Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Graduate Seminars
MALS Courses Offered in the Past Five Years
Anthropology 570 The Theory and Practice of Globalization
Art 541 Picasso's Cubism
Biology 534 Fitness and Food
Classics 527 Women in Ancient Greece
Creative Writing 545 Craft Studio: American Culture
English 521 The Art of the African American Short Story
English 538 Cinema and the Senses
History 508 The First World War
History 565 Animals: An Intellectual and Cultural History
History 561 Inquisition and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
History 570 The Incas
Liberal Studies 507 Jewish Atlantic World
Liberal Studies 512 The Black Radical Tradition
Liberal Studies 516 Layered Memories of Japanese Colonialism
Liberal Studies 518 Shakespeare and Film
Liberal Studies 522 Ancient Epics: the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and
the Aeneid
Liberal Studies 524 Cultures in Contact: the American Frontier
Liberal Studies 526 Chaucer in the Medieval World
Liberal Studies 547 Ancient and Modern Praise Poetry: Ted Hughes and Pindar
Liberal Studies 553 Literary and Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Liberal Studies 547 Ancient and Modern Praise Poetry: Ted Hughes and Pindar
Liberal Studies 557 Literature at the Margins of the Roman Empire
Liberal Studies 559 Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Liberal Studies 560 The Twenties in America
Liberal Studies 561 The Soviet Experience
Liberal Studies 562 The Victorian Fin de siècle
Liberal Studies 563 The Bloomsbury Group
Liberal Studies 583 Engendering History: Historiography of Masculinity and femininity
Liberal Studies 587 Plagues and their Meanings: Epidemic Disease in Medieval and
Renaissance Europe
Liberal Studies 588 Railways and Modernity
Literature 523 Church and State in Early Modern Spanish Culture
Literature 535 The Metropolitan Experience
Literature 542 Argentina: Literature and Society
Literature 591 Contemporary and Classical Literary Theory
Literature/Mathematics 563 Thomas Mann and the Discourse of Science in Early-20th
Century
Mathematics 537 The Copernican Revolution
Philosophy 548 Existentialism
Philosophy 562 Religion and Modernity
Physics 579 Great Ideas in 20th-century Physics
Psychology 522 Stereotyping and Prejudice
Psychology 531 Affects and Emotions
Religion 533 Hidden Divinity: in search of Christian mysticism
Religion 552 History of Islam in America
Religion 574 Religion and Media