MA in Individualized StudiesInterviews with GraduatesStudents come to the low-residency MA in Individualized Studies Program with diverse and unique approaches to their lives and their studies. Graduates of Goddard's low-residency MA in Individualized Studies Program are passionate, engaged, committed thinkers and innovators who make a difference in their world. In the interviews below, graduates talk about their studies and share excerpts from their thesis projects.  Interview with Juliana BorreroCreative Writing and Comparative Literature Contemporary Theory Women's Studies "In this program I was asked: 'What do you want? What do you want to do with all this?' "  Interview with Michael DeragonSurrealism Writing "While attending Goddard I studied with three amazingly powerful and unique women who altered my writing, my music, my focus and, most importantly, my perspective." Read More... Interview with Anna HawkinsPsychology and Literature Women's Studies Embodiment Studies "Being able to work towards a master's degree without having to uproot
myself was such a blessing."  Interview with Lynn LarnedConsciousness Studies Concentration "I had always wanted to earn my master's degree but was not interested
in a traditional program. Goddard's low residency MA in Individualized
Studies Program allowed me to concentrate on what I was most interested
in. My advisors were excellent guides in helping me to plan a course of
study..."  Interview with Sebastian MarinoEnvironmental Studies Concentration "At Goddard I was able to design my own study program - which for me
meant finding ways to validate what I knew while at the same time
acquiring the theoretical base necessary for professional recognition...it was all practical." Read More...  Interview with Nancy MorganTransformative Language Arts Concentration "After writing my way through personal crises, leading workshops and
witnessing the empowerment people experienced after a day of expressive
writing, and after enduring professional careers at odds with my own
passions, it was time for Goddard."  Interview with Susan MoulEmbodiment Studies Writing "My whole life I'd had the sense that Goddard is where people
go to become revolutionaries. And I knew I would learn what I needed to
learn and it wouldn't be about just running all the bases to get the
piece of paper."  Interview with Rhonda PatziaTransformative Language Arts Concentration Embodiment Studies "What Goddard gave me was an extended, longterm passion - an
on-fireness - that I never felt before. It began when I started to read
female and feminist writers, and it directed what I wanted to study."  Interview with Claudia TurnbullConsciousness Studies Concentration "I had found myself at the point in life when it was time to take a
deeper look at my belief systems and practices. I knew what I wanted to
study but needed an academic setting and direction to plug into."  Interview with Hillary WebbConsciousness Studies Concentration "I had been looking into graduate programs, mostly those in the departments of various "traditional" universities. While
most of them offered the academic rigor I craved, they did so at the
expense of personal experience as a way of knowing. These programs were
all head and no heart and I wanted both." |