The Russian Mosaic Project
(aka: "Everything You Wanted to Know about Russia but were Afraid to Ask"
or "A Byte of Russia")

Purpose
The goal of this 1-2 hour collaborative course is to give a significant dip into Russian culture and language that would expose students to said culture and increase enrollments in Russian. A 2-hour credit (with paper) trip to Russia will follow the course. The program could also be part of a Language Across the Curriculum program. Culture, history, art, literature, folklore, and music would be the basis for units, with a language component (alphabet, phrases, comparison with English) running through the course. The course will be launched in the spring of 2003.

Phasing:
Pre-workshop Development:
1. Work on the course structure and content via conference calls, email.
 Documents for discussion are also posted for comments
2. Contact Russian Group, others for participation in lectures.
3. Identify campus representatives for the course at each ACS institution to provide on-campus oversight of enrolled students.

Workshop in Summer of 2002:
1. Formalize course.
2. Decide on method of evaluating students.
3. Decide on management and delivery method (Blackboard at Trinity; Real broadcast)
4. Work on protocol for having course listed at ACS institutions.
5. Train faculty and students on delivery method.

Organization
Prof. Alex Boguslawski from Rollins College has offered to act as director, coordinating lecturers from various disciplines and the supervising faculty members at the institutions. Planning the course in conjunction with Alex are Sarah Burke (Trinity U.), and Valerie Nollan (Rhodes College).