G-HUM-AM - Humanities - Master's

The Master of Arts Program in Humanities is an interdepartmental program tailored to the needs of individual students who pursue interdisciplinary graduate study in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The candidate must define a theme, historical period, or problem for analysis, and then select appropriate coursework with the aid and approval of an academic advisor.

The Master of Arts Program in Humanities is designed for students who seek an intellectual or research focus not otherwise available within any existing graduate program at Duke. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in any field (or the equivalent to a US bachelor’s degree) from an accredited institution, and must demonstrate sufficient background in humanities or interpretive social science to permit productive 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 joint JD/MA degree mechanism offered in conjunction with Duke Law School. 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.