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Degree Porgrams in Slavic & East European Studies

POL 101 Elementary Polish I @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introduction to Polish: development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. UG 5 credits.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Linowski

POL 102 Elementary Polish II @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introduction to Polish: development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. UG 5 credits.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Linowski

POL 103 Intermediate Polish I @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: An intensive course that combines the content of 101 and 102; balanced use of the four basic skills: reading, oral comprehension, speaking, and writing.

POL 104 Intermediate Polish II @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Intermediate Polish II continues to expand on knowledge of Polish literary skills learned in 103.

POL 111 Intensive Intermediate Polish @

10 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: An intensive course that combines the content of 103 and 104; balanced use of the four basic skills: reading, oral comprehension, speaking, and writing.

POL 245 Polish Culture in European Context @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Students will become acquainted with the culture of Poland, especially as it is reflected in literature and film, as well as with the concept of Central Europe and the European Union. They will also be introduced to the key cities representing cultural traditions such as Krakow, Warsaw, and Gdansk.

POL 405 Polish Conversation and Composition I @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Reading texts of moderate difficulty, conversation, and simple compositions.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Linowski

POL 407 Polish Conversation and Composition II @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Reading from modern Polish literature, practice in writing and speaking.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Linowski

POL 409 Polish Conversation and Composition III @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Reading from modern Polish literature, practice in writing and speaking.

POL 630 Polish Literature Until 1900 @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course presents the highlights of Polish literature and culture from the beginning to the end of the nineteenth century. students of this course study the cultural and intellectual history as represented in the major works of Polish literature of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism and Positivism.

POL 631 Polish Literature Since 1900 @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of 20th-century poetry, prose, and drama, including works by Milosz, Szymborska, Herbert, Borowski, Gombrowicz, and others.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Dickinson

History 519 The Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish Lands, 1740-1918 @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is an advanced survey of East Central Europe, focusing on the peoples of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish lands, in particular on Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Jews and Austro-Germans. It will trace political, social and cultural developments from the reign of Maria-Theresa until World War I. Emphasis will be placed on the comparative study of the nationalities and diverse regions of East Central Europe, including agrarian and industrial societies and the modern cities of Vienna, Prague and Budapest. In this context, the course will examine national ideologies and the emergence of integral nationalism and ethnic conflict.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Dickinson

Slavic 821 Structure of Selected Slavic Languages @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Structure of Polish or any the following: Belorussian, Bulgarian, Czech, Lusatian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, or Ukrainian

Slavic 862 History of the West Slavic Languages @

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Polish, Czech, Slovak, Polabian, Kashubian, and Lusatian, with special emphasis on Polish and its relation to the other West Slavic languages.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Dickinson

MBA 808 Emerging Markets Course@

5 cr.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this course is to widen our global perspective on business, and give us an opportunity to gain international experience in emerging markets, more specifically, Poland and Hungary. The focus of the study is to explore the strategies of multinational companies as they enter into an emerging market economy. In addition, we expect to generate several company case reports

Brintlinger, Angela , Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures @

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994
tel: (614) 292-6326 / / Email: brintlinger.3@osu.edu
MAJOR INTEREST: 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature; biography; genre studies; Polish literature.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: "A New Translation of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Romanticism,' with commentary." The Sarmatian Review 12.3 (1992): 135-137

Collins, Daniel E , Assistant Professor of Slavic linguistics @

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
tel: (614) 292-4289 / / Email: collins.232@osu.edu
MAJOR INTEREST: Historical pragmatics; East and West Slavic linguistics; Old Church Slavonic; Old Russian (linguistics and literature)
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

• Grammar of a Selected Slavic Language: Polish for Reading I and II.

Dickinson, Sara , Assistant Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures

Ph.D. Harvard University
tel: (614) 292-4987 / / Email: dickinson.27@osu.edu
MAJOR INTEREST: Russian literature, Polish literature, travel writing, cultural studies, literary history and theory, film.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: "His Soul is Marching On': Norwid and the Story of John Brown." Polish Review 35, no. 3/4 (1990)

Linowski, Fr. Eugene , Instructor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures

tel: (614) 294-7355 / / Email: dickinson.27@osu.edu
MAJOR INTEREST: Polish language
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: "His Soul is Marching On': Norwid and the Story of John Brown." Polish Review 35, no. 3/4 (1990)

Slomczynski, Kazimierz , Professor of Sociology @

Ph.D. University of Warsaw, 1971.
tel: (614) 292-8078 / / Email: kms@ohstsoca.sbs.ohio-state.edu
MAJOR INTEREST: Social stratification and mobility, comparative sociology and cross-national studies. Current research on the relationship between social structure and psychological functioning
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP
MONOGRAPH:

• co-author "Polacy Wobec Integracji z Unii Europjskiej (Poles for and against Poland's integration with the European Union)." Warsaw: Weiz. 1998."
  

ARTICLES

• co-author: "Continuity and Change in Political Socialization in Poland." Comparative Education Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1997, pp. 44-70.;
• "Becoming an Entrepreneur in Poland, 1949-1993: Recruitment Patterns and Professionalization Processes." Polish Sociological Review, Vol. 119, No. 3, 1997, pp. 249-265

HONORS

• Awarded a life-time title of Professor by the president of Poland, Mr. Lech Walesa, in June 1995