Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Theater 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: Theater Education

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Instructional Design: Developing a Theater Curriculum
  Artistic Methods and Materials in the Theater
  Toward Autonomy: Helping Students Help Themselves
  Child Development Through Autobiography
  History of Education
  Theater, Education, and Public Health
  Philosophy of Education
  Toward a Theater Education Pedagogy

  Final Project:
  “Light, Movement, and Sound: An Approach to Kinesthetic Education”

• Program Focus: Modern Drama & Culture

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Modern American Drama
  Modern European Drama
  Stage Lighting
  Playwriting
  Theater History
  20th Century Continental Philosophy
  European History 1914-1990
  Modern British Drama

  Final Project:
  “Modern Drama & Culture: A Dramaturgy of Strindberg’s ‘Dream Play’”