Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Business and Management

These are some examples of programs of study that other MALS students have pursued in the past. They are meant to give you a sense of the kind of program that you might create with us. Each program of study includes courses taken as one-on-one independent studies with Skidmore faculty, traditional graduate-level courses taken in classrooms at universities across the country, as well as the required introductory seminar. Our students also earn credit through transfer of prior graduate credit, supervised internships, and assessment of prior experiential learning.

• Program focus: Organizational Design

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Theory in Adult Education
  Organizational Communication
  Advanced Organizational Behavior
  Personality Theory
  Ethical Values in Business
  Social Psychology
  Human Resource Management
  Literature on Leadership

  Final Project:
  “Ego Development as Revealed in Responses to Ethical Issues in Business”

• Program focus: Organizations, Behavior, and Change

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Organizational Behavior
  Sociology of Work and Occupations
  Organizational Development and Communication
  Social Research Design
  Studies in Motivation
  Psycho Social Aspects of Conflict
  Groups and Individual Responses to Organizational Change
  Adult Development

  Final Project:
  “Women in High Technology Enterprises”

• Program focus: Managing Cultural Diversity

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Organizational Motivation, Leadership and Design
  Management Communication for Social Responsibility
  Managing in a Diverse Environment – China, Sweden
  Organizational Psychology
  Leadership/Motivation in Educational Administration
  Multicultural Counseling
  Ethical Management in a Global Economy
  Sociology of Work and Occupations

  Final Project:
  “The Challenges of Cultural Diversity on New Managers Beginning Overseas Assignments”