Master of Arts
MLA-Master of Liberal Arts
Degrees and Certificates
-
Master in Liberal Arts,
Classes
MLMLA 5300: History of Ideas
Individual works, thematically related and deemed fundamental to the study of the liberal arts in Western culture, will be chosen by the seminar professor. The course's objective is to introduce the student to some basic texts, as well as to graduate level research and writing methodoligies.
MLMLA 5301: Advanced Integrated Learning
This course is a "learning-how-to-learn" course, designed to teach especially beginning graduate students the principles and practices of active reading and listening, based on the work of Mortimer Adler.
MLMLA 5337: Liberal Learning Through the Ages
Liberal learning, study of the liberal arts, has been the hallmark of free, self-governing persons since Greek and Roman antiquity. This course will survey the meaning and relevance of liberal education as part of a flourishing human life, from the origin of the concepts to our own hyper-specialized scientific and technology-driven world of today.
MLMLA 5338: The Pursuit of Happiness
Human beings act for reasons, and it has been argued that the ultimate objective of every human act is the pursuit of happiness. This course will survey conceptions of happiness and the myriad ways that people have pursued it over the ages.
MLMLA 5350: Hst of Envir Thght in the US
A history of the attitudes the U.S. as a nation has had toward the environment and the historic forces that helped shape these attitudes. Fall, even years.
MLMLA 6330: John Henry Newman
A study of the thought and influence of John Henry Newman through a selection
of his writings and an examination of the historical circumstances that led to their
composition. Spring, odd years.
MLMLA 6360: Renaissance Culture&Society
The course studies the period 1300-1550 in order to ascertain its specific nature as a period of European history and its contributions to the development of Western civilization. The course will examine the contributions of this period in the areas of scholarly pursuits (Humanism), philosophy, political thought and religion, as well as in the literary and fine arts. An attempt will be made to place these developments in their political and socio-economic contexts.
MLMLA 6392: Directed Independent Study
Student research on a selected problem in the field pursued under the guidance of an assigned member of the faculty. Fall, Spring.
MLMLA 6393: Special Topics
Selected topics of mutual interest to faculty and students.
MLMLA 7089: MLA Project Continuation
MLA Project Continuation
MLMLA 7099: MLA Thesis Continuation
Continuation of the thesis.
MLMLA 7388: MLA Project I
This is the course designator for projects.
MLMLA 7389: MLA Project II
This is the course designator for projects.
MLMLA 7398: MLA Thesis I
This is the course designator for research papers.
MLMLA 7399: MLA Thesis II
This is the course designator for research papers.