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U -- COURSE COORDINATOR FOR POLAND ADVANCES AREA STUDIES COUNSEL SOL SFSIAQ-98-Q-0188 DUE 071798 POC Point of Contact -- Raymond Walters, 703/302-6774/Contracting Officer, Earnest Williams, 703/302-6803 The Poland Advances Studies course is organized and conducted by the Course Coordinator who also brings in area experts from Universities, Government and Private organizations. The seminar combines lectures, discussions, participatory activities by class members, readings, and audio-visual materials in order to highlight the key historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural themes for the region as well as American interests interests and policy issues in Poland. The Advances Area Studies courses within the Foreign Service Institute's School of Professional and Area Studies offer country-specificity and are closely related to concurrent language training. Generally meeting for the duration of the language course, area studies are designed to teach people how to communicate in the countries and cultures to which they are assigned. (AC0602004-03) (0154)

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