About this Handbook About this Handbook Student Responsibilities Department-based M.A. Programs M.A. Advisers (DGS, Program Director, etc.) Departmental Administrator (DA) Liberal Studies M.A. (LSMA) Programs

For brevity’s sake, the phrase “department-based programs” is used here to stand for all M.A. programs that are administered through structures and personnel associated with departments, whether they are interdepartmental (for example, Classical Studies, Mathematics of Finance, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences) or based within a single department (for example, English and Comparative Literature, Sociology, Statistics). Such programs are distinguished from the Liberal Studies M.A. programs (for example, American Studies, Islamic Studies, Medieval Studies), which are administered through the Liberal Studies M.A. Programs office in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.