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Pursue Your Master's at Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College offers distinctive master's degree programs—several of which have defined their fields—that delve deeply into three rigorous areas of creative, societal, and pedagogical inquiry and mastery: The Arts; Health Sciences and Society; and Children, Childhood, and Education.
In these programs, you will find your academic home—a community comprised of vibrant thinkers and doers; an overarching framework for your most complex ideas, interests, and investigations; and, perhaps most significantly, encouragement for deep specialization in a course of study that is uniquely yours.
Sarah Lawrence graduate alumni, known for their staunch independence, unbridled creativity, and original thinking, go on to make meaningful and thoughtful contributions in their fields of study and beyond.
The Arts
MFA Theatre
Sarah Lawrence College’s distinctive two-year MFA in Theatre is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and progressive. One of the few programs of its kind, your faculty will be renowned working artists, curators and organizers mostly based in NYC. Under their guidance, you’ll deepen your practice building new skills, hone your individual aesthetic voice and articulate your research to be able to work as a true theatre artist.
MFA Writing
Sarah Lawrence’s nationally recognized MFA Writing program gives you the opportunity to work in close collaboration with faculty members who are both distinguished writers and devoted mentors. While we offer concentrations in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or speculative fiction, students are encouraged to take classes outside their concentrations and to explore their writing fearlessly.
Community Engagement & Lifelong Learning Opportunities in the Arts
Health Sciences and Society
MS Human Genetics
The mission of the Human Genetics program is to improve health care for all people by educating and training individuals to become genetic counselors so they are prepared to meet current and future needs of their clients, their communities, their profession, and society at large.
MS Genome Health Analysis
NYU Langone’s Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Sarah Lawrence College have co-created a master’s program in Genome Health Analysis to meet the new and evolving needs of healthcare systems, professionals, and patients. Students in the MS in Genome Health Analysis program will take part in courses offered by both NYU Langone’s Vilcek Institute Biomedical Sciences and Sarah Lawrence College’s Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics. The program, which culminates in a degree from NYU, is typically completed in two years and includes coursework, case-based skills labs, and a practicum for immersion in future work environments.
MS Dance/Movement Therapy
The mission of the Human Genetics program is to improve health care for all people by educating and training individuals to become genetic counselors so they are prepared to meet current and future needs of their clients, their communities, their profession, and society at large.
Resources for Students and Professionals
Institute for Genomics Education, Workforce & Leadership
In collaboration with key opinion leaders and strategic partners, the Institute for Genomics Education, Workforce & Leadership builds awareness for the most critical societal needs and workforce gaps within genomics and precision medicine and creates innovative educational programming to facilitate the development of a contemporary genomics workforce.
Children, Childhood, and Education
Child Development
Our philosophy of progressive education, and of the learning child as the maker of their own meaning, emphasizes curiosity and exploration as the foundation for a life of learning. This philosophy guides our approach to training tomorrow's teachers, education administrators, and social workers as well as today's practicing professionals entrusted with teaching and advocating for children.
Art of Teaching
The Sarah Lawrence College Art of Teaching program is an integrated Master of Science in Education (MSEd) program of study that leads to triple New York State certification in Early Childhood Education (birth to grade 2), Childhood Education (1st to 6th grade) and Early Childhood Students with Disabilities.
Dual Degrees
At Sarah Lawrence, you have the option of pursuing a MSEd in teaching or a MA in child development in two years, or you can choose a path to combine degrees and certifications that best match your career goals. All first-year students in the MSEd Art of Teaching, MA Child Development, and dual-degree MA+MSW Child Development programs collaborate in the same classes, sharing ideas and learning from one another in a foundation semester that is uniquely possible at Sarah Lawrence. From there, students can continue in their chosen MA or MSEd degree track, or pursue either of our dual degree tracks.
