This web site will serve two equal purposes. Shakespeare is a required course for English majors, and every baccalaureate-granting Ohio institution features multiple versions of Shakespeare courses. Additionally, K - 12 through graduate curriculums rely heavily on teaching Shakespeare in writing, general literature, and humanities courses. This site will provide the backbone for a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, collaboration important in a variety of ways to every English department in the state of Ohio. The Kent State University School of Communication Studies will create an interactive web site for communication studies.
Communication studies is a fast-growing program of study across the state.
Twenty-eight Ohio colleges and universities have a major in communication studies. The proposed web site will provide opportunities for all future communication professionals and scholars to learn essential skills and gain a well-grounded understanding of the major. At Kent, the site will be used as the centerpiece of a new introductory course about the discipline and the literature of communication studies and related disciplines. In addition to enhancing writing and note-taking skills, students using this site will acquire proficiency in searching OhioLINK databases and identifying and using other relevant Internet resources. The proposed web site will feature exercises using OhioLINK databases, course syllabus, e-mail options for communicating questions and submitting results to the instructor, guided tours of relevant web sites such as those for careers and graduate schools, and an online group discussion forum.