Harvard Summer

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), together with the Harvard University Summer School, offers an eight-week curriculum of accredited university instruction in Ukrainian studies: June 25 – August 17, 2007. Intensive Ukrainian language training is proficiency based, aimed at developing communication skills in a variety of real-life situations. Language courses are taught by: Alla Parkhomenko (Beginning); Yuri Shevchuk (Intermediate) and; Volodymyr Dibrova (Advanced).

In addition, students can take topical courses on literature (George G. Grabowicz - 20^th Century Ukrainian literary canon), political science (Alexander Motyl - current Ukrainian politics) and, socio-linguistics (Michael S. Flier - Ukrainian and Russian languages in Ukraine and the hybrid “surzhyk”).

Many students now come from Ukraine, taking advantage of new academic opportunities but also themselves serving as a resource on present-day Ukraine. As a result, HUSI’s mission has expanded, still supporting Ukrainian studies in the West, it also serves to break down barriers isolating Ukrainian studies in Ukraine from the rest of the world and benefit the advancement of true scholarship on both sides.

For information call at 617-495-7833. For an application form, listing of supplementary materials and special deadlines, visit: www.huri.harvard.edu//husi/husi_admissions.html