Through the Liberal Studies program, you will critically explore and intensively examine the core issues of our time. The MA in Liberal Studies offers practical writing tools and guided in-depth study in cross-disciplinary courses taught by renowned faculty, who share the values of rigorous critical inquiry and thoughtful expression.

Our Master of Arts in Liberal Studies can be completed online. Put together a plan of study that focuses on your personal and professional goals. The great thing about liberal studies is its multidisciplinary approach. Examine contemporary issues from different perspectives: the humanities, social and natural sciences, and the fine arts.

The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth offers an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to foster broad intellectual inquiry and critical thinking across various fields of the liber...

The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary curriculum designed to cultivate critical thinking, analytical skills, and a broad understanding of human ...

The Master of Arts in Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies offers students the opportunity to design a personalized graduate curriculum tailored to their individual academic and professional interest...

The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program brings today’s headlines into conversation with classic statements on humanity’s most enduring questions. Students investigate how our cultural, social, and natural worlds intersect in order to understand issues in our own lives in their full complexity. Together, they examine a variety of materials across a wide array of academic disciplines in order to integrate disparate insights into a view of the whole. All the courses in the MALS program are run as small, discussion-based, Socratic seminars. Students develop close working relationships with each other and program faculty, whose expertise represents the range of traditional arts and sciences. In addition to intensive seminars, students work individually with program faculty on either a focused capstone project of their devising or on a problem-based project in which they integrate knowledge and insights from across the liberal arts.

The power of lifelong learning stands as the cornerstone to personal and professional development, and the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (M.L.S.) program at St. Norbert offers you the opportunity to rekindle your intellectual curiosity. It’s designed for adult learners who want to broaden their perspective of our ever-changing world. While most graduate degree programs are narrow in focus, the M.L.S. offers a wide range of interdisciplinary courses and is designed to stretch your intellectual horizons.

Students finish their M.A. in Liberal Studies by working with an advisor to research and write a thesis OR complete a capstone project. Students should begin thinking about a thesis/capstone project topic and choosing an advisor, when they have successfully completed approximately eighteen credits. The advisor should be a Graduate Center faculty member who is interested in the proposed thesis project. Regardless of when a student begins work on his or her thesis, the thesis course is registered for only once, in the student's final term.

LST students begin the program with two foundational courses, one ancient and one modern. The LST Foundation courses (Ancient and Modern) serve to give incoming LST students a broad background in some of the key texts and ideas of world civilization. In addition, they provide the LST students with an introduction to the skills and expectations which are consistent with graduate level work in the humanities and social sciences.

About the Master of Arts Program Graduates of the Master of Arts program will be able to think, speak, read, and write about vital ideas in the humanities and the Western cultural tradition with confidence and sophistication, demonstrating intellectual maturity and initiative that can be applied to a range of future endeavors. The master’s program consists of 36 credit hours with emphasis in imaginative literature, natural science, philosophy and religion, and social science. In designing programs of study, students at Harrison Middleton University use primary sources drawn from leading academic publishers, including Britannica (Great Books of the Western World), Oxford University Press, Penguin Modern and Nonfiction Classics, and W.W. Norton & Company. This is a distance education program and students are never required to attend an on-campus class.