Polish Studies at University of Washington, Seattle

• The Institution
• Polish Studies Courses
• Language Instruction
• Poland-Related Courses
• Faculty

Language Instruction

POLSH 401, 402 Elementary Polish @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Principal morphological and syntactic features of the Polish language through the medium of a basic vocabulary
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Dziwirek, K.

POLSH 403 Elementary Polish @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Designed to enlarge general vocabulary by the reading of short texts selected from Polish authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Dziwirek, K.

POLSH 404, 405, 406 Advanced Polish @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Continuation of 401, 402, 403. Selected readings of the main works from nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reinforces basic knowledge of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and conversation
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Dziwirek, K.

Poland-Related Courses

SLAV 420 The Other Europe: Contemporary East European Fiction @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Contemporary fiction by Czech, East German, Hungarian, Polish, Baltic and Balkan writers. Topics include: history of colonization, the imagination of social utopia, socialism and nationalism, everyday life under communism, cultural identity between East and West, experimental writing, new fiction in post-communist Eastern Europe. COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Crnkovic, G.

SLAV 423 East European Film @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Basic survey of major East European film directors in the post-World War II period. Topics include: film-making in a non-market society, the strong presence of women directors and gender-related themes in East European cinema, and East European film in the socialist and post-socialist eras. Special emphasis on the East European directors who also worked in the "West" (Roman Polanski, Milos Forman, Agnieszka Holland, Istvan Szabo and Dusan Makavejev), and on the comparison between their East European production and their West European or American one.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Crnkovic, G.

HSTEU 220 Introduction to East European Studies @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introduction to the history of post-1945 Eastern Europe focusing on political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic issues. Countries surveyed include Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Felak, J.

HSTEU 352 Eastern Europe Since 1918 @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania, from the end of World War I to the present.

HSTEU 451 East-Central Europe Since 1342 @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The history of the Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, and Slovaks from the fourteenth century to the present. Greatest stress is placed on the twentieth century, and on issues of nationalism and communism.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Felak, J.

HSTEU 551 History of Eastern Europe: 1772-1939 @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Study of the east-central European region: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and the Balkan countries, from their rebirth to World War II. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German, French, Russian, or one East European language.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Felak, J.

HSTEU 552 History of Eastern Europe: 1939 to the Present @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Continuation of 551
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Felak, J.

HSTEU 553, 554, 555 Seminar in Modern Eastern European History @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Study and research involving special methods dealing with the histories of the East European countries in the modern period
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Felak, J.

SLAV 351 History of the Slavic Languages @ @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: External and internal history of Slavic literary languages from the beginnings to the present time, including the development of writing systems, external attempts at reform, and the development of vocabulary.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: K. Dziwirek

Faculty

Crnkovic, Gordana - Associate Professor, History, University of Washington, Seattle @

Ph.D. Stanford University, 1993
Phone: (206) 543 -641 / Fax: . . . ./ E-Mail: crnkovic@u.washington.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Exploring ways in which both American and East European culture can become less insular and "monological"
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

• The Other Europe: Contemporary East European Fiction
• East European Film

Dziwirek, Katarzyna A. - Associate Professor, Polish and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington, Seattle @

Ph.D. ,University of California, San Diego. 1991
Phone: (206) 543-7691/ E-Mail: dziwirek@u.washington.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Encoding of grammatical relations in the argument structure of verbs and its mapping in the syntax
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS

• Polish Subjects, in Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series. New York: Garland Publishing.

Felak, James Associate Professor, History, University of Washington, Seattle @

Ph.D. Indiana University, 1989
Phone: (206) 543-8291 / Fax:. . . . . . ./ E-Mail: felak@u.washington.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: East Central Europe since 1800; Nationalism; Communism; Religion.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

• Introduction to East European Studies
• East-Central Europe Since 1342
• History of Eastern Europe: 1772-1939
• History of Eastern Europe: 1939-2000
• Seminar in Modern Eastern European History

Poznanski, Kazimierz Professor, School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle @

Ph.D.,Warsaw Univeersity, 1974
Phone: (206) 543-0293 / . . . / kazpoz@u.washington.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Technology transfer and absorption, economic development, international trade, East Europe, the newly industrializing countries.
PRESS COVERAGE

• "Professor Kazimierz Poznanski on Economic Transition in Poland and Eastern Europe" interview with Alicia Moos in the UW REECAS Newsletter, Fall 1996

POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS

• Poland Protractal Transition: Institutional Change and Economic Growth 1970-1994, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Stabilization and Privatization in Poland: An Economic Evaluation of the Shock Therapy Program. Editor and contributor, Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer, 1992.

APPOINTMENTS

• Economic Advisor to Polish government - 1994-96