Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Women's 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: Women, Religion, & Spirituality

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Feminist Theory
  The Cultural Animal in an Existential Age
  Women and the Law
  Folklore and Feminist Theory
  Encountering the Goddess in India
  Internship: American Red Cross Home Visitors Program
  Religion in America
  Women’s Narratives

  Final Project:
  “The New Church: Community and Feminist Spirituality”

• Program focus: Gender Roles in the Parenting Process

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Women’s Roles: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
  Women and Public Policy
  Roots of Feminism
  Sex, Sexual Representation, and the Law
  Sociology of Gender and Parenting
  Parenting Roles: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives
  Love in Theory and Representation
  The Psychology of Gender

  Final Project:
  “Still Swimming Against the Tide: Obstacles to Gender Neutrality in Parenting Arrangements”

• Program Focus: Women of Color in the United States

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Politics and Gender
  Feminist Theory
  African-American Women Writers
  Latina Women Writers
  Women, Medicine and Society
  Theories of Race, Class and Gender
  New Ways of Telling: Latinas’ Narrative of Exile
  American Women’s Autobiography: Writing From the Margins

  Final Project:
  “Woman to Woman: Consciousness as Written by Lesbian-Feminists of Color”