The Graduate Program
The College offers part-time evening programs leading to the Master of Arts in English, History, and Psychology during the fall, spring, and summer sessions. For teacher certification only, courses in Education are offered at various sites throughout Maryland. The Master of Arts degree is awarded to students who complete a 30 semester-hour program (10 courses) as specified by the appropriate department. Courses listed below are typical of those offered. For a graduate catalog and further information, write: The Graduate Office, Washington College, 300 Washington Avenue, Chestertown, MD 21620.
Master of Arts in English
- Shakespeare
- Seventeenth-Century British Literature
- Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- Romantic Poetry
- The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
- Poe and Post-Colonialism
- James and Post-Romantic Literature in the U.S.
- American Fiction Since WWII
- American Poetry Since WWII
- Studies in Comic Drama
- Modern Drama
- Creative Writing
- Chaucer
- Medieval Literature
- Victorian Literature
- Modernist Fiction
- Twentieth-Century British and American Poetry
- Postcolonial English Literature
- American Literary Romanticism
- Faulkner and Romanticism
Master of Arts in History
- Jefferson, Jackson, and the Coming of the Civil War
- The U.S. Civil War
- American Colonies and the Revolution
- The Renaissance and the Reformation
- The Ancient World
- Topics in American Intellectual History
- Twentieth-Century Germany
- Twentieth-Century Europe
- The Soviet Union Since WWII
- The New Deal and WWII
- Latin America in the 20th Century
- The U.S. Since WWII
- Historic Preservation
- Medieval Europe
- Medieval Women
- Tudor-Stuart Britain
- Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
- Progressivism and the Twenties
Master of Arts in Psychology
- Abnormal Behavior
- Adolescence, Maturity, and Old Age
- Advanced Counseling
- Advanced Topics in Experimental Psychology
- Behavior Modification
- Biological Foundations of Behavior
- Cognitive Psychology
- The Dynamics of Group Interaction
- The Exceptional Child
- Infancy and Childhood
- Introduction to Counseling
- Introduction to Projective Techniques
- Psychological and Educational Testing
- Research Methods/Techniques
- Social Psychology
- Statistics in Psychology and Education
- Theories of Personality
Courses in Education
- Assessment Techniques: Assessing for Student Learning
- Cooperative Classroom: Kagan's Instructional Practices
- Cooperative Discipline
- Encouraging Student Responsibility and (Self) Discipline
- Expanding Student Thinking in the Classroom
- Differential Instruction
- Dimensions of Learning
- Mentoring Teachers in a Professional Learning Community
- Principles of Education
- Research Techniques
- Reading in the Content Area, Part I (State-approved)
- Reading in the Content Area, Part II (State-approved)
- Skills and Strategies for Inclusion and Disability Awareness
- Styles of Teaching: Personality Types in the Classroom
- Teaching and Learning through Multiple Intelligences
- Teaching for Success in the Multicultural Classroom
- Teaching Readers to Think
- Teaching Writing and Thinking across the Curriculum.
- Using Brain-Compatible Methods in the Classroom