Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Philosophy and Religion

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: Early Christianity & Its Jewish Roots

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  The Litergical Year
  Synoptic Gospels
  First Century as Seen by Josephus
  Torah and the Former Prophets
  The Epistles of Paul and the Acts of the Apostles
  Religion, Psychology, and Culture
  Hellenistic Influences on Judaism
  Jewish Roots of Christianity

  Final Project:
  “His Brother's Keeper: James the Just & the Jewish Roots of Early Christianity”

• Program Focus: The Aesthetics of Christian Worship

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Development of Christian Music
  Religion and Ritual in the Roman Era
  Philosophy and the Arts
  Italian Renaissance
  Metaphors of the Labyrinth
  Christian Spirituality and the Arts
  History of Christian Worship
  Internship: Music Education in the Episcopal School

  Final Project:
  “Worthy is the Lamb: Pastoral Symbols of Salvation in Christian Art and Music”