The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) degree program enables individuals to pursue  interdisciplinary studies at the graduate level. Courses provide participants the opportunity to extend the best experiences of baccalaureate liberal education to the graduate level.

Students admitted to the program will be encouraged to select one of the graduate certificate programs or focus areas listed below and will plan programs of study with the cooperation of the assigned adviser.  

Alternatively, students with a strong interest in a different interdisciplinary area of study within the College of Arts and Sciences may submit a statement indicating interest in designing an individualized plan of study.  Such a statement should indicate the proposed area of study and a list of courses offered in the College of Arts and Sciences that would contribute to the area of study.

The end result of each participant's matriculation should be a challenging experience that samples the richness of literature, the fine arts, history and those principles of the social and natural sciences that affect our lives. 

Students admitted to the program will be encouraged to select one of the graduate certificate programs or focus areas listed below and will plan programs of study with the cooperation of the assigned adviser.

• Bioethics (graduate certificate)
• Black Studies (informal focus area)
• Film and Media Studies (informal focus area)
• Gerontology (graduate certificate)
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies (informal focus area)
• Teaching of Writing (graduate certificate)
• Women's and Gender Studies (informal focus area)