Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Committee
Annual Report 1998-1999
TO: Faculty and Administration
FROM: Adrienne Zuerner, Chair
DATE: July 6, 1999
RE: Annual Report, External Master's Program Committee
During the 1998-99 year, the External Master's Program Committee met
a total of eight times.
Eleven students personally presented their academic programs to the Committee
for review and all received approval for their individual plans. One student
will resubmit her final project proposal. Some of the programs approved
by the Committee were: African Studies; American Popular Culture: Music;
Public Policy and Leadership; Communication: Culture, Society and Family;
Education and Society; and Religion and Cross-Cultural Counseling.
The Committee approved a change in the basic advising structure of the
program. Instead of two faculty advisors advising each student, the Committee
approved the proposal that each student would have one faculty advisor
plus a MALS staff advisor (either the Academic Advisor or the MALS Director).
However, when the student reaches the point of beginning his or her final
project, a second faculty member from an appropriate discipline would
be appointed in place of the MALS staff member. Implementation of this
change will begin with students entering the program in July 1999; application
for continuing students was left to the discretion of the MALS office.
The Committee recommended that twenty students be awarded the Master
of Arts degree.
Members for 1998-1999:
Mary Correa
Barbara Henriques
Rob Linrothe
Margo Mensing (spring '99 only)
Thomas Vander Veen (fall '98 only)
Marc-Andre Wiesmann
Adrienne Zuerner (chair)
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