Master of Liberal Arts

2026-2027

61 courses

MLA 101AFoundations I
MLA 101BFoundations II: the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
MLA 101CFoundations III: the Enlightenment through Modernism
MLA 102An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Graduate Study
MLA 200PMLA Practicum: Thinking Like a Historian in Three Different Ways
MLA 201PMLA Practicum: Film Form, Politics, and Analysis
MLA 202PMLA Practicum: Science, Technology, and Society: Past, Present, Future
MLA 203PMLA Practicum: Mahler and Strauss: Relationship, Rivalry, Friendship
MLA 204PMLA Practicum Workshop: The Art and Craft of Creative Writing
MLA 205PMLA Practicum: The Psychology of Racism
MLA 206PMLA Practicum: The Modern War
MLA 207PMLA Practicum: The History of San Francisco through (Mostly) Primary Sources
MLA 295The American Enlightenment
MLA 298Heretics, Prostitutes, and Merchants: The Venetian Empire
MLA 300Oxford Summer Programme
MLA 300BIndependent Study
MLA 326Nature through Photography
MLA 347Rome: From Pilgrimage to the Grand Tour
MLA 353The Fourth R: Religion, Education and Schooling in America
MLA 358The Intersection of Medicine, Science, Public Policy, and Ethics: Cancer as a Case Study
MLA 362Darwin, Evolution, and the Galapagos
MLA 363Living on the Edge: Literature of the Western Fringes
MLA 364A Short History of Security
MLA 365The Poetry of Animality: Romantic to Contemporary
MLA 366Critical Approaches to Literary and Historical Approaches
MLA 367Muwekma: Landscape, Archaeology, and the Narratives of California Natives
MLA 368Russia and Ukraine: Historical Interconnections
MLA 369Mapping Poverty, Colonialism and Nation Building in Latin America
MLA 370Henry David Thoreau: Seeing Into the Light of Things
MLA 371Narratives of Enslavement
MLA 372Shakespeare in Love
MLA 373Artificial Intelligence and Society
MLA 374Gender and Sexuality in Chinese History
MLA 375Accessing Sources: An Archival Intensive
MLA 376Photography and Performance
MLA 377A Deep Dive into the Indian Ocean: From Prehistory to the Modern Day
MLA 378The Sublime and the Ugly
MLA 379Chinese Legal History
MLA 380The Past and Present of Survey Research in America: Controversies, Drama, and Successful Science
MLA 381John Muir's Radiant Vision
MLA 382Learning from the Absurd: Drama for the Age of Anxiety
MLA 384Maps in the Early Modern World
MLA 385Trashed! A Global History of Garbage and Our Planet's Predicament
MLA 386The Romance of Antiquity
MLA 387Money Matters: The 2008 Financial Crisis in History, Economy, and the Arts
MLA 388The Mental Traveller: Cosmology, Eternity, and William Blake
MLA 389Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias
MLA 390Parks, People, and the Politics of Conservation
MLA 391Doing Environmental History: Local to Global Water Justice
MLA 392Morality and the Visual Arts
MLA 393Palestine in Literature and Film
MLA 394Creativity and Culture in the Age of AI
MLA 395Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism
MLA 396The Cultural Cold War: The CIA, the Arts, and Global Cultural Networks
MLA 397History, Memory, Trauma: Confronting the Past in Historically Divided Societies
MLA 398MLA Thesis in Progress
MLA 399MLA Thesis Final Quarter
MLA 400International Order and Disorder
MLA 401The Crusades: A Cross-Cultural History
MLA 402Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia
MLA 403Understanding East Asia through Science Fiction