Dr. Rosamond Rhodes received her degree in Philosophy from The CUNY Graduate Center, where she specialized in ethics and political philosophy.  She is currently a member of the Doctoral Faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Philosophy at The Graduate Center and this semester Dr. Rhodes is teaching a course specifically designed for the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies Program.  Entitled Bio and Medical Ethics: Policies and Cases, the course is an “introduction to bioethical issues and will explore connections and divergences between two distinct perspectives, that of sociology and that of philosophy…We shall focus our

efforts and discussion on trying to span the divide between the ‘is’ of human experience and the ‘ought’ of human morality.”  more

NEWS
We would like to thank the following recent contributors to the Liberal Studies Program:

Adriana Bennett-Bernstein

Janet Brof

Zohra Lampert

Michael Newton

Alice Harrison

Sandra Waldman

Edwin Weber

Their contributions  demonstrate the importance of the MALS program and its unique place at the Graduate Center.

Current Student Profile:  Jonathan Toubin studies the History of Rap music in NYC

"Uptown Downtown: Rap Music in Lower Manhattan, 1980 - 1984," by MALS student Jonathan Toubin, will soon be published by the Institute for Studies in American Music in an anthology: "Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip-Hop Studies." He expects to complete his M.A. this spring and will write a book–length expansion of the themes explored in his forthcoming essay.

Jonathan Toubin’s studies focus particularly on cultural aspects of American music and through the M.A. program in Liberal Studies,  more

Bob Friedhoffer, Resident Magician

As Resident Magician for CUNY Graduate Center, Bob Friedhoffer is charged with communicating science to the public.  In collaboration with Brian Schwartz, Vice President of Sponsored Research, Bob develops and presents programs making science understandable and interesting to  more