seeking kindred departments

[Kenneth Brostrom]

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Dear SEELANGers,

Our department is in the very early stages of an internal review (the 
first stage of a university-wide accreditation review).  In our 
self-study, we are asked to compare ourselves with two other, similar 
American departments.  We have spent a great deal of time visiting 
various departmental websites, and we have found one considerably 
larger department that we can use as a model for future growth.  But 
we have found no departments resembling us that are approximately our 
size.  I would be very grateful if you could contact me, should you 
decide that your department is to a significant degree like ours.  We 
will then visit your website to gather more information.

We are part of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at Wayne 
State University. We have two full-time positions in Russian and one 
in Polish, and two part-time positions in Ukrainian and Russian.  (We 
are also home for a very small program in Armenian.)  We offer a 
Slavic major with Russian and Polish concentrations.  It offers 
considerably flexibility to students, with four years of Russian, 
three of Polish, 3 semesters of Ukrainian, and courses on these 
cultures, two courses on Russian literature and one on short fictions 
from the Slavic and German worlds, two film courses, one course on 
Slavic women, a Russian-language practicum, and study abroad in both 
Poland and Russia.  Most majors choose the interdisciplinary option, 
which also includes courses primarily in the social sciences, rather 
than the language option, which involves two Slavic languages.

If the above resembles your program to some degree, I would be most 
grateful to hear from you off list.

Many thanks!
Ken Brostrom


Kenneth Brostrom, Assoc. Prof. of Russian
Dept. of German and Slavic Studies
443 Manoogian Hall
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
email: kenneth.brostrom at wayne.edu
telephone: 313-577-6238

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