Areas of Concentration: Literature and Culture
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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Renaissance Culture
Coursework
Master’s Seminar
Studies in Renaissance Literature
Readings in Old English
Studies on Gasparo Contarini and Paolo Sarpi
Renaissance Diplomacy: the Formation of the Early Modern State
From Dante to Machiavelli
Politics of Literature in 16th Century France
Religious Thought in Renaissance Italy
Art in Early Renaissance ItalyFinal Project:
"The Art of Thinking Well" by Paolo Sarpi, Translated with Introduction and Notes” -
Program focus: Writing the Self: Literary Identity as Process
Coursework
Master’s Seminar
Dialect of the Body: Dance Composition and Performance
Rhetoric and Poetics: The Stylistics of Creativity
Literary Theory Since 1950
Memory and Culture
Advanced Fiction Writing
Proust: Emotion and Sense
Identity Formation and the Act of Writing: Wordsworth and YeatsFinal Project:
“Detours and Syncopations: In Search of Lost Time Through the Lens of ‘Les Intermittences Du Coeur’” -
Program focus: Medieval France
Coursework
Master’s Seminar
Survey of French Medieval Literature
Close Readings in French Medieval Literature I
Close Readings in French Medieval Literature II
Romanesque and Gothic Art
Historiography
The Crusades
Religious Women in The Middle Ages
Comparative ReligionsFinal Project:
“The Transformation of the Benedictine Monastery from Its Creation through the Carolingian Period”
