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City University of New York
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Graduate School

Degrees Awarded: MA (in Liberal Studies)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $270 per credit (in-state), $500 per credit (out-of-state)

Deadlines: 11/15 for spring; 4/15 for fall

Financial Aid: None

The Liberal Studies Program is a unique interdisciplinary program that offers qualified people the opportunity to study in small seminars alongside doctoral students. Liberal studies students choose one of ten areas of concentration: American Studies; Approaches to Modernity; Bioethics, Science, and Society; Film Studies; International Studies; Jewish Studies; Landmarks of Western Thought; Translation Studies; Urban Education; Women’s Studies. Students take two core courses in a chosen area and the, with the help of the adviser, they select appropriate courses from the offerings of the various doctoral and interdisciplinary programs at the Graduate School. A thesis completes the work for the 30 credit degree.

AMERICAN STUDIES FACULTY

ALBORN, Timothy

ARONWITZ, Stanley (PhD, Union Graduate School) Professor of Sociology

BAUMRIN, Bernard H. (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ.) Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College

BERMAN, Marshall (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Professor of Political Science at City College

BODDY, William

BOZORGMEHR, Medhi (PhD, UCLA, 1992) Associate Professor of Sociology; immigration, economic sociology, urban and Middle eastern Americans

BROWNSTEIN, Rachel M. (PhD, Yale Univ.) Professor of English at Brooklyn College

COOPER, Sandi (PhD, New York University) Professor of History at the College of Staten Island; Modern European History, History of the Peace Movements, Women’s History

DAUBEN, Joseph (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Professor of History at Lehman College

DICKSTEIN, Morris (PhD, Yale University) Distinguished Professor of English

DI SALVO, Jacqueline (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor of English at Baruch College

DOLAN, Mark, Department of English

FINE, Michelle (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Professor of Psychology

FINKE, Wayne (PhD, New York Univ.) Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Baruch College

GERBER, Jane (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Professor of History

GITTELL, Marilyn (PhD, New York Univ.) Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College

GRASSO, Linda (PhD, Brown University, 1993) Association Professor of English; U.S. Literature and Culture, Women’s Literature, Women’s Studies

JOSEPH, Gerhard, English

LAVENDER, Catherine, History Department at The College of Staten Island; U.S. Women’s History and the History of Gender; History of the American West; American Studies; American Cultural History; New Media; Environmental History

MONTERO, Oscar (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina) Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures at Lehman College

MURPHY, Geraldine

O’MALLEY, Susan, Department of English

ORRANTIA, Dagoberto, Department of Spanish

PETERSEN, Glenn (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Professor of Anthropology at Baruch College

POPKIN, Debra (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Baruch College

POWERS, Richard (PhD, Brown Univ.) Professor of History at Staten Island

RICHARDSON, Joan T. (PhD, CUNY) Professor of English and Comparative Literature at LaGuardia Community College

RHODES, Rosamond (PhD, CUNY) Associate Professor of Medical Education at Mt. Sinai

ROTHMAN, Barbara Katz (PhD, New York University) Department of Sociology

SCHULMAN. Grace (PhD, New York University) Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY

SHERZER, William (PhD, Princeton) Professor of Spanish at Brooklyn College

SIDER, Gerald M. (PhD, New School for Social Research) Professor of Anthropology at Staten Island

TRABOULAY, David (PhD, Univ. of Notre Dame) Professor of History at Staten Island

VIVERO, Manuel (PhD, CUNY) Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages at Medgar Evers College

WRIGLEY, Julia (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin) Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
The Graduate School and University Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212/817-8480
Fax: 212/817-1525
E-mail:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Liberalstudies/

Chair/Director: Rachel M. Brownstein

Admissions

CUNY Graduate School & Univ. Center
Office of Admissions
The Graduate Center
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New York, New York 10016-4309
Telephone: 212-817-7470
Fax: 212 817-1624
e-mail:
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