The Master of Arts Program in the Humanities is a model for a more pragmatic kind of graduate education - this seems like absolutely the right direction. What's original and incredibly timely is the combination of an intensive, unwatered-down academic program with an introduction to a wider professional context.

-Elaine Showalter, Professor of English and Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and former president of the Modern Language Association

Before

MAPH is the undertaking of the entire Humanities Division at the University of Chicago and exists in order to open the resources of the Division and the larger University to entering graduate students making important transitions. more>

During

The educational resources open to MAPH students include all the first and second year graduate courses offered by the departments within the Humanities Division. more>

AfterMAPH

What happens next? What do people do after earning an MA in Humanities at Chicago? The paths of MAPH students in the "after-MAPH" are as diverse as the interests they brought to the program. more>,