M.A. in Liberal Studies

The Master of Arts with Major in Liberal Studies (M.A.) offers students an opportunity for both guided and independent learning. The goals of the program are to instill in its graduates an interdisciplinary attitude of scholarship that approaches human problems from a multiplicity of strategies and discipline-based assumptions in related but separate areas of study that reflect particular strengths of the University; a commitment to the independent and distinctly personal scholarly pursuit of an important issue; and the skills and abilities needed for identifying and studying some problem best supported in more than a single discipline.

Liberal Studies students may choose one of the following areas of concentration:

• Africana Studies
• American Studies
• Environment Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Film Studies (also, Film Studies & Motion Picture Industry)
• Global Studies
• Linguistics
• Peace Studies
• Philosophy (also, Philosophy & Literature)