Elective Courses Students select these courses from a wide range of offerings to create programs of study suited to their individual interests and needs. These elective courses may be designed to build support and background for the graduate project or to enable students to understand new areas of knowledge from an interdisciplinary point of view. Elective courses are selected from upper-level undergraduate or graduate level courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in other academic units. Each core course may be repeated once for credit. The graduate project is a scholarly enterprise in which the student demonstrates mastery of a specific topic.
Students plan and execute their projects after completion of the three core courses.
Six credit hours are required. Courses taken for graduate credit at the 300 level or 400 level include additional assignments beyond those required for undergraduate credit. Enrollment in such courses requires the approval of the instructor and of the M.L.S. program director. Students may take up to 9 credit hours of electives in a single academic unit. Students are required to retain good academic standing, i.e., to maintain a GPA of at least 2.7.