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.
For more information about the CMRS major, minor, or graduate certificate, please contact our Assistant Director, Ethan Knapp, at knapp.79@osu.edu.
Admission to the Program
The criteria for admission to the program are:
Admission to and and enrollment in a graduate degree
program in an affiliated department
Completion of one quarter of course work at Ohio State
Good standing in the home department and the Graduate
School, that is, maintenance of a cumulative GPA of at
least 3.0
Consistent, adequate progress toward the degree, as
determined by the home department and the Center Graduate
Studies Committee
Presentation to the Center Graduate Studies Committee of
a plan of course-work that meets the program requirements
outlined above
Permission of the departmental adviser and graduate
studies director to undertake the certificate program
Courses Approved for the Graduate Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Greek and Latin
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
Comparative Studies
504 The Arthurian Legends
541 Myth and Ritual
577 Studies in World Folklore
Dance
601.05 Supplemental Studies in Dance, Historical Dance (1-5hrs)
658 Early Ballet History
English
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
French and Italian
French
631 French Literature (2-5 hrs.)
651 French Literature of the Renaissance
652 French Literature of the 17th Century
716.01 History of the Language: Introduction to Old French
716.02 History of the Language: Introduction to Medieval Occitan
721 Survey of Medieval French Literature
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
887 Problems of Textual Analysis
Italian
621 Dante
622 Petrarch and Boccaccio
625 Italian Literature of the Renaissance
722 Studies in Italian Literature: 14th Century 3hrs
725 Studies in Italian Literature: 15th-16th C. 3hrs
811 History of the Italian Language: Introduction
830 Seminar in Italian Linguistics
832, 833 Seminar in Italian Literature
German
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
History
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
The following courses up to 551 count as Non-Western
536 History of Russia to 1725
540.01 Islamic Society, 610-1258
540.02 Historyt 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
History of Art
515 Renaissance Art in Italy
525 Medieval 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)
Linguistics
611 Introduction to Historical Linguistics
801 Historical Linguistics I
802 Historical Linguistics II
Music
647 Individual Composers: Their Lives and Works
650 History and Literature of Choral Music
670 Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Musical Instruments (3hrs)
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)
848 Advanced Studies in Notation
Near Eastern, Judaic and Hellenic Languages and Literatures
Arabic
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
Hebrew
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
Yiddish
611 History of the Yiddish Language
721 Studies in Yiddish Literature
811 Seminar in Yiddish Studies
Philosophy
602 Medieval Philosophy
801 Seminar in the History of Philosophy
Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
Classes under this department as Non-Western Russian
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
Slavic
810 Old Church Slavonic
812 Readings in Church Slavonic Texts
834 Old Slavic Literature: 9th-14th Centuries
861 History of the South Slavic Languages
862 History of the West Slavic Languages
Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish
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
Romance Linguistics
811 Romance Linguistics I
812 Romance Linguistics II
831 Seminar in Romance Linguistics (3-5hrs)
Theatre
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)
SAMPLE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
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.
Sample Certificate Program, Western Renaissance Track
for a Student Pursuing an MA in English
for the 22 hours taken from the English MA program (5-hour courses unless otherwise specified)
English 720 Introduction to Graduate Study in Renaissance Drama
English 820 Seminar in Shakespeare
English 827 Seminar in English Renaissance Literature
English 818 Seminar in Later Medieval English Literature:
Italian 725 Studies in Italian Literature: 15th and 16th Centuries (3 hours)
for the 23 hours in courses outside of the MA program in English History
509.01 Italian Renaissance
508.03 Medieval England
630.01 Florentine and Roman Art of the 16th Century
Latin 660 Special Topics in Latin Literature: Readings in Terence and Plautus
Theatre 531 Theatre Repertory I (classical Greece to the 17th Century) (3 hours)
demonstration of proficiency in Latin
Sample Certificate Program, Western Medieval Track
for a Student Pursuing a PhD in History of Art
for the 22 hours taken from the History of Art PhD program (5-hours courses unless otherwise noted)
HistArt 651 Romanesque and gothic Sculpture
HistArt 717 Studies in Medieval Art: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
HistArt 717 Studies in Medieval Art: Iconography (3 hours)
HistArt 717 Studies in Medieval Art: French Gothic Architecture
HistArt 917 Seminar in Medieval Art: 13th- and 14th-Century Italian Sculpture
for the 23 hours in courses outside of the PhD program in History of Art
English 716 The Middle Ages
History 507 History of the Medieval Christainity
History 508.02 Medieval Europe II: Europe 1100-1500
Music 670 Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Musical Instruments (3 hrs)
Philosophy 602 Medieval Philosophy
demonstration of proficiency in Latin
Completion of Requirements and Awarding of Certificate
All Graduate School rules pertaining to graduate certificate programs apply.
The CMRS Director will monitor the student's progress and confirm the student's completion of the courses approved by the Center Graduate Studies Committee for the certificate.
The Graduate School will certify that the student has completed the requirements. The certificate will be awarded only if and at the time when the student receives the MA or PhD.
