Curriculum Nine total courses need to be completed. Students need to complete two core courses, six elective courses and a capstone project. The core courses consist of IPLS 410 Introduction to Cultural Analysis and one MALS seminar course (IPLS 401). Students may take electives in subject areas such as philosophy, religion, history, art history and literature. Students sign up for the final course in the program during the term in which they start their master's thesis. The capstone project for the MALit program is an essay of 45 to 75 double-spaced pages written under the supervision of an approved faculty member. The project presents an opportunity to research and explore a topic thoroughly. Students often elect to expand a seminar paper from a previous course. With the approval of the program director, students may create an interdisciplinary final project rather than a traditional thesis. Current students should refer to Liberal Studies Curriculum requirements in place at time of entry into the program.
Courses The students may receive program credit through MLS-designated courses or, as electives, any other courses offered at the graduate level on the University main campus. Interdisciplinary Courses Because most students do not have a background of adequate preparation for most graduate courses designed for discipline-oriented degree programs, and because the interdisciplinary nature of the MLS inquiry asks the students to see beyond the confines of any one discipline, the Program needs a wide range of courses specifically designed for interdisciplinary studies. Ideally, such courses are taught from a divisional point of view to give students a grounding in how scholars in a particular class of disciplines approach scholastic activity, but at the same time relate the divisional material to the broader aspects of the human condition. Keep in mind that while the students may not have a background in divisional matters, they are nonetheless graduate students and should be expected to show motivation and maturity of intellect.
The Doctorate in Liberal Studies is offered through The School of Continuing Studies and the Graduate School at Georgetown. Along with Georgetown's DLS program, one graduate school, at Drew University offers a Doctor of Letters, the only such degree not offered in the honorary fashion in the U. S. The other two North American programs, at Emory University in Atlanta, GA and Simon Fraser University: Vancouver, BC, are Doctor of Philosophy degrees in interdisciplinary studies. References [ edit]
Time warner classics, 2024 | Sitemap