Resources
- Libraries and Research Resources
- Study Abroad
- Training for Teaching
- Financial Aid
- Placement of Graduates
Libraries and Other Resources for Research
The Ohio State University Libraries include the Main Library and 14 department libraries and special collections on the Columbus campus. More than six million books and five million microforms are part of Ohio State's collection, which ranks as the 17th largest in North America.The collection has been especially strong in books on Latin literature, and during recent decades, we have been rapidly strengthening our Greek holdings. Our holdings in Homeriana, medieval Greek manuscripts, and modern Greek literature are now among the finest in North America. Our large acquisitions budget allows us to continue to acquire Greek and Latin materials on a large scale.
Ohio State is a member of two important library consortia, OhioLINK (containing most colleges and universities in Ohio) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (made up of 12 research universities in the Midwest). Each consortium has its own central library catalog, allowing Ohio State users to borrow materials from libraries at the universities of Chicago, Cincinnati, Illinois, Michigan, and others. Books arrive usually within three working days, much faster than traditional interlibrary loan. The consortia also jointly purchase electronic databases and online journals. For those users looking for additional research materials, Ohio State offers free international interlibrary loan service to graduate students and faculty.
The Main Library, located next to the Department's home in University Hall, also houses the Linguistics and Western European Languages Reading Room. In this room are more than 10,000 reference books and recent issues of 700 scholarly journals. The bulk of this collection supports Greek and Latin, including dictionaries and grammars, text collections such as Oxford Classics Texts, Teubner and Loeb, indices such as L'Année Philologique and Synopsis, and the current issues of the leading quarterly and semiannual classics journals.
Located on Ohio State's West Campus is the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies. The Epigraphy Center maintains an excellent library of books on epigraphy and palaeography, an extensive collection of photographs and squeezes of Greek and Latin inscriptions, and microfilms of Latin manuscripts. Scholars from throughout the world regularly visit Ohio State to use the Epigraphy Center, and convenient university bus service runs between the Epigraphy Center and the Department's home in University Hall.
The Department maintains its own library of basic texts and commentaries and all major reference works. The Department library is located in a room next to the graduate students' offices on the fourth floor of University Hall. The Department also operates the Forbes Technology Center, a dedicated computer cluster with educational software and thousands of digitized images from the Department's slide collection.
Study Abroad
The Department is a contributing member of the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Graduate students have frequently obtained scholarships in national competitions to attend these institutions. The Department has an ongoing faculty and graduate-student exchange with the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. Money for student travel is available through the John W. Vaughn Travel Award, the Charles L. Babcock Rome Scholarship, and the Roberta Elliot Wantman Travel Award. For more information on these awards go here. The Department has also enjoyed, through the good offices of Professor A.G. Woodhead, a long-standing connection with Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.Training for Teaching
The Department takes teaching seriously and considers pedagogy a fundamental part of professional training. Students in all of the Department's graduate programs acquire the skills and experience necessary to become excellent teachers.All graduate student teaching associates receive special training in the teaching of elementary Latin and classical civilization. They also assist in the undergraduate mythology course and in the computer-based course in scientific terminology. The Department also offers a course on multimedia instruction, with special emphasis on Web site construction.
Many graduate students interested in careers in secondary-school teaching take advantage of the dual-degree M.A./M.Ed. program offered in conjunction with the School of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education. Students who successfully complete the M.A./M.Ed. program receive certification to teach in the public schools, and student teaching in central Ohio high schools is available as part of the dual-degree program. M.A./M.Ed. students also usually receive teaching associateships that provide additional experience and financial support during the program's third year of study.
Financial Aid
Graduate Teaching Associateships are normally awarded annually to students in good standing at an initial stipend of $12,897 (2007-2008 level) for the nine-month (three quarters) academic year. Remission of tuition for both the three-quarter academic year (autumn, winter, spring) and for the summer quarter following is provided.Graduate Research Associateships at the same level as graduate teaching associateships are available for graduate students in the Department of Greek and Latin and on occasion are offered by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies.
Graduate Research Associateship In Modern Greek is awarded annually to an outstanding doctoral student at an initial stipend of $12,897 (2007-2008 level) for the nine-month (three quarters) academic year. Remission of tuition for both the three-quarter academic year (autumn, winter, spring) and for the summer quarter following is provided.
University Fellowships at a stipend of $15,072 to $21,600 (2007-2008 level) plus academic tuition and fees are available to all entering students in a University-wide competition. University Fellows are normally supported to the completion of the Ph.D. by graduate associateships. A twelve-month dissertation-year fellowship of $21,600 (2007-2008 level) plus academic tuition and fees is also available by competition.
Placement of Graduates
The faculty places a high priority on assisting graduates in finding suitable teaching positions through letters of reference and attendance at regional and national meetings. The proportion of the department's graduates who have found positions in classics in recent years has been very high. We have placed students in colleges and universities both here and abroad (Canada and Greece). Many M.A. students have taken positions in secondary schools.- Graduate Degree Programs at OSU Greek and Latin
- Graduate School Handbook [PDF]
