M.A. Emphasis Areas

The master of arts degree in humanities is interdisciplinary. Choosing from more than seventy graduate level courses offered through various departments of the College of Arts & Letters each semester, students may design their own emphasis area.

Among the many emphases developed by students are the following:

• Medieval Studies
• Third World Problems
• Women's Studies
• American Studies
• Contemporary World Issues
• Applied Ethics
• Victorian Culture
• Revolutions in the Modern World
• Classical Europe
• Communication
• Drama and Society
• History & Theory of Film
• African American Studies
• Religion and Public Policy From Baroque to Romanticism
• Contemporary Art Criticism Ideologies: Cromwell to Marx

Regardless of the emphasis selected, each student will work closely with the program director and faculty members within the student's field(s) in designing a coherent academic program that encourages critical thinking, dynamic scholarship, and individual vision, while providing for formal faculty guidance at every stage of development.