Overview
Key facts:
- Graduate work is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, addressing complex processes of cultural change, stability and interaction, with particular attention to the construction of knowledge and the dynamics of power and authority.
- Questions of difference—racial, gender, sexual, class, ethnic national—and the ways in which those categorizations inform and are informed by other discourses and practices are central to scholarship in comparative studies.
- The MA and PhD in Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University are designed for students whose scholarly interests require them to call upon the resources of several academic disciplines. Each graduate student, with the help of faculty advisers, designs an individualized academic program to meet specific research interests that cut across departmental and college boundaries.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Approaches to Comparative Cultural Studies
- Latino Studies
- Theorizing Literature
- Theorizing Culture
- Seminar in Interdisciplinary Theory: “Entanglements: Theorizing Social Relations”
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Other requirements
General requirements
- A minimum of 3.0 cumulative GPA (on the 4.0 scale used at The Ohio State University) in all previous undergraduate work. Students with an undergraduate GPA below 3.0 who wish to be considered for admission must petition the Comparative Studies Graduate Studies Committee for special consideration;
- A minimum of 3.0 in all previous graduate work;
- For international applicants, proof of English proficiency may be required—for more information on this requirement, please consult Graduate and Professional Admissions; as of 2022, the requirement was a minimum TOEFL score of 550 (ITP), 79 (iBT), or 19 (paper); or a minimum IELTS score of 7.0; or a minimum Duolingo score of 105;
- Applicants are advised to contact the Director of Graduate Studies, a Comparative Studies faculty member with whom they are interested in working, or the Academic Program Coordinator in the Department of Comparative Studies before applying.
Tuition Fee
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International
13452 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 13452 USD per year during 60 months. -
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13452 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 13452 USD per year during 60 months. -
In-State
13452 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 13452 USD per year during 60 months.
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Funding
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