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Monday, December 7, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
New course to introduce Soviet culture to students
Maria Carlson, assistant professor of Soviet and East European studies, sits in front of a giant map of Moscow. Carlson has lived in Russia and teaches a class about Russian culture.
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
"This is the biggest map of Moscow in Kansas, I'm sure," she said.
Maria Carlson pointed to a multicolored map, on the back wall of her first-floor Wescole Hall office, of a city that she lived in for six years.
The class is an introduction to Soviet culture, a curriculum Carlson says is essential to life in the 20th century.
Carlson, assistant professor of Soviet and East European studies, started teaching at the University of Kansas this fall. She is co-teaching a course next spring called St. Petersburg University. Her grand: Biography of a City, with Gerald Mikkelson, professor of slavic languages and literatures.
She said, "What you've got is a bird's eye view into the Russian consciousness, and that's the most valuable thing we can teach.
"Even the people in Kansas need to know who the Russians are."
Seventy students have filled the course, but space was not available to add more.
Speakers for the class next semester include faculty from the departments of Slavic languages and literatures, history, history of art, geography and music history.
Carlson said, "One of the things Russians have asked about themselves is 'Do we look eastward, or do we look westward?'
"I just can't think of any American city that has that grasp on the imagination. Maybe our country's not old enough."
The people in Leningrad "have a different history. They're coming from someplace else," she said.
Carlson said she had a friend from the Soviet Union who had visited the United States. During the visit, her friend became convinced that knowledge of Western culture was essential for Soviets.
Carlson said, "I say that works two ways. You cannot be a citizen in the 20th century and not learn about Russia."
Howard Solomon, Overland Park graduate student, participated in the Summer Language Program sponsored by the Council on International Education Exchange. He spent June and July traveling in the Soviet Union. He stayed in Leningrad for six weeks.
"I think there's a lot of misperceptions and a lot of misunderstanding
about culture there and the people," Solomon said.
"Because it's a consumer-goodscare society, I think many people are very materialistic, and they look to friendships or acquaintances as a way of getting something, as some type of connection," he said.
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