Undergraduate

International Studies Major

• International Studies Major Factsheet
• Undergraduate International Studies

Area Studies and Language Studies Major Programs

• African-American & African Studies
• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Islamic Studies
• Italian
• Japanese
• Jewish Studies
• Modern Greek
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

Other Majors with International Content or International Tracks

• Agribusiness and Applied Economics
• Anthropology
• Business Administration
• Classics
• Comparative Studies
• Economics
• Geography
• History
• History of Art
• International Business Administration
• Journalism
• Linguistics
• Music History
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Women's Studies

Complete Listing of Undergraduate Major Programs at OSU

• Undergraduate Majors
• Study Abroad Opportunities for OSU Undergraduate Students

Graduate

Graduate Fields of Study in Foreign Language and International Area Studies

• African-American and African Studies
• East Asian Languages & Literatures
• East Asian Studies
• French & Italian
• Germanic Languages and Literatures
• Greek and Latin
• Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
• Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
• Slavic and East European Studies
• Spanish and Portuguese

Graduate Fields of Study with International Concentrations

• Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
• Anthropology
• Architecture
• Art
• Art Education
• Arts Policy and Administration
• Business Administration
• Comparative Studies
• Economics
• Education
• Environmental Science
• Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
• Food Science and Nutrition
• Geography
• History
• History of Art
• Human and Community Resource Development
• Human Ecology
• Journalism and Communication
• Linguistics
• MBA
• Music
• Natural Resources
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Theatre
• Women's Studies

Complete Listing of OSU Graduate Programs

http://www-afa.adm.ohio-state.edu/gradbull/fieldstd.html

Professional School Programs

http://www-afa.adm.ohio-state.edu/apps/prof/index.html

Interdisciplinary Specialization in Chinese Cultural Studies

The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Chinese studies is designed to offer graduate students a basic familiarity with scholarship on a culture that comprises roughly a quarter of the world's population and that promises to play a steadily increasing role in this century. This program is intended to offer graduate students some of the intellectual and practical benefits that come with the strength of Ohio State's faculty in this area unit. With the increasing emphasis on interdisciplinarity in the arts and humanities, as well as the intrinsically interdisciplinary nature of Chinese studies as practiced in most universities today, this specialization is offered as a supplement to disciplinary education as currently offered within department-based graduate programs.

Intended for both graduate students who major in one particular disciplinary approach to China (such as Chinese history, Chinese art history, Chinese literature, Chinese anthropology, or Chinese politics) and to those, such as professional school students, who are not majoring in Asian studies but may wish to acquire a basic familiarity with issues critical to working in or researching this part of the world, it will offer students completing a degree within one discipline the opportunity to become familiar with the disciplinary conventions, including the basic scholarship, bibliographic and technological tools, and content that constitute the core practices of related disciplines outside their own.

Interdisciplinary Specialization in International Studies (ISIS)

A proposal for the creation of a new Interdisciplinary Specialization in International Studies (ISIS) is currently under review by the Graduate School and the Office of Academic Affairs. Pending final approval, this program will recognize graduate and professional student for their studies in courses dealing with topics of international relevance. The content of ISIS programs of study will be determined through consultation with an ISIS faculty advisor, and can be adapted in accord with the interests and career aspirations of individual students and the requirements of the student's home department.

Successful completion of this program will lead to certification of that accomplishment on the student's transcript. As a regular function of meeting their degree requirements, students will be expected to have completed between 20 and 23 credit hours of relevant course work. This program will be of special interest to students enrolled in professional degree programs which typically do not allow sufficient flexibility for completion of course work in academic disciplines relevant to area and international studies subject matters. It is, however, open to all OSU graduate and professional students.

Special Graduate Certificate Programs with International Content

Certificate programs provide students an opportunity to demonstrate competence in a coherent curriculum or area of specialization. These master's or postmaster's degree level programs are designed to supplement work for advanced degrees or to further professional preparation.

Five graduate certificates are offered:

• Certificate in Civic Education and Democratization
  
• Certificate in Global Food Security
  
• Specialist in Latin American Area Studies
  
• Specialist in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  
• Specialist in Russian Area Studies
  

Certificate in Civic Education and Democratization

The Certificate in Civic Education and Democratization prepares master's and PhD graduates in education, and related fields, for research and applied professional work related to the role of civic education for democratization in various nations of the world. The certificate is offered through the College of Education's School of Teaching and Learning by the school's section on Language, Literacy and Culture and is ordinarily a supplement to the master's or PhD program in education, although the certificate can be a supplement to graduate programs in the social sciences or humanities disciplines. As a stand-alone program, the certificate is offered only to recipients of a graduate degree in education or related fields at another qualified university; in no case can the certificate be awarded prior to granting of a graduate degree.

The certificate program requires a minimum of 45 credit hours, 21 of which can concomitantly satisfy base requirements for the MA degree in education. A minimum of 24 credit hours is required as the core component of the certificate program. These credit hours consist of (1) 6 to 21 credit hours from a set of courses focusing on key issues related to civic education and democratization, including courses outside the area of education from such disciplines as sociology, political science, and history; (2) either 15 credit hours in a specific foreign language (for international graduate students, the foreign language may not be satisfied by taking either their native language or English), or 3 to 15 credit hours of practical training through an internship related to civic education and democratization in other nations; and (3) 1 to 2 credit hours in a capstone seminar on civic education and democratization.

For more information, contact the Graduate Studies Committee Chair in the School of Teaching and Learning, or the head of the school's section on Language, Literacy and Culture.

Certificate in Global Food Security

The Certificate in Global Food Security is designed to prepare MS and PhD graduates in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics and related fields to deal effectively with food security issues arising in countries at various levels of development and with different resources for agricultural production, and different food consumption patterns. The certificate is awarded after the granting of either the master's or doctoral degrees and ordinarily is offered to supplement the graduate degree program in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics; however, the certificate can also supplement graduate programs in other agricultural and social science disciplines (e.g. economics, political science, geography).

Students in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics who pursue the certificate are required to take 45 hours, 22 of which concomitantly satisfy the graduate degree program, and 23 of which are required as the core component of the certificate program. Core courses include (1) selected courses related to food and agricultural development, (2) one of the options in foreign languages, study abroad, or internship, and (3) a capstone seminar focusing on the topics of global food security.

For more information, contact the Graduate Studies Committee Chair in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics.

Specialist in Latin American Area Studies

The departments of History and Political Science are participants in the Latin American Area Studies Certificate Program. It consists of courses in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, and courses dealing with one or more countries or regions of Latin America in five or more disciplines. The student will be expected to acquire advanced competence in at least one professional area outside the student's major field of study. A master's thesis or essay on a Latin American topic must be completed before the certificate is obtained.

Requirements for the certificate are demonstrated competence to carry out advanced work in Spanish or Portuguese and 45 quarter hours of work beyond departmental requirements for the master's degree or for a graduate-professional degree, including an essay or master's thesis on a Latin American topic. Language competence may be demonstrated through examination or successful completion of courses in Spanish 401, 402, and 403 or Portuguese 202. A minimum of 30 hours of advanced course work (500-level and above) must be distributed among five of the following fields: agricultural, environmental, and development economics, anthropology, economics, geography, history, literature, political science, or rural sociology.

In order to ensure the candidate's thorough competence in his or her discipline, the certificate will be awarded only upon completion of an advanced degree (master's, Doctor of Philosophy, or graduate-professional) or upon passing the Candidacy Examination for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in lieu of the Master of Arts degree. A student who enrolls only for the certificate program must already have a master's degree or an advanced professional degree in a suitable discipline or must have passed the Candidacy Examination for the Doctor of Philosophy degree. The coordinator of the certificate program in Latin American Studies will appoint an adviser for any student who is not currently working for an advanced degree in one of the cooperating academic units. The student's academic adviser will be responsible for approving the certificate program.

Specialist in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The Certificate of Specialist program is pursued concurrently with a student's master's and/or doctoral program and consists of 45 credit hours of graduate level course work. The Graduate Studies Committee for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) and the student will agree on the 45 hours of course work composing the student's certificate program. Such courses may be selected from a pre-approved list of offerings and from additional offerings, including individual, group studies, and topical courses, as approved by the Center Graduate Studies Committee. The certificate will include courses from a number of disciplines, including at least one course in medieval or Renaissance history and will normally reflect an intellectual coherence. Coherence can be described in broad terms, such as western medieval, western Renaissance, and non-western, usually with a more narrow focus geographically, chronologically, or topically. Twenty-two hours may be in courses offered by the student's home department and which count toward the master's and/or doctoral program; 23 hours must be in courses that are offered by graduate programs affiliated with the certificate program, other than the student's home department. The affiliated graduate programs include Architecture; Comparative Studies; Dance; East Asian Languages and Literatures; English; French and Italian; Germanic Languages and Literatures; Greek and Latin; History; History of Art; Linguistics; Music (specifically the Music History/Literature Division); Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Philosophy; Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures; Spanish and Portuguese; and Theatre.

In addition to this course work, program requirements include demonstration of proficiency in Latin or, if appropriate to the student's program, in another medieval language approved by the Center Graduate Studies Committee. Proficiency may be demonstrated in Latin by earning a grade of B– or better in Latin 571-572, by satisfactorily completing a 600-level course in Latin, or by receiving a grade of "Pass" on a special translating examination, the level of which will be equivalent to that of the final examination in Latin 572, and which will be designed and administered by the Department of Greek and Latin. No credit hours taken to achieve proficiency in a language may be counted among the 45 credit hours required for the certificate.

Admission to the program is based on the following criteria:

• admission to and enrollment in a graduate degree program in an affiliated department;
  
• completion of one quarter of course work at Ohio State;
  
• a cumulative point-hour ratio of at least 3.00 in the home department and the Graduate School;
  
• permission of the department adviser and graduate studies director to undertake the certificate program;
  
• presentation to the Center Graduate Studies Committee of a plan of course work that meets the program requirements outlined above; and
  
• consistent, adequate progress toward the degree, as determined by the home department and the Center Graduate Studies Committee.

The CMRS Director will monitor the student's progress and confirm the student's completion of the program approved by the Center Graduate Studies Committee for the certificate. The Graduate School will certify that the student has completed the requirements. The certificate will be awarded only upon completion of the MA or PhD degree.

Specialist in Russian Area Studies

Participating departments in the certificate program in Russian Area Studies are the departments of History, History of Art, Political Science, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, Sociology, and the School of Music. The program is designed to supplement work for an advanced degree in an academic unit and consists of courses in the Russian language, courses in three or more disciplines as applied to Russia and the former Soviet Union, advanced work in fields other than the major field, and an essay or master's thesis on a Russian topic which must be completed during the period of work for the certificate.

Each candidate for the area certificate is expected to become thoroughly competent in his or her own discipline. To ensure such competence, the certificate is awarded only upon completion of the requirements for an advanced degree (Master of Arts or graduate-professional) or upon passing the Candidacy Examination for the Doctor of Philosophy degree. Students who already hold a graduate degree or have passed their Candidacy Examination may enroll for the certificate, but no student may receive the certificate before he or she has received a graduate degree.

A knowledge of the Russian language sufficient for use as a research tool is indispensable. Each candidate must demonstrate the necessary competence in the language before he or she may register for required work in a research course, that is, before the beginning of the second year. This requirement can be met by examination or by passing one of the advanced Russian courses, Russian 609 or above, or Russian 695, with a grade of B or better. Candidates who enter with 30 quarter hours of Russian can normally expect to complete their language requirements by the end of the first academic year. Those who enter with no knowledge of Russian must embark on study of the language immediately, and must continue intensive study during the following summer. The candidate must maintain a grade of ‘B' or better in such language courses.

The certificate is predicated on the completion of 45 graduate credit hours, at least half of which are unique to the certificate. A minimum of 30 hours must be distributed in at least four areas outside the candidate's major field, and at least nine of these 30 hours must be taken at the 700–900 levels. Courses for which undergraduate credit has been earned may be used to satisfy distribution requirements, but may not be included in the total of 45 hours required for the certificate. The Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies serves as coordinator of the Russian Area Studies certificate program and must approve the program of study which the student has worked out with the departmental adviser. Students working toward a certificate who already hold an advanced degree will be assigned advisers by the coordinator. Courses may be selected from the departments of Economics, Geography, History, History of Art, Linguistics, Political Science, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, Sociology, the School of Music, and the College of Law.