Humanities, Master of Arts Program in
Professor Bell, Director (romance studies)
The Master of Arts Program in Humanities is an interdepartmental program tailored to the needs of individual students. The candidate defines a theme and selects appropriate course work with the aid and approval of an academic advisor. Thirty units of course work are required for completion of the program. The degree may be earned with or without a thesis. The candidate who chooses not to submit a thesis will submit instead at least two substantial papers arising from course work for review by committee members, and will meet with them to discuss his or her program in a final master's colloquium.
The program is open to holders of undergraduate degrees in any discipline who can demonstrate sufficient background in humanities to permit study at the graduate level. Admission is by regular application to the Graduate School. Students may enroll full time or part time. The program also participates in the general set of joint JD/MA programs offered at Duke. This allows law students to develop and broaden a complementary field of interest-women's studies, for example, or contemporary literature and hermeneutic theory -to maintain an intellectual focus already developed in their undergraduate careers.
