Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Public Policy

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: African Development and Reform

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  African Education Policy
  Regional Gender Studies
  Cultural Anthropology
  Topics in Comparative Public Policy
  Societal and Cultural Change
  Economics of Development
  Social Context of School Reform
  African History

  Final Project:
  “Schooling in a Cultural Context: The Case of Africa”

• Program Focus: The Ethics of Health Care

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Biomedical Ethics
  Role of Values in Home Health Care Delivery
  Comparative Study: US and Canadian Health Care Systems
  Health Care Reform in America
  Grants and Proposal Writing
  History of Disease
  Death and Dying
  Utilitarian Policy

  Final Project:
  “Home Health Care: Perceptions and Realities”

• Program Focus: Leadership & Public Policy

  Coursework
  Master’s seminar
  Municipal Finance Administration
  State and Local Politics
  Ecology and Sustainable Development
  Classics in Public Administration
  Social Psychology
  Study in Utilitarianism
  American Political Parties
  Literature of Leadership

  Final Project:
  “Affordable Assisted Living in New Jersey: A Case Study”