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The Development and Status of Slavic and East European Studies in America Since World War II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Jacob Ornstein
Jacob Ornstein*
Affiliation:
Graduate School, United States Department of Agriculture
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The present study is intended as an over-all view of teaching and research in the Slavic and East European Field. Almost ten years had elapsed since Coleman's third survey, published in 1948, and the need for a new study became increasingly apparent. The writer's survey was begun during the academic year 1954-1955, and certain phases of the investigation continued until the present. During 1954-1955 questionnaires were sent to all the 183 American and Canadian institutions reported as teaching Russian by the Modern Language Association of America. The list, compiled as the result of a survey, appeared in the September, 1954, issue of Publications of the Modern Language Association (LXIX, 29-30).

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , October 1957 , pp. 369 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1957

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References

1 The three surveys in question by A. P. Coleman are the following: “The Teaching of Area and Language Courses in the Field of Slavic and East European Studies,” American Slavic Review, IV (August, 1945), 185-208; “American Area and Language Courses in the Field of Slavic and East European Studies (1946-1947),” American Slavic Review, V (November, 1946), 162-92; A Report on (he Status of Russian and Other Slavic and East European Languages (New York [AATSEEL], Columbia University, 1948).

2 Listed here because several universities recognize its credits.

3 Modern Language Association, “The F L Program”, Report No. 1, 1955, distributed by D. C. Heath and Co. A news item by James G. Deane in the Dec. 2, 1956 Sunday Star of Washington, D. C. based on a press release from the Modern Language Association, quotes the same figures for the various languages as those given above.

4 Henry Wilmarth Mott III, “The Teaching of the Russian Language in American Secondary Schools,” Master's thesis, Colgate University, 1956.

5 According to Professor Sigmund Sluszka's latest survey report, presented at the Annual AATSEEL meeting Dec. 30, 1955 in Chicago, the total college student enrollment that year in Polish courses was 377, plus 3,227 in higher institutions of other types. In addition, there were 819 students in public high schools and 189,567 enrolled in parochial schools at the pre-college level. Eastern Europe, Royden Dangerfield, ed. (Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, 1955), pp. 15-33; James F. Clarke, “Some Problems in East European Area Studies,” Area Study Programs, pp. 34-62; Dmitri von Mohrenschildt, “Russian Area Studies and Research Since World War II , “ Russian Review, X (April, 1953), 111-9; Frances Ewing, S. J., “Russian Area Studies, America (Jan. 26, 1952); N. P. Vakar, “Teaching Russian Civilization,” American Association of University Professors Bulletin, XXXV (Winter, 1949), 651-60.

7 Wellemeyer, J . F. Jr., and M. H. North, “American Personnel in Asian, African and Eastern European Studies.” Preliminary Analysis, mimeographed, (American Council of Learned Societies, Washington, 1953).

8 Waclaw Lednicki, “The State of Slavic Studies in America,” American Slavic Review XIII (Feb., 1954), 100-116.

9 Horna, Dagmar, ed., Current Research on Central and Eastern Europe, (New York, Mid- European Studies Center, 1956)Google Scholar.