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Online Liberal Studies

Master of Liberal Studies (M.L.S.)

Study on your own time, in your own way.
UToledo is one of just a few universities to offer a 100% online master's program in liberal studies.

Study on your own time, in your own way.
UToledo is one of just a few universities to offer a 100% online master's program in liberal studies.

Online Liberal Studies Master's Degree Overview

At The University of Toledo, we understand that non-traditional, adult learners need flexibility. Our online liberal studies master's degree allows you to continue working as you take online classes when it's convenient for you. 

Graduate students can customize the interdisciplinary program — the region's only liberal studies master's degree program — to suit their needs and goals. UToledo offers online classes for the M.L.S. program from throughout its 11 colleges. 

Contact the graduate program director, Jerry Van Hoy, at 419.530.7257 or jerry.vanhoy@utoledo.edu for more information. 

Online Liberal Studies Master's Degree Highlights

Customize your graduate degree. UToledo works with you to create a program that works for you, whatever your time frame or career goals. Because we are a large, public university, we are able to offer many accredited, graduate-level online courses across UToledo's diverse departments. 

Convenient and flexible. Set your own schedule. Log in to classes before or after work, when the kids are in bed or whenever it's convenient for you.   

Online support. UT Online is a dedicated resource office to help remote learners. Online students have access to eTutoring, an IT Help Desk, eLibrary and more.  

Expert faculty from UToledo's 11 academic colleges teach in the M.L.S. program, serve on thesis and project committees and act as academic advisors. 


Career Opportunities

Advance your current career or find a new job with the valuable skills you learn in UToledo's versatile master's degree in liberal studies program — critical thinking, research skills and integrative approaches. 


Online Liberal Studies Master's Degree Plan of Study

Create your own plan of study with your UToledo faculty advisor. There are a few required courses, but you are free to choose most of your classes from the University's diverse list of online graduate-school classes. 

M.L.S. graduate students complete a traditional thesis or design their own creative or applied capstone project. The titles of past projects include: 

  • Religious Ideologies: Awareness, Acceptance and Identity 
  • Quilting Her Story: The Plight of Black Women Growing up in the 1920s Jim Crow South 
  • Invisible Struggles: Veterans Suffering from Emotional Trauma and How Current Communication Technologies Can Virtually Assist Them with Reality 
  • Marketing video about mid major basketball 
  • The Intersection of Historic Architecture, Access, Compliance and Inclusion 

 

Liberal Studies Graduate Program Sample Classes

  • The Arts: Made in America 
  • Documentary Cinema 
  • Women and War 
  • John Steinbeck 
  • Disability, Art and Representation 
  • Crip Arts, Crip Culture 
  • Climate Change: A 21st-Century Challenge 
 

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Online Liberal Studies Master's Degree

Full time: 2 years; part time: 3 years

Program Availability

 100% Online
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OUT-OF-STATE TUITION DISCOUNT RATE

This 100% online degree program qualifies non-Ohio residents to pay in-state tuition rates with a $5 per credit hour surcharge.

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