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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Clubs
The Division sponsors
two clubs: the Russian Club, and the Polish Club. The Clubs are essentially
student activities financed by the Student Government of Hunter College.
Both the Russian and the Polish Clubs sponsor lectures, films, and
occasionally even theatricals. In the Spring 1995 Semester, for example,
the Polish Club sponsored a play by His Holiness Pope John Paul II, The
Jewelry Shop, open to the Hunter College community at large. In March,
1996, the Division, in cooperation with the clubs, is held an evening in
memory of Joseph Brodsky.
Endowments
The Russian Division has accrued
over the years, from many donors, a small endowment known as the Filia Holtzman Fund, named
after the original contributor to the fund, the former Director of the
Russian Division, Professor Filia Holtzman, now retired. This fund of over $30,000 is
used for prizes to outstanding Russian majors, as well as for some special
needs of the Program such as software, slides or books for our departmental
collection.
Faculty
Exchanges
Through the good offices of the Kosciuszko Foundation, we are able to bring to Hunter
practically every academic year a scholar from a leading Polish university
such as the Jagiellonian
University in Krakow, or the Warsaw University. These scholars teach
courses in their field or for the Polish Program. Recently, for example.
Professor Krystyna Krause-Blachowicz, a
specialist in medieval and classical philosophy, taught for our home
department, Classics, and for the Department of Philosophy. Next year, we
are hoping for a full time person for Polish only.
The breadth of courses offered at Hunter in Russian and Polish, but
especially in Russian, the community involvement in its work that the
Division has been able to induce, and finally, the quality of the
instructional staff, make the Division of Russian and Slavic
Languages at Hunter the leading program in Slavic studies in the CUNY
system. The strength of our enrollments confirms this assertion. With more
than 700 students taking courses in the Division of Russian and Slavic
Languages each year, Hunter is the most important center of Slavic Studies
in the public sector in the metropolitan area.
Building upon this
strength and the probability of renewed national concern for foreign
language teaching in general and Russian studies in particular, the
Division of Russian and Slavic languages can look forward to continuing
solid enrollments in most of the areas in which it is currently active when
the undergraduate Collateral Major in Russian Area Studies comes on line,
we would expect these enrollments to increase somewhat.
Computer
Resources
Russian Mnemonic
Keyboard For Windows 95. What
is it? To download CLICK HERE.
This software is for
those who want to use English keyboard to type Russian.
You need to have
Russian fonts installed. For Russian fonts CLICK
HERE (2.3MB)
Here you will download 76
different fonts (!) at once. For an explicit explanation of the
font installation procedure search Internet Resources. However, in
brief, do the following:
1. Go
to Start
2. Choose Settings
3. Choose Control Panel
4. A window will be opened. Choose Fonts and open it (double
click).
5. Another window will be opened showing all fonts that your system has.
Click on File menu (upper-right corner)
6. Choose Install New Font...
7. In opened dialogue window choose a folder where you downloaded your
fonts and they will be displayed.
8. When fonts are displayed press Select All button.
9. Press OK button.
10. Restart computer to enable changes.
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