Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Social Sciences

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: Family Dynamics: Exceptional Children

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Personality Theory
  Atypical Development
  Advanced Theory and Research in the Family
  Social Work with Abusing and Neglecting Families
  Theories and Principles of Parenting
  Sociology of Deviance
  Ecology of the Child and the Family
  Family Systems and Addictive Disorders

  Final Project:
  “Living with Children with Disabilities”

• Program Focus: Organizational Change & Industrial Psychology

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Human Behavior in Organizations
  Responses to Organizational Change: Groups and Individuals
  Statistics
  Psycho-social Aspects of Conflict
  Human Resource Law
  Adult Development
  Labor Economics
  Women and Work

  Final Project:
  “Job Search Support and Its Impacts on Corporate Downsizing”