Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Counseling

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: Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Developmental Perspectives in Counseling
  Guidance in the Schools
  Counseling Theory and Practice
  Advanced Behavior Principles in Special Education
  Assessment of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
  Counseling in Violent and Dysfunctional Families
  Bowen Family Systems Theory
  Cognitive Development

  Final Project:
  “Antisocial Behavior in Academic Settings”

• Program focus: The Dynamics of Marriage & Divorce

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Marriage Counseling
  Counseling Theories and Psychological Foundations
  Serious Emotional Disturbances
  Counselor Professional Identity, Function, and Ethics
  Social Factors in Divorce
  Anthropology of Marriage and Family
  Introduction to Research
  Love in Theory and Representation

  Final Project:
  “Premarital Counseling and Divorce”

• Program focus: Family Counseling

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Ethnicity and the Family Life Cycle
  Family Systems Theory
  The Social-Psychological Self in a Family Context
  Crime in America
  Theories and Methods of Psychotherapy
  Theories of Counseling
  Family Violence
  Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence

  Final Project:
  “Child Victims: Identification and Disclosure of Sexual Abuse”