MA Humanities

The Master of Arts in Humanities Degree Program at Marshall University’s South Charleston, West Virginia campus provides you with a truly interdisciplinary degree. Our program strives to advance the study of Humanities to the personal interest of a broad spectrum of students. We work with students with a broad spectrum of backgrounds and provide them the opportunity to continue their studies at the graduate level.

One student left the banking industry and wants to follow her passion for media design and digital humanities. Another is a recent history graduate, and plans to work in museums. Still another is a retired engineer, and dreams of reading and writing philosophy, history, and anthropology. Our students come to us from a broad range of backgrounds from recent graduates in the humanities, sciences, and professional fields to current and retired professionals. And they come to our program for a variety of reasons: to continue their passion in the arts, cultural, historical, or literary studies; to transition from one career to another; to complete that memoir or novel; or to just continue as life-long learners. Our job is to make it happen.

As a graduate program in the College of Liberal Arts, the Humanities Master of Arts brings together students and faculty from a variety of backgrounds to collaboratively explore the interdisciplinary intersections of the arts, historical, cultural and literary studies. This is all accomplished within an open, exploratory, and experimental graduate-level educational environment right here in West Virginia.

Together, our faculty along with our students have:

Much of this work takes place via our focus on community partnership and engagement, collaborative ethnography, and public humanities. Nowhere else will you find this unique combination of academic and applied humanities.

When you obtain a Master of Arts in Humanities from Marshall University in West Virginia, you’ll have a deeper understand of the skills of reasoning, communication and understanding that will prepare you for the next step in life.

Alums of our program have gone on to work in a vast variety of fields that include:

You can review a list of our alumni and what they’re doing with their Humanities degree. Employers appreciate prospective employees who can solve problems imaginatively and who can communicate well with fellow-employees and customers or clients.

When students like you take part in our Humanities M.A. program, you’ll get the chance to work in one of the most innovative humanities programs today. Opportunities include a wide range of activities like:

When students like you take part in our Humanities M.A. program, you’ll get the chance to work with some of the biggest thinkers of our time. These opportunities allow for you to see Humanities through the scope of those making change and examining our day-to-day life. These interactions help further you into the next step of academia or the professional world.

Majoring in Humanities prepares you for the modern world . Marshall University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Because we emphasize the communication, writing and problem-solving skills our students are well prepared for their next step in West Virginia or throughout the region.