Concentration Overview
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The Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Liberal Studies with a concentration in the learner-designed area of study (LDAS) gives students the opportunity to choose areas in the liberal arts and to plan and implement their own academically robust learning activities. Students develop a coherent plan of study that can link directly to their final Capstone project.
Students may propose to complete their learner-designed area of study in several ways:
- take additional online graduate courses from Thomas Edison State University;
- apply up to 12 credits of American Council on Education (ACE) or National College Credit Recommendation Service (NCCRS) courses that have been evaluated at the graduate level;
- develop a graduate-level prior learning assessment (PLA) portfolio; and/or
- transfer up to 12 credits of graduate-level credit earned at other institutionally accredited colleges and universities recognized under the TESU Transfer Credit Policy and Guidelines.