Areas of Concentration
Pursuing concentrations in every area of the liberal arts, our students work closely
with faculty advisors to design individualized programs of study focused on those
ideas, issues, and questions that they find most fascinating. Typically, students’
concentrations evolve as they progress through the program, changing directions in
response to their developing understanding of the subject matter and their own interest
in it.
The concentrations listed here are meant to offer a sampling of the courses of study
that other MALS students have designed in the past. It is meant to give you a sense
of the kind of program that you might create—but it is not a list of all the possible
concentrations that could be created (that list would be endless). Our students do
not choose from a list of prefabricated curricula; instead, they collaborate with
their advisors to invent their own.
Photo: Kristin V. Rehder, MALS '12
