MA in Individualized Studies

The low residency MA in Individualized Studies is a 48 credit interdisciplinary liberal studies program integrating personal vision with radical thinking and engaged practice.

Low residency MA students design a curriculum uniquely suited to furthering their own personal and professional goals.

The low residency MA in Individualized Studies faculty believe learning should be rigorous, creative, liberating and responsible within the larger community. As a result, Individualized MA degrees are unusual in merging theory, practice, and an evolving self-knowledge.  Individually designed areas of study may combine or go beyond existing disciplines. They may focus broadly or narrowly. They may be generally theoretical or action-based and experiential. Or they may open entirely new professional areas or deepen existing knowledge and skills.

The low residency MA in Individualized Studies format allows students to make use of resources in their home communities and to draw on their own backgrounds of experience, while also seeking out learning opportunities new to them. Exceptionally experienced and supportive faculty advisors guide both the development of student degree plans and the course of each semester.

In addition to the self-designed degree in individualized studies, the low residency Masters in Individualized Studies Program offers three defined areas of concentration:

Consciousness Studies

Environmental Studies

Transformative Language Arts