The Master of Liberal Arts degree program offers students a multi-disciplinary course of study not available within individual departments.
Students can earn their degrees on a part-time basis.
The MLA degree will be awarded after successful completion of nine graduate courses, including one required course, The Proseminar, and an optional Capstone seminar. For more information contact Program Director Janet Theophano 215.898.5389. This course begins with the recognition that women in Latin America and the United States share a history of colonialism and slavery in the colonial period and the 19th century, and of urbanization and an expansion of the meaning of citizenship in the 20th century. Seminar participants will use primary documents, research monographs, novels, and films to ask comparative questions about women s history in the Americas from 1492 to the present. Seminar participants will complete a 25-page research project, to be defined in consultation with the instructor.