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University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1361
(310) 825-4321

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Polish Studies at University of California, Los Angeles

The Institution

Part of the University of California system, UCLA is an urban university with an enrollment of over 37,000 student. It ranks among the top reasearch univerities in the United States.

Polish Studies Courses

POLISH 152A Survey of Polish Literature @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism (in English)
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Koropeckyj, R.
POLISH 152B Survey of Polish Literature II: Polish Romanticism & Postromanticism @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introductory course examining trends and selected works of the Romantic and Postromantic period in Polish literature. Special emphasis on such writers as Adam Mickiewicz, Antoni Malczewski, Juliusz S¬owacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Aleksander Fredro, Cyprian Norwid, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Aleksander Prus, and Henryk Sienkiewicz.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Koropeckyj, R.
POLISH 152C Survey of Polish Literature III: From Young Poland to 1989 @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introductory course examining trends and selected works from the 1890s to 1989. Emphasis on the prose, poetry, and drama of Yound Poland, the Interwar period, and communist Poland.Writers to be discussed include Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Tadeusz Miciński, Bruno Schulz, Witold Gombrowicz, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Czeslaw Milosz, Tadeusz Rózewicz, Slawomir Mrozek, Tadeusz Konwicki, Zbigniew Herbert, and Wislawa Szymborska.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Koropeckyj, R.
POLISH 280 Seminar Polish Literature @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Seminar, three hours. Selected topics in Polish prose, poetry, and drama.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Koropeckyj, R.

Language Instruction

POLISH 102 A,B,C Elementary Polish @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A basic course intended for students with very little or no knowledge of Polish and designed to develop all aspects of the language‹aural comprehension, conversation, reading, and writing. Essentials of grammar will be emphasized in class through oral drills and conversation.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Koropeckyj, R.
POLISH 102 D,E,F Advanced Polish @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Recitation
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Koropeckyj, R.

Poland-Related Courses

History 124D Film and History: Central and Eastern Europe, 1945 to 1989 @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Designed for juniors/seniors. Postwar history of central and eastern Europe (1945 to 1989), using eight Czech, Polish, and Hungarian films to explore life under state socialist "modernization dictatorship."
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Berend., I.

Faculty

Berend, Ivan T. , Professor of History and Director of Central European Studies, University of California/Los Angeles @
Ph.D., Eötvös Lóránd University, Hungary 1958
Phone: (310) 825-1178; (310) 825-4601 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: iberend@history.ucla.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Social, cultural and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Gondek, Juliana , Professor of Voice and Opera Studies, Department of Music, University of California/Los Angeles @
M.M., University of Southern California.
Phone: 310-794-9269 / Fax: 310-206-4738 / E-Mail: jgondek@ucla.edu / http://www.julianagondek.com
MAJOR INTERESTS: Performance as soprano of international operatic, symphonic, chamber music.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PERFORMANCE
  • National Endowment for the Arts top Solo Recitalist Award for her concert series The Art of Polish Song
  • Recording of Szymanowski's complete works for solo voice and piano - first of four CD's to be released in 2003 by Channel Classics
  • Creation of English-text setting of Tadeusz Baird's cycle "Five Songs for Children."
Koropeckyj, Roman , Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles @
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1990
Phone: (310) 825-2676 / Fax: (310) 206-5263 / E-Mail: koropeck@humnet.ucla.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish Romanticism, Ukraine and Ukrainians in Polish literature, Early Modern Polish and Ukrainian cultural history, The beginnings of modern Ukrainian literature, Literature and anthropology
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Adam Mickiewicz between Forefathers' Eve, part 3 and Pan Tadeusz Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2001
    • Winner of the 2003 Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.
ARTICLES
  • 'The Kiev-Mohyla Collegium and Seventeenth-Century Polish-English Literary Contacts: A Polish Translation of Henry Montagu's Manchester al Mondo." In The Kiev Mohyla Academy. Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of Its Founding (1632), 136?4. Cambridge, Mass., 1985
COURSES

META-FACULTY - Faculty who have studied and/or taught at Polish institutions of higher education

Wortham,Thomas , Professor, English, University of California, Los Angeles @
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1970
Phone: (310) 825-4459 / Fax:... / E-Mail: WORTHAM@humnet.ucla.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: 19th Century American Literature
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Fulbright Lecturer, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland, 1976-1977



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