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Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-2424

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Polish Studies at Wayne State University

The Institution

Wayne State University is Michigan's only urban research university. Wayne State's 14 schools and colleges offer more than 350 major subject areas to 31,040 graduate and undergraduate students.

WSU is located in the heart of Detroit's University Cultural Center, the home of renowned museums, galleries and theatres, most within walking distance. The WSU main campus encompasses 203 acres of beautifully landscaped walkways and gathering spots, linking 100 education and research buildings.

Polish Studies Courses

POL 2710 Survey of Polish Culture @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introductory survey from the beginnings of the Polish state to the present. Polish society, politics, and culture compared to their North American counterparts. Achievements of Polish culture, their impact on world culture, and the shaping of contemporary Polish society. Examination of its artifacts and values from a broader historical perspective. Practical applications for students, including those who are planning to conduct business in Poland. Class will include a combination of lectures, films, slide presentations, and class discussion.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.
POL 3750 Polish and Yugoslavian Auteur Cinema @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Significant films of: Wajda, Polanski, Makavejev, Kieslowski and Kusturica.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.

Language Instruction

POL 1010-20 Elementary Polish @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Sounds, spelling, vocabulary, forms, syntax as basis for reading and conversation. Material fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.
POL 2010 Intermediate Polish @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Development and practice of basic language skills to increase proficiency in Polish; contemporary Polish culture and current issues.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.
POL 2060 Composition and Conversation @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: For students with rudimentary knowledge of Polish. Four skills modules: listening and comprehension (offered Monday); conversation (Tuesday); reading and comprehension (Thursday); and writing (Friday). Student may choose which language skill (or skills) they want to master, up to four credits per semester.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.
POL 3030 Advanced Speaking and Writing @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Original texts and audio-visual materials used to further knowledge of Polish culture and develop language skills. Students may focus on listening and speaking, and/or reading and writing.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.
POL 5993 Writing Intensive: Polish @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Disciplinary writing assignments under the direction of a faculty member.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.

Poland-Related Courses

SLA 3410 New Soil, Old Roots: Immigrant Experience @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Armenian, German, Jewish, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian immigration to the United States, its effects on the cultures (language, literature, religion, politics, music, art and theatre) of these ethnic groups and its influence upon American culture.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Toumajan, D.
SLA 3700 Changing Face of Europe @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A half semester mini-course which provides students with an understanding of the personalities and events that are shaping a rapidly changing and volatile area of the world, namely Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The focus is on political and cultural changes since world War II and particularly since the rise of Solidarity in Poland (1981), the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), and the collapse of the Soviet Union (1992).
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Klin, A.
SLA 3710 Russian and East European Film @@
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Major Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Armenian films viewed and discussed from political, cultural and aesthetic points of view.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Brostrom, K.

Faculty

Brostrom, Kenneth Associate Professor of Russian, Wayne State University @
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Phone: (313) 577-6238 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Kenneth.Brostrom@wayne.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Russian culture and literary theory
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Bukowczyk, John J. Professor of History, Wayne State University @
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1980
Phone: (313) 577-2799 / Fax: (313) 577-6987 / E-Mail: aa2092@wayne.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish-American Studies
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish-Americans, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987
    • Winner of Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University
    • Co-winner of Oscar Halecki Award (Best Book), Polish American Historical Association.
EDITED VOLUMES
  • Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
  • "Polish Americans," in The Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. M. Dubofsky et. al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • "The Image and Self-Image of Polish Americans," Polish American Studies 55, no. 2 (Autumn 1998): 63-71
  • The Poles' Other/The Poles as Other, Fiedorczyk Lecture in Polish American Studies, 1999 (New Britain: Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, 1998)
  • "Polish Americans, Ethnicity, and Otherness," The Polish Review 43, no 3 (1998): 259-279
  • Guest Editor and "Introduction," The Poles in America, special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History 16, no. 1 (Fall 1996): 3-15.
COURSES
  • History of the Polish Experience in America
Klin Alina, Lecturer, Polish Language and Literature, Wayne State University @
Ph.D. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
Phone: (313) 577-6245/ Fax:...... / E-Mail: Alina.Klin@wayne.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Contemporary Polish culture, literature, and film.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Toumajan, Dickran Adjunct Faculty, Department of German/Slavic Studies, Wayne State University @
Phone: (313) 577-6237 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Dickran.Toumajan@wayne.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Effect of immigration to the United States on the cultures of ethnic groups.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

Poland-related Resources

  • Department of German & Slavic Studies: The Department teaches three Slavic languages and cultures: Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. A Slavic major combines two of these areas of study. @

  • Polish Room: Located in 105 Manoogian Hall, the room has a magnificent mosaic in marble and granite of 18 kings of Poland decorating its north wall. The south wall is a larger-than-life bronze relief of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and a schematic representation of his theory of the solar system. The ceiling of the room, hand crafted from oak and poplar and held together by wooden pegs contains 16 paintings and portraits of Jan Sobieski and his generals and depicts a 1673 military campaign by Sobieski.



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