Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Museum 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.

• Program focus: Arts Administration and Museum Education

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Advanced Non-Fiction Writing
  Tang Museum at Work
  Modernism
  Arts Administration
  Not-for-Profit Financial Management
  Art and Society in Early Modern France
  Museum Education: The Hyde Museum and The Albany Institute of History and Art

  Final Project:
  “The Incorporation of Visual Thinking Strategies and the Effect on the Modern Museum”

• Program focus: Museum Education

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Education Assistant, Tang Museum
  Madness, Creativity and Genius
  Writing for Museum Publication and Educational Exploration
  Art and Developmental Theory
  Museum Education and Interpretation
  Exhibition Planning for a Small Museum
  Looking to Learn
  Public Art Program Administration

  Final Project:
  “Mass Art Case Study: The relationship between the MassArt Galleries and the College Curriculum and Community”

• Program focus: Curatorial Studies & Visual Culture

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Modernism
  Curatorial Histories
  Total Curating Workshop
  Visual Arts and the Law
  Cultural Theory I
  Curatorial Practice I
  Visiting Scholar Seminar I
  Visiting Scholar Seminar II
  Reading Seminar in Cultural Theory and Criticism II

  Final Project:
  “The Contemporary Catastrophic: Resisting the Artists of the Real”