Lifelong Learning

www.smu.edu/InterdisciplinaryProfessional

Clinical Assistant Professor Kate Montgomery, Department Chair

Clinical Associate Professor: John Potter
Clinical Assistant Professors: Ashley Mag Gabbert, Kate Montgomery

Academic Council, 2023-2024

Professors: Robert Hunt (Theology, Graduate Liberal Studies Affiliate), Herve Tchumkam (World Languages, Graduate Liberal Studies Affiliate), Bill Barnard (Religious Studies)
Professor of Practice: Rick Halperin (Human Rights, Graduate Liberal Studies Affiliate)
Clinical Associate Professor: John Potter (Graduate Liberal Studies-Dispute Resolution)
Associate Professors: Nicolay Tsarevsky (Chemistry, Graduate Liberal Studies Affiliate)
Senior Lecturer: Bruce Levy (English, Graduate Liberal Studies Affiliate)
Lecturer: Michael Lindsey (Psychology)
Clinical Assistant Professors: Mag Gabbert (Graduate Liberal Studies-Dispute Resolution), Kate Montgomery (Graduate Liberal Studies-Dispute Resolution)
Ex Officio: Gary Clayton (Dispute Resolution), Brenda McAdoo (Dispute Resolution), Angela Mitakidis (Dispute Resolution), Jennifer Parvin (Education)

Department Information

The Department of Lifelong Learning, which focuses on liberal studies and dispute resolution content, offers interdisciplinary and skills-based doctoral, master’s, and certificate programs, including the Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution, Master of Liberal Studies, Doctor of Liberal Studies, Graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, Executive and Leadership Coaching Concentration, Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Collaboration and Conflict Engagement, and a variety of curricular concentrations in liberal studies and dispute resolution.

Graduate liberal studies and dispute resolution students represent a range of professional and community backgrounds as well as educational goals as they pursue human-centered doctoral degrees, master’s degrees, or graduate certificates without the customary constraints of traditional graduate programs. The flexibility of the programs allows students to take courses in humanities, organizational dynamics, creative writing, social justice, dispute resolution, arts and culture, executive coaching, healthcare collaboration, and conflict engagement. Students are encouraged to cultivate their intellectual passions with the opportunity to distinguish themselves personally and professionally and to make greater contributions to society.

Study Abroad

The department intermittently offers courses at off-site locations such as Italy, England, Spain, Ireland and SMU’s campus in Taos, New Mexico.

Contact Information:

Department of Lifelong Learning
PO Box 750253
Dallas, TX 75275-0253
214.768.4273
www.smu.edu/InterdisciplinaryProfessional

Programs

• Liberal Studies, D.L.S.

• Dispute Resolution, M.A.D.R.
• Liberal Studies, M.L.S.

• Advanced Graduate Study, Graduate Certificate
• Dispute Resolution, Graduate Certificate
• Healthcare Collaboration and Conflict Engagement, Graduate Certificate

Courses

• SOSC 6344 - Contemporary Economics
• SOSC 6353 - Women in U.S. History
• SOSC 6355 - America Enraged: From Integration to Watergate, 1954-1974
• SOSC 6367 - Comparative Revolutions: A Historical Perspective
• SOSC 6376 - Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: Renaissance to Enlightenment
• SOSC 6377 - Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: Romanticism to the Present
• SOSC 6378 - Mobilization and Movements in Nondemocracies
• SOSC 6382 - Women in American History, 1865 to the Present
• SOSC 6392 - The Objectives and Principles of Islamic Law
• SOSC 6395 - The Great Debates of the American Civil Rights Movement
• SOSC 6397 - The Civil Rights Movement: An Unfinished Revolution
• SOSC 7305 - Special Topics in Human Rights
• SOSC 7324 - The Impact of the Arab Spring on Israel and the Middle East
• SOSC 7330 - Modernity and Crises of Identity: The Reorientation of Western Culture 1872-1917
• SOSC 7331 - Warfare in the Modern World
• SOSC 7334 - Bollywood/Hollywood: Cinema in India and the West
• SOSC 7335 - Wrestling With God: The Triumph and Tragedy of Zionism in Israel
• SOSC 7336 - Mexican History Through Film
• SOSC 7340 - The Human Condition in Africa
• SOSC 7341 - The African Diaspora in France
• SOSC 7350 - Special Topics in Social Science
• SOSC 7353 - The World in the Twenty-First Century
• SOSC 7354 - The Intellectual History of Capitalism
• SOSC 7358 - Refugees and Displaced People: Victims of War, Genocide, and Ethnic Conflict
• SOSC 7359 - International Human Rights Courts Post-Nuremberg
• SOSC 7363 - The Historian’s Craft and the Novelist’s Art: Race in Early America
• SOSC 7364 - Communication to Reduce Human Injustice: Genocide
• SOSC 7366 - Contemporary Jihad in A Globalizing World: Isis, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban
• SOSC 7367 - Global and Transnational Feminism: The Struggle for Global Justice
• SOSC 7368 - Education, Equality, and Human Rights
• SOSC 7369 - India Today: Religion, Environment, and Culture
• SOSC 7370 - Religion and Politics in 20th-Century India
• SOSC 7371 - The Languages of Advertising
• SOSC 7372 - Advertising Unplugged: Messages, Myths, and Manipulation
• SOSC 7375 - The Ethics of Human Rights in Islamic Legal Theory
• SOSC 7376 - Islamic Law: Premodernity to Modernity
• SOSC 7377 - Slavery and the American Republic
• SOSC 7378 - Religion and Politics: Intersections in the U.S. and the Muslim World
• SOSC 7379 - Ethics and Human Rights
• SOSC 7380 - The Islamic Civilization
• SOSC 7381 - The Black Struggle for Freedom
• SOSC 7382 - Modern Islamic Movements
• SOSC 7383 - Islam and the American Civil Rights Movement
• SOSC 7384 - Engaging Difference: An Interdisciplinary Critique of American Diversity and Inclusion
• SOSC 7385 - Poverty and Wealth in America: An Interdisciplinary Critique of Economic Justice
• SOSC 7390 - Critical Thinking: Immigration, Race and Human Rights