Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Psychology

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: Selfhood & Personal Development

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Human Development and Learning
  Counseling Theories and Practice
  Psychopharmacology
  Spirituality in Counseling
  Theories of Personality
  The Aging Process
  Global Ethics
  Psychology of the Self

  Final Project:
  “Telling Stories, Creating Selves: Processes of Life Review among the Elderly”

• Program Focus: Psychology & Language Processes

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Perceptual/Conceptual Development
  Multi-sensory Teaching of Basic Literacy
  Neuropsychological
  Cognitive Development
  Linguistic Musicology
  Language Acquisition
  Educational Psychology
  Psycholinguistics

  Final Project:
  “The Role of Song in Remediating Language-Related Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Perspective”

• Program focus: Confronting Mortality: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Cognitive Psychology
  Psychology of Adolescence
  Child Psychology
  Statistical Methods
  The Doctrine of Death
  Philosophy of Christian Religion
  Japanese Mind
  Studies in Forgiveness

  Final Project:
  “The Journey of the Living in Accepting Death: Early Bereavement and Grief”

• Program focus: Human Motivation and Development

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Social Psychology: Gender Relationships
  Sociology of Sex Roles
  Adult Development
  Motivation Theory
  Negotiations and Behavioral Theory
  Approaches to Depression
  Counseling Theory
  Social and Personal Development

  Final Project:
  “Effects of Part-Time Versus Full-Time Day Care on Social Development”