The University of Oklahoma
College of Liberal Studies
1610 Asp Ave Ste 108, Norman, OK 73072
Phone: 405-325-1061/800-522-4389 Fax: 405-325-7132
Prospecitve Students
Integrated Studies Option
(Independent Study)
The Integrated Studies option of the MA program helps students shape their studies to meet their academic interests. Students are not restricted to a particular discipline or field, but instead study a central topic of their own choosing from the perspective of three academic disciplines - Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. Working with faculty advisors, students create a learning plan for their degree program that is academically rigorous and that complements and enhances their past academic work and personal experience.
The success of MA graduates has shown that virtually any topic can be incorporated into the Integrated Studies interdisciplinary approach of the program. MA students have studied such diverse topics as:
- the role of television in political campaigns
- the status of women in antiquity
- management and business theories in transition
- ethno-history of American Indians
- developments in American literature and culture
- international politics
- changes in the technology of weather prediction
- 18th-century English landscape art
- the human genome project
- military leadership as compared to movie depiction
- oral history of the Oklahoma Senate
The Integrated Studies option allows students to progress through the program at a pace that fits their own circumstances and life obligations. Independent study enrollments are for one year, and students may extend those enrollments if necessary.
