SAVE Slavic-OSU
Howard I. Aronson
hia5 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Mon Jan 22 20:40:37 UTC 1996
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>Below some general facts about the Department of Slavic & East European
> Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
>
>... is one of 26 Slavic Ph.D. granting programs in the United States, and is
> the ONLY ONE in the state of Ohio.
>... has pioneered foreign study in Russia, Romania, and other East European
> nations since 1960.
>... in addition to its comprehensive offerings in Russian has taught Albanian,
> Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian,
> Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.
>... pioneered individualized, self-paced language instruction which has served
> as a model for many other language programs at Ohio State and across the
> country for nearly two decades.
>... was the first to introduce courses in any foreign culture at The Ohio
> State University.
>... is pro-active in the business community (where many of our alumni are
> now working). Members of the faculty have taken numerous business
> delegations to and regularly host groups from Russia and Eastern Europe.
>... in the past 15 years has placed all but two of its Ph.D. recipients in
> university positions (despite the current heavy competition), and several
> students nearing completion of the Ph.D. have already secured tenure -
> track positions.
>... takes pride in its outstanding faculty, staff, and students, among whom
> are the recipients of numerous international, national, and university
> awards for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and administration.
>... sponsors an annual Russian language camp for undergraduate and graduate
> students from across the state and beyond, and conducts an annual
> competition for high school students of Russian in Ohio.
>... offers a wealth of educational activities and workshops for students
> of Slavic and East European studies under the auspices of the OSU Russian
> and Romanian Clubs, the Russian Choir, the OSU Slavic honorary society
> Dobro Slovo, and, last but not least, its own Russian House, in which
> students of Russian may choose to live in an immersion environment.
>... established OSU's Center for Slavic and East European Studies, one of
> 9 fully-funded National Resource Centers for Slavic and East European
> Studies in the nation.
>... established the Hilandar Research Library, the largest repository of
> medieval Slavic Cyrillic manuscripts on microform in the Western
> Hemisphere, attracting scholars from across the globe.
> * * * * * * * * * * * *
>Very soon we will be posting additional statistical information about our
>department. Thank you.
>
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Howard I. Aronson Office: 312-702-7734
Slavic Langs & Lits, Univ of Chicago Home: 312-935-7535
1130 East 59th St Slavic: 312-702-8033
Chicago, IL 60637 e-mail: hia5 at midway.uchicago.edu
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