Foreign Cultural Experience Course

In preparation for CCV’s Fall 2016 foreign cultural experience course Holiday Traditions: The History of Ukrainian Easter Eggs, CCV Winooski has been offering a 3-semester language sequence (Ukraine I, II, and III) paired with the co-enrollment sequence Poultry 101, Ukrainian Egg Grading, and Natural Dyes and Shell painting 101. Enrollment for fall 2014’s Ukraine III course is lagging, and executive director Dee Steffan reports that students have recently been requesting the opportunity to pair Russian I with the Natural Dyes and Shell Painting. In a heated academic debate about the requests, associate academic dean Diane Hermann-Artim is said to have stated: ‘No substitutions will be allowed. Putin is not invading our academic programming. We are, after all, in the United States.”