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Greetings from the
Graduate Chair
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Dear Prospective Student,
The Department of Modern Languages at Ohio University welcomes you to our web site. We are a mid-size graduate program (28 students) granting the MA degree in French and Spanish, with ancillary graduate offerings in German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. Although we do not offer a Ph.D. in French and Spanish, a substantial percentage of our students gains ready acceptance to doctoral programs at other universities and thereafter earns the maximum degree. An even larger portion of our students enters secondary and elementary school teaching, combines language study with other fields (international studies, comparative literature, history), or uses their linguistic and cultural training in diverse fields such as academic administration, geology-geography, journalism, women’s studies, and various aspects of business.
Our Department is multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-national, and multi-generic, both in fact and in perspective. For the past twenty-five years our university has placed a very high emphasis on international programs, and our Department is in the forefront of this internationalism, having programs in Austria, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Russia. We teach literature, applied romance linguistics, culture, language-teaching methodology, the use of technology in language teaching, and literature in translation. We number among our faculty noted scholars and prize-winning writers. We have a new joint program with the College of Education for linguistically and culturally initiated students who would now like to be licensed to teach Spanish and/or French in the public schools.
The MA program offers a tuition scholarship for graduate courses along with a Teaching Associateship that provides a stipend of approximately $10,500for graduate students, who teach one beginning-level class each quarter.
We invite you to apply for both admission to our graduate program and a Teaching Associateship. Please consult our list of faculty in Spanish and French as well as the graduate program requirements and course listings for these two languages. Our Department does not require a GRE for admission. After you study these matters, visit the Graduate Studies web site to find application forms. http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/index.cfm
If you are an international student, you must have an officially authorized translator in your country render your diplomas and transcripts into English. You will need to submit three (3) letters of reference from professors or other officials who know you, your communicative abilities, and your academic achievements very well. We prefer letters that describe the specifics of your work and its relation to your aspirations rather than making general statements about your life and standard university curriculum. Teaching Associate applicants whose native language is not English must take the TOEFL exam and Test of Spoken English, which have to be taken in your home country, with the scores submitted prior to your arrival in the United States. These examinations take time to schedule, so it is wise to take them at your earliest convenience.
The Graduate Studies web site ( http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/index.cfm ) contains information about visas, letters of financial support, and other materials that you must have in order to receive a Teaching Associateship and be accepted as an Ohio University graduate student. The site also contains information about both transportation to Athens from the Columbus airport and a partial list of housing opportunities in Athens.
We look forward to receiving your complete application. We will consider your application once you have submitted all of the required documents. We give priority to applications completed and received by January 15.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to e-mail, phone, or write to me care of the Department of Modern Languages. Prospective students in French with particular questions about aspects of the French
program may want to contact Professor Lois Vines, Graduate Advisor in French.
Sincerely,
Thomas R. Franz
Professor, MLD
Chair Of Graduate Studies
Graduate Advisor in Spanish
Further Information
Spanish: Thomas Franz
French: Lois Vines
For further information regarding admissions, program options, or degree requirements, email us directly at:
modern.languages@ohio.edu
Or, you may write to:
Graduate Chair
Department of Modern Languages
Gordy Hall
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
