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Dear friends:
I am writing to let you know about the recent updates to our new Liberal Studies Program at SUNY Albany. I know that students who applied to doctoral programs in the USA have received responses on April 15. I hope this program might benefit some students who may still be looking for opportunities for next fall. Please circulate the message below, if it might be helpful to your students.
I hope you will forgive this group e-mail, which is sent with the utmost collegiality and friendship. I will be in Taiwan this summer, and I hope I will have the chance to see some of you again!
very best wishes, Charles
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Dear friends and colleagues:
I am the director of the new Liberal Studies MA Program at SUNY Albany, an innovative interdisciplinary program designed for highly motivated students seeking opportunities for advanced training in areas of literary study and contemporary cultural theory. The program is especially designed to advance the portfolios and critical background of students who intend to pursue doctoral work in the humanities.
This program allows students to concentrate in the English Department, while also taking elective classes across all departments in humanities and social sciences, in accordance with each individual student's interests. The program allows students to design their own degrees, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary areas such as post-colonial studies, American Studies, critical social thought, human rights, globalization, feminist theory, and other areas of cultural studies. The program is especially designed to help ambitious foreign students prepare for further doctoral work. Our first class, admitted last year, included students from Taiwan, China, and Japan. The incoming class for fall 2014 includes students from Jordan, Iran, the United Kingdom and South Korea, and the program has already sent its graduates to funded positions in doctoral programs (including our own).
The program requires 30 credits, and has only two required courses-- (1) one graduate-level survey in any social science (such as History , Political Science, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, or Geography), and (2) one graduate level survey in a humanities department (such as English, Philosophy, Art History, Women's Studies). All students write an MA thesis (for 4 credits) on a topic of their own choosing, under the direction of two full-time faculty members. Courses are normally 4 credits each, so the program normally entails 7 courses plus a thesis. The program can also accept up to 8 credits of previous graduate-level work taken at other reputable institutions, provided the grades are good and the course material roughly approximates what departments here might cover. For students with previous graduate coursework, the program can therefore be finished more quickly.
Liberal Studies is an excellent choice for a diverse array of students interested in advanced graduate training as a step toward a doctoral degree, in a flexible environment that draws of the expertise of faculty in literature, political theory, philosophy, history, art history, and other humanistic areas. Our graduate seminars are taught exclusively by regular full-time professors, and are small, allowing students to work closely with faculty in a range of areas that link literary study to aesthetics, politics, history, philosophy, and contemporary cultural theory.
I would welcome the opportunity to speak with your students about this program, if it might be of interest to them for next fall. We are able to accept applications through July, and our Office of International Education will help to arrange visas for students who may need them.
If you would like to see further information, the program website is below, and also a link to our recent Liberal Studies spring conference, which included outstanding faculty members from Tufts University, Williams College, Skidmore College, Cornell University, Brown University, and other regional institutions with whom we collaborate.
http://www.albany.edu/graduatebulletin/liberal_studies_graduate_program_curriculum.htm
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I would be very happy to answer any questions about the Liberal Studies Program, or indeed the English MA program, which I also direct.
best wishes,
Charles Shepherdson
Professor of English
Director, English MA Program
Director, Liberal Studies MA Program
Provost's Fellow 2013-14
SUNY Albany
cshepherdson@albany.edu
