Diploma in Liberal Studies
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Courses are taught by distinguished Rice faculty and invited visiting faculty who maintain the high academic standards of Rice University. Our faculty body is composed of subject matter experts in a broad set of academic areas. No matter their area of expertise, each faculty member believes in life-long learning and is eager to support students' success in all stages of their education.

Richard Baker

Theodore Bale

Deborah J. Barrett

Newell D. Boyd

Ryan Brown

Joseph Campana

Alan Dugald McKillop Professor of English

Alejandro Chaoul

Daniel Cohan

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

G. Daniel Cohen

Samuel W. & Goldye Marian Spain Associate Professor

Leo Costello

Associate Professor of Art History Department Chair

Julie Fette

Associate Professor

Özge Gürcanlı

Senior Lecturer of Psychological Sciences

James Hackett

Chairman of the Board, The Welch Institute; President, Tessellation Services, LLC

Matthias Henze

Isla Carroll & Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies; Director of the Program in Jewish Studies

Ashley Hudson

Christopher Johns-Krull

Professor, Chair for the On-Campus Observatory

Cassidy Johnson

Faculty Lecturer

Justice Evelyn Keyes

Danielle King

Associate Professor, Psychological Sciences Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Mark Kulstad

Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Philosophy

Cin-Ty Lee

Harry Carothers Wiess Professor of Geology, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Peter Loewen

Burke Nixon

Lecturer

Alma Novotny

Casey Schoenberger

Lecturer, Department of Transnational Asian Studies

Scott Solomon

Associate Teaching Professor

Chase Untermeyer

Rebecca Sharp

Graduate Liberal Studies, Director

Kim Raptis

Graduate Liberal Studies, Associate Director

The Diploma in Liberal Studies (DLS) is a post-master’s academic program that complements and extends the educational goals of the Master of Interdisciplinary Studies (MIS) degree. Designed for intellectually curious and self-directed graduate students, the DLS deepens disciplinary knowledge, advances interdisciplinary research skills, and culminates in a substantial independent research project or thesis.

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