Program Overview

Comparative Studies Master of Arts

The Department of Comparative Studies offers interdisciplinary graduate degree programs in the study of culture at both the MA and the PhD levels. For graduate students enrolled in other departments at Ohio State, the department offers the graduate minor.

About the Program

Graduate work is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, addressing complex processes of cultural change, stability and interaction, with particular attention to the construction of knowledge and the dynamics of power and authority.

Key Areas of Focus

• Questions of differenceracial, gender, sexual, class, ethnic nationaland the ways in which those categorizations inform and are informed by other discourses and practices are central to scholarship in comparative studies.

Program Structure

The MA and PhD in Comparative Studies are designed for students whose scholarly interests require them to call upon the resources of several academic disciplines. Each graduate student, with the help of faculty advisers, designs an individualized academic program to meet specific research interests that cut across departmental and college boundaries.

Program Details

• The program is offered by the Department of Comparative Studies.
• It includes both MA and PhD levels.
• A graduate minor is available for students enrolled in other departments.
• The program focuses on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies.
• It addresses cultural change, stability, interaction, knowledge construction, and power dynamics.
• Students design their academic program with faculty advisers to meet their research interests.