Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Exercise Science

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: Exercise Science and Education

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Discipline and Classroom Behavior
  Introduction to Secondary Education
  Sport Psychology
  Research Design and Statistical Analysis in Physical Education
  Sport Philosophy
  Motivation in Psychology
  Nutrition and Human Performance
  Exercise Physiology

  Final Project:
  “Social Facilitation or Social Loafing: Dynamics of Group Motivation”

• Program focus: Self, Gender, and Society

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Biomedical Ethics
  Language, Gender, and Sport
  Personality Theory
  Psychology of Consciousness
  Sports Psychology
  Psychological Anthropology
  Women in 20 C. America
  Feminist Theory

  Final Project:
  “The Language of Sport and the Social Construction of Gender”