though.  Maybe you should use the data to calculate
average total number of course hours and then separate out the ones that
actually teach to give an average number of hours that a course is
taught if offered (or at least give this info in addition).

An update on Sonya's language:  She's now deep into the 2-5 stage that
Chukovskii writes about so beautifully.  Here are some of her latest
gems:  I ask if I should press down a lump of playdough -- Net, ty ne
davi, uzhe davitaia.  Bright berries on the street are called
BOFiny-VAFiny.  And the kicker -- Ia khochu "Moego Dodyra" !!!

Best,
Stuart






-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Benjamin Rifkin
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:48 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] revised hours survey

Dear SEELANGers:

I've had a flurry of contributions to the hours survey, and the results
have changed somewhat (moving lower). Here are the results revised:

(post-secondary currriculum)

first-year Russian classes:  average 4.67 hours per week
second-year:  average 4.04 hours per week
third-year:  average 3.08 hours per week
fourth-year:  average 2.23 hours per week

total hours for college-level 4-year curriculum in Russian:  on average
416.05 hours per week

Sincerely,

BR

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Benjamin Rifkin
Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706 USA
Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

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