Master of Arts
in Liberal Studies

Graduate Seminars

MALS Courses Offered in the Past Five Years 


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Anthropology 570 The Theory and Practice of Globalization
Art 541 Picasso's Cubism
Art 564 The Institution of Modernism  
Biology 505 The Biological Legacy of Lewis and Clark
Biology 540 Environmental Studies in the Pacific Northwest
Chinese 527 Representations of the Cultural Revolution
Classics 527 Women in Ancient Greece  
History 545 The Vietnam War
History 561 Inquisition and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Liberal Studies 512 The Black Radical Tradition
Liberal Studies 524 Cultures in Contact: the American Frontier
Liberal Studies 526 Chaucer in the Medieval World  
Liberal Studies 530 Dream in Human Societies
Liberal Studies 531 Socrates and Plato   
Liberal Studies 536 Economic Success and Failure 
Liberal Studies 553 Literary and Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Liberal Studies 560 The Twenties in America
Liberal Studies 561 The Soviet Experience
Liberal Studies 562 The Victorian Fin de siècle 
Liberal Studies 583 Engendering History: Historiography of Masculinity and Feminity
Liberal Studies 588 Railways and Modernity
Liberal Studies 592 Jews and Others: Jewish American Literature, Culture, and Identity, 1700–2000
Liberal Studies 593 Faulkner and Morrison
Literature 505 Fictions of Asian America
Literature 542 Argentina: Literature and Society 
Literature 552 Studies in Autobiography
Literature 560 Don Quixote and Narrative Theory
Literature 573 Languages of the Imagination
Literature 584 The Beat Generation
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 545 Iris Murdoch
Philosophy 548 Existentialism
Physics 568 Here in the Universe
Psychology 522 Stereotyping and Prejudice
Psychology 531 Emotions
Psychology 544 The Social Construction of Disability
Religion 533 Hidden Divinity: in search of Christian mysticism
 



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