Rising Russian Enrollments

[RYLKOVA,GALINA S]

Most of my first-year students want to work in Russia eventually 
in different capacities. This was the number one reason for taking 
Russian they gave on a questionnaire. Others want to distinguish 
themselves and look good when they apply to medical schools, etc. 
I would qualify Russian-American relations as not bad (neplokhie). 
They are neither perfect, nor bad, which seems to be beneficial 
for generating interest in Russian.
All the best,
Galina Rylkova

On Fri Oct 16 15:24:20 EDT 2009, "Michele A. Berdy" 
<maberdy at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I'm quite astonished by the increased numbers cited here. The 
> rising enrollments do seem to support the observation that when 
> relations are bad, the number of Russian-language students goes 
> up; when relations are good, they go down. But why speculate? Has 
> anyone asked these kids why they are taking Russian? 
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Galina S. Rylkova
Associate Professor of Russian
Undergraduate Coordinator for Russian Studies
Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Office hours: M,W,F - 4.05-4.55
256 Dauer Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA
grylkova at ufl.edu
http://www.languages.ufl.edu/russian

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