Christian Distance Learning

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The Humanities External Master of Arts (HUX) program combines the best of traditional graduate education with the best of distance learning. It offers a quality, non-residential advanced degree program to students worldwide regardless of their ability to get online. If you have regular mail service, you can do a degree with HUX. HUX allows students to adapt the program to their interests and goals. It provides the kind of broad exposure to the Humanities (history, literature, philosophy, art, and music) that is so useful in preparing one to think clearly, express oneself thoughtfully, and be ready to work competently in many different contexts. People who want to teach at the secondary or community college level, or to enhance their current teaching career, have found that their schools accept a HUX degree with sufficient units in one of our disciplines in place of a philosophy masters degree, a history masters degree, an art history masters degree, a music masters degree, or a literature masters degree. HUX faculty and staff are highly qualified and care about their students.

The HUX program has been a leader in distance education at the MA level since its inception in 1974, when it was named an external graduate degree to indicate that its mission extends beyond the local campus community. It has offered a fully accredited distance learning graduate degree all that time. The last 30 years have brought many improvements, including the addition of online technologies. But HUX maintains a firm commitment to provide a graduate education in the Humanities area of the liberal arts to anyone who meets its basic academic requirements, regardless of his or her computer experience.

Key Features of the HUX Program

Flexible
HUX students appreciate being able to take the program at their own pace.

Personalized
HUX students have a lot of freedom to design a course of study that meets their needs and interests.

Interdisciplinary
Students receive a broad interdisciplinary exposure to all of the areas of the Humanities--history, literature, philosophy, music, and art--and the establishment of an integrative perspective among them, with emphasis on their interrelating effects and influences. Students may specialize in one discipline of the Humanities, or in specific cultural-thematic areas across all of the humanistic disciplines.

Accredited
The HUX program, as part of California State University, Dominguez Hills, is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges the local regional accreditation agency.

Guided
HUX gives students the freedom to go at their own pace and to craft the program for themselves. But it doesn't force them to go it alone.

The HUX Curriculum

The HUX Master of Arts program is designed for self-motivated learners who wish to tailor an advanced study of the humanities according to their scholarly interests. No later than the end of the second trimester of coursework, students should select one curriculum from the options below and then plan all their coursework and research accordingly. Our expectations for students? level of scholarship are the same for all curricular paths. All of the options require 30 units and are divided into three phases: I: two-unit seminars which define key themes, theories, and methods in each of the five disciplines in HUX; II: the three-unit core course offerings, including interdisciplinary and discipline-specific courses; and III: the capstone thesis or creative project, including a thesis or project proposal preparation course and the final thesis/project course. Courses in Phases I and II may be taken concurrently, but Phase I and Phase IImust be completed before beginning work in Phase III. Regardless of the curricular path, students should enroll initially in Phase I courses.