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History of Soviet Russia from 1917 to the Present, Economic Developmerit in Latin America, Problems of Asian Politics and Government). Professional schools, such as the Colleges of Agriculture, Commerce and Business Administration, Communications, Education, and Law, have introduced special courses with specifically international content (e.g., International Comparative Agriculture, Special Topics on International Horticulture, History of Communications, World Broadcasting, History of Educational Ideas, Comparative Law and International Business Transactions, etc.). The Department of Political Science has for many years offered a major in International Relations for undergraduate and graduate students, and recently the Department of English established a curriculum in the Teaching of English as a Second Language. All these instructional offerings are pertinent to the development of international studies but for the most part do not in themselves represent organized international programs.

B. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS

In 1966 the Library offered a National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Title V I Summer Institute in Latin-American Librarianship, and the Department of History in 1967 held a NDEA Title X I Summer Institute in Latin-American History and Geography for high school teachers. In a similar vein the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, in cooperation with counterparts at Indiana University, University of Michigan, and Ohio State University, has developed an intensive rotating summer institute in Russian Language Study which will presumably come to Illinois in 1969 and every fourth year thereafter. Separate from the overseas contracts is the University of Illinois' "blanket" contract with A I D to accept A I D participants on a campus-wide basis. Under this agreement, A I D may refer participants working in a variety of fields for instruction a n d / o r training to the University. Some participants are regularly enrolled students, mainly at the graduate level, some attend specially-organized short courses, and some come for consultation with specific professors. Most of these participants are in agriculture. The programming of these A I D participants, some 250 per year from more than fifty countries, is handled at the University of Illinois by the Office of Foreign Visitors, which has a budget of about $27,000 annually.

C. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES Almost from its beginning, the University of Illinois has welcomed foreign students. The number rose to 1,343 from seventy-seven different countries in the 1967-1968 academic year. The University maintains, under the Dean of the Graduate College and the Dean of Students, an Office of

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