Word: slavicize
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Humanities concentrators spend much of their college career learning obscure Slavic languages, analyzing the small gestures in English literature, and acquiring a cursory knowledge of philosophy. They contemplate every abstract question but the one that’s been directed at them repeatedly by their parents: “So what are you going to do with that degree...
...vampires—certainly not a new creation—suddenly be so hot that they’re not just hotter than the girl next door, they are the girl next door? Though Americans have been exposed to vampire lore for centuries in the form of Germanic, Slavic, and African myths, vampires did not really enter the American psyche in earnest until the Victorian Gothic Period in the mid-19th century. The sexual violence and racial miscegenation associated with vampires excited the fears and fetishes of Victorian audiences; the vampire’s bite is often depicted...
...increased budget cuts, Harvard’s formal Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian language courses have been removed from the curriculum. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures’ “E Series”—a sequence of two beginning courses in these three related languages as well as a more advanced tutorial—has been terminated due to the budget cuts which “left virtually no corner of the FAS untouched,” Julie Buckler, chair of the department, confirmed. Instead, students who demonstrate a need to learn these languages...
...Chase-Levenson ’08—placing the burden on professors to develop more offerings. “We can’t have anything new unless colleagues send us forward something new,” says Gen Ed committee member Julie Buckler, who is also a Slavic literature professor. Many more professors have sent in course proposals for existing Core courses than for new Gen Ed classes, according to Buckler. But Gen Ed committee members say that they determined early on not to provide monetary incentives or teaching relief to encourage professors to develop...
...Stephanie Sandler, the chair of the Slavic Department, said that she is concerned that “reshaping” might mean merging smaller departments, which would come at the cost of “closer relationships with students, smaller classes, a greater sense of cohesion among faculty, and shared intellectual projects...