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Table of Contents
- Majoring in Comparative Studies
- Areas of Concentration
- General Requirements for All Comparative Studies Majors
- Requirements for Each Area of Concentration
- Requirements for the World Literatures Major
- Minor Programs in Comparative Studies
- Undergraduate Courses in Comparative Studies
- Comparative Studies Undergraduate Student Group
- Study Abroad
- Honors Program
- The Marilyn R. Waldman Award
- College of Humanities Undergraduate Scholarships
- After Graduation
- Core Faculty of the Department of Comparative Studies
- Associated Faculty of the Department of Comparative Studies
- Staff of the Department of Comparative Studies
The field of Comparative Studies is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary. It provides the opportunity for comparative analysis of different elements of culture: how people express their ideas and concerns in art and literature, how they negotiate among themselves and with others, how they interpret the world around them and their relationship to it. Investigations such as these raise a number of questions. How, for example, do different belief systems and different ways of describing the world structure our values and expectations?
What values are important in different cultures, and why are they important? How are we affected by the languages and images that surround us? How do people come to identify themselves with particular groups, and does that identity depend upon the presence of others who are “different”? How do different cultures develop different knowledge systems?
Why do certain discourses (different ways of speaking about the world) have more authority than others? How do different forms of knowledge and expression—religious, artistic, scientific—intersect and influence each other? The field of Comparative Studies raises these and other questions about cultural differences and about different ways of producing knowledge, while emphasizing interrelationships among the various elements of culture and their historical contexts.
The Department offers the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Studies and the Graduate Minor in Comparative Cultural Studies; coordinates the new undergraduate major in World Literatures and undergraduate minors in American Studies, Folklore, and Religious Studies; and teaches a number of courses in all areas that satisfy GEC requirements. (Minors in Asian American Studies and Latino/a Studies are now administered by the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences. Undergraduate Comparative Studies majors may focus their studies in one of six areas: Comparative Cultural Studies, Comparative Ethnic and American Studies, Comparative Literature, Folklore, Religious Studies, or Science Studies. Undergraduates may also choose the new interdepartmental major in World Literatures. The Department also continues to offer courses and promote interdisciplinary work in such emergent fields as performance studies and sexuality studies. In both the undergraduate and graduate programs, students take some courses in Comparative Studies and some in other departments.
Majoring in Comparative Studies
As a Comparative Studies major, you will learn more about the variety of ways people have developed to understand and describe the world, their place within it, and their relationship to others. Understanding cultural similarities and differences is at the heart of the Comparative Studies program. Comparative Studies raises questions that help us understand how culture shapes the lives of individuals and groups. How, for example, does religion influence social change and stability in different cultures? How do different people express themselves and their concerns through literature and the arts? How do science and technology reflect cultural values and beliefs?
While Comparative Studies is most broadly concerned with the study of culture and cultural differences, individual faculty and students develop particular areas of expertise. The six areas of concentration for majors are Comparative Cultural Studies, Comparative Ethnic and American Studies, Comparative Literature, Folklore, Religious Studies, and Science Studies. Unlike many Arts and Sciences majors, the Comparative Studies major is interdisciplinary, which means that you will be taking courses in several departments to satisfy the requirements. Once you've chosen an area of concentration, you and your adviser can begin to put together the set of courses that best reflects your particular interests and also satisfies the requirements of that area. Comparative Studies maintains lists of courses in other departments that count for major credit in each area. As a Comparative Studies major, you will take an active role in planning the program that best accommodates your academic goals.
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Areas of Concentration
The fields represented by the several areas of concentration differ:
Comparative Cultural Studies. The concentration in Comparative Cultural Studies draws on social and aesthetic theory to understand how social identities, actions, and desires are produced and practiced in everyday life. The approach is both interdisciplinary and cross-cultural; we pay particular attention to social politics—such issues as race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and ethnicity—in their encounter with different forms of cultural production. Because cultural studies wants to know how culture is lived and experienced by a full range of participants, it does not limit itself to studying “high art” or official history. Rather, cultural studies pays special attention to those forms that permeate everyday experience: subcultures, popular media (television, film, the internet), and a range of performance practices—dance, music, sports, and fashion.
Through their studies, students learn the key words, critical tools, and basic methods used in the practice of cultural critique: we interpret “dominant” popular media, and learn to engage alternative forms aimed at producing social change. Cultural studies does not assume that “consumers” of cultural forms—students, audiences, readers, believers, bystanders—are passive in their “consumption.” To the contrary, cultural studies invites students to see themselves also as potential producers and authors of cultural analysis and cultural theory, and as creators of alternative cultural forms. Requirements for Comparative Cultural Studies, p. 8.
Comparative Ethnic and American Studies. The concentration in Comparative Ethnic and American studies (CEAS) provides a course of study that engages interdisciplinary and comparative understanding of ethnicity and race in the Americas. Like other concentrations in Comparative Studies, CEAS places “comparison” at the heart of its mission: we analyze processes of racialization in relation to gender, sexuality, and class as they have shaped ethnic American experiences, cultural production, and citizenship.
The program enables focused study of specific ethnic cultures, arts, and communities, but understands these within changing national, transnational, and global contexts. “American” is understood broadly, embracing hemispheric and transnational perspectives: we consider indigenous cultures, transnational migrations, and dislocations of peoples; we consider the historic position of the United States within the Americas and in the world at large. Interdisciplinary by definition, the program builds on work in related disciplines that illuminate questions of social difference, power, and knowledge. Students in Comparative Ethnic and American studies thus build critical knowledge vital for engaging contemporary society. Requirements for Comparative Ethnic and American Studies, p. 15.
Comparative Literature. Comparative Literature focuses on the study of literature from different cultures, nations, and genres, and explores relationships between literature and other forms of cultural expression. Comparative Literature poses such questions as What is the place of literature in society? How does literature as a form change over time, and in relation to other forms of making art? How does literature shape and respond to values, social movements, or political contexts?
If you have interests in literature, and have or can achieve command of one language in addition to English, comparative literature may be a rewarding course of study. Focused study of two literary traditions and advanced skills in a second language are required for the concentration. As a student of comparative literature, you will have the opportunity to study texts from a range of cultural contexts, historical periods, or literary movements. You will also engage more complex questions of comparison, translation, and transmission across cultural, linguistic, and national boundaries, and study literature in relation to other disciplines (e.g., religious studies, philosophy, ethnic studies) and to other forms of art and cultural production (e.g., film, digital culture, performance). Further, comparative literature includes study of historical and contemporary literary theory and criticism. Like all other concentrations in Comparative Studies, this concentration allows students, with the help of their adviser, to design a course of study that suits their particular interests. Requirements for Comparative Literature, p. 20.
Folklore. The study of folklore focuses on a broad spectrum of social expression, examining the forms and ways of living through which communities shape their reality; those forms include language, work, food, play, dance, song, gestures, beliefs, and so forth. Folklore tends to focus on those cultural forms that permeate the everyday, which are passed from generation to generation, usually orally, with no one author or creator. Folklorists might study such activities as riddles, bell ringing, ethnic joking, or urban legends, apparently trivial practices which, when examined in context, reveal themselves as significant performances: constructions of identity, presentations of self, strategies of control or resistance, manipulations of resources, exercises of virtuosity, spaces of reflection upon the nature of things. Ohio State boasts one of the largest concentrations of folklorists in the country, who work in various departments throughout the University as well as in Comparative Studies.
The folklore concentration provides an introduction to the study of folklore methods and folk materials, as well as a further focus within a particular area to provide depth. That area of focus might be the folklore of a particular geographical region or community, or the study of a particular genre, such as oral narrative or performance. Students will learn how different cultural groups interact among themselves and with others, while focusing their study on particular subjects (verbal arts, material culture, etc.) or particular geographical regions or cultural groups. Requirements for Folklore, p. 26.
Religious Studies. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, religion continues to be a major force shaping cultural, political, and ethical debates around the world. Religion is a critical part of the way we understand the relationship between the individual and society, the role of spiritual authority in the political sphere, and the connections between religious commitment and national identity in the current moment.
The Religious Studies concentration offers a uniquely comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary way to study the beliefs, practices, histories, and texts of the world's religious communities. Unlike most conventional departments of Religion at other major universities, Religious Studies at OSU is situated in an explicitly cross-disciplinary program. Rather than studying religion in isolation, we examine religion through the insights and methods of literary studies, ethnography, historiography, social analysis, and cultural comparison. We also view religion as inextricably intertwined with race, class, gender, and ethnicity, among other categories of affiliation and identification.
In our approach to the study of religion, we strive to maintain a careful balance between sympathetic respect and critical analysis. At the same time, our classes invite students to reflect on the category of religion itself, exploring the inter-relations between knowledge and power in our own academic discourse about the category of "religion." In our teaching, research projects, and public programming, we promote engaged intellectual inquiry into the rich diversity of religious institutions, rituals, ideas, and communities both past and present.
We have the faculty resources to train students in all the major religions of the world, including ancient Greek and Roman traditions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism as well as a variety of Indigenous traditions and New Religious Movements. We also provide critical courses in the major theoretical approaches for interpreting the plurality of religious claims in our own increasingly inter-connected but often violent historical moment. Students who have completed the Comparative Studies degree with a concentration in religious studies have gone on to some of the most prestigious graduate programs in the country, as well as to a wide range of non-academic employment. Requirements for Religious Studies, p. 30.
Science Studies This emerging field focuses on the comparative study of the many relationships between science, technology, and culture. The concentration offers courses covering a wide range of concerns and perspectives. These include an introduction to the history and philosophy of science, the role of technology in contemporary society, cultural dimensions of medicine, relations between gender and science, historical and contemporary studies of visuality, and the intertwining of science and technology with western and other cultures in local and global contexts.
In Science Studies students consider not only the ways in which science and technology shape culture, but how culture shapes the direction and growth of science and technology and how science is interwoven with other aspects of culture. The contributions of science to our understanding and misunderstanding of difference—racial, ethnic, gender, sexual—is also of central concern, along with social and political problems related to economic globalization, environmental deterioration, and global networks of communication, transportation, and migration. Requirements for Science Studies, p. 35.
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General Requirements for All Comparative Studies Majors
The major in Comparative Studies is an interdisciplinary degree program in which students take some of their courses in Comparative Studies and some in other departments. Each student chooses one area of concentration within Comparative Studies that provides a focus for his or her program. All Comparative Studies majors, whichever concentration they choose, fulfill “foundation,” “interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative,” and “distribution” requirements.
Foundation courses provide an introduction to the area of concentration and raise the issues and questions that are most important in each area. The interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative requirement provides different disciplinary perspectives on each subject, as well as an awareness of the relationships among those perspectives. This requirement also emphasizes the interconnections among literature, religion, folklore, and science and technology within the larger contexts of culture and cultural differences. The distribution requirement is fulfilled through upper level courses in Comparative Studies and selected courses in other departments. These courses provide depth and focus within the area of concentration (e.g., particular religious or literary traditions, folklore genres, areas of scientific research or technological development).
The following apply to all Comparative Studies majors:
- Comparative Studies 398, Approaches to Comparative Studies, and Comparative Studies 598, Senior Seminar, are required for all students.
- At least one 600-level course is strongly recommended, in addition to fulfillment of all other requirements for the selected area of concentration.
- No credits at the 100-level may count toward the major.
- No more than the number of hours at the 200-level specified for each area of concentration may count toward the major.
- No more than a total of 10 hours of independent study or other non-coursework credit (CS 293, 489, 693, 699) may count toward the major. Honors thesis credits (CSH783) are taken in addition to all other major requirements.
- Students must fulfill all Foundation, Interdisciplinary/Thematic/Comparative and Distribution requirements for one specific area of concentration.
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Requirements for Each Area of Concentration
The area of concentration you choose provides a focus for the major program. (If you haven't already done so, be sure to read the general descriptions of each area beginning on page 4.) While the areas within Comparative Studies are interrelated, each emphasizes a different set of texts, traditions, practices, and ideas that you will study in depth. This section provides details of the particular requirements you will need to complete in one of the six areas of concentration for the B.A. in Comparative Studies. Worksheets and a list of elective courses in other departments that satisfy the distribution requirements for each concentration are included here. A list of courses being offered each quarter in other departments is available in the Comparative Studies office and on the Comparative Studies Web site (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/default.cfm) before the quarter starts. This schedule is made available each quarter as registration windows open.All Comparative Studies courses are listed in this handbook (p. 46) and may also be found at (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/courses_under_all1.cfm). Courses in other departments (also listed in this handbook) that can fulfill major requirements are listed on the Web site under “requirements” for each area of concentration. (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/undergraduates; click on an area of concentration).
Sections explaining requirements and including a worksheet and list of elective courses for each area of concentration are found on the following pages of this handbook:
Comparative Cultural Studies, p. 8 (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/concentrations/ccs/requirements.cfm)
Comparative Ethnic & American Studies p. 15 (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/concentrations/ceas/requirements.cfm)
Comparative Literature, p. 20 (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/concentrations/cl/requirements.cfm)
Folklore, p. 26 (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/concentrations/fs/requirements.cfm)
Religious Studies, p. 30 (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/concentrations/rs/requirements.cfm)
Science Studies, p. 35 (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/courses/concentrations/ss/requirements.cfm)
1. Comparative Cultural Studies
The concentration in comparative cultural studies draws on social and aesthetic theory to understand how social identities, actions, and desires are produced and practiced in everyday life. The approach is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural; we attend especially to social politics—such issues as race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and ethnicity—in their encounter with different forms of cultural production. Students learn key words, critical tools, and basic methods used in the practice of cultural critique: we interpret “dominant” popular media, and learn to engage alternative forms aimed at producing social change.-
Foundation courses (5 credit hours):
The following course is required:
Comp St 274 Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies -
Interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative requirement (30 credit hours):
The following courses are required (15 credits):
Comp St 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
Comp St 598 Senior Seminar
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (or an approved alternative)
Three of the following are required, at least two upper level (15):
Comp St 243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
Comp St 270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
Comp St 272 Science and Society
Comp St 273 Introduction to Comparative Literature
Comp St 373 Problems in Literary and Cultural Translation
Comp St 275 Introduction to Visual Representation
Comp St 508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Comp St 510 The 20th-century Novel” Transnational Contexts
Comp St 520 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
Comp St 525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
Comp St 526 New Age and New Religious Movements
Comp St 531 The City and Culture
Comp St 535 Gender and Science
Comp St 545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
Comp St 573 World Literature: Theory and Practice
Comp St 541 Myth and Ritual
Comp St 620 Approaches to the Study of Religion
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies
English 270 Introduction to Folklore
Anthropology 202 Peoples and Cultures: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Communication 200 Communication in Society
International/Comparative St 500 Conceptual Approaches to International Studies
History 398 Introduction to Historical Thought
History of Art 600 Introduction to Contemporary Art Historical Theory
Women's Studies 300 Intro to Feminist Analysis -
Distribution requirement (25 credit hours):
Students choose a field of focus from the following topics or others as approved by the faculty adviser. The topics listed here are examples of ways in which a focus area in comparative cultural studies can be developed in keeping with students' particular interests. Courses from other Comparative Studies tracks as well as courses in other departments may be used to satisfy part of this requirement. Elective courses are listed on pages 12-14 of this handbook, but others may be substituted depending on the focus of the student's major program. No more than five credits at the 200-level may count toward fulfillment of the Distribution Requirement.
Examples of possible fields of focus and courses that could be chosen to fulfill major requirements include:
Cultural Theory:Foundation: Comp St 274 Intro to Comparative Cultural Studies
Interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative:
CS 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
CS 531 The City and Culture
CS 598 Senior Seminar
CS 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (e.g., Marx, Nietzsche, Freud; Space, Place, and Globality)
English 270 Introduction to Folklore
W S 300 Intro to Feminist Analysis
Distribution:
CS 525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Perspective
CS 545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
CS 660 Modernism: Origins & Dev in 20th-C Culture & Politics
AAAS 595 Theorizing Race
History 326 History of Modern Sexualities
Global StudiesFoundation: Comp St 274 Intro to Comparative Cultural StudiesPerformance Studies
Interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative:
CS 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
CS 270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
CS 598 Senior Seminar
CS 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (e.g., Sociopolitics of Language; Space, Place, and Globality)
CS 373 Problems in Literary and Cultural Translation
CS 525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Perspective
Distribution:
AAAS 310 Perspectives on the African Diaspora
CS 531 The City and Culture
Intl Studs 356 Introduction to Globalization
NELC 646 Colonial Cities in Postcolonial Memory
Women's Studies 305 Gender, Culture, and Power in International PerspectiveFoundation: Comp St 274 Intro to Comparative Cultural StudiesPolitics of Culture
Interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative:
CS 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
CS 336 Cultural Studies of American Musics
CS 541 Myth and Ritual
CS 598 Senior Seminar
CS 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (e.g., Religion and Media; [substitute 677.02] Travelers, Tourists, Tricksters)
English 270 Introduction to Folklore
Distribution:
AAAS 342 Music, Religion, and Ritual in Africa
AAAS 748 Contemporary Art Music Traditions of Africa & the Diaspora
East Asian 677 Performance Traditions in Contemporary East Asia
Korean 600 Performance Traditions of Korea
Theatre 674 Contemporary Theatre HistoryFoundation: Comp St 274 Intro to Comparative Cultural StudiesComparative Cultural Studies worksheet, p. 11
Interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative:
CS 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
CS 508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
CS 531 The City and Culture
CS 598 Senior Seminar
CS 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (e.g., Marx, Nietzsche, Freud; Theories and Concepts of Networks)
Women's Studies 300 Intro to Feminist Analysis
Distribution:
CS 544 Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture
CS 545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
CS/NELC 672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-Century Mediterranean
English 593 Literature and Law
Women's Studies 540 Women of Color Writing Culture
Comparative Cultural Studies courses p. 12
Worksheet for Comparative Cultural Studies Concentration
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- Foundation Courses (Total 5 credit hours)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 274 | Introduction to Comparative Cutlural Studies |
- Interdisciplinary Requirement (Total 30 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 651 | Topics course (or approved alternative) | ||
| CS 398 | Approaches to Comparative Studies | ||
| CS 598 | Senior Seminar | ||
- Distribution Requirement (Total 25 credits) Courses in and area of focus, e.g., cultural theory; global studies; performance studies; politics of culture; visual culture and media.
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
Total credits required: 60
Interdepartmental Courses in Comparative Cultural Studies
(Courses not listed below may, given appropriate content, be substituted at the discretion of the Comparative Studies adviser.)
Comparative Studies
214 Introduction to Sexuality Studies
234 American Icons
H240 The Nature of Modernity
241 Intro to Asian American Studies
242 Intro to Latino/a Studies
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
264 Reading Popular Culture
270 Intro to Comparative Religion
272 Science and Society
273 Intro to World Literature
274 Intro to Comparative Cultural Studies
275 Intro to Visual Representation
314 Women in East Asian and Asian American Literature
322 Native American Religions
336 Cultural Studies of American Popular Musics
339 Transnationalism and the Americas
345 South Asian Amer Religion & Culture
358 Film and Literature as Narrative Art
373 Problems in Literary and Cultural Translation
377 Contemporary Folklore in the Arab World
398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
510 The 20th-century Novel: Transnational Contexts
520 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
525 Religious Movements in Global Context
526 New Age and New Religious Movements
531 The City and Culture
535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
541 Myth and Ritual
542 Native American Identity
543 Asian American Literature and Culture
544 Latino/a Literature and Culture
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
550 Wexner Center Seminar
573 World Literature: Theory and Practice
585.01 Intro to the Study of Literacy
585.02 History of Literacy
620 Approaches to the Study of Religion
641 Japanese Religion Tradition
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
648 Studies in Orality and Literacy
651 Topics in Comparative Studies
660 Modernism: Origins & Dev in 20th-C Culture & Politics
665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-Century Mediterranean
677.01 Genres in Folk Literature
677.02 Themes in World Folklore
677.03 Folk Custom, Art, & Material Culture
677.04 Comparative Folk Groups
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
706 Complex Ethnography
715 Theorizing America
716 Theorizing Culture
730 Theorizing Science and Technology
790 Foundations of Contemporary Critical Theory
792 Interdepartmental Studies in the Humanities
African American and African Studies
218 Black Urban Experience
230 The Black Woman: Her Role in the Liberation Struggle
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
244 Survey of African and African-Derived Music in the Western World
271 Contemporary Black Drama
278 Contemporary Black Art
288 Bebop to Doowop to Hiphop: The Rhythm and Blues Tradition
290 Black Youth
303 Language, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
310 Perspectives on the African Diaspora
342 Magic, Religion, and Ritual in Africa
345 African American Thinkers
351 Caribbean Literature in English
376 African American Art
378 History of Jazz I
379 History of Jazz II
451 Black Experience in Caribbean, African, and African American Literatures
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
565 Slavery in the Atlantic World
571 Images of Black People in Media Production
582 Studies in African American Literature
H584 Literature and Modern Experience in Africa
595 Theorizing Race
669 Slavery in Comparative Context
748 Contemporary Art Music Traditions, Africa & Diaspora
752 Readings in African American History
760 African Pop Culture
781 Topics in African Political Philosophy
782 Modern Black Political Thought
Anthropology
202 Peoples & Cultures: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
241 Culture and Cultures of the Middle East
400 Contemporary Views of the Ancient Near East: Orientalism, Archeology, and Nationalism
525 History of Anthropological Theory
620 Special Topics in Anthropology
702 Theories in Cultural Anthropology
Chinese
505 China in Chinese Film
600 Performance Traditions of China
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
Communication
200 Communication in Society
240 Intro to Communication Technology
311 Visual Communication Design
*341 Policy Issues in Communication Technology
*368 Intercultural Communication in Organizational Contexts
*501 Mass Communication and Youth
*512 Communication, Images, and Action
*513 Video Games and the Individual
*606 Development of the Mass Media in America
*611 Communication and Multi-media
*613 Media Entertainment
*614 Issues and Images in Political Communication
*629 Language and Social Interaction
*642 Mass Communication and Society
*643 International Communication and the World Press
*644 Advertising and Society
*645 Stereotypes in Advertising, News, and Entertainment TV
*648.01 History of American Newspaper Comic Strips
*648.02 History of American Newspaper Political Cartoons
*653 Political Communication and E-Democracy
*654 Social Implications of Technology
*655 Computer Interfaces and Human Identity
*659 Communication Systems and Society
*662 Communication and Gender
*665 Communication and Community
*666 Communication and Popular Culture
*668 Intercultural Communication in Organizational Contexts
*669 Communication, Power, and Knowledge
*Students not majoring in Communication must get permission to take starred courses.
Dance
658 Early Ballet History
659 Ballet & Modern Dance History, 19th & 20th Centuries 753 Dance Criticism and Aesthetics 757 Dance in a Time of Turbulence: Ballet and Modern Dance, 18th-20th-Century 759 Postmodernism in Dance
East Asian
341 Thought in China in Japan
346 Asian American Film
H399 East Asian Thought in the Western Imagination
675 Women Writers, Culture, and Society in East Asia
677 Performance Traditions in Contemporary East Asia
English
264 Reading Popular Culture
270 Intro to Folklore
277 Intro to Disability Studies\
364 Special Topics in Reading Popular Culture
378 Special Topics in Film and Literature
505 Language and the Black Experience
569 Digital Media and English Studies
571 Studies in the English Language
573.01 Rhetorical Theory and Analysis of Discourse
573.02 Rhetorical Theory and Analysis of Social Action
574 History and Theories of Writing
575 Special Topics in Literary Forms and Themes
576.01 History of Critical Theory: Plato to Aestheticism
576.02 History of Critical Theory: 1900 to Present
576.03 Issues and Movements in Critical Theory
577 Studies in Folklore
577.01 Folk Groups and Communities
577.02 Folklore Genres: Form, Meaning and Use
577.03 Issues and Methods in the Study of Folklore
578 Special Topics in Film
579 Special Topics in Nonfiction
580 Special Topics in Gay and Lesbian Language and Literature
581 Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literatures
582 Studies in African American Literature
583 Special Topics in World Literature in English
585.01 Intro to the Study of Literacy
585.02 History of Literacy
586 Studies in American Indian Literature and Culture
587 Asian American Literature and Culture
588 Latino/a Literature and Culture
592 Special Topics in Women's Literature
593 Literature and Law
596 Studies in Literature and the Other Arts
681.01 Studies in Korean Amer Literature
681.02 Studies in Japanese Amer Literature
681.03 Studies in Chinese Amer Literature
French
206 Intro to French Media and Visual Culture
250 Topics in French Literature and Culture in Translation
418 French Language and Culture
427 Francophone Literature: from Empire to Nation
470 Introduction to French Cinema
670 Studies in French Cinema
672 French Cinema, 1945 to Present
Geography
430 Geographical Perspectives on Environment and Society
450 The Making of the Modern World
460 Political Geography
German
250 German Literature and Popular Culture
299 Weimar and the Third Reich in German Literature and Film
399 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
H670 Cinema and the Historical Avant Garde
671 German Cinema to 1945
672 German Cinema from 1945 to the Present
Hebrew
375 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
History
309 The Sixties
324 Intro to U.S. Latina/Latino History
325 Intro to Women's History
326 History of Modern Sexualities
331 The Holocaust
332 Jews in American Film
346 Intro to Asian American History
368.01 Introduction to Native American History
368.02 Native American Peoples of the Andes
398 Intro to Historical Thought
513.01 European Intell & Cultural Hist: Age of Modernity, 19th Cent
513.02 European Intell & Cultural Hist: Age of Modernity, 20th Cent
523 Women in the Western World: Ancient Civilization to Industrial Revolution
524 Women in the Western World: Industrial Revolution to the Present
525 Topics in Women's History
526 Historical Perspectives on Sexuality: Same-Sex Sexuality in the Western World
527 History of the Family
528 Love in the Modern Western World
533.06 Women in Latin America
568.01 Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560-1820
568.02 Native American History from Removal to Present
577.01 Chicano History, From the Spanish Colonial Period to 1900
577.02 Chicano History, From 1900 to the Present Era
579.01 American Cultural & Intellectual History, 1789-1900
579.02 American Cultural & Intellectual History, 1900-pres
578 American Religious History
588 Slavery in Comparative Context
589 Mar/ginal Groups in the Non-Western World
History of Art
260 Introduction to World Cinema
340 Aspects of Modernity
345 History of Photography
350 World Cinema Today
430 Museum Studies Seminar
500 Wexner Center Seminar
541 Contemporary Art since 1945
546 Classic Film Theories
600 Introduction to Contemporary Art Historical Theory
614 Comparative Study of African and European Art
641 Postmodernism
646 Intro to Film Theory
647 Silent Cinema: 1895-1927
648 Classical Sound Cinema: 1927-1948
649 Recent Cinema: 1948-Present
650 Avant-Garde Cinema
653 History of Documentary Cinema
654 Representations of Power and the Power of Representation in 17th-century European Art
710 Studies in Art Theory and Criticism
715 Historical Conceptual Bases of Art History
737 Studies in Modern Art
750 Selected Topics in Cinema Studies
International Studies
356 Introduction to Globalization
525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Perspective
531 The City and Culture
Italian
401 Modern Italian Cinema
613 Italian Cinema
615 Italian Identities
Japanese
600 Performance Traditions of Japan
665 Studies in Jspanese American Literature
Korean
600 Performance Traditions of Korea
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
244 Films of the Middle East
311 Language Evolution and Language Change
344 The Middle East in the Media
345 Women in the Muslim Middle East
360 Sheherazade and Company: Sex, Gender and Power in Middle Eastern Storytelling
374 The Novel in the Middle East
380 Everyday Life in South Asia
642 Representing the Middle East in Film
644 Culture and Politics in Central Asia
646 Colonial Cities in Postcolonial Memory: The Politics of Urban Development in the Near East
648 Studies in Orality and Literacy
672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-century Mediterranean
675 Intellectuals in the Middle East
Philosophy
230 Political and Social Philosophy
240 Philosophical Problems in the Arts
H242 Philosophy of Film
307 Contemporary Continental Thought
336 Philosophical Perspectives on Issues of Gender
595 Theorizing Race
625 Philosophical Topics in Feminist Theory
Russian
360 Russian Dreams & Nightmares: Modern Russian Experience through Film
657 Gender and Nationality in Russian Cinema
Scandinavian
520 The Films of Ingmar Bergman
Sociology
340 Sex and Love in Modern Society
380 American Racial and Ethnic Relations
382 Sociology of Asian Americans
Spanish
322 Spanish Society and the Arts
330 Reinventing America
331 Caribbean Cultures
380 Intro to Latin American Film
510 Mexican Studies
520 Latin American Literature in Translation: Fictions and Realities
555 Indigenous and Colonial Literatures of Latin America
557 Survey of Latino/a Literature in the U.S.
560 Introduction to Spanish-American Culture
561 Introduction to Spanish Culture
H565 Latin American Indigenous Literatures and Cultures
580 Latin American Film
581 Spanish Film
H590 Interdisciplinary Protocols: Identity and National Formation in Latin America: Perspectives form Literature, Culture, and History
640 Globalization and Latin America: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches
Theatre
H230 Moving Image Art
271 Great Ages of the Theatre
531 Theatre Repertory I
532 Theatre Repertory II
533 Theatre Repertory III
534 American Musical Theatre
671 Theatre Topics I
672 Theatre Topics II
673 Theatre Topics III
674 Contemporary Theatre History
777 Studies in the Documentary
Women's Studies
230 Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Popular Culture
300 Intro to Feminist Analysis
305 Gender, Culture, Power in International Perspective
H296 Topics in Women's Studies
320 Topics in Women's Studies
317 Hollywood, Women, and Film
340 Latina Experience in the U.S.
370 Varieties of Female Experience: Lesbian Lives
375 Women and Visual Culture
505 Feminist Analysis in Global Perspective
510 American Women's Movements
517 Women Film Directors
520 Women of Color and Social Activism
524 Women and Work
527 Studies in Gender and Cinema
535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
540 Studies in Women of Color Writing Culture
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
550 History of Western Feminist Thought
575 Issues in Contemporary Feminist Theory
576 Women and Visual Cultures of Latin America
624 Women and Social Change in Latin America
657 Gender and Nationality in Russian Cinema
Yiddish
399 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
2. Comparative Ethnic and American Studies
The undergraduate concentration in Comparative Ethnic and American Studies (CEAS) provides a course of study that engages interdisciplinary and comparative understanding of ethnicity and race in the Americas. The program enables focused study of specific ethnic cultures, arts, and communities, but understands these within changing national, transnational, and global contexts. “American” is understood broadly, embracing hemispheric and transnational perspectives: we consider indigenous cultures, transnational migrations, and dislocations of peoples, and we consider the historic position of the United States within the Americas and in the world at large. A total of 60 credit hours is required.-
Foundation courses (10 credit hours):
One of the following courses is required:
Comp St 241 Introduction to Asian American Studies
Comp St 242 Introduction to Latino/a Studies
Comp St (or AAAS) 243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
The following course is required:
Comp St (or AAAS or WS) 545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality -
Interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative requirement (15 credit hours):
The following are required (15 credits):
Comp St 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
One 600-level course in Comparative Studies or an approved alternative
Comp St 598 Senior Seminar -
Distribution requirement (35 credit hours):
Students should choose a field of focus for the major. The field of focus describes a line of interest or inquiry which will guide the choice of electives within the concentration. The topics listed here are examples of ways in which a focus area in Comparative Ethnic and American Studies can be developed in keeping with students' particular interests. Courses from other Comparative Studies tracks as well as courses in other departments may be used to satisfy part of this requirement. Sample areas include: environmental justice; race and disability; race and religion in America; comparative Asian American, African American and Latino/a literature; science, technology and race; ethnicity and film.
Courses from other Comparative Studies tracks as well as courses in other departments may be used to satisfy the distribution requirement. Titles of these courses are listed on pages 18-19 of this handbook, but others may be substituted, depending on the focus of the student's major program, with the adviser's approval. No more than 15 credits at the 200-level may count toward fulfillment of the Distribution Requirement.
Comparative Cultural Studies courses p. 18
Worksheet for Comparative Ethnic and American Studies Concentration
CEAS Printable PDFName
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Current Columbus Address
Phone
Faculty Adviser
- Foundation Courses (Total 10 credit hours)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
|
One of: CS 241 or
CS 242 or CS 243 |
Introduction to Asian American Studies Introduction to Latino/a Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas |
- Interdisciplinary Requirement (Total 15 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 651 | Topics course (or approved alternative) | ||
| CS 398 | Approaches to Comparative Studies | ||
| CS 598 | Senior Seminar | ||
- Distribution Requirement (Total 35 credits) Courses in and area of focus, e.g., cultural theory; global studies; performance studies; politics of culture; visual culture and media.
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
Total credits required: 60
Interdepartmental Courses in Comparative Ethnic and American Studies
(Courses not listed below may, given appropriate content, be substituted at the discretion of the Comparative Studies adviser.)
Comparative Studies
205 Literature and Ethnicity
214 Intro to Sexuality Studies
234 American Icons
241 Introduction to Asian American Studies
242 Introduction to Latino/a Studies
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
314 Women in East Asian and Asian-American Literature
322 Native American Religions
336 Cultural Studies of American Musics
339 Transnationalism and Culture in the Americas
345 South Asian American Religion and Culture
367.01 American Identity in the World
367.04 Latino/a Identities
398 Appr to Comparative Studies
470 Folklore of the Americas
475 Studies in Ethnography
525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
526 New Age and New Religious Movements
531 The City and Culture
535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
542 Native American Identity
543 Asian American Literature and Culture
544 Latino/a Literature and Culture
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
651 Topics in Comparative Studies
African and African American Studies
201 Intro to African American and African Studies
218 Black Urban Experience
230 The Black Woman: Her Role in the Liberation Struggle
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
244 Survey of African & African-Derived Music in Western World
251 Intro to African Literature
254 Themes in African American Literature
271 Contemporary Black Drama
278 Contemporary Black Art
288 Bebop to Doowop to Hiphop: The Rhythm and Blues Tradition
290 Black Youth
291 The Black Family
303 Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S.
310 Perspectives on the African Diaspora
323.01 History of African Americans in the Age of Slavery
323.02 History of African Americans from Emancipation to the
326 Black Americans and Legal System
345 African American Thinkers
351 Caribbean Literature in English
361 Psychology of the Black Experience
367.03 African Amer Voices in US Lit
367.04 African Amer Women's Literature
376 African American Art
378 History of Jazz I
379 History of Jazz II
451 Black Experience in African, Caribbean, and African American Literature
504 Black Politics
505 Language and the Black Experience
545 Intersections: Appr to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
551 Selected Topics in African American and Related Literatures
552 Contemporary African American Culture
555.01 Topics in African Amer History I
555.02 Topics in African Amer History II
565 Slavery in the Atlantic World
571 Images of Black People in Mass Media Production
595 Theorizing Race
669 Slavery in Comparative Context
Anthropology
421.08 Indians of North America
Art Education
367.01 Ethnic Art: A Means of Intercultural Communication
Chinese
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
East Asian Languages and Literatures
346 Asian American Film
English
281 Introduction to African American Lit
367.03 African American Voices in US Lit
367.05 The U.S. Folk Experience
505 Language and the Black Experience
550 Colonial and U.S. Lit to 1830
551 U.S. Lit: 1830-1865
552 U.S. Lit: 1865-1914
553 20th Century U.S. Fiction
577 Studies in Folklore
577.01 Folk Groups and Folk Communities
577.02 Folklore Genres
577.03 Issues & Methods in Study of Folklore
580 Special Topics in Gay and Lesbian Literature
581 Spec Topics in US Ethnic Literatures
582 Speci Topics in African American Literature
583 Spec Topics in World Literature in English
586 American Indian Literature & Culture
587 Asian American Literature and Culture
588 Latino/a Literature and Culture
681.01 Studies in Korean Amer Literature
681.02 Studies in Japanese Amer Literature
681.03 Studies in Chinese Amer Literature
History
309 The Sixties
323.01 History of African Americans in the Age of Slavery
323.02 History of African Americans from Emancipation to the Present
324 Intro to U.S. Latina/Latino History
325 Intro to Women's History: American Experience
332 Jews in American Film
346 Intro to Asian American History
366.02 American Environmental History
368.01 Intro to Native American History
525 Topics in Women's History (e.g., Black Women in Slavery and Freedom, Asian American Women's History, Women in Latin America)
526 Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Western World
527 History of the Family
530.04 The American Jewish Experience
533.01 Colonial Latin American History
533.02 South Amer since Independence
533.06 Women in Latin America
555.01 Topics in African American History (e.g., Free Black Communities in Antebellum America)
555.02 Topics in African Amer History II
556 Colonial North America to 1763
559 History of Slavery in North America from Colonial Times to 1860
567 American Environmental History
568.01 Native American History from European Contact to Removal 1560-1820
568.02 Native American History from Removal to the Present
569 American Labor History
570.01 The U.S. Constitution and American Society to 1877
570.02 The U.S. Constitution and American Society since 1877
577.01 Chicano History, from the Spanish Colonial Period to 1900
577.02 Chicano History, from 1900 to the Present Era
579.01 American Cultural and Intellectual History, 1789-1900
579.02 American Cultural and Intellectual History, 1900- Present
Japanese
665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
Korean
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
Linguistics
303 Language, Race, Ethnicity in the U.S.
307 Intro to American Indigenous Languages
372 Language & Social Identity in the U.S.
505 Language and the Black Experience
Music
244 Survey of African American Musical Traditions
252 History of Rock and Roll
253 Intro to Jazz
288 Bebop and Doowop to Hiphop: Th Rhythm and Blues Tradition
341 American Popular Music
672 Introduction to Ethnomusicology
748 Contemporary Art Music Traditions of Africa and the Diaspora
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
341 Islam in the United States
642 Representing the Middle East in Film
Political Science
504 Black Politics
508 Asian American Politics
Psychology
375 Stereotyping and Prejudice
545 Cross-Cultural Psychology
Social Work
300 Minority Perspectives: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
301 Needs and Social Conditions of Latino/as, Social Policies, and Human Services
Sociology
345 Contemporary American Society
380 American Racial and Ethnic Relations
382 Sociology of Asian American Life
391 The Community
435 Sociology of Women
463 Social Stratification
464 Work, Employment, and Society
605 Sociology of Sexuality
606 Social Movements and Collective Behavior
608 Gender, Race, and Class in Mass Communications
635 Men in Society
666 Political Sociology
Spanish and Portuguese
330 Reinventing American
331 Caribbean Cultures
380 Introduction to Latin American Film
520 Latin American Literature in Translation: Fictions and Realities
555 Indigenous and Colonial Literatures of Colonial America
557 Survey of Latino/Latina Lit in the US
560 Introduction to Spanish AmerCultures
H565 Latin American Indigenous Literatures and Cultures
580 Latin American Film
640 Globalization and Latin America: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches
650 Senior Seminar in Spanish or Spanish American Literature (e.g., Minority Voices from Spanish-Speaking America)
660 Senior Seminar in Hispanic Culture
689 Spanish in Ohio
Women's Studies
215 Reading Women Writers
230 Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Popular Culture
300 Intro to Feminist Analysis
305 Gender, Culture and Power in International Perspective
320 Topics in Women's Studies
340 Latina Experience in the U.S.
367.02 Latina Writers: Texts and Contexts
367.04 African American Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
375 Women and Visual Culture
505 Feminist Analysis in Global Perspective
510 American Women's Movements
520 Women of Color and Social Activism
524 Women and Work
540 Studies in Women of Color Writing Culture
545 Intersections: Appr to Rae, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
560 Chicana Feminism
576 Women and Visual Cultures of Latin America
623 African Women
624 Women and Social Change in Latin America
Yiddish
367 Jewish-American Voices in US Literature
3. Comparative Literature
In addition to sharpening your ability to analyze literature, you will learn about at least two different literary traditions, study literature written in a foreign language, and develop your understanding of relationships among literature, other kinds of writing, and other forms of art.The major requires 60 credits. At least one 600-level course is required for the concentration in Comparative Literature.
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Foundation courses (5 credit hours):
One of the following courses is required:
Comp St 273 Introduction to World Literature
Comp Studies 373 Problems in Literary and Cultural Translation -
Interdisciplinary requirement (25 credits):
The following courses are required (15 credits):
Comp St 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
Comp St 598 Senior Seminar
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (or an approved alternative)
Two of the following (at least one upper level) are required (10):
Comp St 201 Literature and Society
Comp St 202.01 Literature and Religion
Comp St 203 Literature and the Self
Comp St 204 Literature, Science, and Technology
Comp St 205 Literature and Ethnicity
Comp St H240 The Nature of Modernity
Comp St 273 Introduction to World Literature
Comp St 301 Love in World Literature
Comp St 306 The Quest in World Literature
Comp St 308 Representations of the Experience of War
Comp St 314 Women in East Asian and Asian-American Literature
Comp St 358 Film and Literature as Narrative Art
Comp St 373 Translating Literatures and Cultures
Comp St 508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Comp St 510 The Twentieth-Century Novel: Transnational Contexts
Comp St 541 Myth and Ritual
Comp St 543 Studies in Asian American Literature and Culture
Comp St 544 Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture
Comp Studies 573 World Literature: Theory and Practice
Comp St 645 Studies in Korean American Literature
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (subject to adviser's approval)
Comp St 660 Modernism: Its Origins and Development in 20th-Century Culture and Politics
Comp St 665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
Comp St 672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-century Mediterranean
Comp St 677.01 Genres of Folk Literature
Comp St 678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
English 575 Studies in Literary Forms and Themes
English 576 Studies in Critical Theory -
Distribution requirement (30 credit hours):
Students must take coursework in two different literary traditions, only one of which may be in the English language. At least 10 credit hours in a non-English literary tradition at the 400-level or above must be taken in the original (foreign) language. (Prerequisites beyond 104 may in some cases be required; these will not be counted toward the major.) The remaining 20 credit hours may be in English, in the original or in translation. These must be focused in a particular area and must include at least 5 credits in related non-European and non-North American literatures (e.g., African, Caribbean, East Asian).
Coursework is to be chosen from the departments of English, African American and African Studies, East Asian, Greek and Latin, French and Italian, German, NELC, Spanish and Portuguese, and Slavic and East European. The list of courses that satisfy this requirement is found on pages 23-25 of this handbook.. No more than five credits at the 200-level may count toward the Distribution Requirement.
Comparative Literature courses, p. 23
Worksheet for Comparative Literature Concentration
CL Printable PDFName
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Current Columbus Address
Phone
Faculty Adviser
- Foundation Courses (Total 5 credit hours)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Comp St 273
Or Comp St 373 |
Introduction to World Literature
Translating Literatures and Cultures |
- Interdisciplinary Requirement (Total 25 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 651 | Topics course (or approved alternative) | ||
| CS 398 | Approaches to Comparative Studies | ||
| CS 598 | Senior Seminar | ||
- Distribution Requirement (Total 30 credits) Courses in and area of focus, e.g., cultural theory; global studies; performance studies; politics of culture; visual culture and media.
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
Total credits required: 60
Interdepartmental Courses in Comparative Literature
(Courses not listed below may, given appropriate content, be substituted at the discretion of the Comparative Studies adviser.)
Comparative Studies
214 Intro to Sexuality Studies
H240 Nature of Modernity: Key Ideas and Enduring Problems
241 Intro to Asian American Studies
242 Intro to Latino/a Studies
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
264 Reading Popular Culture
270 Intro to Comparative Religion
272 Science and Society
273 Intro to World Literature
274 Intro to Comparative Cultural Studies
275 Intro to Visual Representation
301 Love in World Literature
306 The Quest in World Literature
308 Representations of Experience of War
314 Women in East Asian and Asian American Literature
358 Film and Literature as Narrative Art
373 Translating Literatures and Cultures
508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
510 Twentieth-century Novel: Transnational Contexts
541 Myth and Ritual
542 Native American Identity
543 Asian American Literature and Culture
544 Latino/a Literature and Culture
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
550 Wexner Center Seminar
573 World Literature: Theory & Practice
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
648 Studies in Orality and Literacy
651 Topics in Comparative Studies
660 Modernism: Its Origins & Dev in 20th-century Politics & Culture
665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-century Mediterranean
677.01 World Folklore: Genres of Folk Literature
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
African American and African Studies
251 Introduction to African Literature
254 Themes in African American Literature
271 Contemporary Black Drama
351 Caribbean Literature in English
451 Black Experience: Caribbean, African, & Afr-Amer Lit
460 Political Thought in African Literature
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
551 Sel Topics in African American and Related Literatures
582 Studies in African American Literature
H584 Literature and the Modern Expericence in Africa
595 Theorizing Race
Arabic
371 Classical and Medieval Arabic Literature in Translation
372 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
*401 Intermediate Literary Arabic Reading
615 Translation: Theory and Practice
*626 Intro to the Qur'an
*627 Classical Arabic Poetry
*628 Classical Arabic Prose
*651 Contemporary Arabic Prose Fiction
*652 Contemporary Arabic Poetry and Drama
671 The Qur'an in Translation
672 Arabic Folk Narrative in Translation
Chinese
251 Chinese Literature in Translation
501 Chinese Poetry in Translation
502 Chinese Fiction in Translation
503 Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
504 Chinese Drama in Translation
505 China in Chinese Film
*310, 311 Intensive Second-Third Year Chinese I and II
*510, 511 Intensive Third Year Chinese I and II
*601, 602, 603 Classical Chinese I, II, and III
*610, 611, 612 Fourth Year Chinese I, II, and III
651 History of Chinese Literature I
652 History of Chinese Literature II
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
Classics
222 Classical Mythology
H223 Topics in Ancient Literature and Society
301 Greek and Roman Epic
302 Greek and Roman Drama
303 Comic Spirit in Antiquity
310 Topics in Ancient Literature and Culture
322 The Hero in Classical Mythology
505 Political Thought and Institutions in the Greco-Roman World
East Asian
346 Asian American Film
675 Women Writers, Culture, and Society in East Asia
English
201 Selected Works of British Lit: Med. through 1800
202 Selected Works of Brit Lit: 1800 to the Present
220 Introduction to Shakespeare
264 Reading Popular Culture
275 Thematic Approaches to Literature
277 Intro to Disability Studies
280 The English Bible
281 Intro to African American Literature
290 Colonial and U.S. Literature to 1865
291 U.S. Literature: 1865 to Present
H296 Honors Seminar: Literature and Intellectual Movements
513 Intro to Medieval Literature
514 Middle English Literature
515 Chaucer
520.01 Shakespeare
520.02 Special Topics in Shakespeare
521 16th-Century Literature
522 Early 17th-Century Literature
531 Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature
533 Literature of the 18th Century: 1740-1800
535 The Early British Novel: Origins to the 1830s
540 Poetry and Poetics of the British Romantic Period
541 Victorian Poetry and Poetics
542 The Victorian Novel
543 20th-Century British Fiction
547 20th-Century Poetry
549 Modern Drama
550 Colonial and U.S. Literature to 1830
551 U.S. Literature 1830-1865
552 U.S. Literature, 1865-1914
553 20th-Century U.S. Fiction
559 Intro to Narrative and Narrative Theory
560 Special Topics in Poetry
561 Special Topics in Fictional and Nonfictional Narrative
562 Special Topics in Drama
563 Contemporary Literature
564.01 Major Author Med Renaissance Brit Lit
564.02 Major Author 18th & 19th Century Brit Lit
564.03 Major Author American Lit to 1900
564.04 Major Author 20th Century Lit
575 Special Topics Literary Forms &Themes
576 Studies Topics in Critical Theory
576.01 History of Critical Theory: Plato to Aestheticism
576.02 History of Critical Theory: 1900 to Present
576.03 Issues & Movements in Critical Theory
578 Special Topics in Film
579 Special Topics in Non-Fiction
580 Special Topics in Gay and Lesbian Language and Literature
581 Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literatures
582 Studies in African American Literature
583 Special Topics in World Literature in English
585.01 Intro to the Study of Literacy
585.02 History of Literacy
586 American Indian Literature and Culture
587 Asian American Literature and Culture
588 Latino/a Literature and Culture
H590 Honors Seminar: Major Periods in Literary History
H590.01 Honors Seminar: The Middle Ages
H590.02 Honors Seminar: The Renaissance
H590.03 Honors Seminar: 18th-century
H590.04 Honors Seminar: Romanticism
H590.05 Honors Seminar: Later 19th Century
H590.06 Honors Seminar: Modern Period
H590.07 Honors Seminar: Literature in English after 1945
H590.08 Honors Seminar: U.S. and Colonial Literature
592 Special Topics in Women in Literature
593 Literature and Law
597 The Disability Experience in the Contemporary World
H598 Honors Seminar: Sel Topics in Lit & Lit Interpretation
681.01 Studies Korean American Literature
681.02 Studies Japanese American Literature
681.03 Studies Chinese American Literature
French
250 Topics in French Literature and Culture in Translation
*425 French Literature and Society
*426 French Literature and the Self
*427 Francophone Literature: from Empire to Nation
*440 Intro to the Study of Contemporary French Culture
470 Intro to French Cinema
*602 French Translating
*631 French Literature of the Renaissance
*643 From Absolute Monarchy to WWII
*644 French Civilization since WWII
*650 Survey of Medieval French Literature
*652 French Literature of the 17th Century
*653 French Literature of the Enlightment
*655 French Literature from Naturalism to World War I
*656 French Literature between the Two World Wars
*657.01 Francophone Lit: Black Africa & the Caribbean
*657.02 Francophone Lit: North Africa
*657.03 Francophone Lit: Quebec
*663 Women in French Literature
*670 Studies in French Cinema
672 French Cinema 1945 to Present
*700-level courses in original language
German
*230 Intro to German Prose
*231 Intro to German Poetry
*232 Intro to German Drama
250 German Literature and Popular Culture
260.01 Love, Death, and Folly in German Literature before 1700
260.02 The Family" German Literature after 1700
260.03 Ethics and Institutions: Soldiers and Bureaucrats
261 German Classics in Translation
262 Modern German Literature in Translation
H263 The Faust Theme
275 Develop Contemp Germany: Dresden Yesterday & Today
291 Early German Literature in Cultural Context
292 Modern German Literature in Cultural Context
299 Weimar & the Third Reich in German Literature and Film
303 The Practice of Translation
399 The Holocaust inn Literature and Film
*420 Studies in German Literature I (750-1700)
*421 Studies in German Literature II (1700-1870)
*422 Studies in German Literature III (1870-Present)
*463 German Culture of the 19th and 20th Centuries
*540 Literature and Life in German-Speaking Countries
*550 Current Events in German-Speaking Countries
*640 Topics in German Literature and Culture
671 German Cinema to 1945
672 German Cinema from 1945 to the Present
*700-level courses in original language
Greek
*222 Euripides
*223 Homer
*225 Sophocles
*605 Greek Tragedy
*607 Greek Epic
*609 Readings in Plato
*610 Greek Comedy
*611 Greek Hymn, Lyric and Elegy
Hebrew
370 Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation
371 Medieval Hebrew Literature in Translation
372 Modern Hebrew Lit in Translation
373 Prophecy in the Bible and Post-Biblical Literature
374 Women in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature
375 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
378 Biblical and Post-Biblical Wisdom Literature
*421 Modern Hebrew Short Story
*422 Modern Hebrew Poetry
*620 Intro to Hebrew Literary & Cultural Texts
*621 The Bible as Literature: Selected Readings
*623 Readings in Rabbinic Literature
671 The Problem of Evil in Biblical & Post Biblical Literature
*700-level courses in original language
History
332 Jews in American Film
513.01 European Intellectual & Cultural History: 19th Century
513.02 European Intellectual & Cultural History: 20th Century
History of Art
260 Introduction to World Cinema
350 World Cinema Today
546 Introduction to Film Theory
647 Silent Cinema: 1895-1927
648 Classical Sound Cinema: 1927-1948
649 Recent Cinema: 1948-Present
650 Avant Garde Cinema
653 History of Documentary Cinema
Italian
221 Masterpieceds of the Italian Cinema
251 Dante in Translation
*420 Thematic Approaches to Modern Italian Lit & Culture
*421 Reading Italy: Italian Literature and Culure
602 Italian Translating
*613 Italian Cinema
*614 Survey of Italian Literature
*621 Dante
*622 Petrarch and Boccaccio
*625 Italian Literature of the Renaissance
*626 Italian Lit of the 17th and 18th Centuries
*627 Modern Italian Fiction
*628 Modern Italian Poetry
*700-level courses in original language
Japanese
251 Japanese Lit in Translation
252 Modern Japanese Lit in Translation
501 Japanese Lit in Critical Perspective
*654 Japanese Lit: Classical Period
*655 Japanese Lit: Medieval and Edo Periods
*656 Japanese Lit: Modern Period
665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
*300-, 500-, and 600-level language courses and 700-level courses in original language
Korean
251 Korean Literature in Translation
505 Korean Drama in Translation
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
653 Advanced Readings in Korean
654 Korean Literary Traditions
*300-, 500-, and 600-level language courses and 700-level courses in original language
Latin
*206 Roman Comedy
*210 Cicero
*211 Vergil
*213 Ovid
*214 Latin Lyric
600-level courses in Latin
Modern Greek
371 Modern Greek Lit in Translation
*628 Byzantine Greek Prose
*651 Contemporary Greek Prose
*652 Contemporary Greek Poetry
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
244 Films of the Middle East
272 Masterpieces of Near Eastern Lit in Translation
360 Sheherazade and Company: Sex, Gender and Power in Middle Eastern Storytelling
372 Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
374 The Novel in the Middle East
642 Representing the Middle East in Film
648 Studies in Orality and Literacy
671 Canon and Communities in the Near East
672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-century Mediterranean
Persian
370 Mythology and Folklore
371 Persian Literature in Translation
374 Intro to Persian Epic
*651 Persian Prose
*652 Persian Poetry
*700-level courses in original language
Philosophy
240 Philosophical Problems in the Arts
H242 Honors Philosophy of Film
672 Philosophy in Literature
Polish
630 Polish Literature to 1900
631 Polish Literature 1900-Present
Portuguese
271 Luso-Brazilian Literature
335 Cannibal Brazil: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations of Identity in Literature and Culture
*450 Intro to the Study of Literatures and Cultures
510 Portuguese Translation
*551 Survey of Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures I
*552 Survey of Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures II
*560 Portuguese Culture and Civilization
*561 Brazilian Culture and Civilization
*650 Topics in Literature of the Portuguese-Speaking World
Russian
235 Modern Russian Culture: Magnificence, Mayhem, and Mafia
250 Masterpieces of 19th Century Russian Literature
251 Masterpieces of 20th and 21st Century Russian Literature
360 Russian Dreams and Nightmares: The Modern Russian Experience through Film
520 The Golden Age of Russian Literature
521 Russian Lit in the Age of Realism
522 Modernism and Revolution in Russian Literature
523 Rise and Fall of Soviet Literature
*560 Contemporary Russian in Cultural & Literary Context I
*561 Contemporary Russian in Cultural & Literary Context II
644 Russian Folklore
650 Dostoevsky
651 Tolstoy
653 Russian Drama
656 Russian Women Writers
657 Gender and National Identity in Russian Cinema
*660 Basic Approaches to the Study of Russian Literature
*661 The Poetics of Russian Verse
*662 The Poetics of Russian Prose
*664 Studies in 20th-century Russian Literature
675 Writing Seminar on Topics of Russian Lit, Lang, & Life
*700-level courses in original language
Scandinavian
222 Nordic Mythology and Medieval Culture
500 Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature
513 The Icelandic Saga
520 The Films of Ingmar Bergman
Slavic Languages and Literatures
245 Introduction to Slavic Literature and Culture
519 Slavic Literature in Translation from the Beginning to the Present
H583 Cinderella's Fantasy: Gender and Women in Western and Eastern Europe
Spanish
320 Don Quixote in Translation
321 The Spanish Don Juan Theme in Theatre
380 Introduction to Latin American Film
*450 Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture in Spanish
520 Latin American Literature in Translation: Fictions and Realities
*551 Spanish Golden Age Lit
*552 Modern Spanish Lit
*555 Indigenous and Colonial Literatures of Spanish America
*556 Modern Spanish American Literature
*557 Survey of Latino/a Literature in the U.S.
*H565 Latin American Indigenous Literatures and Cultures
*580 Latin American Film
*581 Spanish Film
*H590 Interdisciplinary Protocols: Identity and National Formation in Latin America: Perspectives from Literature, Culture and History
*650 Senior Seminar in Spanish or Spanish Amer Literature
*660 Senior Seminar in Hispanic Culture
*700-level courses in original language
Theatre
H230 Moving Image Art
271 Great Ages of the Theatre
531 Theatre Repertory I
532 Theatre Repertory II
533 Theatre Repertory III
671 Theatre Topics I
672 Theatre Topics II
673 History of the Theatre III
674 Contemporary Theatre History
777 Studies in the Documentary
Turkish
372 Turkish Literature in Translation
*627 Classical Turkish Poetry
641 Travels in Turkey
*651 Modern Turkish Poetry and Prose
*700-level courses in original language
Women's Studies
300 Introduction to Feminist Analysis
317 Hollywood, Women, and Film
320 Topics in Women's Studies
372 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
375 Women and Visual Culture
517 Women Film Directors
527 Studies in Gender and Cinema
540 Studies in Women of Color Writing Culture
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
550 Intro to Western Feminist Theory
560 Chicana Feminism
575 Issues in Contemporary Feminist Theory
620 Topics in Feminist Studies
Yiddish
371 Yiddish Literature in Translation
399 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
641 Places in Ashkenaz
*651 Modern Yiddish Prose
*700-level courses in original language
4. Folklore
The Folklore concentration focuses on a broad spectrum of social expression, examining the forms and ways of living through which communities shape their reality; those forms include language, work, food, play, dance, song, gestures, beliefs, and so forth. Folklore tends to focus on those cultural forms that permeate the everyday, which are passed from generation to generation, usually orally, with no one author or creator. Folklorists might study such activities as riddles, bell ringing, ethnic joking, or urban legends, apparently trivial practices which, when examined in context, reveal themselves as significant performances: constructions of identity, presentations of self, strategies of control or resistance, manipulations of resources, exercises of virtuosity, spaces of reflection upon the nature of things.The major requires 60 credits. Two 600-level courses are required, at least one of which is 677.01, 677.02, 677.03, or 677.04.
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Foundation courses (5 credit hours):
The following is required:
English 270 Introduction to Folklore
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Interdisciplinary/thematic/comparative requirement (30 credits):
The following courses are required (10 credits):
Comp St 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
Comp St 598 Senior Seminar
Four of the following are required, at least one at the 600-level (20):
Comp St 377 Contemporary Folklore in the Arab World
Comp St 677.01 Genres of Folk Literature
Comp St 677.02 Themes in World Folklore
Comp St 677.03 Folk Custom, Art, and Material Culture
Comp St 677.04 Comparative Folk Groups
English 577.01 Folk Groups and Communities
English 577.02 Folklore Genres: Form, Meaning, and Use
English 577.03 Issues and Methods in the Study of Folklore -
Distribution requirement (25 credit hours):
Students should choose to focus their folklore studies on a particular geographical region, historical period, or ethnic group (e.g. the ancient or modern Middle East, Appalachian or Mexican culture); a particular medium, theme, or genre (e.g., verbal arts and literature or art and material culture); or folklore and a particular domain of culture (e.g., folklore and religion). The list of courses that satisfy this requirement are found on pages 29-29 of this handbook. No more than 15 credits at the 200-level may count toward fulfillment of the Distribution Requirement.
Folklore courses, pp. 28
Worksheet for Folklore Studies Concentration
FS Printable PDFName
Social Security #
Current Columbus Address
Phone
Faculty Adviser
- Foundation Courses (5 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 270 | Introduction to Folklore |
- Interdisciplinary Requirement (Total 30 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
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| CS 398 | Approaches to Comparative Studies | ||
| CS 598 | Senior Seminar | ||
| Four of the following, at least one 600-level: CS 377, CS 651, CS 677, English 577 | |||
- Distribution Requirement (Total 25 credits) Courses in and area of focus, e.g., cultural theory; global studies; performance studies; politics of culture; visual culture and media.
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
Total credits required: 60
Interdepartmental Courses in Folklore
(Courses not listed below may, given appropriate content, be substituted at the discretion of the Comparative Studies adviser.)
Comparative Studies
205 Literature and Ethnicity
214 Intro to Sexuality Studies
241 Intro to Asian American Studies
242 Intro to Latino/a Studies
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
264 Reading Popular Culture
270 Intro to Comparative Religion
272 Science and Society
273 Intro to World Literature
274 Intro to Comparative Cultural Studies
275 Intro to Visual Representation
301 Love in World Literature
306 The Quest in World Literature
314 Women in East Asian and Asian American Literature
321 The Religions of India
322 Native American Religions
323 the Buddhist Tradition
324 African Religions
336 Cultural Studies of American Musics
339 Transnationalism & Culture in the Americas
345 South Asian American Religion & Culture
373 Translating Literatures and Cultures
377 Contemporary Folklore in the Arab World
398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
470 Folklore of the Americas
520 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
526 New Age and New Religious Movements
531 The City and Culture
535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
541 Myth and Ritual
542 Native American Identity
543 Asian American Literature and Culture
544 Latino/a Literature and Culture
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
573 World Literature: Theory and Practice
585.01 Intro to the Study of Literacy
585.02 History of Literacy
620 Approaches to the Study of Religion
641 Japanese Religious Traditions
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
648 Studies in Orality and Literacy
620 Approaches to the Study of Religion
651 Topics in Comparative Studies
665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-century Mediterranean
677.01 Genres of Folk Literature
677.02 Themes in World Folklore
677.03 Folk Custom, Art, and Material Culture
677.04 Comparative Folk Groups
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
Religious Studies—See Comparative Studies
African American and African Studies
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
244 Survey of African and African-derived Music in the Western World
251 Introduction to African Literature
254 Themes in African American Literature
278 Contemporary Black Art
288 Bebop to Doowop to Hiphop: The Rhythm and Blues Tradiotion
290 Black Youth
303 Language, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
310 Perspectives on the African Diaspora
342 Music, Religion, and Ritual in Africa
345 African American Thinkers
351 Caribbean Literature in English
376 African American Art
378 History of Jazz I
379 History of Jazz II
451 Black Experience in Caribbean, African, and Afro-American Literatures
505 Language and the Black Experience
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
551 Selected Topics in African American Literatures
565 Slavery in the Atlantic World
582 Studies in African American Literature
H584 Literature and Modern Experience in Africa
595 Theorizing Race
Anthropology
202 Peoples & Cultures: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology,
241 Culture & Cultures of the Middle East
421 Regional Survey in Cultural Anthro
421.01 China
421.05 Anthropology of Africa
421.06 Latin American Cultures and Migration in Global Perspective
421.08 Indians of N. America
525 History of Anthropological Theory
610 Ethnobotany
620 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology
620.02 Anthro of Women
620.03 Peasant Soci & Cult
620.05 Cultural Ecology
620.08 Anthro of Food: Culture, Society, and Eating
620.11 Anthro of Religion
620.15 Economic Anthropology
702 Theories in Cultural Anthropology
Arabic
241 Culture of the Contemporary Arabic World
377 Contemporary Folklore in the Arab World
672 Arabic Folk Narrative in Translation
Chinese
231 Traditional Chinese Culture
232 Modern Chinese Culture
600 Performance Traditions of China
674 Chinese Opera
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature
Classics
222 Classical Mythology
H223 Topics in Ancient Literature and Society
224 Classical Civilization: Greece
225 Classical Civilization: Rome
226 Byzantine Civilization: Constantinople and the Empire of New Rome
230 Medicine in the Ancient World
250 Sports and Spectacles in the Ancient World
301 Greek and Roman Epic
310 Topics in Ancient Literature and Culture
322 The Hero in Classical Mythology
323 Religion in the Graeco-Roman World
324 Magic in the Ancient World
325 Christians in the Greco-Roman World
326 Christian Heroes: Byzantine Saints' Lives
327 Ancient Gods, Changing Identities
508 Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome
East Asian
346 Asian American Film
357 East Asian Folklore
H399 East Asian Thought in the Western Imagination
675 Women Writers, Culture, and Society in East Asia
677 Performance Traditions in Contemporary East Asia
English
264 Reading Popular Culture
277 Introduction to Disability Studies
280 The English Bible
281 Intro to African-American Literature
367.05 The U.S. Folk Experience
505 Language and the Black Experience
571 Studies in the English Language
573.01 Rhetorical Theory & Analysis of Discourse
573.02 Rhetorical Theory & Analysis of Social Action
577 Studies in Folklore
577.01 Folk Groups and Communities
577.02 Folklore Genres: Form, Meaning and Use
577.03 Issues and Methods in the Study of Folklore
580 Special Topics in Gay and Lesbian Language and Literature
581 Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literatures
582 Studies in African American Literature
583 Special Topics in World Literature in English
585.01 Topics in Literacy Studies
585.02 History of Literacy
586 American Indian Literature & Culture
587 Asian American Literature and Culture
588 Latino/a Literature and Culture
592 Special Topics in Women in Literature
596 Studies in Literature and the Other Arts
681.01 Studies in Korean-American Literature
681.02 Studies in Japanese-American Literature
681.03 Studies in Chinese-American Literature
French
*206 Intro to French Media and Visual Culture
250 Topics in French Literature and Culture in Translation
418 French Language & Culture
*427 Francophone Literature: from Empire to Nation
German
250 German Lit & Popular Culture
399 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
Hebrew 241 Culture of Contemporary Israel
History
323.01 History of African-Americans in the Age of Slavery
323.02 History of African-Americans from Emancipation to the Present
324 Intro to U.S. Latino/Latina History
325 Introduction to Women's History: The American Experience
326 History of Modern Sexualities
332 Jews in American Film
346 Intro to Asian American History
368.01 Introduction to Native American History
368.02 Native American Peoples of the Andes
525 Topics in Women's History
526 Historical Perspectives on Sexuality: Same Sex Sexuality in the Western World
528 Love in the Modern Western World
533.06 Women in Latin America
568.01 Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560-1820
568.02 Native American History from Removal to Present
577.01 Chicano History, From the Spanish Colonial Period to 1900
577.02 Chicano History, From 1900 to the Present Era
589 Marginal Groups in the Non-Western World
Japanese
231 Elements of Japanese Culture
600 Performance Traditions of Japan
665 Studies in Japanese American Literature
Korean
231 Elements of Korean Culture
600 Performance Traditions of Korea
645 Studies in Korean American Literature
655 Interdisciplinary Course in Korean Art, Music, Film, and Literature
656 Interdisciplinary Topics in Korean Politics and Society
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
240 magic and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
504 Arthurian Legends
Modern Greek
241 Culture of Contemporary Greece
H250 Greek Identities: Ancient and Modern
268 Folklore of Contemporary Greece
Music
250 Music Cultures of the World
252 History of Rock and Roll
253 Intro to Jazz
288 Bebop to Doowop to Hiphop: The Rhythm and Blues Tradition'
341 American Popular Music
348 Music on the Move in a Globalized World
351 The World of Music
352 Selected World Musics I
353 Selected World Musics II
672 Introduction to Ethnomusicology
675 Russian Folk Tradition
685 Women and Music
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
241 The Culture and Cultures of the Middle East
311 Language Evolution and Language Change
341 Islam in the U.S.
345 Women in the Muslim Middle East
351 Intro to Islam
360 Sheherazade and Company: Sex, Gender and Power in Middle Eastern Storytelling
370 Mythology of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
372 Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
380 Everyday Life in South Asia
612 Languages and Cultures of the Middle East
644 Culture and Politics in Central Asia
646 Colonial Cities in Postcolonial Memory: The Politics of Urban Development in the Middle East
648 Studies in Orality and Literacy
672 Poetry and Politics in the Mediterranean
675 Intellectuals in the Middle East
Persian
241 Introduction to Persian Culture
370 Persian Mythology and Folklore
374 Intro to Persian Epic
Portuguese
330 Intro to Brazilian Culture
331 Portuguese Culture and Society
335 Cannibal Brazil: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations of Identity in Literature and Culture
560 Cultural Expressions of Portugal and Lusophone Africa
561 Cultural Expressions of Brazil
Rural Sociology
622 Amish Society
678 Women in Rural Society
Russian
235 Modern Russian Culture: Magnificence, Mayhem, and Mafia
644 Russian Folklore
Scandinavian
222 Nordic Mythology and Medieval Culture
513 The Icelandic Saga
Slavic
245 Introduction to Slavic Literature and Culture
H583 Cinderella's Fantasy: Gender & Women in Western and Eastern Europe
Sociology
380 American Racial and Ethnic Relations
382 Sociology of Asian American Life
Spanish
330 Reinventing America
331 Caribbean Cultures
510 Mexican Studies
555 Indigenous and Colonial Literatures of Spanish America
557 Survey of Latino/a Literature in the U.S.
560 Introduction to Spanish American Culture
561 Introduction to the Culture of Spain
H565 Latin American Indigenous Literatures and Cultures
H567 Spanish Mosaic: Catalonia, Basque Country, Galicia, and Andalusia
H590 Interdisciplinary Protocols: Identity and National Formation in Latin America: Perspectives from Literature
Turkish
241 Turkish Culture
371 Turkish Sufism
641 Travels in Turkey
Women's Studies
300 Intro to Feminist Analysis
305 Gender, Culture, and Power in International Perspective
320 Topics in Women's Studies
340 Latina Experience in the U.S.
367 U.S. Women Writers: Text and Context
370 Varieties of Female Experience: Lesbian Lives
375 Women and Visual Culture
505 Feminist Analysis in Global Perspective
510 American Women's Movements
520 Women of Color and Social Activism
524 Women and Work
527 Studies in Gender and Cinema
535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
540 Studies in Women of Color Writing Culture
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
550 History of Western Feminist Thought
560 Chicana Feminism
575 Issues in Contemporary Feminism
576 Women and Visual Culture in Latin America
623 African Women
624 Women and Social Change in Latin America
Yiddish
241 Yiddish Culture
399 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
5. Religious Studies
The Religious Studies concentration offers a comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary way to study the sacred beliefs and practices of our own and other societies. Rather than study religion in isolation, we examine religion as inextricably intertwined with the domains of science, literature, politics, and identity. In religious studies, students explore specific topics like gender and religion, develop an understanding of different approaches to the study of religion (anthropological, historical, etc.), and learn about specific religious traditions (Hinduism, Judaism, etc.).The major requires 60 credits. Thirty-five credits should be in Comparative Studies.
Please note that all courses previously listed under “Religious Studies” are now listed as “Comparative Studies” courses.
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Foundation courses (10 credit hours):
The following course is required (5):
Comp St 270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
One of the following courses is required (5):
Comp St 520 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
Comp St 620 Approaches to the Study of Religion -
Interdisciplinary/Comparative/Thematic Requirement (30-35 credits)
The following course(s) are required (10 credits):
Comp St 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
Comp St 598 Senior Seminar
At least four of the following are required, including at least three in Comparative Studies (20-25 credits):
Phil 270 Intro to Philosophy of Religion or Phil 670 Philosophy of Religion
Anthro 620.11 Anthropology of Religion
Sociology 467 Sociology of Religion
Comp St 515, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Comp St 525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
Comp St 526 New Age and New Religious Movements
Comp St 541 Myth and Ritual
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (specific topic must be approved by Comp St adviser; examples include "Religion and Media," "Religion and Right-Wing Politics") -
Distribution requirement (15-20 credits):
The distribution requirement comprises courses that focus on specific religious traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, indigenous or ancient traditions) to be chosen from Comparative Studies courses and from a list of courses offered by other departments and approved for major credit. This list of courses is found on pages 33-34 of this handbook. Coursework selected for this requirement must include at least one course in Comparative Studies chosen from the following:
Comp St 321 Religions of India
Comp St 322 Native American Religions
Comp St 323 The Buddhist Tradition
Comp St 324 African Religions
Comp St 345 South Asian American Religion and Culture
Comp St 376 The Jewish Mystical Tradition
Comp St 542 Native American Identity
Comp St 641 The Japanese Religious Tradition
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (when topic is focused on a specific tradition, e.g., "Reformation Culture," "Zen Philosophy")
Religious Studies courses, p. 33
Worksheet for Religious Studies Concentration
RS Printable PDFName
Social Security #
Current Columbus Address
Phone
Faculty Adviser
- Foundation Courses (Total 10 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 270 | Introduction to Comparative Religion | ||
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CS 620
Or 520 |
Approaches to the Study of Religion
Theory and Method in the Study of Religion |
- Interdisciplinary Requirement (30-35 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 651 | Topics course (or approved alternative) | ||
| CS 398 | Approaches to Comparative Studies | ||
| CS 598 | Senior Seminar | ||
- Distribution Requirement (Total 15-20 credits) Courses in specific traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Indigenous religions, or ancient religions.
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
Total credits required: 60
Interdepartmental Courses in Religious Studies
(Courses not listed below may, given appropriate content, be substituted at the discretion of the Comparative Studies adviser.)
Religious Studies Note: All courses formerly listed as Religious Studies courses are now listed as Comparative Studies courses.
Comparative Studies
270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
321 The Religions of India
322 Native American Religions
323 The Buddhist Traditions
324 African Religions
345 South Asian American Religion & Culture
376 The Jewish Mystical Tradition
398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
475 Studies in Ethnography
515 Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
520 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
526 New Age and New Religious Movements
541 Myth and Ritual
542 Native American Identity
598 Senior Seminar
620 Approaches to the Study of Religion
641 The Japanese Religions Tradition
651 Topics in Comparative Studies
677.04 Comparative Folk Groups
African American and African Studies
342 Music, Religion, and Ritual in Africa
541 History of Islam in Africa
Anthropology
620.11 Anthropology of Religion
Arabic
*626 Intro to the Qur'an
671 The Qur'an in Translation
Classics
222 Classical Mythology
226 Byzantine Civilization: Constantinople and the Empire of New Rome
322 The Hero in Classical Mythology
323 Religion in the Graeco-Roman World
324 Magic in the Ancient World
325 Christians in the Graeco-Roman World
326 Christian Heroes: Byzantine Saints' Lives
327 Ancient Gods, Changing Identities
English
270 Intro to Folklore
280 The English Bible
Hebrew
216 The Medieval Jewish Experience
241 Culture of Contemporary Israel
345 Art and Ancient Judaism
370 Biblical & Post-Biblical Hebrew Lit in Translation
371 Medieval Hebrew Literature in Translation
372 Modern Hebrew Lit in Translation
373 Prophecy in the Bible and Post-Biblical Literature
374 Women in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Lit
375 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
376 The Jewish Mystical Tradition
378 Biblical and Post-Biblical Wisdom Literature
379 The World of the Rabbis
*425 Readings in the Mishnah
*620 Intro to Hebrew Literary and Cultural Texts
*621 The Bible as Literature: Selected Readings
*623 Readings in Rabbinic Literature
671 Problem of Evil: Biblical & Post-Biblical Lit
676 Studies in Biblical Law
680 Biblio & Ref Tools: Hebraica, Judaica, & Semitics
History
301 Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations
330.01 Ancient and Medieval Jewish Civilization
330.02 Modern Jewish Civilization
331 The Holocaust: Destruction of European Jewry
332 Jews in American Film
333 History of Anti-Semitism: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
334 History of Zionism and Modern Israel
340 Islam, Politics, and Society in History
342 Foundations of Chinese Civilization
345.01 History of East Asia to 1800
368.01 Introduction to Native American History
368.02 Native American Peoples of the Andes
500 The Ancient Near East
503.02 Early Roman Empire: 31 BC-AD 180
503.03 Later Roman Empire: AD 180-476
505.01 Byzantine History: Early Byzantine Empire
505.02 Later Byzantine Empire
506 History of Early Christianity
507 History of the Medieval Christianity
508.01 Medieval Europe I: 300-1100
508.02 Medieval Europe II: 1100-1450
508.03 Medieval England
511 The Reformation
530.01 History of Ancient Israel
530.02 Jewish History: Second Commonwealth
530.03 Jews in the Western World in Modern Times
530.04 The American Jewish Experience
531.01 Messiahs and Messianism in Jewish History
531.02 Jews in the World of the Renaissance
531.03 Jewish Society at the Dawn of the Modern Age, 1600-1750
533.01 Colonial Latin American History
540.01 Islamic Society, 610-1258
540.02 History of Iran
540.03 Ottoman Empire
540.04 Middle East in 19th Century
540.05 Middle East in 20th Century
541.01 Islamic Spain & No. Africa
541.02 History of Islam in Africa
542.01 Intellectual and Social Movements in the Muslim World
543.01 Ancient India
543.02 Islamic India
543.03 Colonial India
548.01 History of Japan before 1800
568.01 Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560-1820
568.02 Native American History Removal to Present
578 American Religious History
History of Art
210 Art of the Ancient World
213 Asian Art
216 Intro to African Art and Archeology
301 Christian Art
305 Art and Civilization in the Near East
315 Renaissance Art in Italy
316 Dante's Divine Comedy & its Visualizations
360 Philosophy of African Art
503 Architecture of the Middle Ages
505 Contemporary African Art, 1920-Present
524 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
525 Medieval Art
527 Northern Renaissance Art
529 Early Renaissance Art in Italy
576 The Arts of China
582 Arts of Japan
610 African Art and Archeology I
611 African Art and Archeology II
625 Romanesque and Gothic Art
628 Gothic Towards Renaissance: 14th Century
651 Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture
663 Early Islamic Art
664 Later Islamic Art
669 The Art of Newar Buddhism
670 Buddhist Art: Theory and History
671 Art of India I
672 Art of India II
673 Art of Central Asia
674 Art of Nepal and Tibet
675 Art of India III
676 Hindu Iconography
677.01 Chinese Art: Pre-Buddhist
677.02 Chinese Art: Buddhist
681 Japanese Art: Proto-Historic and Buddhist
Japanese
641 The Japanese Religious Tradition
Jewish Studies
201 Intro to Jewish Studies
613 The American Jewish Experience: Life and Culture
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
210 Court of Charlemagne
211 Medieval Kyoto: Portraits and Landscapes
212 Culture of a City-State in the Renaissance
213 Medieval Moscow
214 Golden Age of Islamic Civilization
215 Gothic Paris
216 The Medieval Jewish Experience
217 Early Modern London
218 Colonial Mexico: Med & Renaiss Legacy
226 Byzantine Civilization: Constantinople and the Empire of New Rome
240 Magic & Witchcraft in the Middle Ages & Renaissance
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
341 Islam in the U.S.
351 Introduction to Islam
370 Mythology of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
372 Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
671 Canons and Communities in the Near East
678 Islamic Law and Society
Persian
370 Persian Mythology and Folklore
Philosophy
215 Asian Philosophies
270 Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
280 Metaphysics, Religion, and Magic in the Scientific Revolution
302 History of Medieval Philosophy
321 Introduction to Jewish Philosophy
322 Jewish Mysticism
323 Judaism and Ethics
521 Topics in Jewish Philosophy
602 Studies in Medieval Philosophy
670 Philosophy of Religion
Rural Sociology
622 Amish Society
Scandinavian
222 Nordic Mythology and Medieval Culture
Sociology
467 Sociology of Religion
Turkish
371 Turkish Sufism
6. Science Studies
This is a new field that focuses on the comparative study of the many interrelationships among science, technology, and culture. This area of concentration provides an introduction to the history and philosophy of science and to the study of science and technology as they are intertwined with western and nonwestern cultures. In science studies, you will consider not only the ways in which science and technology shape culture, but how culture shapes the direction and growth of science and technology and how science is interwoven with other aspects of culture. Studies are focused in such areas as medicine, biology, or telecommunications.The major requires 60 credits. At least one 600-level course (Comp St 651 or an appropriate substitute) is required.
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Foundation course (5 credit hours):
Comp St 272 Science and Society -
Interdisciplinary requirement (35 credits)
The following courses are required (15 credits):
Comp St 398 Approaches to Comparative Studies
Comp St 598 Senior Seminar
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies
Four of the following are required, at least two in Comparative Studies (20):
Comp St 204 Literature, Science, and Technology
Comp St 305 Medicine and the Humanities
Comp St 335 Engineering in Global Context
Comp St 508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Comp St 531 The City and Culture
Comp St 535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
Comp St 597.01 Global Studies of Science and Technology
Comp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (repeatable)
Comp St 730 Culture, Science, and Technology
Philosophy 255 Intro to Philosophy of Science
Philosophy 455 Philosophy of Science
History 360 Scientific Revolutions in Their Social Contexts
History 362 History of Technology
History 366.01 Global Environmental History
History 366.02 American Environmental History
History 561 History of American Science
History 562 History of American Medicine -
3. Distribution requirement (20 credit hours):
Courses are to be chosen from Comparative Studies and other departments to provide focus in a particular area, such as medicine and health or science, technology, and the arts. Additional Comparative Studies courses may also partially fulfill this requirement. Courses that satisfy this requirement are found on page 37 of this handbook. No more than 10 credits at the 200-level may count toward the Distribution Requirement.
Science Studies courses, p. 37
Worksheet for Science Studies Concentration
SS Printable PDFName
Social Security #
Current Columbus Address
Phone
Faculty Adviser
- Foundation Courses (Total 5 credit hours)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS272 | Science and Society |
- Interdisciplinary Requirement (Total 35 credits)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit | CS 398 | Approaches to Comparative Studies |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 598 | Senior Seminar | ||
| CS 651 | Topics course (or approved alternative) | ||
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Distribution Requirement (Total 20 credits)
Courses in a particular area, e.g., biology and medical science; science, technology, and the arts; science and technology in nonwestern cultures:
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
Total credits required: 60
Interdepartmental Courses in Science Studies
(Courses not listed below may, given appropriate content, be substituted at the discretion of the Comparative Studies adviser.)
Comparative Studies
204 Literature, Science, and Technology
214 Introduction to Sexuality Studies
H240 Nature of Modernity: Key Ideas and Enduring Problems
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
264 Reading Popular Culture
270 Intro to Comparative Religion
272 Science and Society
273 Introduction to World Literature
274 Intro to Comparative Cultural Studies
275 Introduction to Visual Representation
305 Medicine and the Humanities
508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
526 New Age and New Religious Movements
531 The City and Culture
535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
545 Inersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
550 Wexner Center Seminar
651 Topics in Comparative Studies (repeatable)
660 Modernism: Its Origins in 20th-Century Culture and Politics
730 Culture, Science, and Technology
African American and African Studies
243 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Ethnicity in the Americas
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
595 Theorizing Race
Anthropology
202 Peoples & Cultures: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology,
525 History of Anthropological Theory
597.01 Issues of Contemp World: Cultural Conflict in Developing Nations
597.02 Issues of Contemp World: Women, Culture, and Development
597.03 Issues of Contemp World: The Prehistory of Environment and Climate
597.04 The Molecular Revolution: Heredity, Genome Mapping, Genomania
601.01 Biosocial Aspects of Health
601.04 Global Perspectives on Women's Health
610 Ethnobotany
620.02 The Anthropology of Women
620.05 Cultural Ecology
620.08 The Anthropology of Food: Culture, Society, and Eating
702 Theories in Cultural Anthropology
Biology
597 Biology of Human Diversity: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
Classics
230 Medicine in the Ancient World
250 Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World
324 Magic in the Ancient World
506 Greek and Roman Science and Technology
508 Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity
Communication
200 Communication in Society
240 Intro to Communication Technology
*311 Visual Communication Design
*341 Policy Issues in Communication Technology
*368 Intercultural Communication in Organizational Contexts
*501 Mass Communication and Youth
*513 Video Games and the Individual
*606 Development of Mass Media in America
*607 Mass Communication Law
*611 Communication and Multimedia
*614 Issues and Images in Political Communication
*620 Public Opinion and Communication
*636.01 Health Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
*636.02 Health Communication in Mass Mediated Contexts
*638 Communication and E-health
640 Science Communication
642 Mass Communication and Society
643 Internat'l Communication & the World Press
644 Advertising and Society
648.01 History of Cartooning: History of American Newspaper Comic Strips
648.02 History of Cartooning: History of American Newspaper Political Cartoons
653 Political Communication and e-Democracy
654 Social Implications of Technology
655 Computer Interfaces and Human Identity
657 Technology of Communication
659 Communication Systems and Society
662 Communication and Gender
665 Communication and Community
666 Communication and Popular Culture
668 Intercultural Communication in Organizational Contexts
669 Communication, Power, and Knowledge
English
270 Intro to Folklore
277 Introduction to Disability Studies
569 Digital Media and English Studies
573.01 Rhetorical Theory and Analysis of Discourse
573.02 Rhetorical Theory and Analysis of Social Action
574 History and Theories of Writing
576.03 Issues & Movements in Critical Theory
Environment and Natural Resources
201 Introduction to Environmental Sciences
203 Society and Natural Resources
367 The Making and Meaning of the American Landscape
400 Natural Resources Policy
H529 Biotechnology and Evolution
History
325 Introduction to Women's History
326 History of Modern Sexualities
360 Scientific Revolutions in Their Social Context
362 History of Technology
366.01 Global Environmental History
366.02 American Environmental History
513.01 European Intell & Cultural Hist: Age of Modernity, 19th Cent
513.02 European Intell & Cultural Hist: Age of Modernity, 20th Cent
523 Women in the Western World: Ancient Civilization to the Industrial Revolution
524 Women in the Western World: the Industrial Revolution to the Present
525 Topics in Women's History
526 Historical Perspectives on Sexuality: Same Sex Sexuality in the Western World
561 History of American Science
562 History of American Medicine
579.01 American Cultural & Intellectual History, 1789-1900
579.02 American Cultural & Intellectual History, 1900-pres
587.02 Science, Technology, and Business in Japan
Horticulture
597 Issues in Biotechnology
International St/Agricultural Education
356 Introduction to Globalization
531 The City and Culture
597.01 Problems & Policies in World Population, Food, & Environment
597.02 Antarctic Marine Ecology and Policy
Philosophy
250 Symbolic Logic
255 Intro to Philosophy of Science
280 Metaphysics, Religion, and Magic in the Scientific Revolution
336 Philosophical Perspectives on Issues of Gender
455 Philosophy of Science
460 Intro to the Theory of Knowledge
532 Moral Problems in the Health Professions
533 Environmental Ethics
H580 Ethical Conflicts in Health Care Research, Policy & Practice
595 Theorizing Race
612 Introduction to Cognitive Science
620 Advanced Philosophy of Cognitive Science
625 Philosophical Topics in Feminist Theory
630 Advanced Political & Social Philosophy
650 Advanced Symbolic Logic
653 Inductive Logic and Probability
655 Advanced Philosophy of Science
660 Advanced Theory of Knowledge
Physics
367 Uses of Science in Solving Problems of Society
Sociology
302 Technology and Global Society
450 Illness and Social Behavior
460 Environmental Sociology
605 Sociology of Sexuality
608 Gender, Race, and Class in Mass Communications
629 Sociology of Health: Mental and Physical Dimensions
630 Medical Sociology
Women's Studies
230 Gender, Sexuality and Race in Popular Culture
H296 Topics in Women's Studies
300 Intro to Feminist Analysis
305 Gender, Culture, and Power in International Perspective
320 Topics in Women's Studies
325 Issues in Women's Health
326 Women and Addiction: A Feminist Perspective
350 Feminist Perspectives on Women and Violence
370 Varieties of Female Experience: Lesbian Lives
375 Women and Visual Culture
505 Feminist Analysis in Global Perspective
524 Women and Work
526 Feminist Perspectives on Mental Health Policy
535 Gender, Sexuality, and Science
545 Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
575 Issues in Contemporary Feminist Theory
576 Women and Visual Cultures of Latin America
Requirements For The World Literatures Major
The major in World Literatures is a new interdepartmental major in the College of Humanities, administered through the Department of Comparative Studies. Designed for students who are interested in both literature and globalization, the World Literatures major encourages students to explore literary texts produced across global geo-political regions. Students in this major will develop critical and analytical skills through close readings of representative literary texts and also through the study of historical and theoretical questions related to- the translation and transmission of literary works,
- the cultural and historical contexts of literary production,
- the roles of literature in the contemporary world.
The World Literatures major requires 55 credits:
- three courses in Comparative Studies that introduce students to historical, practical, and theoretical questions involved in the study of diverse literary traditions
- eight literature courses taken in departments across the College of Humanities.
Required courses (15 credit hours):
Comp St. 273 Introduction to World Literature
Comp St. 373 Translating Literatures and Cultures
Comp St. 573 World Literature: Theory and Practice
The five regions are
- Africa
- Middle East
- Europe/North America
- Latin America/Caribbean
- East and South Asia/Pacific
Courses that fulfill the distribution requirement are listed on pages 41-42.
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- Required Courses (Total 15 credit hours)
| Course | Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
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| CS 273 | Introduction to World Literature | ||
| CS 373 | Translating Literatures and Cultures | ||
| CS 573 | World Literature: Theory and Practice |
- Distribution Requirement (Total 40 credits)
| Region | Course and Title | Quarter Taken | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | |||
| Middle East | |||
| East & South Asia/Pacific | |||
| Latin America/Caribbean | |||
| North America/ Europe | |||
| Cross-Cultural (optional) |
Total credits required: 55
Interdepartmental Courses for World Literatures Major
(Courses not listed below may, given appropriate content, be substituted at the discretion of the Comparative Studies adviser.)
Africa
African American and African Studies
251 Introduction to African Literature
271 Contemporary Black Drama
367.04 Black Women Writers: Text and Context
460 Political Thought in African Literature
H584 Literature and Modern Experience in Africa
East and South Asia/Pacific
Chinese
251 Chinese Literature in Translation
501 Chinese Poetry in Translation
502 Chinese Fiction in Translation
503 Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
504 Chinese Drama in Translation
651 History of Chinese Literature I
652 History of Chinese Literature II
East Asian
675 Women Writers, Culture, and Society in East Asia
Japanese
251 Japanese Literature in Translation
252 Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
501 Japanese Literature in Critical Perspective
654 Japanese Literature: Classical Period
655 Japanese Literature: Medieval and Edo Periods
656 Japanese Literature: Modern Period
Korean
251 Korean Literature in Translation
505 Korean Drama in Translation
654 Korean Literary Traditions
Latin America/Caribbean
African American and African Studies
351 Caribbean Literature in English
Portuguese
330 Introduction to Brazilian Culture
335 Cannibal Brazil: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations of Identity in Literature
Spanish
330 Reinventing America
331 Caribbean Cultures
520 Latin American Literatures (in translation): Fiction and Reality
H590 Interdisciplinary Protocols: Identity and National Formation in Latin America: Perspectives from Literature
Middle East
Arabic
371 Classical and Medieval Arabic Literature in Translation
372 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation (cross-listed with Women's Studies)
671 The Qur'an in Translation
672 Arabic Folk Narrative in Translation
Hebrew
370 Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation
371 Medieval Hebrew Literature in Translation
372 Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation
373 Prophecy in the Bible and Post-Biblical Literature
374 Women in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature
376 The Jewish Mystical Tradition
378 Biblical and Post-Biblical Wisdom Literature
671 The Problem of Evil in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature
Persian
370 Persian Mythology and Folklore
371 Persian Literature in Translation
374 Intro to Persian Epic
Turkish
371 Turkish Sufism
372 Turkish Literature in Translation
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
360 Sheherazade and Company: Sex, Gender and Power in Middle Eastern Storytelling
370 Mythology of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
372 Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
374 The Novel in the Middle East
671 Canon and Communities in the Near East
Women's Studies
372 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation (cross-listed with Arabic)
North America and Europe
African American and African Studies
254 Themes in African-American Literature
271 Contemporary Black Drama
367.02 African-American Theatre History
367.03 African-American Voices in U.S. Literature
367.04 Black Women Writers: Text and Context
582 Studies in African American Literature
Arabic
367 Issues in Arab-American Society, Culture, and Literature
Chinese
678 Studies in Chinese-American Literature (cross-listed with Comparative Studies and English) Classics
222 Classical Mythology
H223 Topics in Ancient Literature and Society
301 Greek & Roman Epic
302 Greek & Roman Drama
303 Comic Spirit in Antiquity
310 Topics in Ancient Literature & Culture
322 The Hero in Classical Mythology
323 Religion in the Greco-Roman World
324 Magic in the Ancient World
326 Christian Heroes: Byzantine Saints' Lives
508 Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity
Chinese
678 Studies in Chinese American Literature (cross-listed with English and Comparative Studies)
Comparative Studies
205 Literature and Ethnicity
314 Women in East Asian and Asian-American Literature
543 Studies in Asian American Literature and Culture (cross-listed in English)
544 Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture (cross-listed in English)
645 Studies in Korean-American Literature (cross-listed with Korean and English)
665 Studies in Japanese-American Literature (cross-listed with Japanese and English)
678 Studies in Chinese-American Literature(cross-listed with Chinese and English)
English
513 Introduction to Medieval Literature
514 Middle English Literature
515 Chaucer
520 Shakespeare
521 Sixteenth-Century Literature
522 Early 17th-Century Literature
531 Restoration & Early 18th-Century Literature
533 Literature of the 18th Century
535 The Early British Novel: Origins to the 1830s
540 Poetry and Poetics of the British Romantic Period
541 Victorian Poetry & Poetics
542 The Victorian Novel
543 20th-Century British Fiction
547 20th-Century Poetry
549 Modern Drama
550 Colonial and U.S. Literature to 1830
551 U.S. Literature, 1830-1865
552 U.S. Literature, 1865-1914
553 20th-Century U.S. Fiction
560 Special Topics in Poetry
561 Special Topics in Fictional and Nonfictional Narrative
562 Special Topics in Drama
563 Contemporary Literature
575 Special Topics in Literary Forms and Themes
580 Special Topics in Gay and Lesbian Literature
581 Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literatures
582 Studies in African American Literature
586 Studies in American Indian Literature and Culture
587 Studies in Asian American Literature and Culture (cross-listed in Comparative Studies)
588 Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture (cross-listed in Comparative Studies)
H590 Honors Seminar: Major Periods in Literary History
H591 Topics in English Studies
592 Special Topics in Women in Literature
H598 Honors Seminar: Selected Topics in Literature and Literary Interpretation
681.01 Studies in Korean-American Literature (cross-listed in Korean and Comparative Studies)
681.02 Studies in Japanese-American Literature (cross-listed in Japanese and Comparative Studies)
681.03 Studies in Chinese-American Literature (cross-listed in Chinese and Comparative Studies)
French
250 Topics in French Literature and Culture in Translation
German
250 German Literature and Popular Culture
260.01 Love, Death, and Folly in German Literature before 1700
260.02 The Family: German Literature after 1700
260.03 Ethics and Institutions: Soldiers and Bureaucrats
261 German Classics in Translation
262 Modern German Literature in Translation
H263 The Faust Theme
291 Early German Literature in Cultural Context
292 Modern German Literature in Cultural Context
299 Weimar and the Third Reich in German Literature and Film
399 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
Japanese
665 Studies in Japanese-American Literature (cross-listed in Comparative Studies and English)
Korean
645 Studies in Korean-American Literature (cross-listed in Comparative Studies and English)
Modern Greek
H250 Greek Identities: Ancient and Modern
371 Modern Greek Literature in Translation
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
504 Arthurian Legends
Polish
630 Polish Literature to 1900
631 Polish Literature 1900 to Present
Russian
250 Masterpieces of 19th Century Russian Literature
251 Masterpieces of 20th and 21st Century Russian Literature
520 The Golden Age of Russian Literature
521 Russian Literature in the Age of Realism
522 Modernism and Revolution in Russian Literature
523 Rise and Fall of Soviet Literature
644 Russian Folklore
650 Dostoevsky
651 Tolstoy
653 Russian Drama
656 Russian Women Writers
Scandinavian
222 Nordic Mythology and Medieval Culture
500 Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature
513 The Icelandic Saga
Slavic
245 Introduction to Slavic Literature and Culture
367 The East European Experience in America
519 Slavic Literature in English Translation from the Beginning to the Present
H584 Dead Man Writing: Literary Representations of Capital Punishment
Spanish
320 Don Quixote in Translation
321 The Spanish Don Juan Theme in the Theatre
Women's Studies
367.01 U.S. Women Writers: Text and Context
367.02 U.S. Latina Writers: Text and Context
367.04 Black Women Writers: Text and Context
540 Studies in Women of Color Writing Culture
Yiddish
367 Jewish-American Voices in U.S. Literature
371 Yiddish Literature in Translation
399 The Holocaust in Literature and Film
641 Places in Ashkenaz
Cross-Cultural Courses
(Only one course may be chosen and counted toward one of the regions; all five regions must be represented.)
African American and African Studies
451 Black Experience in Caribbean, African, and African-American Literatures
551 Selected Topics in African-American and Related Literatures
Comparative Studies
201 Literature and Society
202.01 Literature and Religion
203 Literature and the Self
204 Literature, Science, and Technology
301 Love in World Literature
306 The Quest in World Literature
308 Representations of the Experience of War
314 Women in East Asian and Asian-American Literature
358 Film and Literature as Narrative Art
508 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
510 The Twentieth-Century Novel: Transnational Contexts
660 Modernism: Its Origins and Development in 20th-Century Culture and Politics
672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-Century Mediterranean (cross-listed with NELC)
East Asian Literatures and Languages
H399 East Asian Thought in the Western Imagination, 1600-2000
English
583 Special Topics in World Literature in English
Linguistics
375 Language across Cultures
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-Century Mediterranean (cross-listed with Comparative Studies)
Women's Studies
215 Reading Women Writers
Minor Program in Comparative Studies
1. American Studies
American Studies is an interdisciplinary field that investigates all aspects of U.S. culture: social, political, economic, aesthetic, religious, material. Courses to satisfy the minor are drawn from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. American studies emphasizes the interrelationships among the various elements of American culture and focuses attention on the plurality of American identities, with particular attention to race, gender, class, and ethnicity.Requirements for the minor include 25 credit hours selected from several departments for their general coverage of American problems and issues. Their distribution among traditional academic disciplines enables students to acquire a broad view of the different perspectives that can be brought to bear upon the study of American society and culture. Comparative Studies 234 American Icons is required. Additional courses are to be chosen from two categories, Social Problems and Issues and Cultural Expression, including at least one course from each, in consultation with the student's minor adviser. These courses should constitute a balanced, coherent program with a sharp sense of focus.
To develop a strong background in American Studies, students are also encouraged to take English 270 Introduction to Folklore, History 151 and 152 American Civilization, and African American and African Studies 154 Intro to African American Literature, although minor credit cannot be given for them.
Required Core Course:Anthropology 421.08
Comparative Studies 241, 242, 243, 367.02, 545
Economics 367.01, 367.02
English 367.06, 367.07
History 308, 309, 323, 324, 325, 326, 346, 366.02, 368, 375, 387, 525 (with US topic), 527, 530.04, 555, 556, 557, 559, 560, 561, 562, 564, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 577, 582, 583, 588
Landscape Architecture/Environment and Natural Resources 367
Political Science 300, 367.01, 501, 502, 504, 505, 507, 508, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, H521, 526, 573
Sociology 345, H367.01, 367.02, H367.03, 380, 382
Women's Studies 340, 367.01, 367.02, 367.03, 367.04, 370, 510, 520, 524, 540, 545, 560
Arabic 367
Chinese 678
Comparative Studies 205, 239, 241, 242, 243, 264, 314, 322, 336, 339, 345, 367.01, 367.03, 367.04, 470, 526, 542, 543, 544, 545, 645, 665, 678
East Asian Languages and Literatures 346
English 281, 290, 291, 367.01, 367.02, 367.03, 367.04, 367.05, 505, 550, 551, 552, 553, 564.03, 564.04 (with U.S. author), 581, 582, 586, 587, 588, 681
History 332, 578, 579.01, 579.02
History of Art 530, 541, 606, 637, 638
Jewish Studies 613
Linguistics 303, 367, 372
Modern Greek 367
Music 252, 253, 288, 341, 646
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 341
Philosophy 367
Spanish 330, 367, 557
Theatre 367.01, 367.02
Yiddish 367
Women's Studies 375, 545
2. Folklore
The study of folklore focuses on a broad spectrum of social expression, examining the forms and ways of living through which communities shape their reality; those forms include language, work, food, play, dance, song, gestures, beliefs, and so forth. Folklore tends to focus on those cultural forms that permeate the everyday, which are passed from generation to generation, usually orally, with no one author or creator. Folklorists might study such activities as riddles, bell ringing, ethnic joking, or urban legends, apparently trivial practices which, when examined in context, reveal themselves as significant performances: constructions of identity, presentations of self, strategies of control or resistance, manipulations of resources, exercises of virtuosity, spaces of reflection upon the nature of things.The Folklore minor comprises a series of courses in several colleges. Core courses are taught by the Department of Comparative Studies and the English Department. Additional courses are chosen from these areas and from the departments of African and African American Studies, Greek and Latin, Music, Women's Studies, Sociology, and many of the departments of languages and literatures. Students may also choose to major in Folklore by choosing the Folklore concentration within the Comparative Studies major.
A minimum of 24 credits of coursework in Folklore is required for the minor, including at least 14 at the 300-level or above and no more than 10 hours at the 200-level. The 24 credit hours include the core course English 270 Introduction to Folklore, and at least one course chosen from the core listings in Comparative Studies and English. The remaining courses are to be chosen from the list of additional courses.
Core CoursesAnthropology 202 Peoples and Cultures: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Comp St 677.01 Genres of Folk Literature
Comp St 677.02 Themes in World Folklore
Comp St 677.03 Folk Custom, Art, and Material Culture
Comp St 677.04 Comparative Folk Groups
English 577.01 Folk Groups and Communities
English 577.02 Folklore Genres: Form, Meaning, and Use
English 577.03 Issues and Methods in the Study of Folklore
3. Religious Studies
The Religious Studies minor is similar in structure to the Religious Studies concentration of the Comparative Studies major. The religious studies minor employs an academic approach to religion, stressing its role as an important dimension of human experience in different cultural contexts. A minor in religious studies consists of a minimum of 25 credit hours. All students must take Comparative Studies 270 and either 520 or 620. Two core courses must be chosen from those listed below, including at least one in Comparative Studies. One additional course must be chosen in a single tradition. Traditions from which students may choose are Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, Islam); Indo-Sinitic (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism); and Indigenous/Folk/Archaic (Native American, Shinto, African). Up to 10 credit hours of overlap with the GEC is permitted.After the coordinating adviser in the Department of Comparative Studies has approved the Minor Program Form, you should file the form with your college or school counselor. For further information about the minor program, contact the department.
Required Courses (10 credits):
And either
Comp St 520 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
OR Comp St 620 Approaches to the Study of Religion
Comp St 515 Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Comp St 525 Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context
Comp St 526 New Age and New Religious Movements'
Comp St 541 Myth and Ritual
Coo\mp St 651 Topics in Comparative Studies (with approved topic)
Philosophy 270 Intro to Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy 670 Philosophy of Religion
Choose one course in a single tradition (5 credits):
Comparative Studies 323, 641
History of Art 213, 590, 670, 671, 672, 673, 674, 677.02, 681
Japanese 641
Philosophy 215
Christianity
Classics 323, 325, 326
English 280
Hebrew 621
History 506, 507, 508.01, 508.02, 511, 533.01, 578
History of Art 201, 315, 524, 525, 527, 625, 628
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 215, 218
Philosophy 302, 602, 670
Hinduism
Comparative Studies 321
History 543.01, 543.02
History of Art 671, 672, 675, 676
Indigenous/folk/archaic
Classics 222, 322, 323, 324
Comparative Studies 322, 324, 526, 542, 641, 677.04 (with approved topic)
History 368.01, 368.02, 543.01, 568.01, 568.02
History of Art 210, 216, 521, 610, 611, 677.01, 681
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 240
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 370
Persian 370
Philosophy 215
Scandinavian 222
Islam
African-American and African Studies 541.01, 541.02
Arabic 626, 671
History 340, 540.01, 540.02, 540.03, 540.04, 540.05, 541.01, 541.02, 542.01, 543.02, 543.03
History of Art 663, 664, 675
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 214, 226
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 341, 351, 372, 671, 678
Turkish 371
Judaism
English 280
Hebrew 241, 345, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 376, 378, 379, 425, 620, 621, 623, 671, 680
History 330.01, 330.02, 331, 332, 333, 530.01, 530.02, 530.03, 530.04, 531.01, 531.02, 531.03, 534.08
Philosophy 321, 323, 521
Comparative Studies 376
Minors in Religious Studies are encouraged (but not required) to fulfill their GEC foreign language requirement in a language relevant to one of the traditions represented in the minor program (for example, Arabic for Islam, Greek for Christianity, Chinese or Sanskrit for Buddhism, Hebrew for Judaism).
