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The Iowa Russian, East
European and Eurasian Studies Distance Learning Consortium is a
collaborative effort supported by Iowa’s three regents’ universities:
- Iowa State
University (ISU)
- The University
of Iowa (UI)
- University of
Northern Iowa (UNI)
With generous
support by the United States Department of Education’s Undergraduate
International Studies and Foreign Languages (Title VI) program, the
consortium aims at enriching Russian, East European and Eurasian
studies throughout the state and the region. The consortium directors
are Professors Russell Valentino at the UI, Maria Basom at UNI, and
Dawn Bratsch-Prince at ISU.
The partnership provides better access to resources through the use of
multiple instructional delivery systems, including internet video
conferencing and digital audio. Elementary Polish and elementary Czech
language instruction began in Fall Semester 2002. These will be
followed by intermediate Polish and Czech in 2003-2004, as well as
elementary Serbo-Croatian. In addition to this language instruction,
ten English language courses will be offered on a variety of cultural,
historical, literacy, and political topics in Russian, East European,
Eurasian studies. The consortium enjoys the considerable support of a
number of sponsoring units: The Center for Russian, East European, and
Eurasian Studies, and the Program in Russian at the UI; the Department
of Modern Languages, and the Russian and East European Studies program
at UNI; and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at ISU.
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