Certificate Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The program consists of forty-five credit hours of graduate-level work, twenty-two hours of which may be for courses that are offered by the student's home department and/or that count in the student's degree program and twenty-three hours of which must be for courses that are offered by departments other than the student's home department and that do not count in the student's degree program. A student is therefore required to complete twenty-three credit hours in courses that are unique to the certificate program. In addition to this course work, the program requirements include demonstration of proficiency in Latin or, if appropriate to the student's program, another medieval language approved by the Center Graduate Studies Committee. No credit hours taken to achieve proficiency in a language may be counted among the forty-five credit hours.

The Center Graduate Studies Committee and the student will agree on the forty-five hours of course work composing the student's certificate program. Those courses may be selected from the pre-approved list of offerings and additional offerings, including individual, group studies, and topical courses, as approved by the Center Graduate Studies Committee. These forty-five hours must be completed while the student is enrolled in a graduate degree program in one of the affiliated departments for the certificate over the period during which he/she works on both the MA and Ph.D. The certificate program will normally reflect an intellectual coherence and include courses from a number of disciplines, including at least one course in medieval or Renaissance history. Coherence can be described in broad terms, such as: western medieval, western Renaissance, and non-western, usually with a more narrow focus geographically, chronologically, or topically.

(While students apply for their certificate during the quarter of their graduation, they should meet with the assistant director well beforehand in order to plan their course of action and ensure they will meet the certificate requirements.)

For more information about the CMRS major, minor, or graduate certificate, please contact our Assistant Director, Sarah-Grace Heller, at heller.64@osu.edu.

611 Studies in Greek or Latin Epigraphy
812 Studies in Greek or Latin Paleography and Textual Criticism
571, 572 Fundamentals of Latin for Graduate Students
625 Readings in Post Classical Latin
660 Special Topics in Latin Literature*
628 Byzantine Greek Prose

504 The Arthurian Legends
541 Myth and Ritual
577 Studies in World Folklore
651 Topics in Comparative Studies*
825 Sacred Biography and the Cult of Saints

601.05 Supplemental Studies in Dance, Historical Dance (1-5hrs)
658 Early Ballet History

East Asian 677 Performance Traditions in Contemporary East Asia   

Japanese 601   Classical Japanese I
Japanese 602   Classical Japanese II
Japanese 603   Classical Japanese III
Japanese 654   Japanese Literature: Classical Period
Japanese 655   Japanese Literature: Medieval and Edo Periods
Japanese 681   History of the Japanese Language
Japanese 751   Studies in Japanese Poetry*
Japanese 752   Studies in Japanese Prose Literature*
Japanese 753   Studies in Japanese Drama*
Japanese 877   Topics and Problems in Japanese Literature*

Chinese 651     History of Chinese Literature
Chinese 601     Classical Chinese (first level)
Chinese 602     Classical Chinese (second level)
Chinese 652     History of Chinese Literature II
Chinese 653     Classical Chinese Literature in Modern China  
Chinese 871     Traditional Chinese Poetry   
Chinese 872     Traditional Chinese Prose   
Chinese 873     Traditional Chinese Fiction   
Chinese 874     Traditional Chinese Drama   
Chinese 879     Seminar in Chinese Literature*

Korean 600      Performance Tradition in Contemporary Korea
Korean 654     Korean Literary Tradition
Korean 753      Readings in Korean Literary and Classical Texts

513 Introduction to Medieval Literature
515 Introduction to Chaucer
520 Shakespeare
521 The English Renaissance
522 Early 17th Century Literature
562 Studies in English and American Drama
H590.01 The Middle Ages
H590.02 The Renaissance
710 Introduction to Old English Language & Lit.
713 Introduction to Middle English Language
716 The Middle Ages
718 Chaucer
720 Renaissance Drama
727 Literature of the 16th Century
728 Literature of the 17th Century
774 History of the English Language
779.01 Rhetoric: Classical to Early Renaissance
779.02 Rhetoric: Renaissance to 20th Century
817 Seminar in Early Medieval English Literature
818 Seminar in Later Medieval English Literature
820 Seminar in Shakespeare
827 Seminar in English Renaissance Literature
872 Seminar in the English Language
900 The Long Seminar: Research in Literary History, Theory, and Forms I
901 The Long Seminar: Research in Literary History, Theory, and Forms II

631 Topics in French Cultures and Literature* (2-5 hrs.)
650 Survey of Medieval French Literature
652 Early Modern French Literature
716.01 Introduction to Old French
716.02 Introduction to Medieval Occitan
741 Topics in French Culture and Civilization*
821 Masterworks of Medieval French Literature
822 Topics and Problems in Medieval French Lit.
823 Topics and Problems in 16th C. French Lit.
824 Topics and Problems in 17th C. French Lit.
831, 833 Seminar in French Literature*
850 Seminar in French Linguistics*

621 Dante
622 Petrarch and Boccaccio
625 Italian Literature of the Renaissance
692 The Romance Languages
711 History of the Italian Language: Introduction
732 Seminar in Italian Literature*

660 Masterpieces of German Literature
740 Development of German Narrative Prose
741 Development of German Drama
750 Periods of German Literary History: 800-1400
751 Periods of German Literary History: 1400-1700
801 Middle High German
802 Old Saxon and Old High German
803 Gothic
806 History of the German Language
970 Seminar in Older German Literature to 1700
980 Seminar in Germanic Philology

710 Old Norse

611 History of the Yiddish Language
721 Studies in Yiddish Literature
811 Seminar in Yiddish Studies*

503.02 Early Roman Empire, 31 B.C.-A.D. 180
503.03 Later Roman Empire, A.D. 180-476
504.01 War in the Ancient Mediterranean World
505.01 Early Byzantine Empire, 330-843 AD
505.02 Later Byzantine Empire, 843-1453 AD
506 History of the Early Christianity
507 History of the Medieval Christianity
508.01 Medieval Europe I (300 1100)
508.02 Medieval Europe II (1100-1500)
508.03 Medieval England
509.01 Italian Renaissance: 1400s, Communal Age to Quattrocento
509.02 High Renaissance and Beyond
511 The Reformation
512.01 Early Modern Europe, 1600-1775
514.01 Tudor and Stuart Britian, 1500-1700
523 Women in the Western World: Ancient Civilization to the Industrial Revolution
536 History of Russia to 1725
540.01 Islamic Society, 610-1258
540.02 History of Iran
540.03 Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
541.01 Islamic Spain and North Africa
543.01 Ancient India, 2500 BC to 10th -11th Centuries AD
543.02 Islamic India, 1000-1707
547.02 History of Imperial China, 221 BC to 1800 AD
551Africa before Colonial Rule
580.01 History of European Warfare from the Renaissance to 1870
676 Topics in Women's History*
706.01 Advanced Readings in Medieval History
706.02 Late Medieval Paleography and Diplomatics (3hrs)
710 Studies in Renaissance or Reformation History
712 Studies in Early Modern European History
726 Studies in Jewish History (Non-Western)*
727 Studies in Islamic History (Non-Western)*
753 Studies in the History of Religion*
767 Studies in Military History*
781 Studies In Women's History*
800 Seminar in Renaissance and Reformation History
801 Seminar in German History*
802 Seminar in Russian and Soviet History*
803 Seminar in British History*
804 Seminar in East Central European History*
805 Seminar in French History*
807 Seminar in Medieval History
827 Seminar in the History of the Islamic World (Non-Western)*
862 Seminar in Jewish History (Non-Western)*
881 Seminar in Women's History*

525 Medieval Art
529 Early Renaissance Art in Italy
531 High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
603 Architecture of the Middle Ages
604 Renaissance Architecture
605 Baroque Architecture
623 Hellenistic and Roman Art
624 Early Christian and Byzantine Art (Non-Western)
625 Romanesque and Gothic Art
627 Northern Renaissance Art
628 Precursors to the Renaissance Art of Italy
629 15th Century Italian Art
630.01 Florentine and Roman Art of the 16th Century
630.02 Venetian and North Italian Art of the 16th C.
631 Baroque Art in Italy, France, and Spain, 1590-1700
632 Rubens, Rembrandt and their Workshops
633 Realism and Symbolism in Netherlandish Art
651 Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture
652 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Illumination
663 Early Islamic Art (7th-13th Centuries) (Non-Western)
664 Later Islamic Art (14th-18th Centuries) (Non-Western)
678.01 Chinese Painting to 1368 (Non-Western)
717 Studies in Medieval Art (3-5hrs)
718 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art (3-5hrs)
724 Studies in Northern Baroque Art
725 Studies in Italian Baroque Art
747 Studies in Late Gothic and Northern Renaissance Art (3- 5hrs)
824 Problems in Northern Baroque Art
917 Seminar in Medieval Art (2-5hrs)
920 Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art (2-5hrs)

611 Introduction to Historical Linguistics
801 Historical Linguistics I
802 Historical Linguistics II

650 History and Literature of Choral Music
740 Studies in Medieval Music
741 Studies in Renaissance Music
742 Studies in Baroque Music
826 Development of Music Theory I (to 1400)
827 Development of Music Theory II (1400-1700)
847 Development of Notation: (900-1600)

611 History of the Arabic Language
626 Introduction to the Qur'an
627 Classical Arabic Poetry
628 Classical Arabic Prose
671 The Qur'an in Translation
811 Seminar in Arabic Studies*

611 History of the Hebrew Language
671 The Problem of Evil in Biblical and Post- Biblical Literature
721 Studies in Hebrew Poetry
811 Seminar in Hebrew Studies*

602 Medieval Philosophy
801 Seminar in the History of Philosophy*

820 History of the Russian Language (3hrs)
823 Development of the Russian Literary Language
827 Topics in the History of Russian*
829 Old Russian Literature: 15th-17th Centuries

810 Old Church Slavonic
812 Readings in Church Slavonic Texts
814 Slavic Paleography
834 Old Slavic Literature: 9th-14th Centuries
861 History of the South Slavic Languages
862 History of the West Slavic Languages

551 Masterpieces of Spanish Golden Age Literature
736 History of the Spanish Language
739 Introduction to Medieval Spanish
751 Medieval Spanish Literature
752 Spanish Golden Age Literature
761 Topics in Spanish Culture and Civilization
836 Studies in Spanish Historical Linguistics
839 Seminar in Spanish Linguistics
851 Seminar in Medieval Spanish Literature
852 Seminar in Spanish Golden Age Literature

811 Romance Linguistics I
812 Romance Linguistics II
831 Seminar in Romance Linguistics (3-5hrs)

531 Theatre Repertory I (classical Greece to the 17th Century) (3hrs)
657 History of Costuming for the Stage (3hrs)
671 History of the Theatre I (classical Greece tot he 17th Century) (3hrs)
871 Greek, Roman, and Medieval Theatre (3hrs)
872 European Renaissance & Baroque Theatre (3hrs)

The following sample certificate programs are meant to illustrate how courses for a degree and courses for a certificate can be complementary; they do not treat language requirements for the degree or other particular departmental requirements. These programs comprise courses that are presently on the books, but a student might propose a certificate program geared more specifically to his/her own scholarly interests by including an individual-study course or courses, available through the Center for a varied number of credit hours. These three samples cannot convey the diversity that will be found among certificate programs; the wealth of different faculty and student interests and of the resources here at Ohio State will mean that virtually no two programs will be the same.