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Ginny Skinner-Linnenberg
Professor of English (LST 501)
"We don’t “teach” in the traditional sense of the word. We facilitate discussion among colleagues. Many of our students are teachers themselves, or they are older and have had life experiences to draw from, thus making our discussions robust and meaningful. I always look forward to our weekly classes because I learn so much from the students."
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Christine M. Bochen
Professor of Religious Studies (LST 503)
" Teaching in MALS, I am reminded again and again that we discover wisdom when we are free to transcend the boundaries that separate our fields of study and, more importantly, the boundaries between classroom and world. The best learning happens when we listen attentively, probe deeply, and feel free to explore the ideas together. That is what happens in MALS. MALS draws us together as a community of learners!"
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Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander
Professor of Italian (LST 524)
"The beauty and the challenge of the MALS courses derive from the seriousness the students invest in the subject matter which yield engaging interactions among and between students and their professors. A real treat for teaching and learning."
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Paul F. Morris
Assoc. Prof of History /Political Science (LST 524)
"MALS has given me the opportunity to move beyond my own department of History to participate in a genuine interdisciplinary team taught course with a diverse graduate student audience. Our course engaged the Holocaust in the context of Mussolini’s Italy. The driving question before us was how systematic, horrific killing of millions can happen? We all struggled with this, as we strove to find insights but never arriving at a really satisfactory answer. Conversations with students and participating colleagues still occur long after the class has been concluded. This ongoing quest is, in my view, at the heart of a program committed to liberal arts study."
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Alec Sutherland
Emeritus Professor of English (LST 502 and LST 535)
"There are times when a student project leads to unexpected and lasting riches. In my Spanish Civil War course a few years back a student came up with the idea of arranging some of Robert Capa’s combat photographs of the War into a multimedia slide show. She did so, and without any extra credit or supervision from me, she created a short, vivid and moving collage of pictures, text and music. It stirred our class then and when presented to subsequent classes it has continued to inform and to stir. It was a privilege to be a teacher then and there; I was fortunate to have such a student in my class."
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Marjory Payne
English Dept (LST 520)
" Emerson claimed, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." And in the MALS program adults gather in a quest to cultivate our inner resources in the midst of our hectic journeys through life. The secret is this: We get better, wiser in the Liberal Arts, as we age. In the MALS courses we share our intellectual curiosity and discoveries, roving across the disciplines, always making connections between theory and lived experience. What a privilege for me to be a part of this passionate community of life-long learners!"
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Timothy Kneeland
Professor History/Political Science (LST 524)
"A liberal arts education empowers the individual by equipping them to examine ideas, institutions and cultures from a variety of perspectives with the aim of understanding the world as it is. Once an individual has understanding they can them move on to challenge longstanding notions of what is, so that they can begin move the world towards what they think it should be. Once a person has developed a critical mindset they can become of the valuable person in their workgroup, they have a set of tools drawn from the arts, sciences, and their own professionals to reshaped and enhance their working environment so that it can be both more successful, profitable, and humane."
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