Welcome
I welcome you to the web sites of the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences. For over 75 years, the MAPSS Program has offered a distinctive choice in American, indeed international graduate education. No other intensive, one-year Masters Degree program offers such unfettered access to the regular graduate courses and faculty of a great University. A centerpiece of the mission of the Social Sciences Graduate Division, MAPSS is a collaborative effort among what many regard as the finest collection of social science departments in the world. MAPSS students also take courses and research supervision in the Humanities Graduate Division and in all of the University's professional schools.
This freedom to construct individualized multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary programs of study is supported by a devoted staff whom you will meet in these pages. We take pride in the fact that MAPSS is today Chicago's largest graduate program with the very highest student morale and alumni satisfaction among graduates who've taken up careers in research and teaching and throughout the public and for-profit sectors.
I hope this web site signals our enthusiasm for theoretical innovation and critical intellectual debate as well as our commitment to effective and highly personalized pedagogy.
John J. MacAloon
Director, MAPSS
Professor and Academic Associate Dean, Graduate Division of the Social Sciences
Professor in the College
