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There is close collaboration in courses and
activities with the Duke Program
in Literature, the Marxism
and Society Program, the Film/Video/Digital
Program, the English
Department, the Romance
Studies Department, the History
Department, the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics,
the Department
of Cultural Anthropology, and Women's
Studies.
Students have the opportunity to consult and
take courses with the faculty and visiting media fellows of the
DeWitt
Wallace Center for Communication and Journalism, and to use
its important video archives of news programs from Soviet and Russian
television, as well as other materials.
This program provides the opportunity for Duke students to take
courses for credit at the Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures of UNC-Chapel Hill, to consult
with UNC faculty and to use the library
facilities at UNC.
With the support of the U.S.
Department of Education, this joint Duke-University of North
Carolina Center coordinates interdisciplinary efforts primarily
in the fields of Russian (including Soviet) and East European history,
economics, political science, literature, linguistics and language
training. Language instruction in Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian
is available. The committee also sponsors visiting lectures, conferences,
symposia, and films.
The Duke University
Library has been collecting in the Slavic area since the late
1940's. For over twenty years, the Duke University Library and the
UNC-Chapel Hill
Library have been collaborating in building collections in the
Eastern European areas. Duke has primary responsibility for Polish
titles and UNC has primary responsibility for Czech, Slovak and
Balkan titles. A shared on-line catalog and a courier service make
possible the delivery of most materials to the neighboring library
within 24 hours. Students working on research papers or dissertations
are strongly encouraged to consult with the Perkins Library Slavic
Bibliographer.
The Duke University Library has also acquired an
important collection of Soviet films of
the 1920s through the 1950s.
The language laboratories on East and West Campuses
include state of the art listening and audio-visual equipment as
well as a separate video screening room. The Language Labs also
receive foreign television broadcasts including one hour each of
Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and other Eastern European languages
news each day.
The Duke Slavic Department has an ongoing faculty
exchange with St.
Petersburg State University. Since 1988, one professor from
Russia has come to teach at Duke each semester. Additionally, this
exchange provides the opportunity for Duke undergraduate and graduate
students to study Russian language and literature at St. Petersburg
State University on the Duke in Russia program.
The Department, with Study Abroad at Duke University, offers semester
(4 courses of credit) and summer language and culture programs (2
courses of credit) at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg,
Russia. The Duke Slavic Department encourages its students to take
advantage of the many opportunities for interdisciplinary studies
at Duke University and on Duke academic programs abroad.
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