Graduate Study at Indiana University, Bloomington

[Ronald Feldstein]

Submitted as:
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University, 
in Bloomington, is pleased to invite prospective graduate students to 
consider us for their applications for the 2007-8 academic year. We offer 
the M.A. in both Russian literature and Slavic linguistics, in addition to 
a multidisciplinary M.A. in language and areas studies, usually taken in 
conjunction with a certificate in the Russian and East European Institute 
of Indiana University (REEI). Our Ph.D. is offered in both Russian 
literature and Slavic linguistics. Individuals can also follow independent 
specializations in other Slavic literatures. Our official Graduate Bulletin 
description can be found at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iu/grad/2006-2007/Slavic0607.pdf.
 
In the field of Slavic linguistics, our faculty includes Steven Franks and 
George Fowler in synchronic linguistics and Ronald Feldstein in diachronic. 
Our linguistics students often pursue double majors in both the Department 
of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Indiana University Department 
of Linguistics.
 
In the field of Russian literature, Aaron Beaver, Henry Cooper, Andrew 
Durkin, and Nina Perlina cover a variety of chronological periods from Old 
Russian to contemporary Russian literature, as well as specialized author 
and genre courses. In addition to Russian literature, we offer courses in 
South Slavic (Henry Cooper), Czech (Bronislava Volkova), and Polish 
(Justyna Beinek) literatures. Professor Beinek has introduced a new course 
on Polish cinema and other new cinema courses are being planned.
 
During the regular academic year, we regularly offer 2-year and 3-year 
sequences of Polish, Czech, Serbian/Croatian, and Romanian, in addition to 
a 5-year sequence of Russian language. We have also introduced a new course 
in elementary Ukrainian during the 2006-7 academic year, taught by Olena 
Chernishenko, who is also teaching our upper-level Russian courses. In the 
summer, we are the home of the nationally known SWSEEL program, which 
offers the equivalent of six years of training in Russian, plus a variety 
of other courses in Slavic and non-Slavic languages of the region, under 
the direction of Jerzy Kolodziej (see 
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/index.shtml).
 
Several different types of financial aid are offered, including FLAS 
fellowships through the Russian and East European Institute (see 
http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/funding/acayr.htm), departmental 
fellowships, and associate instructorships (teaching assistantships). Our 
dean has recently increased our departmental fellowship amounts. Associate 
instructors are offered a full program of pedagogical training in the 
teaching of languages, under the supervision of our director of language 
teaching, Jeffrey Holdeman. In addition to serving as associate 
instructors, graduate students have the opportunity to be employed by 
Slavica Publishers, which is housed in our department and directed by 
George Fowler.
 
Any inquiries about graduate study in the Indiana University Department of 
Slavic Languages and Literatures can be emailed to iuslavic at indiana.edu.

Submitted by Ronald Feldstein, Chair
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There are only a few minor changes I would suggest for the ad for our 
program (full text below). Otherwise it looks fine to me as is.

1. It states that the lit faculty offer "many specialized author and genre 
courses" which isn't exactly true because of demands to teach the various 
undergrad and grad survey courses - could we just get rid of the 
word "many"? Our offerings in this regard haven't been many of late, but we 
do want to mention in the ad that we offer such courses.

2.  A VERY minor thing - it seems odd that we list PROFESSOR Bronislava 
Volkova, as if Justyna and Henry might not be, in the following: "we offer 
courses in South Slavic (Henry Cooper), Czech (Professor Bronislava 
Volkova), and Polish (Justyna Beinek) literatures."

3.  Currently the link to the Graduate Bulletin (end of paragraph 1) 
doesn't work. It leads to an Error page instead.

And I'm sure you'd change the "plan to offer Ukrainian" sentence, but I 
thought I'd mention it just in case.

Aaron


On Oct 13, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Ronald F. Feldstein wrote:


Dear Jeff,
I saw Chuck Gribble’s message and was planning to do this soon. I will now 
wait until Aaron (and Denise, etc.) make suggestions to the previous 
message, which is what I would use as the basis of new one.
I don’t mind issuing AI promises. I think we have been too conservative, 
since most of our Topics AI’s are now from the Linguistics Dept. I think 
that one of the OSU strategies is to bring in people from Slavic speaking 
countries and give them AI’ships. We always get several applicants of this 
type, but usually don’t offer aid, which is tantamount to a rejection. 
Perhaps this policy should change too.
Ron


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