ABOUT MASTER OF LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE

The MLA Program is a small but vital graduate program for students seeking intellectual stimulation or personal growth and development.  It is a program is designed for post-baccalaureate students who seek an interdisciplinary educational experience that emphasizes historical and cultural breadth rather than specialization. The program establishes an environment which encourages the integration of learning and life experiences and provides college graduates an opportunity to develop further the competencies essential for participation in a world of unprecedented change. The program, which is seminar-based, is open to people holding degrees in all undergraduate majors. An MLA Degree Program with a Hispanic Studies emphasis is an option available for persons who wish to pursue graduate study with this sort of focus.

The MLA program encourages life-long learning and personal enrichment and strives to educate its students broadly in the traditional curriculum of the liberal arts, while also requiring them to pursue concentrated study in one or more disciplines. While some students may use the MLA Program for further professional preparation in their field (for example through its Hispanic Emphasis component) the Program emphasis is not primarily vocational so much as it is an effort to put MLA graduates in contact with a broader range of cultural and intellectual life and in contact with communities of knowledge, problem-solving & critical thinking skills, and stimulating forums for the discussion about revolutionary ways re-imagining their life and their world.