Areas of Concentration: Cultural Studies
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.
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Program focus: Judeo-Arabic Music: A Cross-Cultural Study
Coursework
Master’s Seminar
Urban Ethnomusicology
Middle Eastern Musical Performance
Music in the Middle Ages: Jewish and Muslim Perspectives Medieval Music
Ethnomusicological Fieldwork: the Tunisian Jewish Community of Sarcelles, France
Ethnobiographical Fieldwork: Three New York City Chazzanim
Advanced Hebrew
History of North African JewryFinal Project:
“The Moroccan Jewish Piyyut: A Judeo-Arabic Cultural Synthesis” -
Program focus: Latin American Studies: Feminist Storytelling
Coursework
Master’s Seminar
Latin America in the 20th Century
Minority Group Relations
Literature for Young Adults
Theory of Narrative
Classics of Spanish American Literature
Pre-Columbian Civilization of MesoAmerica
Chicana/Latina Cultural Studies
Literature of the Spanish Caribbean
Feminist Theory and Women WritersFinal Project:
“Magical Feminism: Magic, Mixture and Power in ‘So Far From God’ and ‘Dreaming in Cuban’” -
Program focus: African Studies
Coursework
Master’s Seminar
African History
African Politics
Issues in World Religions
Environmental Studies: Theories and Methods
The Contemporary Japanese Mind
African Culture
African Ecologies
African Issues in Cultural AnthropologyFinal Project:
“African Elephant Ecology and the Politics of Ivory Trade: A Comparative Study of Botswana, Kenya, and Japan”
